That is how mortar shells work. There was an American soldier in Italy in WW2 who was low on grenades and resorted to throwing armed mortar shells and received the medal of honor for his actions.
For me it was one of the funnest experiences i've had in gaming. I like grinding to eventually get the win. And eventually i just started laughing at how much i was dying XD.
This Platinum is probably still the one I’m most happy about. A nightmare is a good way of describing it. Some of those grenade spam missions were so sweaty. You need a very good patience to beat this one.
I've completed this game last sunday on veteran. And let me tell you, Blow torch and Corkscrew, and the last mission, were the most painful missions of my playthrough. You got lucky when you got bugged, it is otherwise, worse than all the previous missions you go through.
Ua hoʻopau wau i kēia pāʻani i ka lā Sābati i hala ma ka veteran. A e haʻi aku wau iā ʻoe, ʻo Blow torch a me Corkscrew, a ʻo ka misionari hope loa, ʻo ia nā mikiona ʻeha loa o kaʻu pāʻani pāʻani. Laki ʻoe i ka wā i hoʻopaʻa ʻia ai ʻoe, ʻoi aku ka maikaʻi ma mua o nā misionari mua āu e hele ai.
I agree on Blowtorch and Corkscrew but Downfall wasn’t that bad for me. Unless you got confused and thought Heart of the Reich was the last mission. Though, personally, as someone who just got the platinum today, Heart of the Reich was easier than Blowtorch and Corkscrew.
Yep, even on easier difficulties those missions were a BITCH as a kid, i was amazed he got through them pretty quickly because i definitly had to try hard some of them as a kid
The fucking worst one, in all honesty. I spent 55 minutes try to get past the part where you have to run up the hill with the bunker. You're literally crawling on the ground tossing all of the grenades back, hoping you don't get tripled up on with those.
World at war is undoubtedly my favourite call of duty game. Maybe I was just the right age, but it seemed to capture the horrors of the Second World War better than any other game I’ve played. I also cannot believe you got the platinum , absolutely incredible stuff mate!
Oh trust it is the best CoD. They'll never be able to recapture the feel and atmosphere this game had. Even the multiplayer was just better. Cod 6 and up were all dog in comparison
15 years after platinum this game I can still feel the frustration 'World of Grenades'. One of my most proud platinums but unfortunately it also costed me a playstation controller... Thanks for my making this video. It feels like a documentary on an world event we all experienced
Like actual war, it hurts and can give you night trauma. I'm not kidding, dawg. Literally had nightmares about the Stalingrad sniper. Being killed over and over really gets bad.
I love the way your videos aren’t over-edited. You seem naturally conversational and able to interact with the audience without having to throw in a million effects every second. Love ur channel:-))
I still have the veteran campaign burned into my brain from half my lifetime ago. Probably the most satisfying platinum in all of gaming. Awesome work as always, thanks for making me relive my trauma 😆
Always a good day when Joelemz uploads. I was about 15 when I platinum'd this game (I'm 29 now) and I still wake up in the middle of the night screaming in horror, having a nightmare that I'm surrounded by grenades, but every time I pick one up to throw it away 3 more appear, and this carries on until one finally explodes, thrusting me from my torment. My girlfriend simply can't understand my childhood trauma. Good times. She's half Japanese, so I even sometimes feel I haven't woken up and I'm in a Japanese POW camp once I see her face. It's fine though.
Platinum'ing this game on PS3 was one of the biggest let down moments in my life... It was such a grind going through that second to last mission where it feels like grenades literally spawn from the clouds above you. I felt like I would feel on top of the world once I got it, but I was just kind of sitting there like, "ok, now what"...
Same. I got it in 2008. I was heavily discouraged by it. Didn’t get another platinum until 2012. Then not another until 2020 lol. Now I have 89. To this day this was the hardest platinum I ever got.
Amen brother. I achieved it in 2008 as well and it’s still deep in my nightmares. Thousands of tries, till you finally reached the next check point in veteran mode. Those target finding nades…unbelievable :D
Dude I am so happy you are ALMOST getting as much recognition that you deserve. I've loved your videos from when they would get 100 views. Every time that I would see your videos I would watch it and about halfway through I would realize this wasn't one of the people I watch that have over half a million views. Your content is fantastic and I am glad you stuck with it. We met on Tarkov and you wrangled me into a discord. I can't believe you have gained well over 100K subscribers. Keep trucking man. Much love.
Lol yeah Platinum is frustrating, I remember being in the trenches on the mission "their land, their blood" and OH MY the grenade spams sucked I kept blowing up no matter what. I kept grinding though and got the platinum on WaW. I will never, ever, forget the trenches in that mission lol
I don't know whats worse. World at War Veteran Campaign or Black Ops 3 Realistic Campaign. Both were the hardest things I have ever done in gaming. World at War and Black Ops 3 are my proudest Platinum trophies. Can't wait to see you try Platinum Black Ops 3. Its gona be a pain.
I hear you. WaW was also the Cod which started the zombie mode craze which I played even more than mp or campaign. About the video title: As a Xboner these Sony terms feels just weird or wrong. They are achievements. not "trophies".
Awesome video, Joelemz! The WAW campaign was one of my favourites, but its notoriety is very clearly stemming from its absurd difficulty. Beating this game on veteran is no easy feet, good job! By the way, if this was an attempt to get all achievements on XBox it would have been an even more spectacular mess, as you'd had to get 1st and 10th prestige to get achievements lmfao. I'd figure that since WAW is so dead nowadays, the only way to get it is by first getting a modder to boost you to lvl 65, prestiging once and then asking a modder to boost you to nineth prestige.
Damn dude good shit! I remember attempting this on my Xbox and after seeing the grenade onslaught I instantly quit. Don’t think I’ll ever ever do this one, but it’s awesome to see you persevere and accomplish this! You’re becoming my fave trophy hunter on this site keep it up bro.
Its the only god damned COD too that has a probelm with the grenade spam trash in veteran. I don't know why they thought they needed to have that. Same thing kinda applies to the never ending enemy spawn, it almost comes off like its broken.
You really got lucky on that Blowtorch and Corkscrew mission. For me, it was fully functional and it was the actual hardest mission in the game. Heart of the Reich was pretty painful but I had a lot more hiding spots and the checkpoints weren’t nearly as spread out. I completed Blowtorch and Corkscrew in 3 hours while Heart of the Reich took me half that time, which is still a lot but a lot less. Also, that last part on the stairs was actually the easiest one for me. When I got the second to last checkpoint, enemies were only in the destroyed house, so I dodged them on the right side and killed them before more could appear, and then, I climbed the ladder, took care of the German snipers and sniped everyone on the stairs with a PPSH-41 (for which I borrowed ammo to fallen comrades I knifed along the way) and an STG-44 until there were little enemies left and then, I went down and killed the rest till the mission ended. Of course, I don’t want to pretend that it was easy. It was still very hard but I found it manageable… the way I did it of course. I can imagine how painful it would be had I done it on the ground.
Despite how ridiculous some of the moments are in Veteran, it does give you a sense of how deadly this war was (or how deadly war in general can be). One wrong move in real life, and you're toast a lot of the time, especially when you're fighting an equally skilled enemy in an extremely hostile urban environment. Makes it understandable why millions died sometimes just trying to take a single city, or why taking a single apartment building could take days.
Love the content! Cant wait for more! Don’t know if it’s deliberate or not but love the little soundbites at the end of each video to tease what the next game is, keep it up!
I just came across your channel and I can already see the amount of effort you put into your videos! Really fun and engaging and i'll definitely watch more of you!
I loved this game when it came out. Was the first game I experienced where headshots on enemies seemed ultra real. Being an 80’s baby, the drastic visual enhancements with every new system was so exciting. Remember seeing someone play the PS2 for the first time, an NFL game. The fact that the players eyes moved blew my mind. How far we’ve come…
The levels of rage I felt during this Veteran difficulty campaign were nuclear! "Downfall" was so bad I actually rage-quit the game for 6 months before coming back and finally finishing it! I completed MW2's Veteran difficulty after this, and I had it done in a week! "Gunslinger" was a FML achievement to get as well! Took me numerous attempts!
i loved world at war so much. love the nostalgia in this video. also, glad to see your growth from your first tarkov video! keep up the good work, mate
That Burn em Out mission was the HARDEST level I've ever played on cod. I'd only died about 10-20 times up to that point. Must have died 100 times in those trenches
When you get to MW3 I think you will experience even more rage. There are 2 spec ops missions (which you have to do coop) that are simply insane with arbitrary difficulty throughout. Looking forward to seeing them at a later date as you've earned my sub
Ke hiki aku ʻoe i MW3 manaʻo wau e ʻike hou ʻoe i ka huhū. Aia he 2 spec ops missions (pono ʻoe e hana coop) i pupule wale me ka paʻakikī paʻakikī a puni. Ke kali nei i ka ʻike ʻana iā lākou i kekahi lā ma hope mai ua loaʻa iā ʻoe kaʻu sub
Love this channel. You're doing very well, great combination of tempo, informative narrations, spliced-up clips of your live reaction to bullshit (nade spam) and little funny details through it all. Have a great day!
Having to smoke the tanks before destroying them is honestly peak game design. And the sniper duel where the npc peeks, holds a position where he thinks you are and then dips, kust like you have to do?? These guys were kinda cooking with some of these encounters
I think the most challenging thing about WaW is paying $25 for the dlc on a 15 year old game. I know Activision is greedy but like god damn. Just make it free to preserve it, jeez these online shops are going to shut down this year and it'll be impossible to play OG Der Rise
Hey @Joelemz !! Your videos are awesome! Thank you for uploading, keep it up. Idk if you care but my dad has passed away recently and binge watching your videos has been helping me cope. Best of luck to you!
Hey Joelemz, I just wanted to say, watching your videos pushed me to 100% games. Currently working on Saints Row 3 Remastered on ps4 and GTA 4 on Steam. Already got the Liberty City Minute with 8 hours to spare, I really only used taxis to travel.
15:40 this part no bs took me over a year. Well I played and had to quit. Crazy enough a year later I tried again and beat it first try. There is a truck to getting to those check points on this one tho. It was the hardest mission in cod I’ve ever played
This was my first ever made Platin trophy, 15 YEARS AGO… 😢😂 Thank you for uploading this, 20 min straight smiling cause of the flashback or let’s say, revisiting my trauma 🤣
I am close to 200 "platinums" between Playstation and Steam, and the World at War campaign easily makes it one of my five hardest for sure. This was painful nostalgia but a fun watch!
I have platinumed this literally like a decade ago.. and i still have some funny memories with it, it was not easy but i think MW2 special ops Juggernauts takes the crown
I beat the whole campaign on the wii version. I bought this version because it was cheaper and thought it would have the zombies mode (which it didn't). I assumed that I might unlock the zombies mode if I beat the game on veteran. Imagine your cross hair spazzing out during the sniper mission and getting one shot. Great times. I did beat it, but with no reward
I decided to beat the wii version on veteran difficulty and it must’ve taken me months. I truly felt like the best player in the world (on the wii version) after going through that hell.
Honestly I get so excited now whenever I see you upload. As a trophy hunter of 13 years myself, I love seeing people share their platinum stories. It was so fun to watch the parts you struggled with in this game because I struggled in the EXACT same spots, lol
This video brings back memories of when I tried to finish waw on veteran as a teenager don’t remember if I did or not, that 360’s long gone but the entire battle was just tryna cheese the ai and hiding lol
I got stuck on "Relentless" for 2 weeks back when WaW was the latest Call of Duty. It scarred me so much that to this day, I check trophy lists first before attempting platinums because I could never go through another experience like WaW on veteran again 😂
This is the first video in times where I actually watched through the ad. That is because the content and dedication of this fella is absolutely insane. I know you’ll make it for sure. On to 1M subs.
I still remember back in the day where a friend of mine said WaW on Veteran was impossible, and to prove him wrong i did it myself in 2 days, 2011-10-16 - 2011-10-17. And when i showed him my achievements he got so upset he went back to try and beat it again. Took him several days. But he managed.
I remember for the motherland on veteran. It was absolutely terrible. I remember clearing each bunker taking my time, then at one point I cleared one building took my time to enter the last before the stairs. I had my back to the wall and enemies respawned in that same building that I was in and “cleared” I nearly snapped my 360 controller. The best way to play that level is to run with smokes and nades. Smoke, nade, run, smoke, nade,run. Once I completed World At War I removed it out of the 360 and never touched it again. No multiplayer, no Zombies. I hated it so much.
When I tried playing WAW on veteran, I made it all the way to the mission where you storm the reichstag. Those 4 anti air guns are still the bane of my existence, around 12 hours I've spent on that level, or around a third of my total time in game Edit: Heart of the Reich
I remember how hard and frustrating it was to complete the game on Veteran on PC. I've spent three days gaming to reach the final mission, spent hours trying to advance to the Reichstag, remember every fucking step on that staircase and finally when I was inside, I was just done. I couldn't do it anymore, so I dropped the game minutes from the completion. Do I regret it? Yes, I regret playing that game on Veteran at all!
Pro tip for when you’re low on ammo, you can kill as many unnamed NPC’s as you want and not be penalized, that free PPSH ammo from killing my homies is what got me through the Soviet sections of veteran, they died for a mediocre cause (I don’t get a platinum trophy since I’m on Xbox)
I came back to the game, after leting it dust down for 5 years. Burn them out was where I left off and I used maybe 3 hour's just on the last bunker part. The second to last mission also took hours, but there is a easy cheese at the stairs part. Just snipe them from afar, then wait until Reznov and the rest have reached the top. The pillar will fall right after you snipe a few other guys.
For new comers, in the airfield part you can go back to the bazooka part and fill up it takes 3 rockets for these tanks so you’ll have to make several trips
As a young teen the veteran campaign took me roughly 3 months to complete Fast forward 15 years and I’m on the last mission. It only took me 5 days this time around.
