Call of Duty Vanguard Trophy Guide & Roadmap

On Veteran the enemies are much more accurate, throw more grenades, and you die much faster. Luckily, the checkpoints are quite forgiving and many parts are more about storytelling purposes or stealth rather than combat. Just stay in cover, quickly peak out of cover to take out one enemy and repeat. You can also make use of the new Blind Fire functionality, see “Did I Get ’em?” below.

It’s recommended to do a playthrough on Recruit first to get all the miscellaneous trophies out of the way. Then you’ll already know all map layouts, enemy spawns, alternate paths, and where to take cover. This makes it a bit easier and may actually be faster overall because you’ll die fewer times on Veteran.

Do this a total of 15 times throughout the entire campaign. It can also be farmed via checkpoint restart & mission restart.

• Mission 3: Stalingrad
• Objective: Get home

This can be farmed in the apartments on your way back home from the military base. After getting the knife and killing the very first enemy in this mission, enter the room to the left and look right. There will be a weak wooden wall, behind it you can see two soldiers talking to a woman. Do a Tactical Sprint through this wall by pressing . Double-pressing the sprint button makes you destroy the wall. Restart the checkpoint and repeat until the trophy pops. Luckily, the checkpoint is just before the wall, so it’s very fast to farm.

This can also quickly be farmed in Mission 8: The Battle of El Alamein, during Objective: Kill all Axis Mortar Teams. After killing the first wave of enemies, you will climb up some rocks. There will be enemies on the hill ahead of you, throwing 1-2 grenades. They do this every time. Pick up their thrown grenades and throw them back at them. Restart the checkpoint and repeat until the trophy unlocks. It can be farmed via Checkpoint Restart.

• Mission 2: Operation Tonga

During Mission 2, after regrouping with your allies at the windmill, you get the ability to command your teammates with . Give them 15 commands throughout the mission. You can farm this on the MG tower by repeatedly commanding your teammates to attack it.

This and all other character-specific ability trophies count across multiple playthroughs of the mission and can be farmed via checkpoint restart / mission restart.

• Mission 3: Stalingrad

During Mission 3, you will be playing as Polina and can crawl through vents throughout the mission. For this trophy, kill a total of 15 enemies shortly after exiting a vent (within a few seconds). You can use the same vent / crawlspace repeatedly and wait for the enemies to come near you. Once they’ve been alerted, they will come looking for you. Just enter & exit the same vents and keep killing them. You can get this within the first two big enemy encounters that have vents, during objectives “Find Misha in the Post Office” and “Clear the area of Germans”. There you will go through buildings with lots of enemies and crawlspaces.

This and all other character-specific ability trophies count across multiple playthroughs of the mission and can be farmed via checkpoint restart / mission restart.

• Mission 5: Numa Numa Trail

During Mission 5, you can activate the Focus ability by pressing . This highlights enemies near you (yellow outline) and slows down time when aiming. The ability lasts for a few seconds and has a short cooldown period. Simply kill 15 enemies across the entire mission while the ability is active.

This and all other character-specific ability trophies count across multiple playthroughs of the mission and can be farmed via checkpoint restart / mission restart.

• Mission 7: The Rats of Tobruk & Mission 8: The Battle of El Alamein

During Mission 7 & 8, you play as Lucas and can press / to switch between types of lethal equipment. Use 4 different types of throwables / lethals across these missions and get 3 kills total with each (dynamite, throwing knifes, grenades, gammon bombs, S-mines). Can be farmed via checkpoint restart. You find throwing knifes in the first enemy outpost you capture in Mission 7 and S-Mines at the flak site you defend at the end of mission 8.

• Mission 1: Phoenix

For this you must kill 15 enemies across the entire train ride section at the start of Mission 1 while standing on different train car roofs. It only counts while standing on the metal roofs that have 3 hatches on top. It does NOT count while standing on crates, wood, other types of “roofs” that don’t have 3 hatches. You can’t shoot 15 from the same train car roof, there are never 15 enemies in one place. You can kill a few from one roof, then move on to the next roof and it adds up your kills across the mission. This is slightly tricky because your teammates will kill the enemies if you’re too slow. You always need to take alternate paths to climb up crates that let you jump over to the rooftop with the hatches on them. Then open the hatches on the roof of the train car and shoot the enemies through it. The first time you can jump over to a train car roof is before the first stealth-melee kill enemy where the game gives you a tutorial on how to do stealth kills from behind. There you can jump over to the left onto a train car roof. Between enemy encounters you’ll need to get down from roofs and find new ways to get up the next roofs. There are more enemies than you need for this, but not a whole lot more. Missing a few is fine.

Shooting truck drivers from roofs doesn’t seem to count. To be safe shoot the enemies on the back of the trucks first before destroying the trucks, also so that your teammates don’t kill them by accident.

You are allowed to use checkpoint restart. It is best done on Recruit difficulty. Because you don’t have any cover while standing on the train roofs, you’d die too quickly on Veteran.

If you don’t get it by the time you exit the train, you’ll need to replay the mission via mission select.

• Mission 1: Phoenix
• Objective: Hijack Train to Hamburg

This can be done against the very first Truck you encounter in the campaign. While climbing a train car roof, two trucks with enemies will drive alongside the train next to you. Shoot the driver cabin until the truck loses control and explodes. If you don’t get it first try, you can restart the checkpoint.

• Mission 2: Operation Tonga
• Objective: Destroy the Gun Battery Cannons (1/2)

During Mission, you will enter a dark bunker. With you is only one other teammate, called Phillip Evans. After destroying the first gun battery cannon inside the bunker, open the next door and kill the two enemies in the dark corridor. Then open the next door after that, Evans will then crouch under some rubble in a dark corridor and gets attacked by an enemy with a knife from the right side. You can kill this enemy if you like but it doesn’t matter for the trophy, Evans will counter him on his own if you do nothing. Immediately after this, a grenade will come rolling down the stairs. For the trophy you must quickly pick up the grenade and throw it. Throwing away the grenade before it explodes unlocks this trophy.There is very little time to do this, you must rush past Evans and grab the grenade very quickly. If it explodes, restart the checkpoint immediately to get another chance. There’s a checkpoint just seconds after the grenade explodes, so if you don’t get it first try pause the game immediately to avoid triggering the new checkpoint.

• Mission 2: Operation Tonga
• Objective: Take the Bridgehead

Shortly after reuniting with your teammates at the burning windmill, after encountering the next group of enemies, you will enter a courtyard with a Half-track (armored vehicle with MG turret) and lots of enemies. At the start of this area, on the left side, is a case with smoke grenades. Pick them up from here and keep them with you throughout the mission. You’ll need them later. The trophy itself doesn’t take place here right away, but later in the mission.Keep playing until you must drive a truck down a hill to crash it into a minefield (Objective: Clear a way through the minefield). Right after this part, your army will run into a big ditch while being shot at by MG turrets from bunkers. Give the order to charge the bunkers. Then, while at the ditch, press to throw the smoke grenades that you picked up earlier in the mission. This will unlock the trophy. Even though the trophy description calls it “anti-tank ditch”, there are actually no tanks here or anywhere in this mission, just the MGs in the bunkers shooting at the ditch.

• Mission 3: Stalingrad
• Objective: Cover the Partisans from the Roof

After clearing the Post Office area of German Soldiers and rescuing Misha, you will climb to a rooftop. There you will get the objective to cover the Partisans from the Roof, which is where the trophy takes place. Leading up to this point you are allowed to miss as many shots as you want. The trophy is only concerned with this rooftop section, which is the final section of this mission.

You should keep the Sniper Rifle “Requiem” that you get automatically earlier in this mission from story purposes. You can’t miss this weapon, just need to keep it in your inventory until the end. Some enemies are far away, which would be very hard to hit without this Sniper Rifle. The Sniper Rifle will kill all enemies in 1 shot to the upper body. Stay further back on the roof so you can barely look over the edge, thus most enemies can’t hit you. Start by shooting the enemies furthest away. Only shoot when the enemies are standing completely still. Don’t try to shoot any moving enemies. The tricky part is that you will sometimes flinch when being hit, which will wobble your scope around and can mess up your aim. Just take it slow, when enemies start shooting at you it’s best to wait until they stop firing for a moment. When the halftracks spawn, wait until they have stopped before shooting the gunners. Later on, more enemies spawn on the far left side together with a halftrack, and then more spawn behind the windows of a big building straight ahead. The last group will spawn on the rooftop to your left, after this group the trophy should unlock (before you head down the roof).

If you miss a shot, restart the checkpoint immediately. The trophy Rain of Fire also takes place here. It’s best to do that trophy first and then restart the checkpoint to redo it without missing any shots for Legend in the Making.

• Mission 3: Stalingrad
• Objective: Cover the Partisans from the Roof

After clearing the Post Office area of German Soldiers and rescuing Misha, you will climb to a rooftop. There you will find a case of Molotov Cocktails and get the objective to cover the partisans while they try to escape. Kill the enemies for 1-2 minutes until Misha says “More Coming From the right, Polina”. Then two Halftracks will spawn on the far right side (armored vehicles with turrets on top). Keep throwing Molotovs at them until the trophy unlocks. It’s a bit buggy and might not unlock on the first Molotov throw. Just keep throwing them, you can pick up more from the rooftop. Alternatively, a third Halftrack will spawn shortly after on the far left side. The trophy Legend In The Making also takes place here. It’s best to do Rain of Fire first and then restart the checkpoint to redo it without missing any shots for the other trophy.

• Mission 4: The Battle of Midway
• Objective: Protect Your Squadron / Withstand the Counter-Attack

In mission 4 you’ll be flying an airplane. Shortly after you take off, you will have your first combat encounter. Shoot down the 4 planes (only 2 of them seem to count for the trophy however). The rest can be farmed in the next combat encounter during objective “Withstand the Counter-Attack”, after doing the first dive-bombing.

Allies will be marked by a blue icon above their planes. You must shoot down the enemy planes chasing behind them. Zoom in with to keep your aim focused on them. I had to shoot down only 3 more in this section to pop the trophy, but if you need more you can keep farming kills here until the trophy unlocks.

• Mission 4: The Battle of Midway
• Objective: Start the dive-bomb / Bomb the first carrier

In mission 4 you’ll be flying an airplane. Shortly after you take off, you will need to perform a dive-bombing attack on an enemy ship. It will shoot streams of bullets at you while you fly downwards. There will also be explosive Anti-Air rounds going off but getting hit by those is okay and doesn’t void the trophy. You just can’t get hit by bullets for this trophy.

The best way to do it is to spin the right stick clockwise at all times. This gives you greater control over the plane because the steering will be more reactive as you’re already spinning. Turning off the music volume and turning the plane sensitivity up to maximum in the settings also helps. Refer to the video to see where to fly exactly. When a new stream of bullets starts shooting you should switch to flying on the opposite side. Do it in this order:

• 1st bullet stream: Steer down and to the left (while spinning right stick clockwise)
• 2nd bullet stream: Streer down and to the center  (while spinning right stick clockwise)
• 3rd/4th bullet streams: Steer down and to the right (while spinning right stick clockwise)
• 5th bullet stream: Steer down and to the left  (while spinning right stick counter-clockwise)
• 6th bullet stream: Steer down and to the right (while spinning right stick clockwise)
• 7th/8th bullet streams (while zooming in with scope and spinning right stick clockwise): Steer down and to the left, then drop the bomb and pull up after dropping it.

Keep spinning the right stick at all times but pull it straight to the right or straight to the left to change directions quickly. To stay on the left you can spin counter-clockwise. You’ll see that this is much more reactive than keeping the plane steady, because it’s already spinning and faster to steer. When you get really close to the ship, you will need to scope in with to aim the bomb, to drop the bomb, then hold to pull up before the bomb hits the ship. The prompts will also be shown on-screen. The trophy will unlock after you successfully dropped the bomb and triggered the next checkpoint.

If you get hit by a bullet during the dive you can still restart the checkpoint to retry as often as you want. However, because you also get hit by the explosives it can sometimes be hard to tell if you got hit by a bullet or not (you can usually tell the difference by the sound it makes when you get hit). It’s highly recommended to make a save game backup when the dive bombing section starts. If you don’t get the trophy after the dive bombing, it means you got hit by a bullet. Then you can copy back the save without needing to replay the mission each time. Go to console settings > Saved Data Management (PS4) / Saved Data and Game/App Settings (PS5) > Saved Data > Console Storage > Copy to USB (PS4) / Upload to Cloud Storage (PS5).

This is definitely one of the most tricky trophies in the game and will take many attempts. It’s best to switch the difficulty to recruit so that you can take more hits by the explosive anti-air rounds. You usually get hit by those when flying on the outer edge of the diving radius (basically so you can’t just fly off too far to the sides), but you can use this to your advantage to get away from the bullets and instead take a hit by the explosive rounds that don’t void the trophy.

• Mission 5: Numa Numa Trail
• Objective: Follow the 93rd / Find and Kill the Sniper

A few minutes into the mission, after where Survivalist unlocks, you will get a cutscene and are captured in an enemy camp. Then the 93rd division comes and rescues you. Follow them and you’ll come to a point where a sniper starts shooting at your squad. Your teammates will make you aware of the sniper and throw smoke grenades. Just stay close to the AI teammates and follow them, they show you the way. Once they throw the smoke, run with them across the bridge. In this entire section you are not allowed to get hit by the sniper until you find and kill him. If you get hit you can use checkpoint restart.

After running over the bridge, crouch and sneak through the tall grass on the left. Stay on the far left wall as far left as you can go. The sniper will not hit you there, he can’t see you in the grass if you stay crouched. There are also trees in front, blocking his view. Follow the wall on the far left side until the grass ends. At this point, look what your teammates are doing, you’ll see them taking cover behind a tree and then running to another tree in the sniper’s direction. You need to do the exact same. This is the only dangerous moment of this section. Wait until the sniper has fired a shot, then you have about 2 seconds before he fires again to run to the next tree. From there you will find more tall grass, go prone and crawl through the grass to the objective marker, behind a rock where your allies wait (press touchpad to see objective marker). Now press to use your Focus ability and look up at the palm tree, your focus ability should show yellow outlines around the sniper. Shoot him with any weapon and the trophy will unlock as soon as you’ve killed him.

• Mission 5: Numa Numa Trail
• Objective: Sneak Away From the Crash Site

From the very start of this mission until the next cutscene where you slide down a muddy hillside, you are not allowed to fire any guns for this trophy. However, doing melee attacks with guns and bayonets is fine and doesn’t void it.

The easiest and fastest way is to stay stealthy and not get spotted. If you are spotted lots of enemies will spawn and they can instant-kill you with their bayonet charge, even on Recruit difficulty. Use your Focus ability to highlight nearby enemies throughout the jungle and stay crouched so you’re harder to see. When enemies group together, just wait a moment until they move on. If you encounter single enemies you can run up to them for a melee takedown. Be careful with the tripwires placed at the bottom of some trees, watch the ground to not stumble into those. You also don’t need to do the optional objective to climb to the crashed plane in the tree, can head straight for the main objective marker.

Always press Touchpad to see the main objective marker, this makes it easy to find your way around. Don’t walk on the main paths where you’d be easy to see. Instead, walk in the bushes next to the main paths to get around enemies and stay out of sight.

If you are spotted, you can simply restart the checkpoint and retry from there.

• Mission 6: Lady Nightingale
• Objective: Pursue Steiner

At the very start of the mission, the very first enemy encounter you have is against snipers. There are 7 snipers in total, more spawn as you advance through the area. For this trophy you must kill 5 of them without taking damage from any of the snipers. Use the Requiem Rifle that you start the mission with. It kills them in 1 hit. Press to command Micha to use your knife to distract them, it creates a glint that makes the snipers think it’s your scope, so they will shoot at the wrong place. This gives you a moment to peak out of cover and kill them while they’re distracted. You can tell the Sniper Locations by the white glint of their scope. You can also pop out of cover for a moment, between the moment they shoot and the bullet hitting you have enough time to see where they and retreat back to cover.

If you get hit, restart the checkpoint. If a checkpoint triggers after being hit, restart the mission, this encounter is only a few seconds into the mission.

• Mission 6: Lady Nightingale
• Objective: Ascend towards Steiner

After the section where Misha blows himself up with grenades, you will slide down to a basement. Then the next area you enter will be the “department store” which is a destroyed shopping mall with enemies searching for you. From this point on you must defeat all remaining enemies of this level on all floors of the department store building with Takedowns. Punching them, shooting them, or killing them by any other means will void the trophy (but can restart checkpoint if that happens). There are a total of 45 enemies across all floors of the department store building.

This is best done by playing stealthily, at least until the 2nd sniper and MG enemies spawn on the top floor, at that point combat always triggers and the enemies will know where you are. But everything else can be stealthed up until that point. Sneak to an enemy and press for the takedown. For the trophy they don’t necessarily have to be stealth takedowns, you can also use takedowns while in combat, but the prompt won’t always show up. In stealth it always shows up so that’s a sureshot way. Definitely play on Recruit for this, in the last section when combat automatically breaks out, melee takedowns would be impossible on Veteran because everyone is gunning/punching for you. Also note that for Takedowns during Combat, HOLD (don’t tap it for a short moment), tapping it often results in punching the enemy rather than doing the Takedown prompt.

• Ground Floor: 11 Enemies here. 3 on the left, 1 in the back, 4 in the center, 3 on the right. These guys are pretty much blind and deaf. You can even walk up to them from the front for quick takedowns, if they see you before the takedown that’s fine as long as they don’t shoot or alert others. Don’t let other enemies see the Takedown. If they find the corpse it’s fine and doesn’t alert them. There are many crawlspaces here to hide in. Restart checkpoint if spotted.
• Middle Floor: 4 Enemies here. They are all in the same dark room. 1 where you enter, 1 will investigate shelves on the right side, 1 will investigate the counter on the left, 1 will be near the exit door.
• Top Floor – Sniper: First you must take out the Sniper by doing 2 Melee Takedowns on him. Go through the crawlspaces on the sides of the area and use the vents or yellow climbable tarps to get to the upper floor behind him. After doing one takedown, he changes to the other side of the top floor. Again use vents around the edges of the area to get to the other side unnoticed and do another melee takedown. If he notices you, he might throw smoke grenades and change positions again. After he’s dead, a lot of enemies spawn all around the top floor.
• Top Floor – 1st Enemy Group: 12 Enemies here. Luckily, their vision is just as bad as the ones on the ground floor. Their pathing is fixed initially where they spawn from but then it gets increasingly randomized as time goes on. They usually patrol a specific area of the map. Just take it slow, watch what they are doing and take them out when they have their backs turned at you. Use the many crawlspaces to your advantage. Avoid being spotted, it would be a mess to fight them in combat, and the next wave of enemies would enter combat immediately instead of remaining in stealth. If you are spotted, restart the checkpoint. It would be best to keep the last enemy alive in the destroyed snowy area (where the walls are collapsed). If you kill the last one there, the next enemy group spawns on the balcony on the other side where they are super easy to stealth kill from behind. If you kill the last enemy elsewhere, the next group spawns in the snowy area where they are closely grouped together and harder to stealth.
• Top Floor – 2nd Enemy Group: 17 Enemies here. After killing everyone in the previous group, another group of enemies spawns on the top floor. These guys have much better vision than previous groups. Lots of them will spawn together and stay positioned in a fixed spot for a while. If your last kill was in the snowy area, they will spawn on the opposite side at the balcony in 3 pairs of 2 enemies each and a few more roaming around. You can easily do takedowns from behind on the 3 pairs of 2 enemies each, standing at the railing. After killing any 8 enemies, a Sniper and several MG enemies will spawn. At this point combat always triggers automatically and an enemy will come charging at you. The enemies will now know your position because of the sniper. There is no way to really stealth this part, even if you did stealth perfectly up until here combat always breaks out. So a change of tactics is required. Run up to enemies while they are hiding behind cover and have their backs turned at you, most of these should show the Takedown prompt. Remember to HOLD and not tap it, during combat it will oftentimes do a punch instead of a Takedown if you tap it quickly. If you kill someone with a punch, restart checkpoint. This section is quite a mess because there are so many enemies shooting and meleeing you from all sides. Retreat to crawl spaces so enemies lose sight of you for a few seconds, then come out to see if any have a Takedown Prompt. Retreat and repeat. On Veteran this is impossible because you need to get close to them and die too quickly. Definitely play on Recruit for this. It’s best to focus on the individual enemies before taking out the 2nd sniper. Normal enemies die in 1 takedown, the Sniper needs 2 Takedowns again. And if other enemies spot you, he’ll be alerted that you try to sneak up to him and will change positions. When he’s the only enemy left he’s very easy to take out. After killing the last enemy here, the trophy will unlock immediately. If it doesn’t unlock it means you killed someone accidentally by other means or missed an enemy on the lower floors.

• Mission 7: The Rats of Tobruk
• Objective:  Take Down the Stuka

At the very end of this mission, your final objective will be to shoot down an airplane “Stuka”. It’s best that you keep this mission’s starting revolver “Top Break” in your inventory for this. Even though the trophy description says “pistol” it counts this revolver too. Weaken the Stuka first by shooting it with the MG turret and other weapons. The enemies that arrive in the first truck during the Stuka fight also drop MGs which are great at hitting the Stuka. There’s an ammo crate near the corner of the right bunker if you need to refill. When the Stuka starts burning, switch to the “Top Break” Revolver for the final hits. It does pretty good damage and is relatively accurate.

Alternatively, some enemies from the 2nd truck also have Rocket Launchers that you can pick up and use against the Stuka. However, they are quite hard to aim and not very accurate, but a single hit should blow up the Stuka. Use what you prefer. Grenades work too but are the hardest option, there are grenade cases in this area and you’d have to cook the grenade to perfectly time it for a midair explosion when the Stuka is doing a dive attack.

• Mission 7: The Rats of Tobruk
• Objective: Search the outpost

After clearing an outpost, you need to interact with a map on a table, which triggers a dialogue with your teammates. In that same room, pick up the silenced MP-40 before moving on. The trophy-relevant stealth part starts here. After leaving the outpost, stick to the left side of the road and enter the ruins. Then stay on the left side and head downhill. There are 3 enemies by a broken bridge, kill them with headshots using the silenced MP-40, without alerting the other nearby enemies. Quickly run forward and past the broken bridge where the enemies were. Some enemy patrols will spawn on the left and the right. Take the path in the middle between the rocks to stay unnoticed, no enemy patrols here. Then enter the next ruin on the right side. There’s one enemy inside and another one at the exit who will show up when you’re trying to leave, so be ready to pull the trigger. After leaving these ruins the trophy should unlock if you weren’t detected.

• Mission 8: Battle of El Alamein
• Objective: Clear the Axis Ambush

This can be done at the very start of the mission as soon as you start playing. When one of the tanks is driving, run in front of it to be ran over. On Recruit difficulty the tanks will actually stop before you die by them. Change the difficulty to Hardened in game options and you’ll get this easily.

• Mission 8: Battle of El Alamein
• Objective: Defend flak guns until the bombers arrive

This takes place at the very end of Mission 8. After you reach the hilltop with the AA guns, you will need to help your teammate Des to put up a machine gun. After this enemies will attack and you need to defend the flak guns from them. During this section you must do twice as many kills as your AI teammate. Play on Recruit difficulty and this should come naturally, the AI isn’t very good at killing enemies quickly. There’s an MG42 with 500 ammo and MP-40 with 260 ammo on the crates to the right of where Des shoots the mounted MG. This is more than enough ammo to kill all the enemies. Also throw grenades when many enemies are grouped together.

The trophy will unlock when the bombers arrive and drop bombs on the enemies, which also ends the mission.

• Mission 9: The Fourth Reich
• Objective: Clear the Tunnel

Near the start of the mission, shortly after finishing the car ride and taking out the MG gunners, you will come to a train station and Polina says “Jagermorder!”. This enemy will throw some smoke and will either camp in a yellow train car or walk around the train station. He’s heavily armored and carries an LMG. You can press to command your allies to distract him. Shoot and kill him while he’s distracted. He has a lot of health so just keep doing this repeatedly.

For this you must finish the entire 9th Mission “The Fourth Reich” without shooting any allies or civilians. This is self-explanatory, just watch where you shoot and take it slow. If you do hit someone by accident, checkpoint restart is fine and will still get you the trophy in the end.

IMPORTANT: The trophy description is wrong. Reaching level 55 does not unlock the trophy, you must COMPLETE Level 55 and reach Prestige 1. This means leveling up one more time after reaching Level 55 to get the trophy.

For this you must reach Prestige 1 in Multiplayer / Zombies mode, which happens after you reach Level 55 and then level up one more time. Only reaching Level 55 isn’t enough, you must complete Level 55 by doing another level-up. Your XP & Level is shared between both Zombies Mode and Multiplayer, everything carries over. So if you do all Zombies trophies first, including the 10,000 kills, you will already have some levels done (around Level 35). You can also reach Level 55 by just playing Solo Zombies. This can actually be faster than playing Multiplayer, but depends on how good you are at Multiplayer. The advantage is that in Zombies you don’t have loading times between matches and are not at the mercy of how good or bad other players are. Just play to high rounds in Zombies and successfully extract when it gets too hard. Use Aether Shroud for the extraction, it renders you invisible for 5 seconds so you can run past the zombies on the way to the exit portal. Always put all your points in getting your weapon to Pack-a-Punch Level 3 first before buying any perks and grab monkey bombs when you find them which will distract all zombies if you are surrounded.

Reaching Prestige 1 will take most players around 20 hours total but you should be halfway done from the 10,000 Zombie Kills alone. It can be quicker if you play during 2XP weekends or otherwise use 2XP boosters. It also depends on performance. If you prefer playing Multiplayer over Zombies, then Domination Blitz mode is usually what gets you the most kills and points per minute. Also check what playlists are available each day, if  “Das Haus” playlist is available play that one, it gives the most XP by far. It takes place on a tiny map where you’ll get kills much quicker than on big maps. Getting 50-100 kills every 7 minutes is doable in this playlist, which levels you up many times faster than playing Zombies. Unfortunately, the playlists change each day and it’s not always available, so check every day.

While working towards Prestige 1 you should also focus on sticking to the same Operator & Weapon to reach max level with them for the other trophies.

This should be combined with the Level 55 Multiplayer trophy, as well as the Zombies trophies (especially the 10,000 kills in Zombies). First, you need to unlock the Operator by completing the requirements shown in the Operators menu of Multiplayer / Zombies Mode. Operators have different unlock requirements for Zombies and Multiplayer, but once unlocked in one mode they’re unlocked in both.

Always play the same operator until you have maxed them out. Also use the Operator’s favorite weapon to earn double Operator XP & double Weapon XP. On your way to Prestige 1 you should be able to max out almost 2 Operators, so maxing out one isn’t too bad.

Ideally, work through the Zombies trophies first and always use the Operator’s favorite weapon while doing the 10,000 Zombies Kills. Halima + MP-40 are a good choice, this weapon is unlocked from the start and does great headshot damage at close range in Zombies. Then you can finish off the rest by continuing to play that Operator / Weapon in Multiplayer Mode or just keep playing Zombies.

All Operator Level Progress is shared between Zombies & Multiplayer.

This should be combined with the Level 55 Multiplayer trophy, as well as maxing out an Operator and doing the Zombies trophies (especially the 10,000 kills in Zombies). Playing with an Operator and using their favorite weapon will earn you double Operator XP & double Weapon XP. On your way to Prestige 1 you should be able to max out 2 weapons, so maxing out 1 isn’t too bad.

Operators have different unlock requirements for Zombies and Multiplayer, but once unlocked in one mode they’re unlocked in both. You can view their unlock requirements from the Operators menu in Multiplayer and Zombies. Ideally, work through the Zombies trophies first and always use the Operator’s favorite weapon while doing the 10,000 Zombies Kills to level it up faster. Then you can finish off the rest by continuing to play that Operator / Weapon in Multiplayer Mode. Halima + MP-40 are a good choice, this weapon is unlocked from the start and does great headshot damage at close range in Zombies.

All Weapon Level Progress is shared between Zombies & Multiplayer.

You can use a heart at the Demonic Altar to equip a covenant, all of which cost one heart. In order to acquire hearts, you must complete the objectives through the red portals around the map. Each objective you complete will reward you with one heart, so you will need to complete 13 objectives to be able to do this.

You do not need to sacrifice all 13 hearts in one game, it will carry across all games. Simply sacrifice 13 and the trophy is yours.

The Demonic Fountains can be found in the following areas:

• Fiendish Fortitude – Office
• Diabolical Damage – Apartments
• Venomous Vigor – Panzer Column East
• Demonic Frenzy – Boiler Room
• Aethereal Haste – Theater

Artifacts are a secondary ability you have on your loadout, which can be activated by pressing   + when it is fully charged. You can charge your ability by killing zombies. When you activate Frost Blast, zombies close to you will die instantly while those on the edge of the ring will be slowed and covered in ice. Simply melee kill 10 of these slowed zombies. This is best done at Round 5+, for a better chance of zombies being slowed instead of killed. This does not need to be done in one use of Frost Blast, it can be done across multiple activations.

You can change your Artifact at any time during the match via the Pause Menu > Select Loadouts. This way you can do multiple Artifact trophies in the same match.

Artifacts are a secondary ability you have on your loadout, which can be activated by pressing   + when it is fully charged. You can charge your ability by killing zombies. When you activate Energy Mine, a blue mine will appear on the ground in front of you which will detonate when any zombies go near. In the early rounds this will instakill zombies, which will count towards the trophy. Simply kill 10 zombies with Energy Mine for the trophy. This does not need to be done in one use of Energy Mine, it can be done across multiple activations.

You can change your Artifact at any time during the match via the Pause Menu > Select Loadouts. This way you can do multiple Artifact trophies in the same match.

Artifacts are a secondary ability you have on your loadout, which can be activated by pressing   + when it is fully charged. You can charge your ability by killing zombies. Aether Shroud will make you invisible when used. In order to do this, simply let a zombie hit you until your health is below 25% (you can see your health in the bottom left of the HUD, both on the white bar or as a number next to it), then activate Aether Shroud. Do this five times for the trophy.

You can change your Artifact at any time during the match via the Pause Menu > Select Loadouts. This way you can do multiple Artifact trophies in the same match.

Artifacts are a secondary ability you have on your loadout, which can be activated by pressing   + when it is fully charged. You can charge your ability by killing zombies. When you activate Ring of Fire, you will be surrounded by a ring of fire, which will increase your damage while you are standing in it. Simply kill 10 zombies while standing within this ring. This does not need to be done in one use of Ring of Fire, it can be done across multiple activations.

You can change your Artifact at any time during the match via the Pause Menu > Select Loadouts. This way you can do multiple Artifact trophies in the same match.

You can track your total kills by going to Loadouts > Gunsmith (attachment for a weapon) > customize (camos) > click the first camouflage category and it will show how many Zombies kills you did with that weapon. However, it only tracks it up to 4,000 kills per weapon, after that you can still track it via how many Pack-a-Punch kills you did with the weapon, seen under the third group of camouflage. This makes it somewhat trackable if you stick to only 1 or 2 weapons. Alternatively, you can check your post-game stats after each match and add them up manually.

How to farm kills fast:

1. Get your weapon to Pack-a-Punch Level 3. Invest all your points only into punching your starting weapon, do not spend points on perks or mystery box until it’s PaP Level 3. You should be able to do this by Round 10 or 11. After you have a PaP 3 weapon, you can spend your remaining money on perks (the yellow perk that increases headshot damage is best, then the red perk that gives more health, then the green one that makes you reload faster). Also build the Armor Level 3 at the workbench. If you find any monkey bombs keep them, those can save your life as they distract all zombies when thrown. Also play with Aether Shroud artifact, if you get surrounded you can use it to become invisible and get away from zombies.
2. Farm kills during the next “Harvest” objective (between rounds 10-13). If you get a Transmit or Blitz objective complete it and continue until you get a Harvest. It doesn’t matter if you do it in the first or third phase of the Harvest, it always spawns Zombies from fixed locations. Make sure you do it before having reached Round 14, Zombies get very quick and have more health after this point.
3. Pick a good spot where the zombies will all come from one direction. If the zombie spawn points aren’t good, advance the Harvest to the next phase to change their spawn points.

Reaching 10,000 kills should take around 6-7 hours with this method. It’s slightly faster in Solo games because there are no teammates to steal kills from you. However, in Co-Op you have the comfort of other players being there to help and revive you. Pick whichever mode you are more comfortable with. It absolutely doesn’t matter if you do it in solo, or private with a friend, or public matches with random players, it adds up your kills across all of these.

The kills still count if you get disconnected or quit the game without completing the mission. Doing the exfil is not necessary either (but recommended for bonus XP). Each kill is saved instantly in your online profile.

Remember to also combine your 10,000 Zombie Kills with working on maxing out an Operator and a Weapon. Your first goal should be to unlock an Operator first (requirements shown in Operators menu of Zombies / Multiplayer). The unlock requirements are different in each mode, but once unlocked they will be available in both modes. Halima (MP-40) is recommended, she is easy to unlock and the weapon is available from the start.

All your Operator Level / Weapon Level / Multiplayer Level carries over between Zombies and Multiplayer. By doing the 10,000 Kills you will already gain a bunch of Level Ups to reduce the Multiplayer grind later. Using an Operator’s favorite weapon gives you double Operator XP & double Weapon XP! Take advantage of this double XP boost while working on the kill grind. Then you can finish off the rest in Multiplayer while continuing to work on Level 55. If you do it during a double XP weekend you may even get close to Level 55 just from the 10,000 kills grind.