Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Trophy Guide & Roadmap

As with any other Call of Duty game you should stay behind cover most of the time. Don’t run out in the open and kill the enemies one by one. Go back into cover, wait for health to recharge and repeat.

There are 22 Weapon Locations in Call of Duty Infinite Warfare. You must scan all weapons for the Gun Nut Trophy / Achievement.

Some weapons are random drops from enemies while others have fixed locations where you can always find them. When you pick up a new weapon it will be scanned automatically. If a weapon doesn’t spawn just restart the mission until it does. Replaying via mission select on different difficulty settings helps mixing it up. New weapons are glowing yellow which makes them easier to spot.

Most weapons from enemies and armories are randomized.
You can mop up all missing collectibles via mission select (Weapons Scans, Equipment Upgrades, SDF Aces & Captains). After scanning a weapon you must reach the next checkpoint, then you can quit out to the main menu.

You can check your progress at the shooting range of your spaceship (hub area, where you customize loadout before missions. Load up the mission “Retribution: Aftermath” and where you have to customize your loadout check the weapons).

4 weapons are available from the start and cannot be scanned: NV4, EBR-800, FHR-40, Kendall 44 (that makes 26 weapons total).

The way weapon drops work is that each enemy is assigned a weapon class. Their class is always the same but their weapon changes on each playthrough (e.g. if they have SMGs they will change SMGs on each replay). Upon starting a mission it will give each enemy of that class the same weapon. There are a few exceptions to this but in a lot of missions, for example in “Operation Phoenix”, you could keep killing the first two enemies over and over again. One always drops a different SMG, the other always a different assault rifle. Same when you find an enemy with a shotgun. They have a chance to drop all the other shotguns as well. A weapon that might drop in the first mission for you may not have dropped until the last mission for someone else due to this randomness.
For the video I used fixed locations wherever possible. Only 5 are random, the other 17 have fixed spawns.

TIMELINE:

#1 – Karma-45 (SMG) – 0:05
#2 – Volk (Assault) – 0:05
#3 – Kbar-32 (Assault)- 0:51
#4 – EMC (Handgun) – 1:07
#5 – R.A.W. (LMG) – 1:27
#6 – F-SpAr Torch (Heavy) – 1:45
#7 – Mauler (LMG) – 2:18
#8 – Reaver (Shotgun) – 2:18
#9 – Type-2 (Assault) – 2:57
#10 – R3K (Assault) – 3:37
#11 – DCM-8 (Shotgun) – 3:37
#12 – P-LAW (Heavy) – 4:13
#13 – HVR (SMG) – 4:43
#14 – Ballista EM3 (Heavy) – 5:12
#15 – Eraser (Heavy) – 6:09
#16 – PRP Evo (SMG)- 6:09
#17 – Spartan SA3 (Heavy) – 6:54
#18 – Banshee (Shotgun) – 7:19
#19 – KBS Longbow (Sniper) – 7:52
#20 – Oni (Handgun) – 8:16
#21 – Erad (SMG) – 8:16
#22 – Titan (LMG) – 8:16

You can listen to the Death Letters of the Fallen during the ending credits (after completing all main missions in the story). You do NOT have to collect anything for this. During the credits you can press 8 different buttons on your controller / keyboard. Each button activates a different death letter that will be read to you. The buttons are displayed while the credits play. Don’t take too long or the credits might end before you could activate each letter.
It’s basically a reward for beating all main missions. You do not have to play any of the side missions for this.

The following equipment must be upgraded:

Tactical:

• ATAD (V1)
• Hacking Device (V1)
• Retractable Shield (V1)
• Foam Wall (V1)

Lethal:

• Frag Grenade (V2)
• Shock Grenade (V2)
• Seeker-Bot (V2)
• Anti-Gravity Grenade (V2)

Equipment Upgrade Locations:

1. Operation Port Armor: Civilian Terminal (In armory, you go here automatically as part of the story)
2. Operation Port Armor: Boarding Party (When the 3 minute evacuation timer starts this is marked as a main objective in a room to your right)
3. Operation Port Armor: Boarding Party (Shortly after the last location you have to peek open a door and go into a hangar with lots of enemies. Here you must use a switch to open the hangar doors (the switch is an unmissable main objective). Upon using the switch you should get one equipment upgrade. This one gave me a lot of trouble and it only dropped in 2 out of 10 playthroughs. After 3 hours of testing I could not determine any requirement for it to drop, it just seems random or glitched. So if you don’t get it replay the mission a dozen times. If you are one upgrade short it’s likely this one you are missing.
4. Ship Assault: Operation Taken Dagger (At the end of mission, in the armory)
5. Ship Assault: Operation D-Con (After first room with enemies you go into a burning corridor. Go up the stairs by the ammo refill box on the left of the corridor. Here you find a somewhat hidden armory. Inside is an upgrade console)
6. Ship Assault: Operation D-Con (At the end of mission, in the armory)
7. Ship Assault: Operation Deep Execute (In the armory that’s marked as your main objective)
8. Burn Water: Refinery (Shortly after the start you go through a broken fence and drop down. In front of you are 2 buildings. Check the building on the left. Easy to miss this one.)
9. Black Flag: Prisoner Escort (About 3 minutes into the mission you come to the city streets. There are many bright signs and advertisements on the buildings. At the end of the road you must jump up a burning building. On the upper floor is the armory with the upgrade. This is before going through the bike store).

There’s a console in certain armories. Interact with it to unlock new upgrades.
Nothing is missable, you can get everything via mission select after beating the game! Just make sure you reach the next checkpoint to save the progress. After that you can quit out to the main menu and move on to the next location.
You can check your equipment before missions when you customize your loadout. Just load up one of the Retribution missions and during loadout customization check on your equipment (for example “Retribution: Aftermath”). You should see that it says V1 or V2 on equipment items. That’s the upgrade level! Tactical equipment has only 1 upgrade (V1). Lethal equipment has 2 upgrades (V2).

You get 2 upgrades from locations #4, ##7, #9. Everything else gives only one upgrade. It is entirely randomized what upgrade you will get. It’s different for each player, but it’s always guaranteed to give you a new upgrade you haven’t unlocked before.
Pay extra attention on location #3 cause it’s from a main mission objective. This one gave me a lot of trouble. It only dropped in 2 out of 10 playthroughs. After trying for 3 hours I could not determine any requirement for it to drop. It just seems random or glitched. If you are one upgrade short it’s probably #3 you are missing. Just replay the mission a dozen times and it should unlock eventually.

Armories you have previously used will have a red lockdown screen and you cannot interact with them again.

Basically, you just need to complete all missions and kill all the enemies in them, then this unlocks naturally. I got it automatically without trying, just by completing all missions and killing all enemies in them.

Main Mission – Operation Port Armor: Boarding Party
At the very start of this mission you will be in outer space and can grapple enemies from afar (press L1 to use grappling hook). This will pull the enemies towards you and kill them instantly.
Because your teammates are killing enemies you can’t get 15 in one go. There is a little trick: after killing everyone and reaching the next checkpoint you restart the mission via pause menu. Your kills are still saved and you can farm some more. Should only take 2 runs to earn the trophy.

It’s best to do this on recruit difficulty. Otherwise you die too quickly.

Main Mission – Operation Black Flag: Trap is Sprung
At the very end of this mission you will have a talk with the Admiral Kotch. He wants to give you a little speech but instead you must press the melee button (R3 on PS4) to kill him instantly, thus “skipping” his speech.

This is a little easter egg from Game of Thrones. The actor portraying Kotch is Kit Harington, known for his role as Jon Snow in the Game of Thrones TV Show. The trophy title “You Know Nothing” is a reference to the quote (and meme) “You Know Nothing, Jon Snow” which the Wildling character Ygritte said to Jon in the TV Show.

Main Mission – Retribution: Aftermath
During this mission you will have to lift some rubble out of the way with your teammate. After that a cutscene will play. Once the cutscene finishes you are in a room with a computer, interact with it to earn the trophy / achievement.
This would be hard to miss because the computer is marked as an objective (but you could ignore it and go straight to the bridge). If you go too far you’ll get locked out of the room and would have to restart the checkpoint.

Main Mission – Retribution: Back in the Fight
At the start of this mission you will go up an elevator. After exiting the elevator DO NOT follow your teammate. Instead, head to the end of the hallway where some soldiers are watching TV. Stand near them and look at the TV for a little bit, then the trophy / achievement unlocks.

• Peek open a door (push right stick to open it all the way)
• Throw Grenade while you peek, then kick it open.

You only need two doors cause you can combine the grenade throw and door kick (or grenade + peek open). The first door has to be opened as part of the story in mission “Black Sky: Under Attack”. Another door is found at the start of “Port Armor: Civilian Terminal”.

Main Mission: Rising Threat
This is the first mission in the game. A few minutes into the mission you will enter a hostile spaceship. When you encounter the first large group of enemies look for a crate with anti-grav grenades. Throw such a grenade on the ground below you. While you are floating in the air kill an enemy.
There are many opportunities for this throughout the story. So worry not if you missed it here. Loadouts can be customized before most missions so you can bring anti-grav grenades with you.

Main Mission – Operation Black Flag: Trap is Sprung
This requires you to kill three C12 robots with a different type of kill each time. First you have to blow off two of its limbs (e.g. both arms with a rocket launcher). Then you have to blow off the RIGHT ARM and jump on the C12 from above (triggers the rodeo takedown). And last you must blow off the LEFT ARM and again jump on it from above for the rodeo.

There’s a C12 at the start of this mission. After killing it with one of the three methods you wait a few seconds and restart the mission. Now do the next kill. Do this 3 times for all the required kill types. There are lots of rocket launchers in the area for shooting off the limbs.

If for some reason it doesn’t unlock you should keep playing to the next checkpoint before restarting. This wasn’t required for me, but it would be the safer method. I couldn’t get it to work via checkpoint restart because it saved whenever I destroyed the C12 or jumped onto it.

You must find 3-6 parts per craftable item. There are the following stickers:

• N31L (3 parts)
• X-Quisite (6 parts)
• Head-Cutter (3 parts)
• Face-Melter (3 parts)
• Dischord (3 parts)
• Shredder (3 parts)
• Seti-Com (3 parts)

Step 1: Pick up the 3 Seti-Com Pieces (one in starting area near Pack-a-Punch portal, one in Polar Peak, one in underground tunnels)

Step 2: Bring the Seti-Com Pieces to the DJ (press Square to give it to him). He’ll need some time to build the full Seti-Com. Just play a few rounds and always talk to him at the end of each round to see if he’s made any progress. It can take 3-6 rounds for him to completely build it. The Seti-Com will be placed in your inventory after retrieving it from the DJ.

Step 3: Defend the Seti-Com 3 times. Go around the map with the Seti-Com in your inventory and at certain places you’ll notice the screen shaking uncontrollably. In these spots you must place the Seti-Com and defend it. Repeat this a total of 3 times.

Step 4: Return to the DJ and retrieve the final piece from him.

Step 5: Now you can go to the center of the area to Pack-a-Punch portal. Around the portal you can interact with 4 tiles on the floor. You’ll notice a UFO flying in the air and it shows you a color combination. You must repeat this color combination via the floor tiles (each of them has a color – red, yellow, green, blue). You must press Square on the floor tiles in the correct order in very quick succession. Failing this process too often will make brutes spawn. You must do this a total of 3 times (press correct color combination 3 times total).

Step 6: Defeat the Alien endboss. He’s a tough boss. Run away from him and train the zombies. You can run over the bridge and train the zombies behind you, shoot the alien from time to time when you have some breathing room. Slow and steady wins the race here. If you play with multiple people there will be multiple bosses as well (one boss per player, so 4 bosses for 4 players). When the Alien’s health is low you can see it kneel down. Quickly run up to it and knife the shield on its back to hurt it.

Step 7: After defeating the boss go double pack-a-punch via the portal.

Step 8: Shoot the glowing parts of the huge Zombies in Spaceland arch at the start of the map (where you start at every match and go over the bridge to the central area). You must shoot it with a double punched weapon. It will emit a beam of light from the Pack-a-Punch portal when you’ve shot all glowing parts of the arch. This beam of light must hit the UFO will it flies over the Pack-a-Punch portal. This will destroy the UFO. Pick up the part the UFO has dropped. This is the Soul Key and will unlock the trophy.

D-PAD LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, UP, DOWN

This will unlock Hasselhoff as a playable character. When done correctly a Hasselhoff symbol will show up in the middle of the screen. You must start a match with him for the trophy to unlock. If you haven’t done the easter egg, or quitted out of the match after completing the easter egg, this will not work! You must have done the full main easter egg, unlocked “Sooooul Key” trophy and ended the match normally.

There are 4 weapons of rock (Header-Cutter, Face-Melter, Dischord, Shredder). You only need one of them for the trophy. This video shows the “Shredder” weapon which is the easiest one. You must acquire 3 parts to craft it.

In preparation you will have to turn on the power and unlock the pack-a-punch machine. See How to Unlock Pack-a-Punch in Spaceland.

Weapon of Rock Step-by-Step Guide:

Step 1: Insert 3 red coins in the souvenir machine of Kepler System. Coins are dropped randomly by zombies.
[PART 1 UNLOCKED]

Step 2: Buy Gold Teeth for 300 tickets (from arcade room in Journey into Space distrcit). You get tickets from playing arcade games and beating challenges.

Step 3: Lure a Brute into the Alligator Trap (Kepler System). This will make the alligator’s teeth fall out. Brutes spawn in rounds 10-12.

Step 4: Replace the alligator’s teeth with the golden ones. Hold Square (PS4) / X (XB1) near the alligator trap.

Step 5: Go to Polar Peak district, in the outside area where the water fountains are. Use the sunglasses that turn the screen black&white (they are a random drop by zombies). Now you can see a boat in the water. There’s a small item on the back of the boat that you must shoot off.

Step 6: Grab the boat item (that you just shot off) from one of the water fountains
[PART 2 UNLOCKED]

Step 7: Go into pack-a-punch room. Interact with the UFOs on the table to activate them. When done correctly they will fly out the portal.

Step 8: Use the Chromosphere Trap in Kepler System to kill 30+ Zombies. Make sure a UFO is flying around the trap! If it’s not here you haven’t done the last step correctly.

Step 9: After getting enough trap kills the UFO flies around Kepler System. Purchase the Arcane Core for 300 Tickets (found in Kepler System) and kill zombies with it near the flying UFO. It will suck in some blue orbs when done correctly.

Step 10: After killing the UFO has absorbed enough souls it will drop a flame core. Pick it up. Now Shoot the box inside the alligator trap with the flame core (where you placed gold teeth). Quickly run to the box, pick up the last part and exit the trap before it kills you.
[PART 3 UNLOCKED]

Step 11: Head to the underground area. There’s a sign where you must place all 3 parts to build the weapon of rock. Trophy unlocked!

And that’s it. You’ve now unlocked the Weapon of Rock, a.k.a. “Shredder”.

To unlock Pack-a-Punch you must first activate the 4 power switches and 4 portals across the map. Once you have activated the power you can use the portals. Jump through each portal and you will return to the center of the map. After jumping through all 4 portals you can use the teleporter in the center to go to the Projection Room. In here you find the Pack-a-Punch machine. You need 5000 points to upgrade your weapon.

There are 2 portals in district Oddysey into Space, 1 in Kepler System, 1 in Polar Peak.

1. Oddysey Into Space #1: In the arcade room, check for power switch on the wall. Portal is right next to the power switch.
2. Oddysey Into Space #2: Follow the path behind the DJ. Then backtrack to the DJ to find the portal.
3. Kepler System: When you come from the center of the map you must open the first door on the left in Kepler district and go upstairs. Power switch is on the wall. Go back downstairs for the portal.
4. Polar Peak: Upstairs in the Polar Peak district. Must unlock a door to get upstairs, then find power switch on the wall. Now go back downstairs to find the portal.

You can be done with this by round 6-8 if you open only the required doors.

Step 2: Activate 4 UFOs in Pack-a-Punch room

Step 3: The 4 UFOs will fly around the 4 largest traps on the map (one in each district… Kepler, Astrocade, Polar Peak, Journey into Space). You must do 20+ kills with each trap to power up the UFOs.

Step 4: Now the UFOs start flying around their respective districts (and no longer around the traps). Buy an arcane core for 300 tickets and kill zombies near the UFOs to power them up. They will suck in the souls of zombies. When you’ve killed enough zombies they’ll drop an elemental core that you must pick up.

Step 5: Bring the elementar core to the machine near the Pack-a-Punch machine. It has 4 placeholders for the 4 different elemental cores. You must repeat the UFO step until you have all 4 elemental cores (kill 20+ zombies with all 4 traps and then buy a new Arcane Core for 300 tickets to kill zombies near the roaming UFO, return the elemental core to Pack-a-Punch).

Step 6: Buy gold teeth for 300 tickets in arcade. Let a brute run into the alligator teeth trap in Kepler System. This will break some teeth which you must replace with the gold teeth (press Square).  Now you can purchase the Exquisite Core for 2000 points in the alligator trap’s mouth (if you got all 4 elemental cores via the UFOs).

The teddies can even spawn in the afterlife! So really check every inch and every corner carefully. You must shoot the 5 teddies, then you will receive some XP.

For the second song you must find some “employee of the month” whiteboards. They too are hidden all over the map, but have fixed locations. On 5 of these whiteboards are photographs of a teddy. You must shoot the teddy photographs from the whiteboards to unlock the second song.

When done correctly you will receive an XP bonus after triggering each song. The song will play at the portal in the middle of the map (the one you use to travel to Pack-A-Punch). Visit that spot to check if it worked or not.

Unlocking the “Insert Coin” trophy requires you to interact with every arcade machine and play each sports game. In the sports games you have to win tickets to make it count (this includes basketball, black hole, cryptid attack, zombie zoom, bowling for planets, shooting gallery, rollercoaster ride). In the digital arcade games you don’t have to earn any points or tickets, just interact with them and quit out immediately.

The arcade games are scattered across 4 locations. Turn on the power to make them available:

• Most are found in the huge arcade room in Journey Into Space district. Has basketball, black hole, cryptid attack, zombie zoom, bowling for planets, tons of classic arcade machines. You must interact with every single machine here.
• Shooting Gallery in Kepler System district.
• Roller Coaster Ride in Polar Peak district.
• In the respawn room after you die (several types of sports games and classic arcade games). When playing solo you need the Up ‘N Atoms perk to reach this room.

The only game you don’t have to play is Ghosts ‘N Skulls. If the trophy doesn’t unlock go through everything again (especially the sports games).

I recommend you do this in co-op. One player can run in circles with the zombies while the other uses all arcades. The trophy unlocks for everyone in the party simultaneously. When doing it solo you should make a crawler (throw grenade near zombie) and lure it far away. Solo you’ll need the Up N’ Atoms perk from the starting area ($500) to respawn in the afterlife room after dying.

First you must reach round 10 and buy Up N’ Atoms (quick revive) from the vending machine at the starting point. Now let the zombies kill you in round 10. You will respawn in a room with several arcade games. Interact with the same arcade game 30 times in a row. You don’t have to actually play the arcade games, just interact with them and immediately quit out. It doesn’t have to be 30 different arcade machines, just use the same one 30 times in a row.

The best match type for this is “Infected”. You will win every match in this mode – the goal is to survive (shoot robots with shotgun) or to infect other players (knife enemies while being the robot). Because of how imbalanced this game mode is you always land in the team that has the upper hand.

This trophy is a bit glitchy and does not unlock at 5 wins! Just keep playing. It will unlock eventually, but can take a while. For me it unlocked after 22 wins at player level 16.
You can see your total wins when scrolling over your Online ID in a matchmaking lobby. The servers may take some time to properly register your statistics. Win 5 matches each day and repeat the following day until it unlocks. For some players it even unlocked on a loss, so try to mix things up and lose intentionally to see if that unlocks the trophy.