Legitimate Method: Play slow and methodically, staying cautious on corners, peaking ledges/walls in gunfights, and keeping your sights up ready to engage.
Easy Peasy Cheesy Method: Play the level on recruit and just before triggering the mission ending, switch to veteran difficulty. Another person (ninja) had mentioned something like this before (in the now deleted post), and didn't think this would work given its large amount of downvotes. I then attempted it, and successfully unlocked it. Side note, I don't know if this may affect it but i did go into the levels starting on veteran, switch to recruit, and then switch back to veteran before level completion. It will NOT show on the mission select screen that the mission was completed on veteran, BUT rest assured they are being counted as completed on veteran for the achievements overall.
TL;DR : Play levels on recruit, switch to veteran before beating level.
Happy Hunting!
43 Comments
Another tip is to go into your settings and enable "high contrast mode", this greatly assists with the visibility of enemies as their entire character model is highlighted in red. (Credit : Maka91)
By ldx on 04 Nov 2023 01:12
Major vouch! Just completed this achievement which was my last one for Campaign.
Thank you!!
This is 100% patched. So annoying.
By Dwaggienite on 04 Jan 2024 12:41
No longer works, getting multiple reports from people.
By Lordacris on 03 Jan 2024 17:33
This is one of the easiest veteran completion games, no need to cheese it I feel
By RampagingGoat07 on 05 Nov 2023 01:52
By Pecorleone on 05 Nov 2023 05:11
Anyone else having issues with this popping? I did it legit, got the cheevo for completion, but not MW3 - 141 Ready.
By beers and leafs on 05 Nov 2023 06:40
By WindinWiener on 05 Nov 2023 11:14
Do you have to start a mission on Veteran then change it Recruit then back to veteran for it to register it as Veteran?
By Tylerroosky on 05 Nov 2023 15:01
By Tylerroosky on 05 Nov 2023 16:29
Thanks APEX N3RD, that worked wonders! I've gone ahead and created a YouTube guide regarding this method to spread the word a little wider. You're welcome to add it to your written guide, and I've included some kudos to you at the start.
https://youtu.be/C5ViT3XPM4k
By Lordacris on 06 Nov 2023 01:08
Thanks for sharing the cheese, it worked great. Just want to mention that what I did was got right near the end of a mission, changed the difficulty, and reverted to last checkpoint just to be sure. Except for the mission Payload where I just change the difficulty on the fly and still ended up getting the achievement.
By TechTheory on 06 Nov 2023 15:20
HAVING AN ISSUE WHERE I COMPLETED THE CAMPAIGN ON VETERAN AND NEITHER CAMPAIGN COMPLETION ACHIEVEMENTS POPPED. Anyone else experiencing this and have a fix?
By CommittedGHOST on 08 Nov 2023 15:20
Just finished off the campaign. Still works. And makes life way easier.
By ContactTango on 08 Nov 2023 20:20
See above @CommittedGHOST same issue and still looking for a resolve. And I'm having the same issue with two other achievements popping in the game.
By beers and leafs on 09 Nov 2023 00:43
did it legit and wont pop, wonderful
By JihzNapkin on 11 Nov 2023 18:13
For confirmed, I played a new Game as a veteran, recruit at the beginning of each mission and changed to a veteran at the end of missions, even in cinematic, and Achievement was unlocked at the end of the last mission once in the menu
By Yokai Raijin on 11 Nov 2023 22:06
As a heads up on this, my Veteran achievement didn't unlock until I had skipped the credits (after the mid-credits scene). My standard Campaign achievement unlocked as soon as the credits started, but yeah, for whatever reason, my Veteran one came later - just in case anybody thinks they've missed it, it's worth skipping to the end of the credits to be sure.
By Mr Funman on 12 Nov 2023 02:50
By JVPSHARK on 13 Nov 2023 12:58
Completed legit as I enjoy the difficulty and no veteran achievement at the end. Anyone else had this issue, all levels say completed on veteran and no achievement?
By DJ RJester on 14 Nov 2023 08:11
Resolved the issue, just replayed the passenger level on veteran as very very short and it popped the achievement for me.
By DJ RJester on 14 Nov 2023 13:59
Beat the game on Veteran legit, only earned the beating-the-story trophy I'm on PS5 btw, amazing!
By Shedled#6393 on 16 Nov 2023 21:27
I did veteran playthrough today and was able to unlock the achievement no issue.
By RxAxMxPxAxGxE on 17 Nov 2023 02:55
Today I finished the game at the Veteran level. The plot and missions are short, as everyone wrote, but I had to sweat on the veteran in open missions 😬
By RMZ3S on 20 Nov 2023 00:28
Do I have to start the a new game on Veteran and then switch Recruit, play the level and switch to Veteran? Because I've finished the game already, but if I replay a level on Veteran, switch to Recruit and switch back just before the end, it doesn't seem to work...
By Kimitchii on 21 Nov 2023 02:44
Still works. Start each mission on recruit then switch to veteran before the end cutscene. Achievement unlocked for me after I skipped the end credits.
By Daniel Polido on 22 Nov 2023 03:01
By Kimitchii on 24 Nov 2023 22:24
By WillGoss12 on 26 Nov 2023 01:47
You really don’t need to do this glitch. Veteran is already pretty easy. I beat it in 2 hours.
By WarMachine9494 on 26 Nov 2023 21:25
did it all normally, no pop.
By Inferno118 on 08 Dec 2023 19:23
Can you do Mission Select for this on an already Completed run? Or does it have to be a totally new game?
By MrFunkoPop996 on 10 Dec 2023 21:23
So far no luck. I beat it legitmately on Veteran with no glitches, rushing, anything like that, didn't pop. I'm trying the last minute swap now but if it doesn't work I'm gonna be pissed considering every mission says highest difficulty completed is veteran.
By UnSYNCHaBle on 16 Dec 2023 21:44
I had no success despite having achieved everything as a veteran. Any suggestion for me?
By SnowTig3r 87 on 24 Dec 2023 04:44
Unfortunately it is impossible to cheese the achievement as the glitch does not work which is quite strange because in several previous installments it was possible. In the menu screen you need to have the status of every mission marked as veteran completed for the achievement to unlock.
By pobeda ww2 on 27 Dec 2023 15:51
Can confirm that you do not need to start a new game. You can use mission select, start from the first mission and go from there.
By PhysshBone on 28 Dec 2023 05:36
I have all missions marked as completed on veteran. Despite this, I didn't get the achievement. I completed the missions without any glitches. What can I do??
By Kitomag on 31 Dec 2023 10:49
Did the S1 update bug this going by comments?
By HoggyBear08 on 01 Jan 2024 23:42
I did this legit and still don’t have the achievement. Should I just replay some missions until it pops?
By OwnedByOmar on 15 Feb 2024 03:05
I'm thinking u can play this offline with a disc and not update it to do the cheese method?
By x jjaldana 2 x on 24 Feb 2024 19:58
Ty very much apex! I figured mine was just a one off glitch from the downvotes but glad to see you confirms it works
By Ninja of russia on 04 Nov 2023 05:48
@tylerroosky idk for certain if you need to start the mission on veteran (just happened for me since i completed the prior mission on veteran so it happened to start the next one on veteran as well), i did it just to be safe, given it may trigger the coding to believe you started AND finished the level on the same difficulty.
By APEX N3RD on 05 Nov 2023 15:38
For those who glitched:
I beat mine legitimately but no pop. 3 of my missions I beat on veteran but then went back to get some achievements on recruit. I replayed those missions and it popped.
By Pluto70 on 11 Jan 2024 17:47
Just to add i got this achievement when i got back to the mission select screen not before the credits
By xXFAT DOG156 on 06 Jan 2024 05:37
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