Call of Duty 3

In addition to the other posts that regard strategy and tactics, in this solution I will discuss the REAL requirements for this achievement.

Did you finally beat that last level on veteran and not see the cheevo pop? I did, and nearly went insane. This was because about midway through my run on veteran I went back to the first few levels on easy, just to clean up a few achievements.Then continued my previous game on veteran.

It is crucial to know that the game does NOT save the highest difficulty you completed, but rather the MOST RECENT difficulty. So if you beat a level on veteran, then went back to do it on easy before finishing the campaign, it will save as being completed on EASY.

Good news if the achievement doesn't pop after the ending of the final level, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REPLAY THE ENTIRE GAME ON VETERAN. All you have to do is go back, re-do the levels on veteran that you went back for on easy, then you must REPLAY the final mission on veteran for it to unlock. I can confirm this because I did it myself.

This is why I highly recommend that you play straight through the game on veteran, get the achievement, then go back to clean up the others. Don't get impatient like I did.

The only time the achievement will ever pop is after the last level on veteran difficulty. I hope that helps those of you this happened to. If you do this, your patience will be rewarded with that glorious 150 and a great ratio.

If you have questions feel free to comment.

A few hints and tips i can give, and things to expect: (Bad ones first)

Firstly, its going to be HARD. sometimes making you so angry you want to jump out your window head first and end it right there. but thats expected, it IS veteran right? i have completed 6 CoD campaigns on veteran (all but CoD1 & 2) and this game is definitely the toughest ive come across to date! but dont worry, you will do it.

Secondly, the checkpoints are ridiculously far apart! this will probably frustrate you most of all! all that work you;ve done and you get sent back miles into the level. Bummer. Also this game is the most glitchy game out there. you get stuck on and inbetween walls, doors, trees basically all random enviromental objects, sometimes your squad ends up glitched in stupid places and cant free themselves making you restart checkpoints etc etc. really really annoying. also sometimes, when a german is in cover, you will be blatently shooting them in the head/body and it will not register a hit, making you move out of cover to kill the dude and then some kraut pops one in the side of your head. having to start at the last checkpoint (which is most likley miles away) That window is sounding tempting now isnt it?...................

and thirdly, friendly fire. your squad are affected by this and its hard sometimes not to kill them, why? because they are silly! You will be giving it the beans on a wall mounted MG and some numbskull will run out directly in your line of fire! and another classic, your at a front door of a house full of germans, thinking what to do, you lob a nade in there to soften them up a little before you make your entrance. and before you know it, your squad are piling in this room and get blown to bits by your grenade. so if you kill a friendly, even by accident, its yep you guessed it! back to the last checkpoint!

Thats the bad parts out the way, now for the helpfull tips to help you get this G and an awesome ratio,

1. Always let your squad go first. there are many times when you can sit back in cover and let them clear out a good portion of baddies before you pop your scared little head out. saving you alot of effort!

2. Abuse the auto-aim. this little gem is a life saver. press LT to look down the sights and it snaps to the nearest enemy giving you a clear quick shot to waste them. this works best with bolt action rifles because its one shot kill, so if you perfect this you will be practically quick scoping your way through the game. combine this with standing to shoot and quickly ducking down to cover again makes you almost un-hittable. use it and abuse it!

3. Keep moving forward. Most of the levels have infinite respawning enemies. if you dont move up once wasting a few germans, they will keep spawning all day long. the way to combat this is to cap the nearest couple (or ones that seem the most dangerous) and move on up to the next piece of cover. doing this will trigger them not to spawn. also they will seldom stop and fire apon you when THEY are running to cover. they will finish running first to wherever theyre going, then they will fire. so its a perfect time to open up on them cause they rarely fire back.

4. Smoke grenades are your friends! if you keep finding yourself getting turned into swiss cheese by a wall of german bullets, throw smoke. it seems an obvious option but its really easy to get carried away with trying to kill as many krauts as you can while trying to move up. so throw smoke! (the auto aim trick still works through smoke nades so you can kill enemies with out even knowing where they are!

5.Go in guns blazing! sometimes when trying to clear a house or similar area, grenades just dont do the job, neither does any of your pussy squad want to be the first one through the door. so its down to you. ive found that if you burst in to a room at speed, firing from the hip the AI kind of dont know what to do and just stand there. (only for a few seconds though, buts its enough time trust me) so its always a good option if you have run out of nades ect. just make sure you reload before doing it so you have the maximum amout of rounds to unleash when doing the deed .and if there happens to be more pesky germans in there than expected, dont waste time reloading, melee those bitches! i liked the MP40 for this job, quick, big magazine, very common gun for ammo and packs a punch close range.

6. Watch youtube vids. i recommed a guy called "Labradoodlesrule" hes got all the levels up on there and its super handy if your stuck, and its also good to see whats lies up ahead. If you havent had a checkpoint in a while you will most likely be paranoid about moving up incase you run into 20+ fritz round the corner. But this solves that! heres a link to the playlist thanks to Pedle Zelnip: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLADB328527D50090F

7. Its all in the choice of weaponry! there are some good weapons and some bad ones. picking the right one for the job makes the difference between checkpoint and dead before checkpoint. as a somewhat CoD enthusiast (more battlefield nowadays, good or bad? you decide) im partial to a good assult rifle or SMG. but i tended to stay away from these as i found i could kill alot quicker with the bolt action rifles combined with the auto-aim trick. the Lee Enfield or Kar98 where the best. along with the M1 Garand not far behind. the Tompson is horrible, so use the MP40 instead if you can for machine guns i find it alot better. The Bren gun is a heavy machine gun and i will go as far to saying this is (in my own opinion) the best gun in the game. its so devastating and its so versitile. this gun is also one shot kill, so by using the auto-aim trick and firing just one bullet from it you now have a rifle and a machine gun in one. so you can snipe away and rush rooms with the same weapon!

All in all its really not as hard as i make out. you just have to have patience. its key in this game! if you get frustrated. put it down and come back another day. (but remember to save!) if you follow and combine these simple tips im sure you will bash through the levels in no time! have fun!

hope my info helps out as much as possible, and good luck to all!

I'm currently using this guide to help me through veteran and it's proving very useful, all text though: http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/xbox360/file/928655/45782

The GameFAQs page certainly helped me a lot, as did this IGN site:

http://guides.ign.com/guides/801849/

Screen shots help you to know where you are in comparison to the guide and some solid advice as well.

Be persistent.

I just started working on this again. Just a tip. If you play the same level over and over again because you keep dying your re-inforcements might stop advancing. I found that if you quit out of the game and restart from last checkpoint it will reset them.

I haven't completed the game yet but I wanted to add a tip here.

There is a method to make some of the areas a bit easier. I will list the areas where I sucessfully employed the method of letting the AI do most of the work. What you need to do is move up to trigger the AI to advance, and then most back to a position that AVOIDS enemy grenades. I think the key is that your allies NEED to be at an aggressive location.

Keep in mind, occasionally the enemy will kill you with a grenade and walk RIGHT through your AI (idiot) allies and kill you, but this does work.

Mission 2: The Island: The first time I did this was when advancing on the hill. After the truck crashes through, I ran around the bank and went prone behind a wall/rock at the bottom of the hill. I left the controller to go out (don't remember for how long, but a while) and when I came back all the enemies on the hill were dead and my allies were waiting at the top.

Mission 3: Night Drop - I first used this method when trying to get to the 3rd AA gun. When I did the AA, I started with the one on the right and easily got the first and second AA gun, but always got killed when trying to get the 3rd. So I hide and left the game playing for 30 minutes. When I came back, all but one enemy where gone who was defending the last AA gun, killed him and advanced.

Mission 6: Fuel Plant: when I was travelling through the furnace, I quickly ran in under cover of smoke, and then backed up to the first entrance room, watched tv and when I came back my ally had killed all but 2 enemies on the rafters above and the 2/3 guys upstairs.

Mission 8: The Forest: When exiting the bunkers (trenches) I ran out, and my allies followed, then I ran back into the entrance and went prone. This one was interesting because my allies had advanced to trigger the next check point, but I just stayed there and a random enemy walked in and killed me. When I reloaded I was at the next check point.

A note about the ending Mortar. I tried many times do shoot the mortar and leave it to kill the advancing enemies. Never worked. Finally I made it to the mortar and stayed on it, trusting my AI allies to defend me, and they did. I only did this one time so I don't know if it works always. Just a tip.

Mission 12: Corridor of Death: At the ending of the level, when you have to take out the 3 mortars, shoot them from the second floor, and after you do, go prone, put down the controller for awhile and the AI will not only kill the attack from the North, they will take out the men that enter AND they will defend the attack from the SOUTH thus causing the checkpoint and save. Then just run to the right and use the crowbar.

I will list more areas where this is possible when I discover them.

Some people say that Call of Duty 3 on veteran is not a big deal. Or that it isn't as hard as Call of Duty 2 was. Let me pour cold water on you: this game so far is the hardest Call of Duty game i have ever tried to beat on veteran difficulty. Prepare to:

- get stuck on objects
- not being able to shoot through bushes (while the enemy keep doing the opposite of it and killing you)
- being killed by invulnerable enemies who are lying in a cover where you simply cannot hit them
- being killed during animations where you are literally vulnerable and cannot move anywhere
- being pushed away by bullets with incredible velocity
- killing your teammates who are running in front of your fireline
- being pushed out from cover by your friendlies
- getting stucked in oversized hitboxes

and so on...

There is nothing i could say about this one, but to keep trying. Over and over and over again. In some sections i wasted hours just to get through. And i'm not speaking about levels, i'm speaking about sections between two checkpoints. Yeah, another thing is worth to mention: checkpoints are ridicolusly far between each other. Enemies are keep respawning infinitely until you reach a certain point of the map, so laying down and shooting them while hoping that sometime all of them will be dead - is already a dead plan. Sometimes it worth to kill the vast majority of them from distance, so your buddies can push forward and deal with the rest of them, but keep in mind to always move from cover to cover whenever you can. Auto aim is a big help here, especialy if you're using it like a parkinson disease suffering man so just keep aim and shoot all the time, quickly as possible to deal headshots (just as i do in the videos) If you played any COD games before you might know that gas grenades are basicly non-solid bulletproof walls. Use them wisely, because they are rarely can be found on the map, and the game won't give you any when you needed. Throwing them in front of a big group of enemies is making a lot of sections easier, because the enemy bullets cannot hurt you through the smoke. It just works like it did in Call of Duty 2.

I attached my video walkthrough of the game. As i see there are not many on Youtube right now, and it might be more helpful for some people who doesn't like to read guides and walkthroughts. It is a cut version, so you don't have to watch me dying a hundred times, despite the fact i die a lot in the videos too:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRG1rTau6xG5HwNNdQpaj...

(Regular difficulty playthrough is between part 1 and 14, rest of the videos are the actually Veteran difficulty.)