Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

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Maximum Overdrive

Maximum Overdrive

Kill 50 enemies while using Overdrive.

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How to unlock the Maximum Overdrive achievement in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare - Definitive Guide

This is easily done on the level Manhunt and will take 5 minutes.

Halfway through the mission after your wasp is destroyed, you will make your way down a linear path and end up in front of KRETAES Restaurant.

Turn left here, go left past PURE GREEK and take the first left, turn right through two archways and there will be a set of stairs on your left.

Go up to the bedroom where an ammo refill is sitting on the bed (I believe there is an Intel in here also).

Throw a threat grenade out of the window in front of you. Press up on the d-pad to activate overdrive and go to work on about 10-15 enemies outside.

Once you've used all your batteries, load last checkpoint and go again.
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03 Nov 2014 15:50

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Am I the only one having trouble with this? Judging by the ratio perhaps not? I've done at least 500 overdrive kills by now. Still no cheevo. Are we sure reload last checkpoint doesn't clear progress? Do we have to get 50 enemies with overdrive in one mission? Perhaps once you complete all the exo challenges overdrive kills are no longer properly tracked? Is there some other requirement I'm missing? If not does any one know how to pop a glitched achievement in CODAW? The sign out sign back in trick from destiny didn't help. :(
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By coreywolfg on 06 Nov 2014 15:00
I can confirm that reloading the last checkpoint works. (I don't have all Exo point yet).
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By LizardKingv666 on 07 Nov 2014 12:12
I also am unable to unlock this. I have cleared my cache, deleted all of my savefiles and retried, deleted and resynched my profile. This is the last one I need and I can't unlock it.
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By Supraboosta on 08 Nov 2014 03:02
I'm sorry to hear that buddy. Unfortunately I cannot offer any advice as to why this isn't unlocking for you. I do know this is a method that definitely works and can help people looking for the achievement quickly. Hopefully you will get this sorted.

I'm sorry the solution didn't work for you.
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By LEGENDXKILLA#250 on 08 Nov 2014 10:49
This won't unlock for me either, I've done hundreds of overdrive kills.
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By Snitty 1 on 09 Nov 2014 14:19
The only thing I could add is that I did this on veteran and I made sure the enemies I killed were highlighted with a threat grenade. Seems strange that 3 people have experienced issues with this.
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By LEGENDXKILLA#250 on 09 Nov 2014 14:30
Unlocked mid multiplayer game! Says on TA that the ach was unlocked 4 days ago. Guess just wait it out :)
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By coreywolfg on 10 Nov 2014 08:51
Achievements that unlock a few days later due to the Xbox One's achievement servers usually show as 100% complete but still locked. When I did this at the weekend I checked and the achievement and had zero progress however now it says "Done! Unlocking..." so looks like it should now pop on it's own.
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By Snitty 1 on 11 Nov 2014 04:51
Killed well over 50 enemies using this solution but it never popped on screen however when I checked in the achievements app it had just unlocked.
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By JAM5TON on 15 Nov 2014 23:49
Worked great and the first go round thanks and yes there is Intel in the bedroom on the floor on the side of the bed where the ammo refill is.
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By xBad Kharma71x on 16 Nov 2014 12:12
Worked great, thanks!
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By RabidDolphin87 on 22 Jan 2015 08:01
I got it. It didn't pop for me, but when I checked the Achievements App, it said it was there. Thanks. Easy solution. +1 Thumbs Up
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By DCM7734 on 14 Oct 2015 08:20
FYI I got this on my second run of Aftermath while going for the Wheelman achievement. There are a few checkpoints that you can round up a ton of kills with overdrive. I did mine right when we go loud outside the school.
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By Torchstone on 15 Apr 2020 20:30
I've tried everything and the achievement doesn't come, can anyone help?
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By SampleFN on 22 Dec 2023 01:07
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I got this on lvl 2 'Atlas' during the training section (second one). Simply throw a threat greande with cn_LB so you can see the enemies, then press cn_up to activate Overdrive.

After killing most of the enemies (you get 3 shots with overdrive) then reload the checkpoint.
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03 Nov 2014 02:13

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You could at least write out a word like level and think about people here that are not native english speakers like you. Same goes for the word grenade.
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By Notarzt on 25 Oct 2015 11:14
Just a thought but try not to use a thermal scope as it takes a while to change colour so you know you've killed your target, resulting in wasted overdrive time.
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By dale smeegle on 10 Nov 2014 20:20
During the end mission Terminus just after you stop the missile from launching there will be a sequence with you laying on the floor with only a pistol.
There will be about 6 or 7 enemies to shoot and for some reason the stim ability seems to last a lot longer during this sequence.
So kill about 5 enemies then reload the checkpoint.
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04 Nov 2014 17:05

I got this in about 2-3 min. Its very easy to get on the second level atlas. When you restart the sim, you come out of elevators. Straight ahead are a bunch of enemies, just cook your threat grenade as you walk off the elevator and throw it as the enemies start coming for you. Seconds after you throw the threat grenade, Gideon will tell you to go into overdrive. Choose an automatic gun and you should be able to pick off 5-6 of them before it runs out. Once you hear your gun shoot regular bullets, restart the checkpoint. Andreka0 has a good video where this should take place, but if you use an automatic gun you'll get alot more people.
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09 Nov 2014 10:12

This really is super easy using this method and 100% works...

On the mission 'Manhunt' you get to a point where your wasp gets destroyed, once on foot follow the walkway until you get to 'KREATES' restaurant go left and you'll see 'PURE GREEK' go down the left side of pure greek and carry on untill you see a sign on a wall saying 'ROOMS for RENT' turn left here and go through the arched doorways and straight up some stairs and into a bedroom with an ammunition crate there. Once here throw a threat grenade out of the window push cn_up to activate overdrive mode and take out as many enemies as possible! Once your batteries have ran out and you cannot activate overdrive just reload last checkpoint and go again, rinse n repeat and it will eventually pop... Hope this help...

toast

PS - Added a video too for those who prefer, but because I uploaded through PS4 it doesn't show the trophy popping!
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11 Nov 2014 16:37

overdrive is activated by pressing up on the d-pad and goes slow motion like the matrix. Now this can be done across multiple level just keep activating and killing good luck
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03 Nov 2014 22:30

Specialist Exo soldiers are the only ones who have the ability to use Overdrive (an example would be Missions 2 and 3). The other Exo class is assault, and that does not have the Overdrive ability. To use Overdrive press and you will go into a slow motion bullet time mode for a short amount of time. You can only use Overdrive while you have battery, and your battery doesn't recharge so be sure that you make every use count. You can farm the kills by simply using Overdrive and getting some kills with it, then dying or restarting your checkpoint. Your kills will carry over. You cannot check your progress towards this.

A good farming method is in the 3rd mission, "Traffic". Just when you reach the streets with civilians in the area, you will get ambushed by enemies. Use Overdrive and kill as many enemies as you can until you run out of battery. After you run out of battery, request the checkpoint and repeat until you earn this trophy. The trophy will unlock when you reach 50 kills.

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Mission 2.

In the second part of the tests at the shooting range (grenades), you must select a sensor grenade (which illuminates enemies). Scatter the battlefield as often as possible, do not pay attention to drones and targets, and when you see 2-3 enemies, press the D-pad in order to activate Overdrive. Time slows down and you deftly shoot enemies. In total, you have 3 overdrives in stock.
Once we have used up everything, we restart the checkpoint and repeat the additional trophy. There will be a little more than a dozen such visits.
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03 Nov 2014 17:30

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In the second mission there is a better place, after you leave the grenade polygon and take a weapon, the simulator will begin in assault mode. Rising up the elevator from the weapon, a checkpoint will occur and you will run into battle, and your partner will shout, use overdrive. Here we are farming, fortunately there are a lot of enemies and our partner shouts when to turn it on. When the overdrive ends, we die or restart from the checkpoint.
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By phoen on 05 Nov 2014 15:33