COD4 - Completely Ridiculous Mission

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You know, when a game expects you alone to hold off an army of endlessly respawning soldiers, it starts to lose its fun. That's exactly what is happening in this particular part of the game:

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You wouldn't believe the amount of enemies [AND DOGS] that get thrown at you, it's the equivalent of firing up a godlike match of UT and using the console command addbots 100.

How the hell am I supposed to do this? My routine thus far has been to shoot all the men rappelling from the helicopters (to knock them off the rope) and then just snipe as many guys on the ground as I can before they run up to me, but there are so many that a few of them always manage to sneak up to you. And if you try to hide in a corner or behind something they spam nades and flashbangs like no tomorrow!

One of the most frusterating game moments I have ever witnessed.

Any suggestions? I would prefer not to turn the difficulty down.
 
I had no problem with it, only took me 2 trys. Make sure you use your claymores, and you don't HAVE to keep the sniper rifle. You can go pick up a machine gun off a dead body.
 
I didn't have any issues with the machine for what ever reason, but a lot of people have mentioned it. Now HEAT on the other hand....

Like the other guy says, make sure you put a claymore at every choke point. After the choppers approach track and let one guy with a decent weapon get to you, kill him, and grab it. Take cover, kill anything that comes close, and toss grenades into groups of guys at the choke points when your claymores got taken out. Always keep your pistol ready for anything that tries to bite you ;)
 
jaguax said:
You know, when a game expects you alone to hold off an army of endlessly respawning soldiers, it starts to lose its fun. That's exactly what is happening in this particular part of the game:

impossiblexu2.jpg


You wouldn't believe the amount of enemies [AND DOGS] that get thrown at you, it's the equivalent of firing up a godlike match of UT and using the console command addbots 100.

How the hell am I supposed to do this? My routine thus far has been to shoot all the men rappelling from the helicopters (to knock them off the rope) and then just snipe as many guys on the ground as I can before they run up to me, but there are so many that a few of them always manage to sneak up to you. And if you try to hide in a corner or behind something they spam nades and flashbangs like no tomorrow!

One of the most frusterating game moments I have ever witnessed.

Any suggestions? I would prefer not to turn the difficulty down.
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I did this on the second-hardest setting quite happily. I didn't get any of the "endlessly respawning" business either.

Way I did it was to drop the bloke off on the hill like he says, then run forward to where the enemies would clearly be, behind the big concrete barriers, and drop lots of claymores. I then went back up the hill, sat beside him with the scoped semi-auto and an RPD. I then shot the baddies as they approached, using the RPD on the zip-lines to eliminate the helicopter enemies before they actually contributed anything. As for the rest, I either got lucky or was just awesome, because only two got closer to me than that white car in your picture.

If you can, snipe plenty of them when they're all bunched up just as they run into view.

I also put a few claymores just behind where you're standing in the picture to prevent them sneaking up on my right. I heard a few explosions and never had to worry about it.
 
i planted c4 and claymores where they run up. then i ran back to the opposite side of that one dude (by the cabanas) and beat it that way. took me a few tries.
 
I used all of my claymores for the first wave of enemies. Because my stupid sidekick said "if you have claymores now is the time to use them." So I planted them all.

And because of that the first wave was a breeze, but this is the second wave, and holy Christ there are a lot of enemies swarming from all angles!

It's not that I'm missing them either, I'm definitely taking down 5 men for every 1 man that the cripple shoots. (and seriously, who stands in front of a helicopter as it's coming crashing directly towards you?)

Their numbers are too large, I can only take down so many before they flank me or spam me with grenades... (often times I will see three grenade indicator icons on my screen!)

I should really type less and play more, but I've attempted it so many times that I don't even want to look at it anymore. :p
 
I also found this part insanely hard. First few times I made a line of claymores, while the 2nd wave shows up I tossed C4 where they were landing from their helicopter drop. I always ended up dieing though, there was just too damn many coming from all sides. I then resorted to finding glitches, I crouched under a desk in one of those hut/building things. The enemies pounded me with nades but they always hit the outer wall and bounced back at them. But eventually one would do a good throw and make it through the window and kill me... Then I tried camping out by the bumper carts, sniped off as many as I could but they still got me.

Finally I kept with my camping but this time camped all the way to the south, in the city. I just sat there until the rescue copter came and sniped them one by one. Nearly everyone ran past me.
 
what i did was put a bunch of claymores in front of the ferris wheel at that part where they all spawb from but staggered them so I would take people out as they kept pushing rather than all at once. I then crouched right next to the guy you carry out (maybe 5 feet away) and started sniping, switched to the ak when guys would sneak up around me on the right. Go prone if you get shot up too much and crawl backwards as you will then find yourself in a ditch and able to recover health. I used all my claymores and nades, threw a bunch of flashes and then popped out and unloaded with my ak. Epic moment just firing away and finishing the last 100 bullets you have just in time to grab your guy and run for the evac. I switched the throw grenade back button to one on my mouse too which made it a ton easier.

If you think this part is hard wait till you have to run down a hill for your evac calling air strikes and all with a timer. That mission made me walk away from the game for a couple of days.
 
Viper8547 said:
I also found this part insanely hard. First few times I made a line of claymores, while the 2nd wave shows up I tossed C4 where they were landing from their helicopter drop. I always ended up dieing though, there was just too damn many coming from all sides. I then resorted to finding glitches, I crouched under a desk in one of those hut/building things. The enemies pounded me with nades but they always hit the outer wall and bounced back at them. But eventually one would do a good throw and make it through the window and kill me... Then I tried camping out by the bumper carts, sniped off as many as I could but they still got me.

Finally I kept with my camping but this time camped all the way to the south, in the city. I just sat there until the rescue copter came and sniped them one by one. Nearly everyone ran past me.
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I'm gonna have to try that, thanks!
 
That was the easiest mission in the game. I just sat on the ferris wheel and shot dudes.
 
Stay close to your sniper buddy until those choppers show up, then relocate to the ferris wheel.

Don't use the sniper rifle unless you have to. Burst from the AK grenadier + nades = easy way to kill guys from afar. Took me three tries on Hardened, but then managed to win pretty easily the third time.
 
Shoot everyone you can until about the second wave of dudes starts pouring in from all sides.

Pick up a G3 or AK or Something
Then,

(Facing towards enemy spawns) Go to the pavillion to the right of the ferris Wheel, crouch behind it staying to the left edge where you can peek out towards the ferris wheel.

The enemies will mostly gravitate to running at your left side, and you can shoot them as they run through the trees at you, and land if they come up the middle they have to run through the pavillion and the railing is there to block some of the fire, giving you time to deal with them.

You should be able to dance around crouched back there and take care of all comers until the chopper comes to your rescue.

It took me about 30 tries on verteran before I figured that out, then it only took me two more before I was done.

What difficulty you playing on?
 
i had a lot of trouble on this part and tried all sorts of things. the thing that worked for me was to shoot the 4 guys who come out of that chopper on the right as soon as they get to the ground...pick off a few more as they approach and then once they all got close i ran over to the right, behind the covered deck thing. i just hung out back there and picked guys off as they got close..it actually provides a decent amount of coverage and allows to you move around quite a bit without worrying about being attacked from behind or your right side.
 
I actually had to semi-glitch the game to get past that part on the second highest difficulty. If you go back to where most of the enemies spawn after the helicopters come they wont spawn in that area anymore. After that it was relatively easy (though i admit certainly not the most satisfying ending to the mission).
 
i had no probs with claymores and sniper rifle

i did what some else said, planeted all my claymores and sat down beside my team mate and sniped anything that moved, never went and got another gun, it did take me a couple trys :)
 
Viper8547 said:
Finally I kept with my camping but this time camped all the way to the south, in the city. I just sat there until the rescue copter came and sniped them one by one. Nearly everyone ran past me.
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Well... I can confirm that running South into the city works, and stops the enemies from spawning over there.

So at least now I can camp there until the chopper comes, but then that's a whole nother' issue, for there are still a million guys on the field when I have to carry cripple man to the helicopter.

Is there a console command to skip the mission, I'm about to give up here.
 
I finally did it! Using the cheap camping way of course, but whatever...

Someone mentioned Heat being hard... Yeah I died a lot running down hill, but with the use of air strikes it was a cinch.

Thanks guys!
 
First time i played that mission i passed with no problem at 1 try.

But when i was replaying it with hard mode, god damn it took me like 30 tries...:eek:
 
I liked this game up until this point. This part of the mission is just poorly designed, it's not fun, it's obvious spawn-spam at its worst. Fuck it, It's so frustrating how I have been 1 inch from the helicopter at least 5 times and it either flew off or I got killed by the 20 odd soldiers standing in a bunch on the far side of the map. Not cool.

Does anyone know the exact name of the map that is directly after this one so I can skip it?
 
I don't know what the fuck everyone's complaining about. I completed that mission in the first try on Normal difficulty. Holy shit, there's 100 enemies coming, well, pick up an AK from a dead body and kill them all with cover, of course. Quit being pansies and finish the job! :rolleyes:
 
Mr. Stryker said:
I don't know what the fuck everyone's complaining about. I completed that mission in the first try on Normal difficulty. Holy shit, there's 100 enemies coming, well, pick up an AK from a dead body and kill them all with cover, of course. Quit being pansies and finish the job! :rolleyes:
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Normal difficulty doesn't even hold a candle to the difficulty on levels Hardened and Veteran.


IIRC, Veteran level = one or two bullets and you're dead. I thoroughly enjoyed teh challenge offered by Hardened, but it too was frustrating at times.
 
Yeah I got to this mission on Hardened and said "Fuck it." which is a shame because up until this point, I was really loving the game. The following levels after this mission pretty much set the tone for the rest of the game. The last few levels are nothing but zerg-fests. It's really fun being swarmed by enemies that can pretty much respawn forever. I know this is a CoD tried and true formula but maybe I'm getting old because this was pretty damn annoying.
 
Heh, I'm stuck here as well. I've tried it tons of times, but it hasn't changed my love for the game.

I'm playing on Hardened and it is HARD. I think I've tried about every method here besides camping in the city. If the dogs don't kill me, then its the nade spamming enemy's.

I will beat this mission!
 
Playing on hardened this mission was very frustrating. I must have attempted it 20+ times, before completing it. I did notice a rather odd glitch in the 360 version. I attempted to camp right under the helicopters who drop guys down, so I could kill them before they knew what hit them. For the helicopter on the left, not sure about the other one, the guys drop down the rope and spawn under the hill. They then pop-up through the hill in random places, which lead to my death.

Get out of here stalker?
 
I played it on normal, and beat it in three tries. It wasn't the amount of soldiers that pissed me off though, it was the lack of checkpoints. The first time I did it, I survived until the helicopter arrived, and then died when carrying the guy to it, and ended up going back to where the helicopter had 5000m left to go. I was pissed then. Really, the biggest problem I have with it is that the beginning of that mission was my favorite part of the game. The end, is my least favorite.

I am going through the game again on Veteran, but I am not yet to that level. Something tells me it is going to piss me off something fierce when I get to it.
 
Yeah the checkpoints at the end of this level don't work sometimes. It took a few goes before I got a save just before the helicopters come. After approx 50 attempts on hardened, and much swearing at my monitor, I decided to try google.

Like some here, many recommended positioning behind the carousel structure. I was going to try it, then I saw a vid on youtube where you can cheese the mission without having to fire one shot. I was so pissed at this point that I went for it, and it worked first time. Those of you that are as mad as I was may want to search for it. You hide up the side of the building way to the right after planting some C4 around the vehicles (one pack on the corner ahead of you is supposed to help too). Nobody will even come up to you, wait for the helicopter, blow the c4 and book straight for the Capt then the chopper. I plan to go back and do it properly when I get done with the other great games I'm working through.

Heat is another very tough mission, but it took me a lot less tries to figure out. After you make it through the field at the top, I headed around the shack on the left. From there you can see the roof of a house at the far left way down the hill. Smoke was the secret for me, toss one as far down as you can and try to land just in front of the house. Then make a path from there to in front of your current position. It will take a few tries to see how to run down the hill and get the smoke positioning right. Check your six for tangos while you wait for the smoke to disperse. If successful, you can run all the way down to the house without being shot at. Drop the guy at the back of the house, and possibly the guys in the parking lot. If you make it inside you are home free. One or two may follow you inside so be ready, but you get a save here and it's cake after this. You can run all the way to the bottom (through another house), maybe toss a grenade or air strike depending on difficulty.
I made it to the gas station with 30 secs to spare.
 
Space_Coyote said:
Yeah the checkpoints at the end of this level don't work sometimes. It took a few goes before I got a save just before the helicopters come. After approx 50 attempts on hardened, and much swearing at my monitor, I decided to try google.

Like some here, many recommended positioning behind the carousel structure. I was going to try it, then I saw a vid on youtube where you can cheese the mission without having to fire one shot. I was so pissed at this point that I went for it, and it worked first time. Those of you that are as mad as I was may want to search for it. You hide up the side of the building way to the right after planting some C4 around the vehicles (one pack on the corner ahead of you is supposed to help too). Nobody will even come up to you, wait for the helicopter, blow the c4 and book straight for the Capt then the chopper. I plan to go back and do it properly when I get done with the other great games I'm working through.
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You can also do this by going prone inside the little shacks by the carousal. I don't know why it works. You will get showered in grenades, but they won't hurt you, and no one is ever smart enough to run it. Wait for time to end and run like hell.
 
Those of you who breezed through on Normal should really have a go at this level, (or Heat, if you REALLY want your balls busted) on something like Hardened or Veteran.


Come on back and holler after that ;)
 
I breezed through it on normal, but after like 15 tries on hardened I just hid in the city. This mission and the tunnel part of no fighting in the war room leave me NO desire to even attempt this game on veteran.
 
lol, it's super easy. I did it first try, and I had no troubles. Of course I had no idea where the guys were going to come from. If I had known I would've done it better.
 
l337x3r1cx said:
I breezed through it on normal, but after like 15 tries on hardened I just hid in the city. This mission and the tunnel part of no fighting in the war room leave me NO desire to even attempt this game on veteran.
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The game on veteran is a blast. It's a bitch, thats for certain, but it's very rewarding once you are done. I actually wish it was a little tougher. COD2 was definitely harder on veteran than COD4 has proved to be thus far (though, I am not done on vet, so it could get tougher). Hell, in COD2 there were times I was so bloody pissed I probably would have removed the pulse from any living thing that came within 10 feet of me. COD4 has had it's frustrating moments, but not nearly as bad.
 
jaguax said:
You know, when a game expects you alone to hold off an army of endlessly respawning soldiers, it starts to lose its fun. That's exactly what is happening in this particular part of the game:

impossiblexu2.jpg


You wouldn't believe the amount of enemies [AND DOGS] that get thrown at you, it's the equivalent of firing up a godlike match of UT and using the console command addbots 100.

How the hell am I supposed to do this? My routine thus far has been to shoot all the men rappelling from the helicopters (to knock them off the rope) and then just snipe as many guys on the ground as I can before they run up to me, but there are so many that a few of them always manage to sneak up to you. And if you try to hide in a corner or behind something they spam nades and flashbangs like no tomorrow!

One of the most frusterating game moments I have ever witnessed.

Any suggestions? I would prefer not to turn the difficulty down.
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To your left is a little shack (not the one in front of the ferris wheel, but the smaller one further to the left). Just lay prone in there and wait for the heli to arrive. Note, you may have to throw out an occasional grenade that lands inside the shack. Beat it on my first try on veteran that way :eek:
 
I'm working my way through again on veteran, and this one had me scared. I did it second attempt though quite easily without cheating :p I sniped what I could, and then took cover behind the bumper cars platform. If you set the claymores at the approaches, and just shoot them as they come, it's straightforward.

Heat was a major PITA, IDK how many tries it took. At least an hour, maybe even 90 minutes I was so absorbed. At the chopper I had 0 smoke grenades, 0 frags, and 17 rounds lol.
 
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