All Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Trophies & Achievements

All Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Trophies & Achievements
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Written by 

Jack Roberts

Published 

11th Nov 2023 12:00

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If you’re looking to go that little bit further in complete Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, it’s going to be helpful to have a list of all the trophies and achievements you can collect along the way.

Trophies are a great way of indicating just how much time and effort you’ve put into the game and help give you that extra sense of accomplishment alongside collecting all the weapons or completing the campaign.

All trophies and achievements in MW3

Achievement

Description

A Soldier’s Purpose

Collect all the Trophies

The First Step

Reach Level 55

And So It Begins

Successfully Exfil in MWZ

Write Off

Kill 500 Enemies using an Insured Weapon in MWZ

Perkaholic

Have 9 perks active at the same time in MWZ

Gravestone

Kill 100 Zombies with a vehicle in a single deployment in MWZ

Back From The Dead

Reclaim your gear from a Tombstone in MWZ

Helpful Stranger

Revive a player from a different Squad in MWZ

You Can Pet The Dog

Pet a Hellhound in MWZ

Hired Gun

Complete 20 Contracts in MWZ

Seeing Red

Complete 5 Contracts in the High Threat Zone in a single deployment in MWZ

The End?

Complete Act III in MWZ

Slaughterhouse

Kill 50,000 total Enemies in MWZ

Conqueror

Defeat a Warlord in MWZ

One Against All

Kill Orcus while in a 6-person squad in MWZ

No Such Thing as Too Many

Find and use all Armaments in Open Combat Missions

Dialed In

Customize your loadout in every Open Combat Mission

Gearhead

Collect all Weapons and Field Upgrades from Supply Boxes in Open Combat Missions

Sample Platter

Use 5 different Armaments in Open Combat Missions

I Call Shotgun!

Drive a vehicle with a Sentry Gun on the back and have it kill 5 enemies

Tag, You’re it!

Use the Spotter Scope to tag 60 enemies or items in Open Combat Missions

Bulletproof

Find all Plate Carrier Upgrades in Open Combat Missions

Have You Tried Turning it Off and On?

Use a Shock Stick to disable an enemy Sentry Gun

That’s One Way to Do It…

Destroy an airborne enemy helicopter with a Mortar Strike

Hey, Catch!

Throw and hit an enemy directly with a Flammable Cannister then blow them up with it

Frequent Flyer

BASE jump and travel more than 150 m with your parachute

High Wire Act

Kill 10 enemies while using a zipline

Never Bury Your Enemies Alive

Complete the campaign

141 Ready

Complete the campaign on Veteran

Death Row

Kill 12 enemies while descending in the panopticon in ‘Operation627’

Floater

Parachute off a Gantry Crane onto the roof of the Harbormaster’s Building in ‘Precious Cargo’

Helo Hat Trick

Destroy each objective helicopter in ‘Reactor’ with a different Armament

2-fer

Using the EBR-14, kill 2 enemies with 1 bullet 5 times in ‘Payload’ without sounding the alarm

Back in the Field

Acquire the Major’s keycard in ‘Deep Cover’ within 90 seconds without being detected

Shot Blocked

Shoot the gun out of the air in ‘Flashpoint’ before a terrorist catches it

Think She’ll Notice?

Destroy all of the cars in the mansion garage in ‘Oligarch’

Elevator Out of Order

Reach the roof in ‘Highrise’ under 45 seconds

Snow Angel

Execute the forest sniper in ‘Frozen Tundra’ with a takedown

Hitchhiker

Defuse the bomb on the truck in ‘Gora Dam’ while it is in motion

Your tax dollars at work

Use a missile to take out a single enemy in ‘Danger Close’

While trophies and achievements are tied to the campaign story, most of them relate to your activities in the online multiplayer and Zombies mode.

How many trophies are in MW3?

A burning plane from the MW3 campaign
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There are 40 trophies in total in Modern Warfare 3, including the Platinum trophy for PlayStation players who can get every other trophy in the game.

The MW3 trophies are broken down into the following rarity:

  • 1 Platinum
  • 5 Gold
  • 5 Silver
  • 29 Bronze

Does difficulty affect trophies in MW3?

Helicopters flying overhead in Modern Warfare 3
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Difficulty settings will affect one of your achievements in Modern Warfare 3, but only for the campaign section of the game. The ‘141 Ready’ trophy requires you to complete the campaign on Veteran difficulty.

If you’re looking to blast through the trophies quickly in MW3, it may be best to play the campaign on the Veteran difficulty first so you can unlock both the ‘141 Ready’ and ‘Never Bury Your Enemies Alive’ trophies at the same time.

That’s everything you need to get cracking on collecting all the trophies and achievements in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. There is plenty to do in this latest iteration of MW3, so why not find out more about all the Operators in the game to help you along the way?

Jack Roberts
About the author
Jack Roberts
Jack is a Guides Writer at GGRecon. With a BA (Hons) & MA in English and Creative Writing, he was also the Gaming Editor for The Indiependent. When not pondering which game has the best cup of coffee (and drinking far too much of it himself), he can often be found playing Dead by Daylight, Street Fighter or making yet another build in Bloodborne.
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