Call of Duty: Black Ops II

I know this is late and many players already have many gold and many diamond camos, but for those just getting into the game or those late to the camo chase due to prestiging or casual play, here is a place to assemble some community wisdom.

Regarding the SMG and Assault rifle class, the prerequisite for earning the right to chase a gold camo is earning 100 Headshot with these weapons. For Shotguns and Snipers it is OSOK awards, 250 for shotties. Meeting that plane will earn you the Typhoon camo and open 5 more challenges you need to complete in order to get gold. They are a little different for each class, many can occur at random while others you must control, here is a brief run down.

Cherry Blossom and Art of War camos - For the SMG and AR classes you must get 150 kills with no attachments on your weapon (Cherry Blossom) and no perks equipped (Art of War). I mention these together because it makes sense to do them at the same time (Romp pointed that out to me, as I was in the "I must use all 10 points" mode and doing them individually at first). Bite the bullet and hit some FFAs or Domination matches for the chance for the highest amounts of kills quickly while you are seemingly handicapped.

Ronin - Get 20 Double kills from weapon kills only. There is confusion out there regarding this requirement. You do not have to earn a double kill medal for this to count, because you are not awarded a double kill medal for a Quad Feed, but that does indeed give you credit for 2 double kills. I would suggest looking again to FFAs for this to go quickly, but Demolition in particular is a good spot to seek them, especially once a bomb has been planted. FFA is good because you can pick off two people who are looking at each other and may have been partially damaged already, and you also always have 9 targets. RTDMs can be good if you find snipers / campers who are on top of each other.

Skulls - Earn 10 Bloodthirsty awards from weapon kills. This one is annoying, because I can get 2 or 3 blood thirsty awards per match, but it has to be 5 Kills in one life with bullets fired. That means though that if you start the match off with a triple nade and get two kills with you weapon and see a "Bloodthirsty" medal pop up, be aware you need to hit at least 8 prior to it counting for the weapon provided that you make no other kills with of lethal devices. Because of this I have found using the Tactician and no secondary weapon forced me to only use the primary, and ensure that the blood thirsty awards count for the weapon as I intended. I find playing a passive round of RTDMs or Domination is great for this mode. I like Raid and Standoff in particular because you can occupy a house and control your areas with shock charges and trophies. At times a three attachment weapon is appropriate to help in rushed instance, but I find sitting back on this avoids a Hunter Killer, Betty, Claymore or Camper popping my streak at 4 kills...and if you think about it, unless you play at a 4.0 to 5.0 KDR, this is going to likely take most users a little while to complete, so play it safe.

Carbon Fiber - For the SMG class, you must get 30 revenge medals while using this weapon. For the AR class, it is 10 Long Shot Awards. Typically it is Skulls and Carbon Fiber that take me the longest to earn, which is why I put it last. The revenge medals are simply a role of the dice; you often need a small map or a hard camper to try to "make" these happen. Since you cannot control that, you are best served to pick a mode and play a similar style, and hope a similar enemy keeps coming to you. I like Domination for this, because that mode more than any has more cyclic movements to it. I would avoid FFA like the plague, because it is just far too inconsistent and frantic to try to find the person you need. More in a minute...
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For the AR class Carbon Fiber camo, the long shots required are beyond a crap shoot. The definition of "Long Shot" is a kill that occurs when the lethal bullet is at its minimum damage range. In this game, the AR class minimum damage range is actually REALLY FAR, and with the restricted lines of sight in this game it is often hard to square up a target and kills them at range before they find cover.

Good thing is you only need ten.

I have tried to "make" this happen by using suppressors to reduce my range, but I have noticed no predictable difference even though that attachment is indeed supposed to do that. It may indeed work, but game exp is not showing me a consistent return. It does not help that if the stats are to be believed, that not all ARs have the same minimum damage range.

So I use the Hybrid optic and the quick draw handle and roll with it. Here are a few random spots that can perhaps give you the idea of the distances you typically need.

1) On Cargo, shooting from the top of the crates across the map at players on the opposing crates (where the ramps and barrels are) will typically leave you with a "Long Shot" award.

2) On Express, shooting down range from the train tracks onto players between the "B" flag and their rear flag will often net you a long shot if you bring them down quickly.

3) Demolition mode, on Meltdown, where the "B" plant is are two elevated platforms that are symmetrically opposing each other. Killing a player on the opposite platform as you will give you a long shot. Shooting from the Elevated rooms onto the "B" flag often however, will not...

4) Aftermath - From the "C" flag side, setting upon the right side of the map by the half walls and catch players as they come around the bus is a long shot. You can also shoot across this map between the "B" flags and the rear flags in the streets from one side to the other to get a clear sight line to earn long shots.

5) Turbine, anywhere you can get up and not get sniped gives you a chance, but for distance think the busted up bridge looking to the crest of the fallen turbine, or from the mounted turret across to the elevated room where the target finder nOObs hang out.

6) On carrier, shooting across the deck is not enough range typically. But if you go up and down longitudinally on the map (thick line of sight from rear flag to rear flag) you can earn them provided you don't lose your target to cover or get flanked. It is typically not an easy map to play at range due to the sniping factor as well.

Of course there are many more areas, but these spots I find are far more consistent. There are spots on Standoff and Slums that can work, but again you are open to a snipers rifle can the line of sight is better suited for their range. Good luck.

More later
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Long shots .. they are different for each gun & sight combo. With the SWAT you can get one from the speedboats to the little shelter room. With other ARs it doesn't count.

A good one is on the heli pad in Drone along the main 'road' bit. anywhere around the bridge will do for most ARs.

Most of the sniper/camping windows in Yemen have an AR long shot view

I find it's easier to get longshots in burst mode than auto fire
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I know this topic is about the guns, but man, the gold knife pissed me off so bad I had to hand wash blood out of my underpants every time I tried getting kills for it, but then I found a way to get it done without much fuss.

To get the Kryptek, you have to get 200 kills with the combat knife held. If the melee game wasn't such garbage that wouldn't be a problem, but then I decided to figure out a way to deal with this nonsense. The class was,

Ghost
Scavenger, Cold Blooded
Tactical Mask, Awareness

Flashbang, Stun

Perk 2 Greed, Perk 3 greed, Tactician

Stuck the sound setting on Supercrunch, put my headphones in and then went to work. Flash people hiding in corners, stun mobile people and cut their backs. Scavenge, rinse repeat.

Awareness comes into play when it comes to the BS challenges.

Carbon Fiber: Knife 10 enemies in the back.
This is actually easiest to do. Especially if you stun people.

Cherry Blossom: Get 5 Survivor medals using the Combat Knife.
Okay wtf, good luck is all I can tell you. I actually got this one before the rest of the BS challenges, so luck was my ***** with this one.

Art of War: Earn 5 Revenge medals with the Combat Knife.
This one is stupid since it pretty much requires you to die, but it's hard not to get these when you play Free for All.

Ronin: Kill 5 enemies with their own weapons, after killing them with the Combat Knife.
This one's really annoying. I'd advise you do free for all with this one, but this one's going to tie in with Skulls.

Skulls: Get 5 Bloodthirsty medals using only the Combat Knife.
Only the knife. JRIgarnugjntfhut
This is why we're using Awareness, because we're going to do this the easy way. Unfortunately, I pretty much only did it on Meltdown but you can do it anywhere popular that people like to go shoot from a window. Lay near the popular spot and remain hidden, and sound whore. It's stupid effective; and whoever you killed, if they lack brain cells, will keep going to the same spot.


Never doing it again.
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Cubfan082 posted...

The hardest part is actually earning the Typhoon camo IMO, which requires 250 OSOK awards with the weapon. Please be advised, the target you strike needs to be at full health when you do this, thus concussions nades, shock charges and other damaged players who drop in one burst will more than likely never enter your OSOK stat sheet.

Huh, didn't know this. I played a lot of Hardcore FFA to get the 250 one shot kills for the S12 and M1216.

Then I camped it up pretty hard to get the bloodthirsties in normal modes. I'd camp a room, toss shock charges at the entrances, kill the shocked enemies, grab their ammo bag and toss some more shock charges down for the next guy. Once I had my five kills I'd leave the room. Then when I died I'd head back to my room for another attempt at bloodthirsty. I found FFA to be a great mode for completing shotgun challenges depending on the map.

Took me about 600 kills each on the S12 and M1216 to get gold camos, but I don't think I fully prestiged either of them.
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