Call of Duty: Vanguard

Call of Duty: Vanguard

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Slow But Deadly

Slow But Deadly

In The Battle of Midway, help 5 threatened Allies during a dogfight

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How to unlock the Slow But Deadly achievement in Call of Duty: Vanguard - Definitive Guide

This is my first time ever writing a guide to get an achievement so bear with me if I struggle a bit
The basic understanding you have to know about this achievement is two icons a blue icon = friendly plane while the skull icon = Enemy plane.
these two symbols will pop up when an ally is actively being chased by an enemy plane.
in the first dog fight in the clouds, you are forced to get 2 of the five but, the next 3 are missable.
The next step will take place after your first divebomb attempt you will have the opportunity to get your next three.
I recommend being on recruit difficulty and just flying slowly in a circle ignoring any combat and waiting for a Marker to pop up.
I noticed that you will see the blue friendly icon first then you will need to fly close to them to get the skull icon. You generally know that taking out the plane counted if over the radio your ally commends you for the help.
I hope this comes across well enough for y'all to understand! :)
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09 Nov 2021 00:29

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By iiBWPx on 10 Nov 2021 23:23
This might be the worst achievement in Cod history. Can't think of a more broken mechanic than the flying in this game and especially regarding this achievement. Just an abysmal display of effort from this team, it's actually upsetting.
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By SleepyCreed on 16 Nov 2021 02:46
I actually thought I was on the page for the avoiding bullets achievement, that is the worst one by far.
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By SleepyCreed on 16 Nov 2021 02:47
I cannot stress enough how important the "fly around slowly" hint is. You have to give zero fucks about the raging battle, just cruise a little bit and follow the blue circles, but do not engage if they are shot at, only angage if the red circle turns to the skull symbol.
In the first part of the battle I did not see any skull icons, but helped my mates nonetheless...
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By X30 Engerling on 06 Dec 2021 13:43
Definitely not the worst achievement in COD history; I think the achievement tied to this same mission is worse than this to be honest. Still, this really sucks, but think of the TA score you'll get once you complete it.
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By Ross Wyatt on 13 Dec 2021 03:20
Changed my mind, fuck this want to send the game back to Gamefly, terrible experience
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By Ross Wyatt on 13 Dec 2021 09:47
Definitely not the worst achievement in COD history; I think the achievement tied to this same mission is worse than this to be honest. Still, this really sucks, but think of the TA score you'll get once you complete it.
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By Ross Wyatt on 13 Dec 2021 11:20
Has it been updated at all? I swear it's still hard af.
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By qwxx on 23 Jan 2022 03:16
Didn’t think I’d ever get the 2 flying achievements, seriously just don’t give up and you’ll get it!
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By BubblyBeth on 02 Feb 2022 09:32
F to those that are trying to get these flying achievements. We salute you.
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By DeeSwitz TTV on 31 Mar 2022 04:21
Just a helpful tip but the first enemies you have to kill before the dive bomb are actually impossible to miss, you cant progress the mission without them. If one of the “blue dot” allies dies in this part another one will just get targeted until you get the kill. Also another thing to note as that for these two skulls will not show up. You’ll know you got them both when the two when the blue dots go away and your objective starts targeting other planes (planes not targeting allies). Hope this helps.
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By Thorsiatto on 03 Apr 2022 01:48
I got this on my first try while playing recruit difficulty. The achievement popped on my 7th plane I shot down and I had the vehicle sensitivity set to 1.5 only.
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By SiiXTyMania on 13 Apr 2022 10:50
God this is frustrating. I barely feel in control of the plane. Not to mention when I finally get the first two. my game does this BS checkpoint problem where sometimes I reload it and I get a blank screen but I can tell the game is somehow ongoing in the background. Only for it to then apparently advance to ANOTHER checkpoint. Now I have to do it all over again. Never played a COD campaign riddled with bugs but this one sure has them nonstop.
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By OurEvilLetterP7 on 24 May 2022 21:50
Honestly this is worse than "Duck and Dive".

First 3 are pretty straightforward but when it comes to final 2, the game always put them miles away from you and by then you get to protect them they half dead and almost always get shot down by enemy before you can kill them with the awful plane controls.

And checkpoint system for that part is the worst ever, if you don't get it first try it's not even point to revert to last checkpoint as it puts you right at the very end of it anyway. Restarting mission all the time for this is just so stupid.

Fuck this shit achievement, I'd rather have Sum of All Zeros back again
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By Alfa Arty on 01 Jul 2022 15:36
This wasn't great; got it 3rd time, but I had to make a cloud save after getting Duck and Dive. Flying controls are utterly dreadful.
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By NoHeroes94 on 04 Jul 2022 07:48
Can this be done over multiple plays of this mission, or has to be in a single try?
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By Dread Reaver on 06 Aug 2022 01:35
A total failure from the Development team, they should all be throroughly ashamed of themselves
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By Sneaky G Wizard on 13 Oct 2022 01:35
Easy in comparison to duck and dive IMO, thanks for the tips!
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By USAF Venom on 08 Nov 2022 09:38
Was my last achievement. Struggled with it then hooked up mouse & kb. Got it immediately first try
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By kriegir on 15 Nov 2022 22:21
This achievement is awful. The plane controls are TERRIBLE and I can confirm that "ourevillevelp7" is correct. The black screen bug is a problem for me and keeps resulting in me having to reload the entire game.
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By PyramidHeadx91 on 07 Dec 2022 20:49
Black screen bug is still an issue as of 22 Dec 2022.
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By JWx14 on 22 Dec 2022 22:36
Literally THE worst flying controls in any Call of Duty. This is just silly. I'll probably just skip these two flying ones since I don't plan on doing the zombie ones either. Flying in first person games is the worst.
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By DoomScott on 09 Jan 2023 21:56
As many others have said - the flying controls are garbage. It was actually much easier for me after I switched the controls from inverted back to normal.
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By Swanny5150 on 01 Feb 2023 20:28
This count between games. I got 3 on my veteran run and only got 2 on recruit and it popped.
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By Cobb AUS on 06 Apr 2023 02:39
I understand that this is the first time that piloting a fighter has ever appeared in a game, but one would think that they would have at least studied flight mechanics before building this trash section.
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By xBu11etSp0ngex on 24 Aug 2023 04:05
That crap won't go up...
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By Chief Redrum on 02 Sep 2023 16:18
Nevermind, they were stacking up without showing. However, it seems as if the zeros from the first dogfight were never taken in account... Or does it reset when the mission is over?
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By Chief Redrum on 02 Sep 2023 17:38
Even after making the jet sensitivity high I'm having the same problems as @HunterCH I can't even get to them before allies are shot down.

EDIT: I got in after like 10 tries with the sensitivity set to 3.5.

The first 2 before the dive are easy. For the last 3 in the dogfight after you can utilize reset to checkpoint if you hear the pilot say they're gonna bail and keep trying until you get 3.

Weird thing was the runs I did yesterday had only 3 allies spawn after the dive, but today I missed one and a 4th spawned.
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By Clankk OG on 15 Nov 2021 01:30
Edits for clarification

- Blue icon is team. They will not always show up, and sometimes you just have to fly around aimlessly until you find one.
- Red circles are just enemy fighters. Avoid them as you have no reason to kill them.
- Yellow skulls are pursuing vehicles. Kill them for the achievement.

It's actually quite easy once you realize you have to fly around to find your allies. I got over 7.
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By Whats a Chundy on 26 Dec 2022 10:17
The controls are spot on... until you actually are given full control. It's as if your plane has an inner ear problem, which causes it to be just enough off-balance to make the plane all but useless. The aiming system is atrocious. Yes, they give you the ability to somewhat lock on but that only lasts until another flies through the field of view. I hope that the playtesters, from this day forward, step on the tiniest of drops of water every time the put on new socks.
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By xBu11etSp0ngex on 24 Aug 2023 04:50
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It's worth noting that you do not need to wait for the yellow skull icon to appear. In fact, I found that waiting had my odds at getting a kill lower since the enemy planes destroyed my allies quicker than I was able to take them out. Just focus on the "Blue Star" icon indicating an ally is in danger. There will always be a "Red" enemy plane on their tail. Take 5 of them out and the achievement is yours!
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Mission 4: The Battle of Midway

You will control an airplane during this mission and soon after getting off the sky, your allies will be attackes by some other planes. Sometimes you'll see a blue icon, which is one of your ally, being chase by an enemy marked with a red icon a bit more visible than others. These are the guys you are looking for so whenever you see these icons go chase them and shoot at them. There are 2 that you can kill before the first Dive-bomb, then you can finish them off after the dive-bomb.
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Mission 4: The Battle of Midway

During the various firefights in this mission, you'll notice an ally plane get marked with a blue icon. This means an enemy is chasing that ally. The enemy will get marked with a red circle. During one playthrough of this mission (i.e. this achievement is not cumulative and cannot be grinded via checkpoint reloading), you need to save five ally planes who are being shot at by enemies with a red circle symbol. This achievement can be quite a pain, because there's no definitive way to know if a kill you got counted.

It should go without saying, but this is obviously much easier if you play on Recruit difficulty. In the first section of the mission, enemies will attack, and there are four separate enemies to kill. For some reason, it seems that only two allies saved in this section count towards this achievement, even though it may seem like you saved four allies in this first section. Ensure that you save at least two allies during this section, otherwise you won't have a chance at this achievement in the remainder of the mission.

After that, you'll do the first dive bomb section. Between the first and second dive bomb is the only remaining opportunity to get the remaining (hopefully three) ally saves. They are much more difficult because it's pretty chaotic with everything going on, the enemies fly all over the place (making them harder to hit), and the battlefield is much bigger, so you will need to fly around to find blue symbol allies being chased. Use checkpoint reloading extremely liberally here: as soon as you see an ally show up marked with a blue symbol, fly over and attempt to shoot the enemy. If you can't take out the enemy with a single clip relatively quickly, reload the checkpoint. The ally and enemy will appear in the same place every time, so you can practice a bit to learn where the next will spawn each time. You'll have a solid four opportunities during this section to save an ally, so just capitalize on each one and reload if you fail.
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It is necessary to destroy exactly those enemy aircraft that are marked with a yellow skull; ally aircraft that need help are marked with a blue asterisk. At the beginning of the mission, before the first dive, there will be 2 such planes, then 3 and more, one immediately after you drop the bomb and level the plane, the remaining 2 in the subsequent battle. BUT! Be careful, CHECKPOINTS WILL OCCUR FREQUENTLY AFTER THE FIRST DIVE! You may miss the moment, and then you will have to go through the mission again.
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Video guide (en).
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By NikitosPlay on 06 Nov 2021 16:48
It is not necessary to shoot them down in one playthrough; the trophy is cumulative.
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By MobileLord on 11 Jan 2022 04:01
After an enemy plane has been shot down, you must hear words of gratitude from an ally pilot. Only then does the downed plane count. If there are no such words, then they either shot down late or missed. Restart CT.
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By SergiusV on 04 Dec 2021 14:12
I advise you not to do it on the easiest one, there are very fast checkpoints.
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By smid451 on 18 Nov 2021 02:43
You need to choose the perfect sensitivity for yourself. For the trophy, where you had to dodge anti-aircraft guns, I set the sensitivity of the aircraft to 3.0, where you had to dodge very quickly. For this trophy I recommend 2.0.
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By Dmitriyfunny1 on 23 Nov 2023 23:53
One of the three most annoying glitchy achievements in the game.
The essence of the glitch is crooked control, inadequate marking of the required actions to obtain. For some reason, Sledgehammer decided that they could play flight simulators. Your main enemy in this achievement will be, no, not the Japanese in the Zero planes, but precisely this crooked control! And also arbitrary respawn points for your allies - sometimes behind you, sometimes at the other end of the map, which leads to the fact that you stupidly don’t have time to turn around or catch up. And another marking: the guides say to shoot down only those that have a yellow skull on them, yeah right! The first 2-4 aircraft at the first stage (see point 3) do not have this marking at all, however, they must be shot down!

Recipe from my personal experience:

1. Set the difficulty to Rookie! Yes, I know that many people advise doing it on high difficulties, supposedly the checkpoints will not be as fast and you will have more time. So I did it on Veteran and didn’t notice any difference in the intervals between checkpoints. And I couldn’t get the achievement, but I did it on the New Recruit on the first try.
2. Set the sensitivity of aircraft control to 3.5, no less, otherwise you won’t have time to turn the plane around.
3. So the first stage. Before the first bombing, you will need to shoot down 2 (as many guides say) and at first I really had 2, with subsequent attempts I already had 4! We shoot them down. What is important to note is that they will not have a yellow skull marking, and the allied pilots will not say thank you over the radio, as required by the conditions of the achievement, but we will shoot you down nonetheless! Next comes the first bombing.
4. The second stage is the most painful! You need to look for the blue circles of your allies, as soon as you catch it on the horizon, a yellow icon with the skull of an enemy plane should appear, we capture its LT and try to shoot it down. The criterion that everything was done correctly is that the allied pilot will thank you; if you do not hear the gratitude, load the checkpoint. The main difficulty is that it is not known where they will appear, and it is not always possible to have time to take aim at the enemy before he shoots down your ally. Therefore, we fly, we search, if no one appears for a long time (20-30 seconds) or you fail the rescue, load the checkpoint. It's better to reload the checkpoint 10 times than to start the mission all over again! The achievement must be received before the commander orders you to gain altitude for the second bombing; if you did not have time before this moment, then start the mission over again.
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By Grinder_RUS on 15 Jan 2022 11:32
I connected the mouse and keyboard and completed it easily the first time
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By avenger24 on 31 Aug 2022 16:30
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