Difficulty for 100% and help

[DeidaraSasori]

I was thinking of starting this game as a completist so going for 100%. I heard this game can be quite a challenge, with a lot of hackers and tryhards making the mp trophies harder. Is this realistically possible to 100% today? Also how much time will it take?
 

Thanks

Edited May 1, 2022 by DaivRules

[JethrowRogueSZ2]

As far I know, all trophies ( 01.05.2022) should still be obtainable. You are looking for at least spending more then 100 h due to Personal Decorator. In the past there was a glitch that caused the game to crash when completing the main quest for Gorod Krovi DLC. That got fixed after a while 

[Shrooba]

@DeidaraSasori
BO3 is definitely a doable 100% in 2022! It's an awesome completion to go for. ?
I see you've got a PS5 too, and this is great since it means you can get the game alongside the Zombies Chronicles DLC for free on the PS Plus Collection. ?

I'm going for it right now, so I can say that there's two main obstacles to tackle:

First, the Zombies Easter Eggs.
Before starting the EE's, I'd recommend that you learn the layout of the maps, know where the perks are (in my opinion, Juggernog and Double Tap are the 2 most important perks, since they grant you an extra hit of survival alongside extra damage with your weapons, both of which are very helpful in higher rounds), know the locations of the mystery boxes alongside the pack-a-punch so that you can upgrade your guns, know how to craft the Zombie Shield on some of the maps which protects your behind, and knowing good training spots for zombies to help out your squad if they need to do any steps for when you do the EE (training a zombie is when you let one zombie follow you so that you can stay on a round, giving your teammates the time they need to sort things out before the next wave of zombies spawns in). This probably sounds like a lot at first, but don't worry! These are all things that you'll learn over time. It's not a quick completion by any means, so there's no harm in taking the time you need to learn the mechanics.
There's also the drops, such as the nuke which sets fire onto all zombies, firesales (spawns all the mystery boxes and makes them extremely cheap), max ammo and etc. I wouldn't recommend picking up the nuke in early rounds since you'll want to get as much points as you can get early on. And for max ammos, I always recommend letting your team know that you found one so you can all quickly reload before you pick it up. ?

Apart from The Giant (and perhaps Shangri-La), the Easter Eggs have a ton of steps to execute. It's worth noting that Shadows of Evil in the base game and Shangri-La in the Zombies Chronicles DLC are 4-player EE's, so you'll need to find three other players who also know what they're doing. However, I'd say that having knowledgeable players is more emphasized on Shadows of Evil since everyone needs good map knowledge for it and everyone must partake in certain steps. A big part of SoE is knowing how to unlock the swords and upgrade them, alongside knowing the ritual locations and which ones you'll need to go to in order to do upgrades depending on what character you are, and then the final step which involves electrocuting the railway in the beast form.

A good EE to start with is Der Eisendrache since the bow weapons you obtain (especially the storm bow) are very powerful, especially when upgraded. Do note that all 4 bows in Der Eisendrache need to be upgraded regardless of the amount of players. I'd say the wolf bow is the easiest, although some others usually say the storm bow is.

Finding other players for Zombies can be easy or tricky depending on if you've got buddies that like the game, but luckily there's a boosting session option on PSNProfiles so you should be able to find some other people.
As another note, the DLC Zetsubou No Shima map contains one multiplayer trophy, 'In the Belly of the Beast'. So once you do the 4-player EE's and this trophy, you can technically get the rest done on solo, but having a squad (even having just one other person helps) makes it a lot more doable.

The Zombies EE's are tricky, but they're extremely satisfying to pull off, and it's some of the most fun I've had in a game in quite a while.

Secondly, is the single-player. I haven't started this yet since I want to finish off Zombies first, but I can see that the biggest challenge here will be both finishing the campaign on Realistic difficulty, and beating Veteran without restarting from a checkpoint.

As for the multiplayer, it's for the most part not that bad. The main grind is getting to level 55, and from when I started the game, there was a weird issue with a lobby loading with all players, but then the match would cancel with an error popping up... It happened for a while, but I didn't encounter it for a good 2 weeks after and had time to grind it out. It's worth noting that BO3's lobby quality can be a bit iffy sometimes. There'll be weeks where it's perfectly fine, and then it'll have times where lobbies have frequent errors.
The only tricky thing with MP in my opinion is the Deadly Specialist trophy. I'm honestly not sure why this one is more common than the Tactical Specialist one! ? Essentially for Deadly Specialist, you need to get three kills in quick succession with a specialist ability (e.g three kills with Battery's War Machine). It all comes down to being lucky with having three enemies be in a close location and getting them done before you die. But as I said, MP really isn't too bad for the most part. You'll come across hackers every now and then but from my experience the main concern is people abusing an exploit where you can become completely invisible... It sounds as bad as you think. ? Luckily though, it's not a common occurrence, and luckily you don't need to win matches to get to level 55, you just need to rack up tons of medals by getting kill streaks or unique specialist-related kills and etc. To ease the grind, you could always try and get gold camos on guns to pass the time while you're at it.

If you give it a go, best of luck! It's one of my favourite COD games (hope I'm not inciting a riot by saying that ?) and I'm sure you'll enjoy it, especially if you've got any friends interested in Zombies.

Edited May 1, 2022 by Shrooba

[Vermilion_Joker]

The issue with Black Ops III is primarily campaign, given how needless of a slog it is regarding trophies and tasks you need to do to even get a single trophy. Aside from accolades (objectives to complete in the level you're on) and grinding 650 for every primary weapon and lower for secondary (150 for those pistols and 300 for the rockets) and whatever else regarding the Cyber Cores, it's not TOO hard in theory. You'll definitely need to set some time aside to grind for those camos, otherwise it's generally not a difficult game to 100%. Less of difficulty, and more of just time consuming. Definitely just go through the campaign on recruit to get the collectibles first to get a feel of what you need to do before aiming for accolades.

 

In regards to multiplayer, if you don't care to be a pro gamer, just boost it. It's not too difficult to do one of those MP glitches to solo level, but generally, it's easier with other folks during the late hours of the night / early in the morning to avoid the midday surge. Zombies isn't too harsh either with its trophies, but if you're just not good with that kind of mode, it'll be a rough time. Met plenty of folks who could not shoot for their lives, but others soloing entire Easter Eggs with their eyes covered. You'll definitely need to learn the EEs for some of the maps for their trophies (Moon, Shangri-La, Shadows of Evil), but so long as you're diligent to not be an anchor to a team, it's easy to do. More often than not, a lot of these group hosts will know how to do the EE, you just have to be compliant, and they'll show you the way.

 

Hell, you don't even need to do Moon's EE all the way, it'll pop halfway through, so it saves you a lot of time.

 

I don't recommend it given the price tag and the amount of dosh you need to fork over for the DLCs, but if you're into CoD, it's a fun game (for Zombies mostly).

[Anordinarybloke]

18 hours ago, DeidaraSasori said:

I was thinking of starting this game as a completist so going for 100%. I heard this game can be quite a challenge, with a lot of hackers and tryhards making the mp trophies harder. Is this realistically possible to 100% today? Also how much time will it take?
 

Thanks

The game can take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months to complete depending on how fast and dedicated you are at this game.

 

Zombies will be the roadblock for 100% as some of the easter eggs require some setup and skill and some require multiple players. This is the hardest zombies installment in the black ops series so if you haven't played zombies before it can be quite tough.

 

Campaign has some exploits for the accolades and all the chapter specific assignments can be done on recruit (except veteran no death and realistic). I made a forum post about glitching veteran to not count deaths.

 

Base game zombies is easy, some of the dlc, particularly gorod krovi (dlc 3) are hard to do alone, but can be done with prep work.

 

Multiplayer is easy enough, just the usual get to prestige and get special kills.

 

Edited May 2, 2022 by AnOrdinaryBloke

[Tsstelter_22]

I just recently finished 100% all the DLC. some of the zombies EE require 4 players, and the only way I found to work is join the Reddit server BO3 zombies, and if you ever need a guy to help you with the zombies EE my Psn is Tsstelter_22 I’m almost always available on the weekends goodluck if you decide to go for it it’s more than doable if you just have the persistence to keep at it.