Call of Duty
107 Achievements
3,000
135-180h
Xbox One
Xbox Series
MW2 - Going Dark
Complete 'Low Profile' without triggering any Alarms.
40
0.24%
How to unlock the MW2 - Going Dark achievement in Call of Duty - Definitive Guide
The following cheese has been patched: Rumor has it you can run through the mission loud and collect all three objectives. Once you have the third and final objective - get both yourselves killed and "Retry". This should reload a previous checkpoint and pop the "Going Dark" achievement. A full "legitimate" walkthrough can be found below:
Done on Online Co-Op Mission: Low Profile. You'll need a friend to help you with this as it can't be done solo (unless they disconnect) nor via split screen. The objective here is to collect all three balls of nuclear material without raising the alarm. You are OK to kill hostiles as long as they don't fire/shout and raise an audible alarm. If they do, simply get killed and "Retry" to return to a previous checkpoint. There's a total of 4 checkpoints within the level.
Objective A - Armoury:
I found landing on the highest point of the roof worked best. From here killing the 3 enemies on the roof, which in turn will alert 5 more from within the building itself. Wait on the staircase and shoot each one as they come through the door. Now with most of the building clear we can head in, disable the laser mines and collect the first nuclear ball. Once collected we get a new checkpoint. Head back up to the roof and parachute off towards the Barracks.
Objective B - Barracks:
Climb up the ladder on the back of the building to gain access to the skylight. Directly under the skylight we'll find an enemy, shoot him and camp out his body until you've removed everyone from the top floor. When quiet drop down the skylight to collect the second nuclear ball. Here another checkpoint will kick in - do your best to exit the building from the ground floor and head west. If you get spotted just die and "Retry" to respawn again under the skylight.
Objective C - Comms Centre:
This one I found the trickiest of the three! The material can spawn in one of two buildings. For whatever reason I couldn't get into the smaller building without raising the alarm. So would just die and retry until it appeared in the bigger building. In the larger comms building you can actually get in via the balcony by mantling on top of the blue cargo container, climbing up and walking through the door. Here you'll need to clear one guard to hopefully collect the last objective.
Once you pick up the third objective the achievement will pop. You don't need to do the escape section quietly!
Check my fully narrated video for a full guide:
Done on Online Co-Op Mission: Low Profile. You'll need a friend to help you with this as it can't be done solo (unless they disconnect) nor via split screen. The objective here is to collect all three balls of nuclear material without raising the alarm. You are OK to kill hostiles as long as they don't fire/shout and raise an audible alarm. If they do, simply get killed and "Retry" to return to a previous checkpoint. There's a total of 4 checkpoints within the level.
Objective A - Armoury:
I found landing on the highest point of the roof worked best. From here killing the 3 enemies on the roof, which in turn will alert 5 more from within the building itself. Wait on the staircase and shoot each one as they come through the door. Now with most of the building clear we can head in, disable the laser mines and collect the first nuclear ball. Once collected we get a new checkpoint. Head back up to the roof and parachute off towards the Barracks.
Objective B - Barracks:
Climb up the ladder on the back of the building to gain access to the skylight. Directly under the skylight we'll find an enemy, shoot him and camp out his body until you've removed everyone from the top floor. When quiet drop down the skylight to collect the second nuclear ball. Here another checkpoint will kick in - do your best to exit the building from the ground floor and head west. If you get spotted just die and "Retry" to respawn again under the skylight.
Objective C - Comms Centre:
This one I found the trickiest of the three! The material can spawn in one of two buildings. For whatever reason I couldn't get into the smaller building without raising the alarm. So would just die and retry until it appeared in the bigger building. In the larger comms building you can actually get in via the balcony by mantling on top of the blue cargo container, climbing up and walking through the door. Here you'll need to clear one guard to hopefully collect the last objective.
Once you pick up the third objective the achievement will pop. You don't need to do the escape section quietly!
Check my fully narrated video for a full guide:
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If anyone wants to do this shoot me a message! I have a mic (: Loner504
By iiOmens on 28 Oct 2022 06:12
Loner504 I need help
By GØDz JØYKiLL on 28 Oct 2022 12:43
I confirmed (31st Dec 2022) that need to be 1 play-through to be collected 3 targets. If alarmed, you need to leave a game and start new game from the beginning.
Solo play is the easiest way for me. By joining a game, then sitting and do nothing on the plan until other guy leave the game (Sorry for that ). Then you can start the game with solo.
I followed this guide to get this achievement.
Solo play is the easiest way for me. By joining a game, then sitting and do nothing on the plan until other guy leave the game (Sorry for that ). Then you can start the game with solo.
I followed this guide to get this achievement.
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just something to say me and my friend have now completed 2 or 3 flawless runs no checkpoints and still no achievement we also tried completing each area then using checkpoints still no and after checking on youtube video comments this seems to be whats happening this achievement for now seems to be broken and not possible to unlock so if anyone knows a way to unlock this that we have not tried please let me know
By JoshuaPare on 18 Apr 2023 02:13
Edit: my method has been patched and it no longer works.
I got this achievement through some sort of glitch. I had gotten all three of the objectives (and definitely allowed the alarms to go off) and was rushing to exfil and my teammate and I got downed. It unlocked the achievement at that point and we respawned still in the mission. We were still at exfil and we were able to extract and still finish the mission in less than 16 minutes for the three star achievement.
Edit: I can confirm another user told me they collected all three and died and the achievement unlocked for them. They also said they respawned at Exfil too like I did.
I got this achievement through some sort of glitch. I had gotten all three of the objectives (and definitely allowed the alarms to go off) and was rushing to exfil and my teammate and I got downed. It unlocked the achievement at that point and we respawned still in the mission. We were still at exfil and we were able to extract and still finish the mission in less than 16 minutes for the three star achievement.
Edit: I can confirm another user told me they collected all three and died and the achievement unlocked for them. They also said they respawned at Exfil too like I did.
So the easiest way until this gets patched is to obviously run around and get the first 2 objectives, doesn't actually matter if you trigger an alarm... Then once you have the first two you can just be stealthy and get the last one undetected... This will pop the achievement
However, if you want to do this properly... then follow along with this guide and it will show you the best route to take and still get it done in under 16 minutes for the 3 star ranking:
However, if you want to do this properly... then follow along with this guide and it will show you the best route to take and still get it done in under 16 minutes for the 3 star ranking:
I just did this achievement on solo (sorry to anyone who started this mission with me).
The cheevo is not glitched.
The main thing you need to remember is that checkpoints compromise the achievement, which means you cannot kill yourself and restart the match at any point, wven at the beginning. You need to complete the run flawlessly from the beginning (you have to see the character taking pills in airplane). If you restart your run you do not see the pills scene, cheevo will not pop, because you used restart, which counts as using checkpoint.
I completed the run on One in the Chamber mode, my route was B->A->C.
I hope this helps anyone who was wondering why it wasn’t popping even if no alarms were triggered.
The cheevo is not glitched.
The main thing you need to remember is that checkpoints compromise the achievement, which means you cannot kill yourself and restart the match at any point, wven at the beginning. You need to complete the run flawlessly from the beginning (you have to see the character taking pills in airplane). If you restart your run you do not see the pills scene, cheevo will not pop, because you used restart, which counts as using checkpoint.
I completed the run on One in the Chamber mode, my route was B->A->C.
I hope this helps anyone who was wondering why it wasn’t popping even if no alarms were triggered.
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Good guide thanks and if anyone wants to do this co op please message me on xbox live
By x Varafyr x on 19 Sep 2023 12:24