Bruh i actually did the sniper bit of vendetta in front of my fam on veteran for the first time (in one go, no deaths). I had to show em there uncle wasnt no bitch. That being said i almost shat myself and burst a blood vessel when it was over
World at War was the last COD to feature checkpoint spawning, which would send waves of enemies at you until you hit certain checkpoints. It added to the difficulty & often left players without ammo & stuck in death/spawn loops. It truly was the pinnacle of hard in COD campaigns.
@@Realninja7214 A few CODs that released after WAW do have it for a mission or two, even BO3 has it at one section(can be used to farm kills w/guns towards Personal Decorator achievement), but in the earlier games the feature was prevalent in the majority of missions & was the only way to progress. In COD’s after WAW, the feature was implemented but often times in a mission where the player has to complete another task to stop the spawning.
Interestingly, that part seems historically accurate for the German's side. I remember reading somewhere that the Germans had more explosives than they knew what to do with.
@@straightmaneatingpizza1665so they decided to use them all on Dimitri 💀 I swear they had enough to level the entire planet 50x over and yet they sent every explosive they’ve ever made at Dimitri
Heart of the Reich on veteran made me feel like I was actually fighting in the streets of Berlin. I can't even describe how many times I died trying to beat that mission.
I play the WaW campaign on Veteran pretty regularly. Best CoD. There are parts where it seems as if enemies spawn infinitely, but there's actually just a lot of them and you actually can kill them all and no more will spawn until you move up. For example, there is no infinite spawn on Burn 'Em Out, it's just that a lot of them respawn. In fact, if you're patient enough, you can kill all of the enemies near the first two guns on Heart of the Reich. It takes forever and you'll have to kill several hundred enemies, but it is possible to completely clear the area before moving up. It's even possible to totally clear every part on Ring of Steel, on Eviction, Downfall, Relentless, etcetera. There are two and only two parts of the entire campaign with infinite respawn: The right path on Blowtorch and Corkscrew before the overgrown tunnel and taking out the third gun on Heart of the Reich. You can actually hang back and totally clear the next area before taking out the last gun. I like to run through the missions in chronological order, rather than on the broken timeline that the missions are given in.
@@_Scipio__Africanus_ Yeah it has the taste of Battle of Chosin Reservoir. If it was realistic you WILL wear out your gun in hand...you WILL break several of them just like in Chosin Reservoir.
Same thing here, I play it regularly. It's a challenging game on veteran but overtime you learn how to play and understand the pattern. Curiously, I have found that the Japs are to be fought from long distances while the German in close quarters. It's because they have different tactics and use different environments (in the jungle, you can be shot at from everywhere so you must thread slowly while in Europe, once you've broken the enemy's line of defense, you're fighting in conventional cities where it's pretty straightforward and the player has an advantage - IF you break the line of defense).
@georgeellison5094 it was hell for a lot of us, brother. We were forged in the fires of Stalingrad and Okinawa on veteran difficulty. No doubt, an entire generation of us lads has severe gaming PTSD from our time in the trenches. The things we saw... the things we did...it changes a man forever. Th streets of Liberty City just didn't feel the same after WaW 🫡
I hear that, one of the first games I 100%, almost got all the zombies achievements you can get on shi no Numa, until I got bored around level 25, pulled an m1 grand grenade launcher put of the box, which promptly glitched and killed me😅
I play this campaign on veteran every year near Christmas time. Have done it for like 13 years and have no idea why I started doing it. I have literally ripped controllers in half out of frustration but the satisfaction of finally completing it is so good!
that's a nice little ritual, I used to play runescape every christmas (and every other day tbh) but don't have a 'go to' these days. I think Bioshock is the game ive completed the most
That grenade indicator still haunts my nightmares. 😂 At least it’s an amazing campaign, so it makes the slog through Veteran difficulty a little more worthwhile.
This campaign was amazing. We've seen WW2 constantly in earlier COD games and many Medal of Honor games and yet this one stands out. Probably my favorite WW2 campaign with Medal of Honor Rising Sun being a close second
Surviving a bonzai charge is actually really easy, to the point that the dominant strategy becomes to counter charge them and mash melee like a maniac. You have i-frames during the tackle, so it's a really good way to get your health back while waiting for the recharge, or in the case of Vampire, from the easy kills
You’re spot on with the “burn em out” mission that last area I had to have died like 50 times easily, but once I threw smoke and used the flamethrower it was cake. Underrated strategy and most guides don’t do that so I’m glad you did
I was exhausted just watching this. Dear God... what an epic. I played this back in the day, and this brought back great memories, the game was so intense and immersive like nothing I'd played before, or probably since. COD WW2 even isn't this mad and terrifying. Thanks for sharing!
Proud to say I’ve 100% & gotten every achievement in this game when I was 14 & I never felt more prouder. I honestly think if you’ve beaten it on veteran you should be able to put that on your resume.
It's definitely among the hardest campaigns. The grenade spam is relentless. But it's got weird inconsistent difficulties. Some missions they stand around shooting the walls then others they have pixel perfect accuracy
Here's some tips to get through Call of Duty World At War in Veteran mode: 1. If you ever take cover, look at the sky. You'll see enemy grenades flying at you and their trajectory. With this, you can anticipate the grenade blast zone and fling them back to the enemy with better accuracy. 2. Always pay attention to your compass. Locate and pinpoint enemy positions safely from the cover before shooting them. 3. Never get far from your allies. Although sucks at shooting, your allies provide an infinite meatshield you can safely cower behind from enemy bullets. Furthermore, they know how to react against enemy grenades. 4. Stay away from the frontline. The enemy won't spam grenades at you if you're far enough to outrange them. 5. Ever tried firing from the hip in close-quarter battle?
I did this only a year and a half ago, finally after all these years since 08 lmao. That is how long it took me to hate myself enough to try again. Honestly felt really rewarding and made use of all the game knowledge I have had through the early cod games.
Achievement hunting just hit different back then. Don't care for it now. I remember completing this veteran achievement back in the day and it was extremely difficult.
Gaming in general just hit different back then. I really do feel like the peak of multiplayer shooters hit at Black Ops One. WAW multiplayer was great, and MFW2 set the table. After BO1 it just feels like everything’s gone downhill.
Let’s gooooo! Just hopped back on after the servers got fixed and tried to do some campaign on Insane and it’s just as frustrating as I remembered. Heart of the Reich and one the latter pacific levels each took me a day to complete. Love these videos and the way you walkthrough the achievements 😊
It's the game I'm so proud of getting all achievements, even after all these years. Got to the last prestige in multiplayer and all that. Worth it? Hell yeah!
I wish there’s a way I could’ve shown you how to kill Amsel so much easier with the pistol, before you did it the hard way lol. There are YT tuts on simple jumps that will get you out of the map, load the correct zones, and you can walk right up to Amsel and shoot him. Can be done in the span of a few mins and it’s also very entertaining how the npcs act, as the game didn’t intend for you to be within melee distance of him lmao. Congrats on the veteran completion!
I found a good method is to use the sniper rifle on the driver and then aim at the car and then quickly aim the pistol and shoot. He sticks his head up for a few seconds before he gets out and runs. Recruit difficulty is recommended as it takes more shots the higher the difficulty.
@@t-m-p-e-r same argument could be used for 10th prestige lobbies back on mw2 2009. The camos all look the same, whichever way you got them. Why ride a bicycle 20 miles when the motorcycle is right next to it? Make sense?
@@kenobi894 Trophies are for personal achievement. 10th prestige lobbies are a bad thing because you didn't earn it. It is more like "I could walk to lose weight, or I could use a saw and cut it out of my body." As I said before, only noobs do it. I will accept if you do the glitch but not for any trophies, as searching out of bounds is fun. I have no idea what you meant by the camos, but it seems you didn't get to prestige 10 legit.
I cannot describe the pride in myself I felt for beating this game on veteran. Like I genuinely had to take a break for a few months for the last two missions where I was memorizing how to move after dying which was hard with the constant grenade spam and the limitless enemies that would not stop spawning.
To this day, blowtorch and corkscrew on veteran still haunts me. I’d rather play the entire campaign on repeat for a weeks straight than to play that again
I did my WaW Veteran run a few months ago. I remember being so nervous getting to the sniper duel part because someone I watched on TH-cam spent at least 30 minutes on it; and when I finally got to the part I did it first try and couldn't believe it. I screamed out "OH NO FUCKING WAY I DID IT FIRST TRY!" while in a Discord with some friends. Genuinely tho, FUCK Blowtorch & Corkscrew, it was my least favorite mission when I played it as a kid on Recruit/Regular and it is still my least favorite mission as an adult on Veteran. I remember I cleared the last bunker, but there was ONE enemy on top that I didn't kill somehow, and I remember the motherfucker SNIPED me during the cutscene where you are helping the injured soldier onto the truck. And the last checkpoint I had was halfway through clearing out the bunker. Made me so fucking mad.
Beating this campaign on Veteran is one of my proudest gaming achievements. It took many hours of trying and some luck. Endless grenade spam and banzai charges haunted my dreams.😂
This has to be the most niche relatable video I’ve seen in a while and I’m glad someone is talking about what I went through when I tried to finish the campaign on veteran
Absolutely loved this game, remember grinding out every single achievement on it before there was even any modders on it or atleast very little, least to say never doing something like that again. One of the achievements I remember was to get 3 kills with one sniper shot.. pain just pain but good pain, the sort that keeps you coming back to play it again 👌
Just came back to the video to announce that I just finished COD: WAW on the Veteran difficulty and I don't know how, but my controller has survived the many raged I've had during this experience!!! I thought COD 4 MW was hard, but this campaign was the literal bane to my existence. This campaign on Veteran is what Mile High Club from COD 4 in on Veteran. I'm just glad I don't have to experience the many grenade spams/ rain anymore!
Completing Heart of the Reich on veteran just to get the platinum on PS3 was about 4-5 hours of my life that I'll never get back. The grenade indicator triggers the PTSD that it gave me every time I see it, too.
Funny how people find different bits hard, I remember having less trouble than you on some bits, but I specifically remember 'Relentless' being the only mission I never managed to finish on veteran, and you did it with just one death first time haha. Solid run!
I'll never forget the amount of grenade spam I endured. They still give me PTSD in cod/battlefield to this day. I remember the 45 Zero planes gave me more trouble than the Vendetta sniper.
I got my first veteran achievement in 2009 as a 5th grader and last one in 2016 as a senior in high school. Literally took me 7 years to beat this fucking game on veteran
The grenade spam while storming the reichstag on Veteran was completely ridiculous. It took me two months two complete because I was literally pinned down in a damned video game. I still have memories of that ordeal 14 years later.
3:50 “not sure how tho, as I didn’t die once” on the other hand private conserva’s family just received the heart wrenching news that their son died in a friendly fire incident to a confused British chap who is surprised it wasn’t harder to strongman a Japanese position
If you want to talk about difficulty, I played this game on wii and it was brutal with the manual aiming and moving with the nunchuck. I never played it on veteran but can only imagine how difficult it would be.
Being a teenager during the prime years of COD was truly something I’m grateful for in hindsight. I was also 15 years old when World at War game out and is still statistically my most played game in the franchise after all these years.
@@JForJackPlays Our generation was definitely spoiled at that time. So many iconic games were coming out in such a short span during the 7th console generation.
For me its Blowtorch and Corkscrew, yeah Heart of the Reich was hard but I've done it twice in veteran mode, Blowtorch and Corkscrew was the only mission to make me irrationally angry. Good job man.
Great video! You really captured the terror behind this difficulty setting in this game. I remember so vividly where I finally gave up as a teen playing this. The grenade spam was unreal. 😂😅😭
The sound of the grenades bouncing around are ingrained in my brain now. At least I got good at spotting grenades flying towards my face from a distance
now this is a World War 2 Call of Duty everything about this game is was legendary loved the atmosphere the dark, mysterious, depressing music, campaign and zombies. World at War needs a remaster
Idk why, but I did platinum this game on PS3. Its the only 100% game I've ever done. I needed to look up how to do the assassination with a pistol achievement and figure out how the hell to get through the first room of the Reichstag. Also the pistol assassination can be completed by shooting his escape car with your sniper rifle a couple times then with the pistol for the last shot to cause the car to blow up while he's in it.
Watching you struggle with Blowtorch and Corkscrew gave me solace. Watching you basically blitz through Heart of the Reich made me mad 😝 great work mate, love the vid!
when I beat burn em out I was celebrating with my older brother, It was the first mission on veteran on world at war he tried so he was proud when got passed that little shit that hides behind the box. He thought it was easy to beat before he tried it. Because I am pretty young he thought "there is no way he is this bad" but now he knows about the abusive amount of grenades. but it was still fun to beat. Also nice vid!
Ever since I did my veteran run years ago I could never play this game on any other difficulty tbh. I feel it really goes from your normal shooter to a fully immersive battlefield. 2 best tips for it are 1.) take it slow, like inch by inch for your ground. You'd be moving slow as hell in an actual warzone, do it here 2.) Be very mindful of your loadout. Carry a semi auto or lmg for distance, and a subgun for cqc, abandon bolt actions asap. The flamethrower missions change with sometimes the flamer being good, but bad for when the enemies are at mid range, really gotta just be ready to drop it when you need to. Theres prob some other stuff im missing but those really helped me out. Only ever really had a struggle on that hunting the sniper segment and that one portion in burn em out with the hole in the ceiling. Funny enough I did what you did trial and erroring with smokes and the flamethrower till I got it, And I only threw my controller once :D
When I was a stupid toddler that couldn’t read I had no idea what the difficulty selector meant so whenever I played the campaign I also picked the coolest looking one (veteran). I have no idea how, but by sheer brute force and dumb luck I managed to go through the entire campaign.
I remember starting this almost impossible quest 8 years ago and I gave up trying once I reached blowtorch and corkscrew. Fast forward to 2024 I buy the game again to finish what I had once started. It was painful. Heart Of The Reich took me the longest. Having to push up those stairs and advancing, only to have 3 grenades chucked at me in all directions nearly put me off but eventually I made it, only for the pillar to fall on me. It really felt like the Germans were giving it their all. After completing this quest, satisfaction has never felt so good
As difficult as WAW is, you really NEED to appreciate the mechanics and even movement/ aiming being as smooth as it is. COD 2 added the same endless enemies, no brightness settings so you were blind on night missions, the AI aimbotted and only shot at you, plus shot through walls, and without sprinting, throwing grenades back, having minimum checkpoints, and terrible aiming- it’s just tedious as time goes on.
When a WW2 Veteran says "there were grenades EVERYWHERE during the war" Treyarch took that literally and implemented grenades everywhere in the game on Veteran difficulty.
Bro I saw this title and instantly got PTSD flashbacks like I was in Vietnam or some shit lol. I mean legitimately WaW on Veteran might actually be the hardest game ever. I struggled far less with any other game I’ve ever played on highest difficulty’s. Including all the Souls games and even games like jump king and getting over it and the like. Even an old school classic like Punch Out wasn’t as hard for me. It’s like the developers as you said didn’t even play test veteran in this game and just adjusted the player health to 1, adjusted the enemy accuracy to 99 and turned the dial up 50 clicks on enemy grenade use and accuracy. Absolutely insane. Btw, I’m sure I’ve played games that were actually harder and just can’t remember. But just off the top of my head rewatching this and remembering, I can’t think of any
Victor Reznov: I cannot shoot my rifle as I had injured my hands. Also Victor Reznov: Here let me get this burning plank off you by using my bare hands.
I did veteran on Cod MW, WAW, MW2 and MW3. WAW was by far the most frustrating. I remember dying so much on the Japanese level in the fields where you have to advance
This game on Veteran, and EDF:2017 on Inferno, and Ninja Gaiden 2 on Path of the Master Ninja, are why I laugh when people say Soulsborne games and Elden Ring are frustratingly hard.
you played edf 2017?! nice!! i love that game. i too completed that one on inferno with my armor in the 3000s a few years back XD ninja gaiden 2 is also great!
Those spammed grenades on that level, still exist as an ongoing joke with my cousin of how ridiculous that was. I threw so many back, so many times. Hit all those hard parts on the Veteran run for sure. Only trophy I did not get was the Black Cats one. Definitely had the most trouble with the final mission on Veteran. Took me so long and so many attempts.
Ah yes World at War on veteran difficulty. The game that really made me start questioning why am I doing things I hate for trophies? It wasn't fun, it wasn't enjoyable in any way. It wouldn't be for several years later that I officially quit trophy hunting, but this was the game that set me on the path.
I finally beat veteran difficulty about a year or two ago. I think I still have PTSD from Blowtorch & Corkscrew. I would've believed it was impossible if I didn't eventually do it
I beat this way back on Xbox 360 when I didn't have internet. When I got internet I accidentally made a new profile and lost a lot of my old achievements, didn't think much of it at the time. I used to be pretty good at CoD, but I tried doing it this year after not touching CoD for a very long time and I just admitted defeat, it was not worth my mental health lol. The courtyard in the second to last level is ridiculously random, the infinite spawns until you reach the top of the stairs is so frustrating, and I still don't understand what exactly triggers the pillar to fall and let you complete the level. Still proud of having beaten it at least once though.
"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?" "How tough am I? How tough am I! I played Heart of the Reich this morning." "Yeah, so?" "On Veteran mode."
Beating Blowtorch and Corkscrew and Heart of the Reich on Veteran, without completely losing my fucking sanity, is probably my greatest achievement as a gamer.
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This channel is a shining example of how ridiculously easy games have gotten in the last decade or so, and how "the new generation" of gamers simply don't have the attention span for an actual challenge. World at War on legendary never felt *that* hard, just the right amount of challenge to keep you going till the end, most games these days don't offer anything like that.
the beginning segment is pretty fucked on veteran, easily one of the hardest moments of the game. you're not alone! i usually take out all the guys on top of the scaffoldings first while staying put at the entrance and then try to make it to one of the sides after you kill the previously mentioned mooks on top, but take extreme caution! don't give up! ;)
Don't ask me how but I managed to get that area done. No clue what changed I just went left a dozen times, and on one of them managed to advance far enough in. I'm now on the last 1 or 2 encounters before I can finally plant the flag.@@DorDorDor703
Yeah I definitely skimmed over it but it took me a little bit! In the end I just made a dash to the left behind some boxes and worked my way from there. Tough section
Oh my god, you just taught me that I had already finished the worst part of heart of the reich. I thought the end of the level was the hardest part because I’ve been trying to rush the stairs
I swear to God, that sniper duel on veteran is the hardest thing I've done in any game ever.
ain't no way
I struggled with the one japanese mission, it was fucking insane! Funny enough it took me 3 tries to win the sniper duel, probably got lucky idek!
Took me like 100 attempts
Bruh i actually did the sniper bit of vendetta in front of my fam on veteran for the first time (in one go, no deaths). I had to show em there uncle wasnt no bitch. That being said i almost shat myself and burst a blood vessel when it was over
It is also so realist
World at War was the last COD to feature checkpoint spawning, which would send waves of enemies at you until you hit certain checkpoints. It added to the difficulty & often left players without ammo & stuck in death/spawn loops. It truly was the pinnacle of hard in COD campaigns.
I’m pretty sure there’s some in black ops on the mission where you defend the American base in Vietnam
@@Realninja7214
A few CODs that released after WAW do have it for a mission or two, even BO3 has it at one section(can be used to farm kills w/guns towards Personal Decorator achievement), but in the earlier games the feature was prevalent in the majority of missions & was the only way to progress. In COD’s after WAW, the feature was implemented but often times in a mission where the player has to complete another task to stop the spawning.
I just recently beat this game on veteran and I noticed that if I sat and kept killing them they would stop spawning sometimes
@@Realninja7214there is. It’s on that big hill, or side of a mountain or something. Woods is on the mission with you.
*waves of enemies with grenades
The hardest part of the game was the grenade happy AI. Shit was nuts
Interestingly, that part seems historically accurate for the German's side. I remember reading somewhere that the Germans had more explosives than they knew what to do with.
Say hello to WW2 Chinese army. Ask someone who had been to Korea against the Chinese.
"A rain of grenades" this is NOT a metaphor.
@@straightmaneatingpizza1665so they decided to use them all on Dimitri 💀 I swear they had enough to level the entire planet 50x over and yet they sent every explosive they’ve ever made at Dimitri
that were most of the budget went to. A crap ton of grenade
The hardest part of the game was actually when reznov t-posed into the river
Heart of the Reich on veteran made me feel like I was actually fighting in the streets of Berlin. I can't even describe how many times I died trying to beat that mission.
It’s god awful. Easy 150+ deaths right before storming the capital building.
3:52, RIP Private Conserva. Walked right in front of you.
Was wondering how long before someone mentioned that haha.
Poor guy
@@JForJackPlays can you help me unlock some achievements on mine😂😂
@dylangonzalez4429 ha what are you stuck with
I play the WaW campaign on Veteran pretty regularly. Best CoD. There are parts where it seems as if enemies spawn infinitely, but there's actually just a lot of them and you actually can kill them all and no more will spawn until you move up. For example, there is no infinite spawn on Burn 'Em Out, it's just that a lot of them respawn. In fact, if you're patient enough, you can kill all of the enemies near the first two guns on Heart of the Reich. It takes forever and you'll have to kill several hundred enemies, but it is possible to completely clear the area before moving up. It's even possible to totally clear every part on Ring of Steel, on Eviction, Downfall, Relentless, etcetera. There are two and only two parts of the entire campaign with infinite respawn: The right path on Blowtorch and Corkscrew before the overgrown tunnel and taking out the third gun on Heart of the Reich. You can actually hang back and totally clear the next area before taking out the last gun.
I like to run through the missions in chronological order, rather than on the broken timeline that the missions are given in.
damn, very interesting. didn't know that!
thank you
I agree, this game goes from a normal shooter to a real immersive warzone on veteran. Cant play it on any other difficulty anymore
@@_Scipio__Africanus_ Yeah it has the taste of Battle of Chosin Reservoir. If it was realistic you WILL wear out your gun in hand...you WILL break several of them just like in Chosin Reservoir.
I that right path on Blowtorch and Corkscrew is the exact area that made me give up a couple years ago lmao
Same thing here, I play it regularly. It's a challenging game on veteran but overtime you learn how to play and understand the pattern. Curiously, I have found that the Japs are to be fought from long distances while the German in close quarters. It's because they have different tactics and use different environments (in the jungle, you can be shot at from everywhere so you must thread slowly while in Europe, once you've broken the enemy's line of defense, you're fighting in conventional cities where it's pretty straightforward and the player has an advantage - IF you break the line of defense).
This campaign on veteran was hell for me back in 2009.
Did you manage to finish it?
Yes took me a long time but I did it 👍
@georgeellison5094 it was hell for a lot of us, brother. We were forged in the fires of Stalingrad and Okinawa on veteran difficulty. No doubt, an entire generation of us lads has severe gaming PTSD from our time in the trenches. The things we saw... the things we did...it changes a man forever. Th streets of Liberty City just didn't feel the same after WaW 🫡
@@brutusvonmanhammerthank you for your service, and I feel your pain. A lot of other veteran veterans are still in therapy!
I hear that, one of the first games I 100%, almost got all the zombies achievements you can get on shi no Numa, until I got bored around level 25, pulled an m1 grand grenade launcher put of the box, which promptly glitched and killed me😅
I play this campaign on veteran every year near Christmas time. Have done it for like 13 years and have no idea why I started doing it. I have literally ripped controllers in half out of frustration but the satisfaction of finally completing it is so good!
that's a nice little ritual, I used to play runescape every christmas (and every other day tbh) but don't have a 'go to' these days.
I think Bioshock is the game ive completed the most
Fuck that I did it once just for the trophies and then never did it again. If this is what soldiers went through I'm glad I didn't actually fight
That grenade indicator still haunts my nightmares. 😂 At least it’s an amazing campaign, so it makes the slog through Veteran difficulty a little more worthwhile.
This campaign was amazing. We've seen WW2 constantly in earlier COD games and many Medal of Honor games and yet this one stands out. Probably my favorite WW2 campaign with Medal of Honor Rising Sun being a close second
Surviving a bonzai charge is actually really easy, to the point that the dominant strategy becomes to counter charge them and mash melee like a maniac. You have i-frames during the tackle, so it's a really good way to get your health back while waiting for the recharge, or in the case of Vampire, from the easy kills
makes a lot of sense, thanks!
You dont get out of red screen it just comes back after you’ve knifed him. You dodge grenades though
Honestly bonzai charges were just much needed breaks
It is actually *ahem*
BANZAAAAIIIIIII
You’re spot on with the “burn em out” mission that last area I had to have died like 50 times easily, but once I threw smoke and used the flamethrower it was cake. Underrated strategy and most guides don’t do that so I’m glad you did
Yeah I've seen so many guides not mention it and instead spend like 1 hour straight dying in that room.
Smoke grenades are king haha
I dropped it because I needed a second gun
I was exhausted just watching this. Dear God... what an epic. I played this back in the day, and this brought back great memories, the game was so intense and immersive like nothing I'd played before, or probably since. COD WW2 even isn't this mad and terrifying. Thanks for sharing!
thank you for watching!
Hey man, I've just discovered you, and I absolutely love it! Thank you so much man, this whole series is legendary.
Thank you very much! Lots more to come.
Glad you enjoy
Another great video. A few years I tried to 100% this game and definitely gave up on blow torch and corkscrew. You're a stronger man than me.
haha I honestly didn't remember that level being so hard. Clearly I had blocked out that memory.
You can do it though!
and thank you, appreciate it
Proud to say I’ve 100% & gotten every achievement in this game when I was 14 & I never felt more prouder. I honestly think if you’ve beaten it on veteran you should be able to put that on your resume.
front and centre, nothing else matters after that
@@JForJackPlays shows resilience
CoD2 and WAW will still be some of the best games I've ever played. I wish Medal of Honor would come back as a WW2 game but modernized.
Medal of Honor Above and Beyond was an attempt but it wasn't that great and was only VR
@@jasonmartinez5116 Yeah it was terrible. I don’t even count it as a MoH game. It was bullshit
As a child trying to beat this on veteran, let it be known that I cried MANY times. Screw you Heart of the Reich
I cried too..but I cried for the soldiers who had to do it without dying
3:48 "Because I didn't die here once."
Proceeds to headshot a friendly
I felt complete after finishing this campaign cause aint nothing in life harder than that 😂
It's definitely among the hardest campaigns. The grenade spam is relentless. But it's got weird inconsistent difficulties. Some missions they stand around shooting the walls then others they have pixel perfect accuracy
The grenade spamming was already too much on normal. On hardened difficulty, it's just ridiculous how many they throw.
Here's some tips to get through Call of Duty World At War in Veteran mode:
1. If you ever take cover, look at the sky. You'll see enemy grenades flying at you and their trajectory. With this, you can anticipate the grenade blast zone and fling them back to the enemy with better accuracy.
2. Always pay attention to your compass. Locate and pinpoint enemy positions safely from the cover before shooting them.
3. Never get far from your allies. Although sucks at shooting, your allies provide an infinite meatshield you can safely cower behind from enemy bullets. Furthermore, they know how to react against enemy grenades.
4. Stay away from the frontline. The enemy won't spam grenades at you if you're far enough to outrange them.
5. Ever tried firing from the hip in close-quarter battle?
I did this only a year and a half ago, finally after all these years since 08 lmao. That is how long it took me to hate myself enough to try again. Honestly felt really rewarding and made use of all the game knowledge I have had through the early cod games.
Good job on getting it done!
Don't fancy another run just yet then ha?
I would get drunk and attempt it never worked but also got it about a year ago after all those years of trying.
I remember this being insanely hard
I can confirm it still is. The only thing worse would be doing it without dying. But who the hell would actually try that.
Achievement hunting just hit different back then. Don't care for it now. I remember completing this veteran achievement back in the day and it was extremely difficult.
Gaming in general just hit different back then. I really do feel like the peak of multiplayer shooters hit at Black Ops One. WAW multiplayer was great, and MFW2 set the table. After BO1 it just feels like everything’s gone downhill.
@@GetTheFOindeed
Let’s gooooo! Just hopped back on after the servers got fixed and tried to do some campaign on Insane and it’s just as frustrating as I remembered. Heart of the Reich and one the latter pacific levels each took me a day to complete. Love these videos and the way you walkthrough the achievements 😊
Yeah I've heard about the servers!
Glad you enjoy the videos, thank you
Burn 'em Out might be the mission your looking for. Maybe Blowtorch and Corkscrew
I didn't know you could use the panzerschreck to take out the 88s on my veteran playthrough so I ended up planting c4 on all 4 of them.
Impressive!
Looks an absolute nightmare getting to the 3rd one to plant C4 on it.
At least you know for next time haha!
Same here! Was stuck on that part for hours. But got the platinum the next day. 🌟
Same lmao
It's the game I'm so proud of getting all achievements, even after all these years. Got to the last prestige in multiplayer and all that. Worth it? Hell yeah!
That grenade spam still haunts me years and years later
this is one of my favourite highest-difficulty campaigns in a game, nice video
it's a great game that's for sure. Thanks a lot! appreciate it
I wish there’s a way I could’ve shown you how to kill Amsel so much easier with the pistol, before you did it the hard way lol. There are YT tuts on simple jumps that will get you out of the map, load the correct zones, and you can walk right up to Amsel and shoot him. Can be done in the span of a few mins and it’s also very entertaining how the npcs act, as the game didn’t intend for you to be within melee distance of him lmao. Congrats on the veteran completion!
That glitch is for noobs. Real people going for achievements wouldn't do that.
I found a good method is to use the sniper rifle on the driver and then aim at the car and then quickly aim the pistol and shoot. He sticks his head up for a few seconds before he gets out and runs. Recruit difficulty is recommended as it takes more shots the higher the difficulty.
@@t-m-p-e-r same argument could be used for 10th prestige lobbies back on mw2 2009. The camos all look the same, whichever way you got them. Why ride a bicycle 20 miles when the motorcycle is right next to it? Make sense?
@@kenobi894 Trophies are for personal achievement. 10th prestige lobbies are a bad thing because you didn't earn it. It is more like "I could walk to lose weight, or I could use a saw and cut it out of my body." As I said before, only noobs do it. I will accept if you do the glitch but not for any trophies, as searching out of bounds is fun. I have no idea what you meant by the camos, but it seems you didn't get to prestige 10 legit.
I loved this challenge as a young kid. There was one mission I just could not pass and after a year or finally did it. Felt so good.
Heart of Reich yup
@@hector7100 I didn't take me that long Holy but I remember I wood have to yolo run to trigger them to stop spawning
I cannot describe the pride in myself I felt for beating this game on veteran. Like I genuinely had to take a break for a few months for the last two missions where I was memorizing how to move after dying which was hard with the constant grenade spam and the limitless enemies that would not stop spawning.
To this day, blowtorch and corkscrew on veteran still haunts me. I’d rather play the entire campaign on repeat for a weeks straight than to play that again
its an absolute nightmare. Had no memory of it being THAT bad
I did my WaW Veteran run a few months ago. I remember being so nervous getting to the sniper duel part because someone I watched on TH-cam spent at least 30 minutes on it; and when I finally got to the part I did it first try and couldn't believe it. I screamed out "OH NO FUCKING WAY I DID IT FIRST TRY!" while in a Discord with some friends. Genuinely tho, FUCK Blowtorch & Corkscrew, it was my least favorite mission when I played it as a kid on Recruit/Regular and it is still my least favorite mission as an adult on Veteran. I remember I cleared the last bunker, but there was ONE enemy on top that I didn't kill somehow, and I remember the motherfucker SNIPED me during the cutscene where you are helping the injured soldier onto the truck. And the last checkpoint I had was halfway through clearing out the bunker. Made me so fucking mad.
I think that might be the worst mission.
Genuinely the hardest veteran cod campaign, respect to anyone who did it back in the day
Can I just say too, the heart of the reich is 100% the hardest mission I’ve ever done on veteran I still have PTSD from it
Beating this campaign on Veteran is one of my proudest gaming achievements. It took many hours of trying and some luck. Endless grenade spam and banzai charges haunted my dreams.😂
Me who's playing it rn. 😥
Always a good day when these drop
Glad to hear you think so!
Thank you for watching
This has to be the most niche relatable video I’ve seen in a while and I’m glad someone is talking about what I went through when I tried to finish the campaign on veteran
Absolutely loved this game, remember grinding out every single achievement on it before there was even any modders on it or atleast very little, least to say never doing something like that again. One of the achievements I remember was to get 3 kills with one sniper shot.. pain just pain but good pain, the sort that keeps you coming back to play it again 👌
I remember beating the hard landing ending on the AAA the whole time, proudest moment of my life
you are a braver man than me!
yeah me too :D thought you had to use it back in the day lol
Love the RAAF logo.
I'm still haunted by the grenade-spams on Heart of the Reich.
Each and every German grenade in Berlin had Dimitri's name on them.
Just came back to the video to announce that I just finished COD: WAW on the Veteran difficulty and I don't know how, but my controller has survived the many raged I've had during this experience!!! I thought COD 4 MW was hard, but this campaign was the literal bane to my existence. This campaign on Veteran is what Mile High Club from COD 4 in on Veteran. I'm just glad I don't have to experience the many grenade spams/ rain anymore!
Completing Heart of the Reich on veteran just to get the platinum on PS3 was about 4-5 hours of my life that I'll never get back. The grenade indicator triggers the PTSD that it gave me every time I see it, too.
Just did it myself and took 7 hours to do it 😂
Funny how people find different bits hard, I remember having less trouble than you on some bits, but I specifically remember 'Relentless' being the only mission I never managed to finish on veteran, and you did it with just one death first time haha. Solid run!
I'll never forget the amount of grenade spam I endured. They still give me PTSD in cod/battlefield to this day. I remember the 45 Zero planes gave me more trouble than the Vendetta sniper.
I got my first veteran achievement in 2009 as a 5th grader and last one in 2016 as a senior in high school. Literally took me 7 years to beat this fucking game on veteran
but you got there eventually!
The grenade spam while storming the reichstag on Veteran was completely ridiculous. It took me two months two complete because I was literally pinned down in a damned video game. I still have memories of that ordeal 14 years later.
3:50 RIP Pvt. Conserva. Your service will not be forgotten.
Hero
my grandpa is 71 and he beat veteran difficulty like it was nothing, i'm convinced he's a god
what a hero!
3:50 “not sure how tho, as I didn’t die once” on the other hand private conserva’s family just received the heart wrenching news that their son died in a friendly fire incident to a confused British chap who is surprised it wasn’t harder to strongman a Japanese position
haha!
confused British chap is just about right
If you want to talk about difficulty, I played this game on wii and it was brutal with the manual aiming and moving with the nunchuck. I never played it on veteran but can only imagine how difficult it would be.
Being a teenager during the prime years of COD was truly something I’m grateful for in hindsight. I was also 15 years old when World at War game out and is still statistically my most played game in the franchise after all these years.
glorious times, rushing home from school to get a spot in the lobby was the best
@@JForJackPlays Our generation was definitely spoiled at that time. So many iconic games were coming out in such a short span during the 7th console generation.
For me its Blowtorch and Corkscrew, yeah Heart of the Reich was hard but I've done it twice in veteran mode, Blowtorch and Corkscrew was the only mission to make me irrationally angry.
Good job man.
Yeah B&C was complete madness!
thanks, appreciate it!
im really enjoying your uploads, keep up the good work!
thank you! got lots more planned to keep me busy
Great video! You really captured the terror behind this difficulty setting in this game.
I remember so vividly where I finally gave up as a teen playing this. The grenade spam was unreal. 😂😅😭
Thank you very much sir
The flame thrower mission on okinawa is a nightmare I still have to this day…
smoke grenades make it not so bad but you are right, my first time through was horrendous
The sound of the grenades bouncing around are ingrained in my brain now. At least I got good at spotting grenades flying towards my face from a distance
never know when such a life skill will come in handy!
7:18 Reznov’s t-pose while falling had me cackling
now this is a World War 2 Call of Duty everything about this game is was legendary loved the atmosphere the dark, mysterious, depressing music, campaign and zombies. World at War needs a remaster
Idk why, but I did platinum this game on PS3. Its the only 100% game I've ever done. I needed to look up how to do the assassination with a pistol achievement and figure out how the hell to get through the first room of the Reichstag.
Also the pistol assassination can be completed by shooting his escape car with your sniper rifle a couple times then with the pistol for the last shot to cause the car to blow up while he's in it.
Watching this video gave me PTSD. The sniper duel took me an hour to complete.
Watching you struggle with Blowtorch and Corkscrew gave me solace. Watching you basically blitz through Heart of the Reich made me mad 😝 great work mate, love the vid!
haha, thank you very much!
glad you enjoyed it
Oh man the flashbacks from how the enemy can throw 30 frag grenades and each one with the penetrating power of a 155mm howitzer
That grenade icon gave me 'Nam flashbacks, I'd forgotten how endless it was.
when I beat burn em out I was celebrating with my older brother, It was the first mission on veteran on world at war he tried so he was proud when got passed that little shit that hides behind the box. He thought it was easy to beat before he tried it. Because I am pretty young he thought "there is no way he is this bad" but now he knows about the abusive amount of grenades. but it was still fun to beat. Also nice vid!
Found this channel a couple hours ago through the zombies video, now there ANOTHER WAW vid? Nice
Thanks for sticking around!
I was pooping while watching this. The amount of stress i had watching this made easy pooping. Good video
glad i could help you out!
thank you very much
Ever since I did my veteran run years ago I could never play this game on any other difficulty tbh. I feel it really goes from your normal shooter to a fully immersive battlefield. 2 best tips for it are 1.) take it slow, like inch by inch for your ground. You'd be moving slow as hell in an actual warzone, do it here 2.) Be very mindful of your loadout. Carry a semi auto or lmg for distance, and a subgun for cqc, abandon bolt actions asap. The flamethrower missions change with sometimes the flamer being good, but bad for when the enemies are at mid range, really gotta just be ready to drop it when you need to. Theres prob some other stuff im missing but those really helped me out. Only ever really had a struggle on that hunting the sniper segment and that one portion in burn em out with the hole in the ceiling. Funny enough I did what you did trial and erroring with smokes and the flamethrower till I got it, And I only threw my controller once :D
It took me months to be it on Veteran, i cant tell you how many times i heard that death sound
When I was a stupid toddler that couldn’t read I had no idea what the difficulty selector meant so whenever I played the campaign I also picked the coolest looking one (veteran). I have no idea how, but by sheer brute force and dumb luck I managed to go through the entire campaign.
I don't think I have the patience to do these veteran playthroughs anymore.
I have put myself through Veteran Difficulty through every cod ever. I love the pain
whats your top 3 most difficult?
@@JForJackPlays WaW, Infinite, and MW2 09
It's probably the most realistic COD ever made, because on veteran, you even get PTSD.
The damm sniper has the most K/D ratio to this date
Nothing will ever beat the ecstasy that was finding out about the puddle hopping strat to get the ray gun in the second mission
I've never found it!
i am a fool
I remember starting this almost impossible quest 8 years ago and I gave up trying once I reached blowtorch and corkscrew. Fast forward to 2024 I buy the game again to finish what I had once started. It was painful. Heart Of The Reich took me the longest. Having to push up those stairs and advancing, only to have 3 grenades chucked at me in all directions nearly put me off but eventually I made it, only for the pillar to fall on me. It really felt like the Germans were giving it their all. After completing this quest, satisfaction has never felt so good
My dad and I started on this campaign and it lead to a deep love of cod from both of us. We never beat it.
good times!
You gotta finish it though;)
Wish i could...
As difficult as WAW is, you really NEED to appreciate the mechanics and even movement/ aiming being as smooth as it is. COD 2 added the same endless enemies, no brightness settings so you were blind on night missions, the AI aimbotted and only shot at you, plus shot through walls, and without sprinting, throwing grenades back, having minimum checkpoints, and terrible aiming- it’s just tedious as time goes on.
When a WW2 Veteran says "there were grenades EVERYWHERE during the war" Treyarch took that literally and implemented grenades everywhere in the game on Veteran difficulty.
Bro I saw this title and instantly got PTSD flashbacks like I was in Vietnam or some shit lol. I mean legitimately WaW on Veteran might actually be the hardest game ever. I struggled far less with any other game I’ve ever played on highest difficulty’s. Including all the Souls games and even games like jump king and getting over it and the like. Even an old school classic like Punch Out wasn’t as hard for me. It’s like the developers as you said didn’t even play test veteran in this game and just adjusted the player health to 1, adjusted the enemy accuracy to 99 and turned the dial up 50 clicks on enemy grenade use and accuracy. Absolutely insane.
Btw, I’m sure I’ve played games that were actually harder and just can’t remember. But just off the top of my head rewatching this and remembering, I can’t think of any
Victor Reznov: I cannot shoot my rifle as I had injured my hands.
Also Victor Reznov: Here let me get this burning plank off you by using my bare hands.
Reznov works in mysterious ways
I did veteran on Cod MW, WAW, MW2 and MW3. WAW was by far the most frustrating. I remember dying so much on the Japanese level in the fields where you have to advance
For many years, Black Ops was the last challenging one. I remember BO2, MW3, Ghosts, and Advanced Warfare all being extremely easy on Veteran.
This game on Veteran, and EDF:2017 on Inferno, and Ninja Gaiden 2 on Path of the Master Ninja, are why I laugh when people say Soulsborne games and Elden Ring are frustratingly hard.
you played edf 2017?! nice!! i love that game. i too completed that one on inferno with my armor in the 3000s a few years back XD ninja gaiden 2 is also great!
The ultimate sniper duel: the sniper in "Vendetta" vs. the Jackal snipers in Halo 2 legendary.
haha, in a 1v1 I think the vendetta sniper wins!
He's got some advanced tactics
Heart of the Grenade gave me PTSD and I genuinely believe I deserve a veterans discount because of it.
The best CoD and the hardest vet campaign. Wish they did more of these gritty ass world war ones.
3:53 “Didn’t die here once” *proceeds to blow his teammates brains out*
Those spammed grenades on that level, still exist as an ongoing joke with my cousin of how ridiculous that was. I threw so many back, so many times. Hit all those hard parts on the Veteran run for sure. Only trophy I did not get was the Black Cats one. Definitely had the most trouble with the final mission on Veteran. Took me so long and so many attempts.
Ah yes World at War on veteran difficulty. The game that really made me start questioning why am I doing things I hate for trophies? It wasn't fun, it wasn't enjoyable in any way. It wouldn't be for several years later that I officially quit trophy hunting, but this was the game that set me on the path.
I finally beat veteran difficulty about a year or two ago. I think I still have PTSD from Blowtorch & Corkscrew. I would've believed it was impossible if I didn't eventually do it
God the 360 achievement notification is so nostalgic. Wish there was a mod of some kind to change the steam one to it.
I beat this way back on Xbox 360 when I didn't have internet. When I got internet I accidentally made a new profile and lost a lot of my old achievements, didn't think much of it at the time. I used to be pretty good at CoD, but I tried doing it this year after not touching CoD for a very long time and I just admitted defeat, it was not worth my mental health lol. The courtyard in the second to last level is ridiculously random, the infinite spawns until you reach the top of the stairs is so frustrating, and I still don't understand what exactly triggers the pillar to fall and let you complete the level. Still proud of having beaten it at least once though.
"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?"
"How tough am I? How tough am I! I played Heart of the Reich this morning."
"Yeah, so?"
"On Veteran mode."
Beating Blowtorch and Corkscrew and Heart of the Reich on Veteran, without completely losing my fucking sanity, is probably my greatest achievement as a gamer.
Veteran felt like borderline realism mode.
Bonsai is the Japanese and East Asian art of growing and training miniature trees in containers.
Banzai is a traditional Japanese exclamation meaning "ten thousand years" of long life.
I realised as I was editing how horrifically I had pronounced it throughout.
You are completely right haha
This channel is a shining example of how ridiculously easy games have gotten in the last decade or so, and how "the new generation" of gamers simply don't have the attention span for an actual challenge. World at War on legendary never felt *that* hard, just the right amount of challenge to keep you going till the end, most games these days don't offer anything like that.
The Type 99s gave me so much pain on Veteran as did the grenade spam.
I’m currently finishing this off, on Downfall, and hearing you talk so easy about it when I can’t even get past the lobby is saddening.
the beginning segment is pretty fucked on veteran, easily one of the hardest moments of the game. you're not alone! i usually take out all the guys on top of the scaffoldings first while staying put at the entrance and then try to make it to one of the sides after you kill the previously mentioned mooks on top, but take extreme caution! don't give up! ;)
Don't ask me how but I managed to get that area done. No clue what changed I just went left a dozen times, and on one of them managed to advance far enough in. I'm now on the last 1 or 2 encounters before I can finally plant the flag.@@DorDorDor703
Did it, was the final area where I stopped
@@shadowcat5591 ahhh congrats!!! you are now among us ;)
Yeah I definitely skimmed over it but it took me a little bit!
In the end I just made a dash to the left behind some boxes and worked my way from there. Tough section
I remember doing this myself. When I was finally able to raise that flag at the very end, I felt a great sense of relief and accomplishment.
Oh my god, you just taught me that I had already finished the worst part of heart of the reich. I thought the end of the level was the hardest part because I’ve been trying to rush the stairs
I’m still at that part lmaooo. I’ll go finish the game tomorrow
Those grenades were the most deadly thing in the game 90% of my deaths were because of them