All Modern Warfare 3 Weekly Challenges: How to unlock Golden River camo
ActivisionModern Warfare 3 introduced a Weekly Challenge system, offering players a way to obtain a ton of XP and unlock the exclusive Golden River camo. If you’re wondering how to maximize your progress, here’s all you need to know.
Modern Warfare 3 is currently underway as players dive into its content ahead of Season 1. This new title brings the full MW2 2009 map lineup, the return of beloved features, a new array of weapons with new camos, and notable improvements to movement mechanics.
Additionally, the game features an extensive Weekly Challenge system, allowing players to earn a lot of free rewards, such as XP. In the first iteration, players can unlock the exclusive Golden River camo by successfully completing challenges in both multiplayer and Zombies modes.
Here’s how the MW3 Weekly Challenge system works and how you can get the Golden River camo.
- Modern Warfare 3 Weekly Challenges explained
- Modern Warfare 3 Week 1 challenges
- Modern Warfare 3 Week 2 challenges
- Modern Warfare 3 Week 3 challenges
- Modern Warfare 3 Week 4 challenges
- How to unlock Modern Warfare 3 Golden River camo
Modern Warfare 3 Weekly Challenges explained
Similar to previous CoD installments, Modern Warfare 3 has a Weekly Challenge system where players can complete several in-game challenges in both multiplayer and Zombies, granting them the opportunity to earn a ton of XP and other exclusive rewards like weapon camos.
This system will have reward rotations each week, as the name implies, during pre-season and in each season. Each week, players will be given a set of seven multiplayer and Zombies Weekly Challenges, spanning a total of four different weeks.
Here are the week 1, 2, 3, and 4 multiplayer and Zombies Weekly challenges in MW3.
Modern Warfare 3 Week 1 challenges
| Multiplayer challenges | Zombies challenges |
|---|---|
| Kill five Operators Who Killed You with a Recommended Weapon | Get 250 Kills with a Recommended Weapon |
| Get 20 Operator Kills with a Silenced Recommended Assault Rifle | Get 100 Kills with a Silenced Recommended Assault Rifle |
| Get 10 Operator Sliding Kills with a Recommended Weapon | Get 30 Kills with PHD Flopper Explosions |
| Get one Operator Triple Kill with a Recommended Sniper | Get 200 Kills on the Medium or High Threat Zone |
| Get 20 Operator Kills with the MCW | Get 100 Kills with the MCW |
| Get 15 Operator Kills with Sights Equipped to a Recommended Assault Rifle | Get 150 Scoped Kills with a Recommended Assault Rifle |
| Get 15 Operator Headshot Kills with the MCW | Get 150 Critical Kills with the MCW |
Modern Warfare 3 Week 2 challenges
| Multiplayer challenges | Zombies challenges |
|---|---|
| Get 10 Operator Assists with a Recommended Weapon | Complete five Contracts |
| Get 20 Operator Kills while Aiming Down Sights with the DG-58 LSW | Get 100 Hipfire Kills with a Recommended Assault Rifle |
| Get 20 Operator Hipfire Kills with the DG-58 LSW | Get 125 Kills with a Recommended Battle Rifle while having at least four Active Perks |
| Get 3 Operator Collateral Kills with a Recommended Weapon | Get 10 consecutive Kills without taking damage 10 times with a Recommended Weapon |
| Get 25 Operator Kills while Moving with a Recommended Weapon | Get 25 Hellhound Kills with a Recommended Weapon |
| Get 20 Operator Kills while Aiming Down Sights Recommended Assault Rifle | Get 100 Critical Kills with a Recommended Assault Rifle |
| Get 20 Operator Hipfire Kills with a Recommended Assault Rifle | Kill three Big Bounty HVTs with a Recommended Battle Rifle |
Modern Warfare 3 Week 3 challenges
| Multiplayer challenges | Zombies challenges |
|---|---|
| Get 15 Operator Headshot Kills with a Recommended Weapon | Get 200 Critical Kills with a Recommended Weapon |
| Get 20 Operator Assault Rifle Kills with a Recommended Weapon | Get 100 Kills with a Melee Weapon |
| Get 15 Operator Point Black Kills with Recommended SMGs | Get 10 Special Zombies Kills with a Recommended SMG |
| Get 20 Operator Akimbo Kills with a Recommended Weapon | Get 150 Kills with an Akimbo Recommended Weapon |
| Get 20 Operator Hipfire Kills with Recommended SMGs | Get 100 Hipfire Kills with a Recommended Weapon |
| Get 5 Operator Melee Kills with the Gun-Butt of a Recommended SMG | Get 50 Mercenary Kills with a Recommended SMG |
| Get 5 Operator Kills Without Dying 1 Time with a Recommended SMG | Get 3 Mangler Kills with a Recommended SMG |
Modern Warfare 3 Week 4 challenges
| Multiplayer challenges | Zombies challenges |
|---|---|
| Get 20 Operator Kills with a Recommended Weapon | Get 150 Kills with a Rare (Blue) Rarity Recommended Weapon |
| Get 5 Operator Double Kills with the JAK Heretic Carabine Kit Equipped to the MTZ-762 | Get 5 Operator Double Kills with the JAK Heretic Carabine Kit equipped on a Pack-a-Punched MTZ-762 |
| Get 15 Operator Point Blank Kills with the JAK Raven Kit Equipped to the MCW | Get 150 Kills with the JAK Raven Kit Equipped to the MCW while Jugger-Nog is active |
| Get 15 Operator Headshot Kills with the JAK Raven Kit Equipped to the MCW | Get 100 Critical Kills with the JAK Raven Kit Equipped on the MCW |
| Get 20 Operator Kills with the Yellow Jacket Akimbo Brace Stocks Equipped to the WSP Swarm | Get 100 Kills with the Yellow Jacket Akimbo Brace Stocks equipped on the WSP Swarm |
| Get 4 Operator Kills Without Dying 25 Times with the Yellow Jacket Akimbo Brace Stocks Equipped to the WSP Swarm | Get 200 Kills with the Yellow Jacket Akimbo Brace Stocks Equipped on the WSP Swarm in Medium of High Threat Zone |
| Get 3 Operator Fury Kills with a Recommended Weapon | Kill a Warlord with a Recommended Weapon |
How to unlock Modern Warfare 3 Golden River camo
ActivisionIn order to unlock the Golden River camo in Modern Warfare 3, players will have to complete all four Weekly Challenges on multiplayer and Zombies.
Completing each Weekly Challenge also earns you XP, and unlocking five challenges within a week grants you either an Aftermarket Part or a weapon. If you manage to unlock all the Weekly rewards throughout a season, you’ll receive seasonal cosmetic rewards, such as the Golden River camo.
All in all, that’s everything you need to know about Modern Warfare 3 Weekly Challenges, including the first exclusive cosmetic reward, the Golder River camo.
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