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Grizzled Veteran Achievement in Call of Duty 3

Grizzled Veteran455 (150)

Offline Required - This achievement requires play in offline game modesSingle Player - This achievement can be obtained in single player game modesMain Storyline - This achievement is gained automatically by progressing through the main game modeDifficulty Specific - This achievement requires play on a certain difficulty level
Complete the Single Player Campaign on Veteran difficulty.

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ZonkedAdam
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ZonkedAdam
Achievement won on 07 Jul 09
TA Score for this game: 1,322
Posted on 07 May 10 at 20:37, Edited on 18 July 10 at 03:14
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In addition to the other posts that regard strategy and tactics, in this solution I will discuss the REAL requirements for this achievement.

Did you finally beat that last level on veteran and not see the cheevo pop? I did, and nearly went insane. This was because about midway through my run on veteran I went back to the first few levels on easy, just to clean up a few achievements.Then continued my previous game on veteran.

It is crucial to know that the game does NOT save the highest difficulty you completed, but rather the MOST RECENT difficulty. So if you beat a level on veteran, then went back to do it on easy before finishing the campaign, it will save as being completed on EASY.

Good news if the achievement doesn't pop after the ending of the final level, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO REPLAY THE ENTIRE GAME ON VETERAN. All you have to do is go back, re-do the levels on veteran that you went back for on easy, then you must REPLAY the final mission on veteran for it to unlock. I can confirm this because I did it myself.

This is why I highly recommend that you play straight through the game on veteran, get the achievement, then go back to clean up the others. Don't get impatient like I did.

The only time the achievement will ever pop is after the last level on veteran difficulty. I hope that helps those of you this happened to. If you do this, your patience will be rewarded with that glorious 150 and a great ratio.

If you have questions feel free to comment.
dc0dr Thank you for the heads up! +1
Posted by dc0dr on 14 May 10 18:50:28
ZonkedAdam yay someone actually read my solution, thanks!
Posted by ZonkedAdam on 16 May 10 00:49:40
Ginn0rz Excellent solution, thank you for the heads-up. Fortunately, I cleaned up all of the other achievements before I started my Veteran attempt. It's proving to be an absolute bastard so far, the checkpoint-spacing is ridiculous.
Posted by Ginn0rz on 17 Aug 10 15:21:07
Dilhack Can anyone else confirm this?
Posted by Dilhack on 25 Aug 10 22:43:49
DjDooksy Oh thanks apart from statin the obvious this helped me in way at all.
Posted by DjDooksy on 27 Aug 10 18:39:47
ZonkedAdam What was obvious? The game never says what difficulty it saves as being completed. Thus causing the achievement not to pop, even if every level was beaten on veteran. Reading comprehension...
Posted by ZonkedAdam on 28 Aug 10 01:43:34
British GM Thanks for the heads up! guess I'll have to start veteran later... don't know what that guys problem is though... helpful find!
Posted by British GM on 01 Jun 11 16:21:33
Ross Wyatt I got the achievement! *kisses everyone*
Posted by Ross Wyatt on 14 Jun 11 23:34:21
MC PHILABUSTA I was playing on veteran level and after i beat the 3rd level night drop i believe it saved then kicked me out and said my gamer profile has been changed or modified ??? does any one know what this means?? I restarted the game from my check point (4th level France) so it's still hard as hell?? SO i don't believe the difficulty switched just nervous on trying to finish now.
Posted by MC PHILABUSTA on 23 Jul 11 09:15:13
MaDDaWQ Same thing happened to me, but I don't think there's a reason to assume a difficulty swith.. it happened to me when in chapter 7, or so.. I'm now in 13 out of 14.. Tomorrow I can hopefully say that there's no reason to be affraid.. xD
Posted by MaDDaWQ on 25 Jul 11 14:47:20
Lloyd Bangs i will never play cod 3 again on veteran fucking horrible!
and those glitches and friendly fire bullshit ....
Posted by Lloyd Bangs on 23 Oct 11 17:53:55
OwenPaige1 Is there anyway to tell which levels you have to go back and redo. Just finished on veteran and no cheevo I think I have to redo the second mission and the first tank one but if there is a way to be certain that would be ideal
Posted by OwenPaige1 on 08 Mar 12 15:48:24
End Fuhz I've saved checkpoint and turned off the box. and resumed the next day. Has that fucked me on this achievement?
Posted by End Fuhz on 12 May 12 05:30:15
ZonkedAdam if you havent changed the difficulty youll be fine
Posted by ZonkedAdam on 16 May 12 19:51:12
Lockerdown3 me wondering why you have negative votes on this, you've given everyone a warning about what really needs to be done.
Fortunately I can be patient on cleaning up the other cheevos i missed (tank level's great for bullet allergies and the checkpoint)
Posted by Lockerdown3 on 27 Jun 12 22:23:05
Thrifty SiMON This issue can easily be avoided by doing the miscellaneous achievements on a different game save. You can have the game save, the one on which you are working with your veteran run, stored on whatever memory unit your xbox came with, while you work on the other achievements either on a game save on cloud storage or another memory unit.
If, however, you want to do some of the miscellaneous achievements on some of the later missions (some achievements are easier done on these) and don't want to go through the campaign to unlock these missions (even though it shouldn’t take that long on easy difficulty), you can simply copy the save, the one on which you are working on that veteran run, and put it either on cloud storage or another memory unit. This way you'll have all the missions so far unlocked on two separate game saves, and you can go back to mop up some of the easier achievements without interrupting the main save. Amen.
Posted by Thrifty SiMON on 16 Jul 12 10:43:42
PrimeBigTime Thank you for this information. I ran out of smoke grenades and CANNOT pass Falaise Road for the life of me. Unless someone knows how to get more grenades, I'm restarting this mission!
Posted by PrimeBigTime on 03 Aug 12 08:32:16
Callum x360a I'm a little bit confused. I haven't dropped the difficulty once during the game, but I've recently started playing it again, and I'm finding that it's taking quite a few bullets to kill me. Now, I don't know if CoD 3 followed the same "3 shots, you're dead" mantra that the others do, but it seems substantially easier than I remember.

I did start playing the multiplayer to unlock General, but I don't think that would reset my difficulty, would it?
Posted by Callum x360a on 15 Apr 13 09:54:20