Hey Merk, you actually don’t want to tune your guns all the way up. If you look at the chart in the tuning, you can see some values peak around 80% and go down if you go further which is actually noticeable in game as well
Hands down the most tedious part of the orion grind was platinums. Polyatomic was fun as hell, even for launchers especially if you do dlc weapons to replace the riot shield and knife
I replaced all the launchers with the dlc guns lol. The biggest headache was long shots, took me quite a bit of playtime to finish those off. Headshots were easy though, I got Orion a couple of days after unlocking the headshot challenges.
In my opinion the headshot challenge for poly camo was ten times easier then the platinum because you just play as you usually do running around or how ever you play did poly in 2 days
as someone who recently unlocked Orion, longshots are no joke and need a lot of determination to complete i feel as getting over 1000 longshots is not hard but it’s not fun either it just takes a bit of time
@@fuzzynuttz5092 leveling isnt really that bad to me. hardpoint matches usually give 3-5 levels without doublexp for me depending on how many kills i get in the objective
@@drew93r4 just play shoothouse for most weapons. things like snipers might be better in normal 6v6 modes due to longer lines of sight and more room to avoid enemy pushes
Tip for JOKR Plat: VTOL are easy to shoot down - first shot, the VTOL will activate flares, shoot the second rocket and while the rocket is going up shoot down the VTOL with LMG to low health so that the JOKR can destroy it with 1 rocket.
For the strella to take out UAVs aim using the farthest left line( / ) of dots in the dot pyramid based off of the distance of the UAV adjust what dot you choose to aim with. Put the dot on the tip of the UAV. (Strella is now my fave launcher for UAVs due to finding this)
For sniper longshots invasion actually worked the best for me, sa'id was the best map for this. There are a LOT of other players who snipe in that mode. Spawns are straight forward in invasion compared to ground war where enemies can spawn pretty much anywhere.
I would highly recommend tier 1, long shots are consistent for all weapons especially for pistols/smgs damage range falloff isn’t awful so you can usually just sit in long shot spots and 1-2 tap people. I did all my long shots in tier 1 and it was actually quick and easy!
For long shots I use the ammo box, ghost and stims but I'm different, I've got 28 guns platinum atm so it may not be the best option but it helps me stay off the map and be a little more sneaky.
I got Orion back on Nov. 28th, but the best and easiest way to get longshots would just play tier 1 since theres at least 6 sets of longshot kills (20-25 each) If you're going for poly and decide to do launchers first Merk (15 double kills with each launch) play domination and hardpoint on open maps, getting double kills with launchers by melee'ing counts towards the progress as well
It's relieving to hear someone that DONT cheat in COD talk about the game and unlocked everything in a legit way. Great Job. Nice video. If I could give you two likes I would.
You can skip the launchers by doing the dlc weapons and it counts. I have ARs and SMGs platinum so i had 18 (don’t remember exactly) then i got gold and platinum on the m13 and the new smg and checked if it counted… and it did!! So there are four launchers and we have three dlc guns out now but we’ll get the chimera for the mid season update and there’ll be no need to grind the launchers.
Leave the launchers to last. I skipped 2 launchers and did the m13 and the bas-p smg. In a week the hunnybager is coming out so you can skip 3 launchers. I love this system I hope it stays.
@@FaZeloffOfGlizzywood Orion looks really good in game. The riot shield and knife were easy. But now they nerfed the riot shield so definitely skip it 😂
Strela for killstreaks - I put it on all my classes, play shoot-house & take out all the counter uav's, They are just a little drone circle thing in the sky that doesnt move. Manage to do it complete it in a few games.
@@TheKirBoi isn't ffa better? I just got like 12 longshots in one embassy ffa although not all games are like that... Any tips for longshots in ground war?
Idk why a lot of people find struggle with getting longshots on shoothouse, I got basically every class maybe expect for pistols platinum on shoothouse by just sitting down mid and it took me only a few days to be done alll 51 plats
Gettings camos and the mastery camos is significantly easier only because you don’t have as many challenges to do. You only do 4 basic camos for a gun, you unlock gold, do that with every gun in thay category, you unlock plat, do a single challenge and you get polyatomic, so on and so forth. The problem with it is the SBMM, it makes getting the challenges done super tedious because you have mf runnin around flanking hard af or you got corner campers and floor huggers. Granted these issues have been in the game, but the matchmaking makes it even more unforgiving. But getting camo challenges has never been easier.
I mean dont max any weapon tuning all the way one or the other, there is always a middle ground somewhere in there that’s considerably better than max all the way
Probably late to the party because I work full time and just now started to get the ARs to Platinum, I have still all the other weapons to get gold. It just feels like people are completely staying away from long range gunfights because they figured out by now that people are trying to get longshots so they don't even show up and traffic is super low in the parts of the map that are beneficial for longshots. Super tedious, took me a week to get three weapons to Platinum. In that speed I will have Polyatomic by christmas lol.
I just got my riot shield plat today in one game, I was lucky enough to find the enemy team had 2 players that were afk so I was able to get 4 to 5 2 kills within 10 seconds. Thank goodness
Snipers and marksmen, shoot house wall to wall, shield and knife are pretty easy, just use flashes, launchers just equip the sitrep perk and it goes a lot quicker than just streaks, everything else on tier 1
Ppl on shoothouse don’t really mount down mid (yet) so the best thing to do is literally camp office window and stay as far back from it as u can or be on the opposite end and kill ppl on windows while sticking close to the borders of the map (the area near one of the starting spawn) the same thing can be down from shanty town, down junkyard.
Hey Merk, you started the vid with the lockwood mk2, at the moment i'm working on getting the marksman rifles to platinum. could you please drop the loadout you used for the lockwood mk2? it woult help alot!!
12:40 & 13:31 Gah damn! why you let everyone know what I run? No cap everything you said I run and your opinion is the truth. I'll expose myself a little bit... For a long time now I've been using aim to use cover. He said that the deployable barricade is pretty much meta and let me tell you... I be going crazy so have fun and quick fix is literally what everyone should be running. Love you Merk! Capital M cause I respect you my nigga!
I managed to get Orion within 3-4 weeks off consistent grinding after launch, and it wasn’t all that hard just play tier 1 quick play for longshots and core for headshots.
Just got platinum for all guns just sitting in Shoot House for general kills since shipment ain't out yet but I've actually found tons of success for longshots then I was farming safecracker in WZ for insane leveling speed, useful for weapons like TAQ-M which is just not fun to use personally or getting a head start since weapons like snipers suck without any attachments
I took on platinum smg’s first. Now i’m doing ar’s. platinum is my favorite camo. Far as I’m going in this game. I’ll do secondaries after ar’s and call it quits on camo’s.
Just a fyi for the riot shield Bc I got that and the knife platinum after launchers. Use the riot shield in third person mode and turn off auto tac sprint or auto sprint. So much easier Bc not everyone is good at aiming so you can basically bot walk to everyone. It’s a great way to get it done reliably in my experience
Also use the pila and jokr in invasion and shoot down the helicopters that carry bots in. One rocket should do it for each the pila and jokr. I just sat near the back of the map and fired at them when they came in. Each one counts as an enemy vehicle. It’s really quick. Best nap for it imo is the taraq invasion map as you can see the choppers very easily and consistently
The problem is the matchmaking. You can get good matches where you do amazing on the camo grind... OR get ass graped by the matchmaking where you end up with a streak of quitting.
I don’t know if anyone else has this bug but for some reason after I unlocked polyatomic, the launchers are not counting the killstreaks that I’ve destroyed.
Polyatomic challenge is love... 25 headshots... I mean Btw the best thing about this games camo system is you can avoid doing the knife and riot shield by doing the dlc guns... as long as you get 51 platinum camos done... I'm js
i currently have ARs and Shotguns Gold, currently finishing up Battle Rifles with the FTAC Recon, then going into sniping for a bit, having the M13B done, i'll never need to use the combat shield and i also plan on doing that with the BAS-P, Chimera and Victus XMR for the JOKR, Combat knife and the other launchers.
Congrats man I have 50/51 im waiting for the chimera because I refuse to use launchers. My main tips is just use tier 1 for longies (longshots)!!! Some guns with bad recoil have a semi auto feature so definitely use that. I agree with your sniper take I would just add leveling up snipers in Invasion is too easy
erik please try and unlock dark matter on bo3 on the xbox 360, don’t say anything about it in videos and just release a feature length film of how you unlocked it
*LIKE* this video for more MWII Mastery Camo videos!
Polyatomic and Orion Camo are next!
Hey Merk, you actually don’t want to tune your guns all the way up. If you look at the chart in the tuning, you can see some values peak around 80% and go down if you go further which is actually noticeable in game as well
He said that In another video I think he just maxed it just for challenges
Dude this is huge. I did not know that.
Yeah I heard a while ago that. Some guns you shouldn’t fully tune or max out with 5 attachments
No it’s proved that the chart is actually inaccurate and maxing stats out actually adds more of what you max out
@@Cronky240 The barcharts are inaccurate but the circle should be good
Hands down the most tedious part of the orion grind was platinums. Polyatomic was fun as hell, even for launchers especially if you do dlc weapons to replace the riot shield and knife
yep longshots gave me depression. And when doing polyatomic i was actually happy doingit
The knife and riot shield are easy to do on shipment
@@txg8883 I did mine before shipment.
I replaced all the launchers with the dlc guns lol. The biggest headache was long shots, took me quite a bit of playtime to finish those off. Headshots were easy though, I got Orion a couple of days after unlocking the headshot challenges.
Going for plat now and it makes want to throw my controller sometimes
In my opinion the headshot challenge for poly camo was ten times easier then the platinum because you just play as you usually do running around or how ever you play did poly in 2 days
Yeah, longshots as the platinum challenge for basically every weapon honestly was an objectively awful choice
as someone who recently unlocked Orion, longshots are no joke and need a lot of determination to complete i feel as getting over 1000 longshots is not hard but it’s not fun either it just takes a bit of time
I think another thing to consider is to take into account just how long it takes to level up weapos as well
@@fuzzynuttz5092 leveling isnt really that bad to me. hardpoint matches usually give 3-5 levels without doublexp for me depending on how many kills i get in the objective
@@KunouFox I can level 2-3 in kill confirmed
What was the easiest mode for headshots?
@@drew93r4 just play shoothouse for most weapons. things like snipers might be better in normal 6v6 modes due to longer lines of sight and more room to avoid enemy pushes
Tip for JOKR Plat: VTOL are easy to shoot down - first shot, the VTOL will activate flares, shoot the second rocket and while the rocket is going up shoot down the VTOL with LMG to low health so that the JOKR can destroy it with 1 rocket.
dont tell me what to do
don’t tell me what to do
@@Tyrone69691 this guy gets it
For the strella to take out UAVs aim using the farthest left line( / ) of dots in the dot pyramid based off of the distance of the UAV adjust what dot you choose to aim with. Put the dot on the tip of the UAV. (Strella is now my fave launcher for UAVs due to finding this)
Or just shoot counters and equipment
For sniper longshots invasion actually worked the best for me, sa'id was the best map for this. There are a LOT of other players who snipe in that mode. Spawns are straight forward in invasion compared to ground war where enemies can spawn pretty much anywhere.
Do ai kills count for longshots?
@@sandtova7781 unfortunately they don't, only players
@@djjoshuaflashing forgot to at mb
0:30 "Ayo, watch your jet. Watch your jet, bro, WATCH YO JE-"
I would highly recommend tier 1, long shots are consistent for all weapons especially for pistols/smgs damage range falloff isn’t awful so you can usually just sit in long shot spots and 1-2 tap people. I did all my long shots in tier 1 and it was actually quick and easy!
Idk, I face tanked all longshots on shoothouse, idk if it was my lobbies but I got a gun done every game
Same bro I used tier 1 for all the other weapons besides snipers for the platinum and polyatomic challenges. Super easy
Pistol longshots were weird as were shotguns on tier 1
Tip for sniper leveling: go into invasion
Bi-pods are underrated you can mount on the floor looking down lanes and beem from across the map
For long shots I use the ammo box, ghost and stims but I'm different, I've got 28 guns platinum atm so it may not be the best option but it helps me stay off the map and be a little more sneaky.
I'm still here trying to get all the assault riffles to their max level. The grind is real.
wow it's been probably 8 years since I last watched you and MW2 got me back into cod so I found your channel again!! Good times man good times
I got Orion back on Nov. 28th, but the best and easiest way to get longshots would just play tier 1 since theres at least 6 sets of longshot kills (20-25 each) If you're going for poly and decide to do launchers first Merk (15 double kills with each launch) play domination and hardpoint on open maps, getting double kills with launchers by melee'ing counts towards the progress as well
same
0:14 bruh at first I thought the scope was longer then the barrel of that mk2 build. But for real the mk2 is super satisfying to use in this game
I think the hardest challenge was the point blanks. It’s hard asf to get close to someone
I got my pointblanks for the lockwood mk2 by sitting in around the corners in popular frank routes
Hardpoint my boi
@@432Tx shipment was a big help 😂 I have Orion now. I believe out of all the camos. Long shots were the tedious ones
It's relieving to hear someone that DONT cheat in COD talk about the game and unlocked everything in a legit way. Great Job. Nice video. If I could give you two likes I would.
Using bipods for weapons with lots of recoil like lmgs really helped me for sitting at the back on shoothouse
@@WilliamJames-tg2ov girl stfu nobody's gonna use that
You can skip the launchers by doing the dlc weapons and it counts. I have ARs and SMGs platinum so i had 18 (don’t remember exactly) then i got gold and platinum on the m13 and the new smg and checked if it counted… and it did!! So there are four launchers and we have three dlc guns out now but we’ll get the chimera for the mid season update and there’ll be no need to grind the launchers.
Leave the launchers to last. I skipped 2 launchers and did the m13 and the bas-p smg. In a week the hunnybager is coming out so you can skip 3 launchers. I love this system I hope it stays.
Or just wait for more dlc to come out so you could completely skip the launchers, and possibly the shield
@@FaZeloffOfGlizzywood Orion looks really good in game. The riot shield and knife were easy. But now they nerfed the riot shield so definitely skip it 😂
Strela for killstreaks - I put it on all my classes, play shoot-house & take out all the counter uav's, They are just a little drone circle thing in the sky that doesnt move. Manage to do it complete it in a few games.
Can't lie the camo grind isn't tough, it's tedious. The one aspect of the grind that is most challenged is my attention span.
What's the best gamemode for platinum AR grind? Ground War or FFA?
@@sorenvc Ground war.
@@TheKirBoi isn't ffa better? I just got like 12 longshots in one embassy ffa although not all games are like that... Any tips for longshots in ground war?
DMZ players. powerplant to apartments counts as a longshot..you can also do this in resurgence
did the snipers in invasion and just had a super laid back chill time in the back of the map just picking people off.
can confirm, tier 1 does do 1 hit kill riot shield and yes it was "easier" to do my platinum challenge
A month later, shipment has come and gone, and Shoot House is back and it’s just ALL rushers. Longshots are AGONIZING on Shoot House rn.
There's a special place in hell for the dev that made every platinum challenge 25 longshots....46 more guns to go.
Merk, the tuning grid isn't linear so it doesn't matter if you max out certain tunings
Idk why a lot of people find struggle with getting longshots on shoothouse, I got basically every class maybe expect for pistols platinum on shoothouse by just sitting down mid and it took me only a few days to be done alll 51 plats
Because that sound boring 😂 congrats tho man how’s poly going
@@AaronTheGreat________ oh I got Orion like a week ago
@@Devlinsky 😂 I’ve just started plat challenges on smg’s 😂
Gettings camos and the mastery camos is significantly easier only because you don’t have as many challenges to do.
You only do 4 basic camos for a gun, you unlock gold, do that with every gun in thay category, you unlock plat, do a single challenge and you get polyatomic, so on and so forth.
The problem with it is the SBMM, it makes getting the challenges done super tedious because you have mf runnin around flanking hard af or you got corner campers and floor huggers.
Granted these issues have been in the game, but the matchmaking makes it even more unforgiving.
But getting camo challenges has never been easier.
I only have pistols, rocket launchers and melee left for all platinum almost there
I mean dont max any weapon tuning all the way one or the other, there is always a middle ground somewhere in there that’s considerably better than max all the way
Mastro_assist3 got me all camos and tools unlock permanently with level up weapons and without getting detected
You can get him on ℹ️nstagram, I’m sure he could help
Erik you had me on the throwing the riot shield for long shot kills. Had me so confused for a sec 😂
Where did you get sniper longshots? And whats up with focus on camo sniper? I dont get more camo kills holding my breath
Thanks for this tutorial, very helpful and much appreciated
Probably late to the party because I work full time and just now started to get the ARs to Platinum, I have still all the other weapons to get gold. It just feels like people are completely staying away from long range gunfights because they figured out by now that people are trying to get longshots so they don't even show up and traffic is super low in the parts of the map that are beneficial for longshots. Super tedious, took me a week to get three weapons to Platinum. In that speed I will have Polyatomic by christmas lol.
I just got my riot shield plat today in one game, I was lucky enough to find the enemy team had 2 players that were afk so I was able to get 4 to 5 2 kills within 10 seconds. Thank goodness
Snipers and marksmen, shoot house wall to wall, shield and knife are pretty easy, just use flashes, launchers just equip the sitrep perk and it goes a lot quicker than just streaks, everything else on tier 1
What's the scope called at the beginning of his video on the MK2 ?
It kept popping up weapon challenge complete because you completed the initial polyatomic camo challenge for every single gun in the game.
The X13 longshot challenge was a horrendous experience. Lol
Ppl on shoothouse don’t really mount down mid (yet) so the best thing to do is literally camp office window and stay as far back from it as u can or be on the opposite end and kill ppl on windows while sticking close to the borders of the map (the area near one of the starting spawn) the same thing can be down from shanty town, down junkyard.
It’s a hit or miss right now. Some times no one, some times I can get 10-15
Did you guys find a better way for longshots for ARs?
Is there a bug? Because destroying equipment for some reason doesn't count towards my platinum camo for launchers
It only works on certain equipment
Your probably destroying field upgrades which do not count
Hey Merk,
you started the vid with the lockwood mk2, at the moment i'm working on getting the marksman rifles to platinum. could you please drop the loadout you used for the lockwood mk2? it woult help alot!!
Any tips on the JOKR gold? Cause it’s a pain
dorellwalker_ got mine done ☑️
The explosive slugs reduce damage range so just run normal slugs.
12:40 & 13:31 Gah damn! why you let everyone know what I run? No cap everything you said I run and your opinion is the truth. I'll expose myself a little bit... For a long time now I've been using aim to use cover. He said that the deployable barricade is pretty much meta and let me tell you... I be going crazy so have fun and quick fix is literally what everyone should be running. Love you Merk! Capital M cause I respect you my nigga!
I managed to get Orion within 3-4 weeks off consistent grinding after launch, and it wasn’t all that hard just play tier 1 quick play for longshots and core for headshots.
you only need to go halfway on your tuning. passed halfway, it’s only going to hurt your weapon instead of improving it.
i used fastest aim down sight attachments and canted laser sight, got orion in about 1-2 days
i got orion last weekend, hated the longshots
love you vids man, have been watching for 8 years and always enjoy the different types of content you put out
Question. How many guns do I have to use to get half of the attachments that you showed?
It’s always said “weapon challenge complete” when completing platinum or the finale skin
It’s because it’s unlocking it in every weapon class
every game i get in theres 3 kids from my team lined up right where im trying to get long shots from shits ridiculous
Just got platinum for all guns just sitting in Shoot House for general kills since shipment ain't out yet but I've actually found tons of success for longshots then I was farming safecracker in WZ for insane leveling speed, useful for weapons like TAQ-M which is just not fun to use personally or getting a head start since weapons like snipers suck without any attachments
yep and x2 weapon exp with it just worked so well but its pached
I took on platinum smg’s first. Now i’m doing ar’s. platinum is my favorite camo. Far as I’m going in this game. I’ll do secondaries after ar’s and call it quits on camo’s.
Just a fyi for the riot shield Bc I got that and the knife platinum after launchers. Use the riot shield in third person mode and turn off auto tac sprint or auto sprint. So much easier Bc not everyone is good at aiming so you can basically bot walk to everyone. It’s a great way to get it done reliably in my experience
Also use the pila and jokr in invasion and shoot down the helicopters that carry bots in. One rocket should do it for each the pila and jokr. I just sat near the back of the map and fired at them when they came in. Each one counts as an enemy vehicle. It’s really quick. Best nap for it imo is the taraq invasion map as you can see the choppers very easily and consistently
Ok but have you gotten a quad feed with the javelin?
IMO I did my sniper long shots in ground war I stayed in the heavy chopper and took out the roof campers
been watching since b01 days love the content merk these camo grinds a pain in the ass tho 🤣
Pro tip for the Launcher platinum camo: Field Upgrades don't count so its useless to try to destroy them.
*Plane wants to know your current location*
the new BO6 camp crime gonna be max guns out but no challenges😂😂
Nice merk I got all my guns Plat yesterday, got my frist poly today grind is alright
The problem is the matchmaking. You can get good matches where you do amazing on the camo grind... OR get ass graped by the matchmaking where you end up with a streak of quitting.
I realized the other day that if you don’t want to do the launchers you can completely bypass them and just do the dlc guns
I don’t know if anyone else has this bug but for some reason after I unlocked polyatomic, the launchers are not counting the killstreaks that I’ve destroyed.
Mastro_assist3 got me all camos, tools and weapons unlock permanently with level up and without getting detected
You can see him on ℹ️nstagram
Shot gun long shots are only 10 meters and I loved it I had so much fun with the shottys
easily the worst part of going for orion is longshots
Polyatomic challenge is love... 25 headshots... I mean
Btw the best thing about this games camo system is you can avoid doing the knife and riot shield by doing the dlc guns... as long as you get 51 platinum camos done... I'm js
RPG was definitely the hardest for me, i couldn't find a counter UAV to save my life. took hours.
Hey merk. Do you think I should lvl up all of my guns first so that way I have all the guns?
try to level up a gun and get it gold then move on to another no point in leveling all guns to just go back to get gold on them
@@WilliamJames-tg2ov thanks I’ll check it out
I’ve literally gotten so many longshot kills with the icon appearing on the top right of my cursor and I only would end up having completed two
@@WilliamJames-tg2ov is this a scam ?
I finished platinum but some of the extra guns aren't tracking platinum anymore lol
i think it’s important to put the high velocity bullets on
If you don't wanna do launchers you don't have to since they added 4 dlc weapons
Weapon tuning doesn’t do too much other than add a meter or a frame ppl think it’s so needed. Not really
i currently have ARs and Shotguns Gold, currently finishing up Battle Rifles with the FTAC Recon, then going into sniping for a bit, having the M13B done, i'll never need to use the combat shield and i also plan on doing that with the BAS-P, Chimera and Victus XMR for the JOKR, Combat knife and the other launchers.
Me wondering why he struggled with the riot shield when he did it before the nerf forgetting they didn't have shipment
I just got gold for two of my guns really fast, probably the easiest gold camos I've ever gotten on a cod game other then the zombie gold in cold war
Congrats man I have 50/51 im waiting for the chimera because I refuse to use launchers. My main tips is just use tier 1 for longies (longshots)!!! Some guns with bad recoil have a semi auto feature so definitely use that. I agree with your sniper take I would just add leveling up snipers in Invasion is too easy
Pilla is probably the easiest one to do so you could at least try
Got riot shield done in 2 hours on tier 1 starting from level 1 it wasn’t bad at all and knife was cake
If I had it 11 already it would e took me a hour max
Can you skip the launchers with the DLC weapons?
I think when season reloaded brings the honey badger you can skip launchers
erik please try and unlock dark matter on bo3 on the xbox 360, don’t say anything about it in videos and just release a feature length film of how you unlocked it
I just started the plat challenge and its very easy and chill
I really dislike the long shot challenges mainly because I don’t like playing as a sentinel
Surprised you didn't use the ranger fvm 40 it has a rangefinder and lets you automatically adjust for bullet drop
Hey man, this was a really good video! Thanks for the tips 😎
I have had the most luck playing shoot house 24/7 for launchers and riot shield and knife
0:49 well technically you unlocked platinum camo and the polyatomic and orion challenges
For Riot Shield challange play shoot house its a game changer
My personal favorite optic for longshots had to be the drex prime
Ground war is so great for longshots
i did all shotguns and pistols in tier 1 shipment took maybe 3 hours
I just finished platinum on all of my guns and it was the worst thing I’ve ever had to do I hated my play style
Hey merk for me the riot shield was realy easy i got in 2-4 games because it kept getting me in A bot lobby
You did your camo challenges with the bots in Invasion before they fixed it.