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MW2 - Going Dark achievement in Call of Duty

MW2 - Going Dark

Complete 'Low Profile' without triggering any Alarms.

MW2 - Going Dark+1.7
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How to unlock the MW2 - Going Dark achievement

  • LordacrisLordacris
    27 Oct 2022 27 Oct 2022 17 Nov 2022
    The following cheese has been patched: Rumor has it you can run through the mission loud and collect all three objectives. Once you have the third and final objective - get both yourselves killed and "Retry". This should reload a previous checkpoint and pop the "Going Dark" achievement. A full "legitimate" walkthrough can be found below:

    Done on Online Co-Op Mission: Low Profile. You'll need a friend to help you with this as it can't be done solo (unless they disconnect) nor via split screen. The objective here is to collect all three balls of nuclear material without raising the alarm. You are OK to kill hostiles as long as they don't fire/shout and raise an audible alarm. If they do, simply get killed and "Retry" to return to a previous checkpoint. There's a total of 4 checkpoints within the level.

    Objective A - Armoury:
    I found landing on the highest point of the roof worked best. From here killing the 3 enemies on the roof, which in turn will alert 5 more from within the building itself. Wait on the staircase and shoot each one as they come through the door. Now with most of the building clear we can head in, disable the laser mines and collect the first nuclear ball. Once collected we get a new checkpoint. Head back up to the roof and parachute off towards the Barracks.

    Objective B - Barracks:
    Climb up the ladder on the back of the building to gain access to the skylight. Directly under the skylight we'll find an enemy, shoot him and camp out his body until you've removed everyone from the top floor. When quiet drop down the skylight to collect the second nuclear ball. Here another checkpoint will kick in - do your best to exit the building from the ground floor and head west. If you get spotted just die and "Retry" to respawn again under the skylight.

    Objective C - Comms Centre:
    This one I found the trickiest of the three! The material can spawn in one of two buildings. For whatever reason I couldn't get into the smaller building without raising the alarm. So would just die and retry until it appeared in the bigger building. In the larger comms building you can actually get in via the balcony by mantling on top of the blue cargo container, climbing up and walking through the door. Here you'll need to clear one guard to hopefully collect the last objective.

    Once you pick up the third objective the achievement will pop. You don't need to do the escape section quietly!

    Check my fully narrated video for a full guide:

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    Itsmedanny69Anyone wanna team up and do all spec ops achievements message me on Xbox
    Posted by Itsmedanny69 on 05 Nov 23 at 04:25
    Kyran1821Need help with these if anyone knows how ?
    Posted by Kyran1821 on 07 Nov 23 at 21:35
    WeAwokenTheHiveLFG to do this. Message me on XBL
    Posted by WeAwokenTheHive on 09 Dec 23 at 08:33
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  • popnesspopness
    31 Dec 2022 31 Dec 2022 01 Jan 2023
    I confirmed (31st Dec 2022) that need to be 1 play-through to be collected 3 targets. If alarmed, you need to leave a game and start new game from the beginning.

    Solo play is the easiest way for me. By joining a game, then sitting and do nothing on the plan until other guy leave the game (Sorry for that cry). Then you can start the game with solo.

    I followed this guide to get this achievement.

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    JoshuaParejust something to say me and my friend have now completed 2 or 3 flawless runs no checkpoints and still no achievement we also tried completing each area then using checkpoints still no and after checking on youtube video comments this seems to be whats happening this achievement for now seems to be broken and not possible to unlock so if anyone knows a way to unlock this that we have not tried please let me know
    Posted by JoshuaPare on 18 Apr 23 at 02:13
  • Pogo3DPogo3D
    31 Aug 2023 31 Aug 2023
    I just did this achievement on solo (sorry to anyone who started this mission with me).

    The cheevo is not glitched.
    The main thing you need to remember is that checkpoints compromise the achievement, which means you cannot kill yourself and restart the match at any point, wven at the beginning. You need to complete the run flawlessly from the beginning (you have to see the character taking pills in airplane). If you restart your run you do not see the pills scene, cheevo will not pop, because you used restart, which counts as using checkpoint.
    I completed the run on One in the Chamber mode, my route was B->A->C.

    I hope this helps anyone who was wondering why it wasn’t popping even if no alarms were triggered.
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    x Varafyr xGood guide thanks and if anyone wants to do this co op please message me on xbox live
    Posted by x Varafyr x on 19 Sep 23 at 12:24
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