There are a total of 45 Intel Locations in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare. Finding all of these collectibles will earn you the “Ferrum Absconsum” trophy or achievement. In mission select you can see how many you have found in each mission.
The intel collectibles look like thin laptops with a blue display.
None of them are missable! You can search for missing items via mission select at any time during the story or after beating the story.
As soon as you pick up an intel it will be saved immediately and automatically. You don’t have to reach the next checkpoint and can quit out to the main menu right away. There are exactly 3 intel collectibles per mission.
INTEL LOCATIONS VIDEO GUIDE
INTEL LOCATIONS TEXT GUIDE
#1 – Induction
[Objective: Regroup with Demo Team One]
After you encounter the drone swarm you will go into a building where lots of enemies shoot you from a balcony. In this room you need to go up the stairs and in one of the shops on the right side is the very first intel collectible.
#2 – Induction
[Objective: Regroup with Demo Team One]
Once you get out of the train station you will be in a Chinatown street with lots of shops. Go into the building on the right side of the street. On the top floor is the intel sitting on the ground.
#3 – Induction
[Objective: Destroy the Havoc Launcher]
After you pick up the demolition charges (marked as a main objective) you need to drop down to a street with a waterfall. Behind the waterfall is a small hidden room that contains the last intel of this mission.
#4 – Atlas
[Objective: Rescue the President]
This intel can be found in the room across from where you find the president. It’s in the bath. You must find the president first to make the doors open up.
#5 – Atlas
[Objective: Follow Gideon]
After the rescue simulation you enter a car and Jonathan Irons will give you a little tour. As soon as you exit the car, turn around and go to the small building near the gate. It contains the intel collectible.
#6 – Atlas
[Objective: Follow Gideon]
After completing the grenade range you will enter a building. The objective marker points towards the elevators. Do not go to the elevators yet! Instead, go to the far right side to find the intel on a table.
#7 – Traffic
[Objective: Rescue the Prime Minister]
This is in the office on the left side after the Slow-Motion sequence where you use the mute charge and drop through a rooftop to kill some enemies.
#8 – Traffic
[Objective: Stop the KVA Hostage Truck]
After your teammate opens a gate you will be attacked by a driving vehicle. You are now forced to take the path on the right to avoid being run over by this vehicle. Soon after that you have to drop down a ledge to a courtyard with houses on either side. The house on the left contains the intel. Go up the stairs and you’ll find it on the ground.
#9 – Traffic
[Objective: Stop the KVA Hostage Truck]
After you leave the area from the last intel you will be attacked by an armored vehicle again. Take out the gunner behind the turret. The intel is just around the corner from the armored vehicle, on the ground outside of a small house. Be sure to get it before interacting with the next mission objective (don’t climb the wall yet).
#10 – Fission
[Objective: Shut down the Reactor]
After destroying the big walking tank you will go inside a building and slide down an elevator shaft. You are now in a laboratory. The room in the middle of the laboratory contains the intel.
#11 – Fission
[Objective: Shut down the Reactor]
This is on the ground level of the reactor room, on the right side (the room with all the spinning turbines). You get to this room after taking an elevator and there are lots of enemies here. At this point you are also told to use your combat drone.
#12 – Fission
[Objective: Escape the Power Plant]
After interacting with the computer display in the control room you need to follow your comrades. You will go through a big opening in the wall. The intel is at the end of the scaffold on the right.
#13 – Aftermath
[Objective: Regroup with Gideon]
After the floor cracks open and you fall down to the lower level this intel can be found on the left side of the corridor (where you see the enemy in the orange suit).
#14 – Aftermath
[Objective: Reach the Hospital]
From the previous intel you make your way through the building until you come to a point where you have to jump over a balcony to the area below. After jumping down there is a small administrative building with desks and computers inside. The intel is on one of the desks.
#15 – Aftermath
[Objective: Capture the Doctor]
This one can be found in the hospital. When you reach the hospital go upstairs and you’ll be attacked by a bunch of enemies. In a side room on the left is the intel.
#16 – Manhunt
[Objective: Infiltrate the Safehouse]
On the balcony where your comrade Ilona starts up the sniper drone.
#17 – Manhunt
[Objective: Intercept Hades’ Convoy]
After the part where you control the sniper drone you will go down to a street. There are two enemies shooting into the air and scaring away civilians. Stick to the left side of the area. The first building you can enter on the left is a restaurant and on the upper floor (use the stairs) you can find the intel in the bedroom.
#18 – Manhunt
[Objective: Eliminate the KVA Sniper]
You will come to a point where a wounded soldier is sitting on the ground and a Sniper shoots him. You can’t miss him because Ilona will stop to call in a medic. When you leave this building walk in a straight line to the other side of the street. Here you can find a jewelry store and inside is the intel on the counter.
#19 – Utopia
[Objective: Follow Gideon]
This is in the very beginning of the mission. As soon as the mission starts you must turn around immediately to find this intel on a desk behind you.
#20 – Utopia
[Objective: Reach the Docks]
While making your escape from the Atlas soldiers (after you take a swim and before you encounter the AST at the docks) you will have to jump down a balcony and come to a long street with buildings on the left and right. Stay on the street level and check the buildings on the left. One of them has lots of computers inside and also contains the intel.
#21 – Utopia
[Objective: Reach the Extraction Point]
After the sequence where you drive a boat you have to use the grappling hook to get up a building. Here on the first rooftop you are attacked by some enemies. The intel is on that rooftop, behind one of the windows where the enemies are spawning.
#22 – Sentinel
[Objective: Access the Security System]
In the first area with enemies you have to drop through a rooftop to reach the mission objective. You can find the intel in the room that you drop down to (same as mission objective).
#23 – Sentinel
[Objective: Search the Database]
In Jonathan Iron’s office, next to his desk that you need to interact with. When you enter the office you will see how your teammate is killing an enemy with the grappling hook. This is after sneaking past all the guards.
#24 – Sentinel
[Objective: Record the Meeting]
After you hold on to the car you will end up in a storage facility. As soon as you let go of the car you can find this intel in front of you on the left (do not follow your teammate yet).
#25 – Crash
[Objective: Reach the Cargo]
In the starting area where you land. Where the enemies spawn it’s next to a box.
#26 – Crash
[Objective: Follow Cormack]
This one is where you see the first enemy in the ice cave. An enemy will boost-jump up to the intel, it’s very easy to see.
#27 – Crash
[Objective: Recover the Cargo]
After Gideon helps you out of the icy water you have to pick up a Stinger M7 rocket launcher (marked as objective). To the left of the rocket launcher is the intel, near a burning plane wreck.
#28 – Bio Lab
[Objective: Escape the Sniper]
As soon as the mission starts your comrade will run to a wooden shed. Inside the shed is the intel.
#29 – Bio Lab
[Objective: Neutralize the Manticore Supply]
In the area after using the console in the server room. When you exit the server room an alarm will go off. Fight through a corridor and then check the rooms on the right side.
#30 – Bio Lab
[Objective: Locate the Tank]
After you place a jammer on a satellite dish to help your comrade hack a door, you can find this intel in an office. You have to shoot the windows to climb into the office. This is just before you reach the tank. If you’ve already found the tank, then you can still get this intel if you backtrack a little bit.
#31 – Collapse
[Objective: Regroup with Sentinel]
This one can be found immediately after the car chase, when you exit your vehicle. The intel is in a black colored car on the left side of the bridge.
#32 – Collapse
[Objective: Regroup with Sentinel]
Further down the bridge you will see a road sign on the right side that says “Downtown SF 18min, SFO 45min, Oakland 32min”. The intel is on a little platform on the back side of that road sign.
#33 – Collapse
[Objective: Regroup with Sentinel]
You’ll get to a point where a helicopter is standing in the middle of the bridge. On the left side of the bridge, just before you reach the helicopter, is the intel.
#34 – Armada
[Objective: Reach the Bridge]
After planting the two jammers at the start of the mission you will have to follow your teammates into the ship. In the room after jumping up is the intel (right side where all the computers are, near the windows).
#35 – Armada
[Objective: Reach the Bridge]
After leaving the dark room where you have to use your night vision you will come to the deck. Kill the enemies here (one of them is an AST) and follow your teammates upstairs. In the first room upstairs is the intel.
#36 – Armada
[Objective: Destroy the Cargo Ships]
This one is on a table in the middle of the control room. Very easy to see. It’s the last room of the mission where the objective marker tells you to access a terminal. You must pick it up before using the terminal!
#37 – Throttle
[Objective: Follow Gideon]
After the sequence where you fly the figher jet you will land on the ground. When you land go to the end of the area in a straight line. Here on a bench is the intel.
#38 – Throttle
[Objective: Destroy the MD Turrets (x3)]
When facing the 3 MD turrets (all of them are on rooftops and marked as main objectives) you must go to the far right of the area. Here on a balcony you can find the intel. Use the grappling hook to get up.
#39 – Throttle
[Objective: Destroy the MD Turrets (x3)]
This intel is on a balcony on the opposite side of where the 3 MD turrets are standing. Follow the train tracks and use your grappling hook to get up to the balcony.
#40 – Captured
[Objective: Escape the Facility]
After you kill the first two enemies in this mission you have to follow Gideon to a room with two scientists and a missile launch display. There is a side room here that contains the intel.
#41 – Captured
[Objective: Escape the Facility]
You will come to an area where scientists are experimenting on dead people. Here you need to pry open a door to catch a scientist who threatens to shoot you. Inside the room where the scientist is standing, is the intel.
#42 – Captured
[Objective: Enter the AST]
After the helicopter crashes you are supposed to enter the AST of a dead enemy. Before interacting with the AST, turn around and you’ll see the intel.
#43 – Terminus
[Objective: Stop the Manticore Launch]
After you get out of the water keep going in a straight line until you reach the last room of the area (do not take the path on the left yet). In this room is the intel.
#44 – Terminus
[Objective: Stop the Manticore Launch]
From the previous intel, follow the path to the main objective until you have to go down some stairs (this is just 20 seconds after the previous intel). When you are downstairs you can find this intel in a small server room on the left side.
#45 – Terminus
[Objective: Stop the Manticore Launch]
When your comrade kicks open a door look inside the small room on the left side, it contains the final piece of enemy intel. Congratulations to your shiny new Ferrum Absconsum trophy (or achievement).
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