Multiplayer FAQ [2022 Update]

[Letenko]

Hello all,

 

I recently (Nov. 2019 - Jan. 2020) went through all the multiplayer trophies for this game with minimal boosting. We had a group where we would organize and constantly invite new people. Those who were new or returning veterans would ask questions, most of which we have already answered previously, so to save up on writing time in the group and to help you lovely folks out, here's an FAQ for the multiplayer portion of Medal of Honor: Warfighter.

Q: Are any of the trophies glitched?
A: Yes, Global Warfighters can glitch on you. The trophy should unlock after you get rank 14. To prevent the glitch from occuring it is advised to reach rank 14 while in a match and not on the post-match screen where XP is being counted. There has been 1 report of the trophy glitching when the person reached rank 14 by obtaining a medal, so be wary.  There have been a few reports (thread HERE thanks to @Kolm ) dating back to 2013 that claim that the same glitch can affect Back in the Fight, while I have not seen this reported anywhere else, keep it in mind. Make sure you reach all your tours while in-game, not on the post-match screen. There was also a glitch for Job done for a few months, but me and a couple of people managed to somehow get that fixed by pestering EA. (huge kudos to @Lijon88 especially)

Misc glitches:
1. On Battlelog, the Korean AA-12 for the Demolitions class is marked as AKS-74U (you can tell by the Korean flag next to the weapon icon) it will count your kills correctly and you can see the Marksman pin displays the AA-12 correctly, just something to keep in mind.

2. Sometimes if you leave a match, some of your kills will be lost, mainly the kills you got with the latest weapon you used. This can cost you your pins! Make sure you monitor battlelog regularly, it will always show the actual amount being counted. 

 

Q: If the trophy glitches, can I fix it or am I screwed?

A: There is a way to fix it, but it can be messy. You need to contact EA (link to create a support ticket for live chat: https://help.ea.com/en/contact-us/?product=medal-of-honor-warfighter&platform=ps3) and either let them completely delete your EA account, or just ask them to disconnect your PSN from the EA account. Unfortunately, there is no way to do either just by yourself. 

WARNING: Any game that stores information on EA's servers will have that information deleted, so think before you ask them. My advice is to finish up all other EA games, then contact them, let them just disconnect your PSN, go in-game create a new EA account, unlock all the MP trophies in this game. Then contact them again, let the disconnect your PSN from the new EA account you created and then reconnect your old account in-game. This is very helpful if you worry about losing progress and just want to finish this game.

 

Q: Is the MP active or do I need to boost?
A: It is pretty active, you can find at least 1 match running most of the time, so if you're confident, you can get everything without boosting.
 

Q: How long does it take to finish every multiplayer trophy?
A: This heavely depends on what you boost and how good you are. It's not bad if you enjoy the game, as an example here are my stats on Battlelog. It took me 26 hours to get everything, I only boosted 1 trophy, that boost took around 4 hours. I consider myself just above average with a K/D ratio of 1.45, so if you're better then you can be done in a lot less.

 

Q: What should I focus on first?
A: Firstly get Job done, that trophy was glitched as I have stated, it is obtainable now so get that ASAP. Apart from that, let's say you're an average player, I would boost All In since that requires a 12 player killstreak, it is based on points so you might not even need to kill anyone to get it, that's the theory at least. If you're really struggling also boost MVP, everything else can be done without boosting as long as you're patient and persistant. Afterwards focus on getting weapon kills and XP (after each level you will unlock a new weapon, focus on getting 20 kills with it first, then go for XP with whatever combination you feel comfortable with).

 

Q: How many players are needed to boost?
A: [Dec. 2022 edit: I have been informed it's back to 4 players required, but I have not tested this myself, so I am also leavig my original answer here.]

8. It used to be 4, but ever since they brought back Combat Mission servers it is 8. (my conspiracy theory is they did it to make sure the game dies faster, since it will need more people to start a match)

 

Q: What's the best way to boost?
A: Split into 2 teams, each team with at least 4 members, go into the server browser and find one running Combat Mission on hardcore settings. Hardcore settings means no mini-map (unless somebody launches the UAV killstreak) and more damaging guns. Get a meet-up spot and go for whatever you need. Be aware, that unless you're gonna be playing during off hours (around 6 a.m. - 12 p.m. GMT+1 time) you will get randoms, if they make the boosting hard, make sure the 2 leaders of the teams disconnect and then find another hardcore server.

 

Q: What's the best way to boost weapons pins (kills)?
A: First of all, unless you have a lot of people with multiple consoles, do NOT bother boosting weapon kills (you need 20 with each weapon), since it will take ages to get everything for everyone. With that being said, the method mentioned above works for weapon kills, if you insist. 
TIP: If you struggle getting sniper kills (like I did) go into a hardcore server, every bolt-action sniper is a 1-hit kill there. For the semi-auto snipers, slap on a red dot sight on it and use it as an assault rifle instead of a sniper. However, there is also 1 gun you should watch out for, the McMillan CS5, it's a bolt-action rifle but unless you get a headshot it will never be a one-hit kill, even on a hardcore server. This gun was the hardest part of the game for me, especially since you need to get 20 kills with three different variants of it.

TIP #2: Create a document and track your kills, since you need 20 for each. You can also track your progress on Battlelog, in the weapons section (link for my weapons - here)

 

Q: What's the best way to boost XP (levels)?
A: Do NOT boost XP. Between getting 50,000 XP with each class for Back in the Fight and getting 20 kills with each weapon for Jack of all Guns, you will get enough XP just playing the multiplayer. If you're extremely stubborn, then the above method works well for boosting, you could take turns planting bombs and then defusing them for 200XP each defuse. If you want to optimize the way you play and do not want to prolong how long you have to play the multiplayer, do not boost XP.

 

Q: How do the Nation Tokens work? How do I get more? What are they good for?
A: The Nation Tokens can heavely decrease the time you have to play the multiplayer, it's essentialy free XP! Each time you complete a match, the game will award you with Nation Tokens (1 for losing, 3 for winning, 5 for winning and being one of the best players). Log into Battlelog, visit the Nations section, select a nation you represent (this just changes the flag on your battlelog and what country get points from your tokens, so it doesn't matter) and click the yellow Spend button to spend your tokens. Spending 10 tokens will get you a Warfighter Nations Ribbon in-game, which is worth 500xp. It may not sound very appealing at first, but each consecutive day you spend tokens on the site will increase the worth of your tokens by 1x (day 2 - 1 token earned is worth 2 tokens, day 3 - 1 token earned is worth 3 etc.) This stacks up to a maximum of 7x, meaning if you just play a match, do terrible and lose, you'll get 7 tokens for it, sounds much better right? Be sure to click the SPend Tokens button only once, otherwise your tokens will go into negative numbers and it is also highly recommended to go over 100 tokens, if possible, as anything above 100 will be lost.

TIP: If you know you won't be able to play on a particular day, save your tokens and just spend them on the day you cannot play, this will keep your streak alive. Unfortunately there is no way to divide the tokens, you can only spend all of them or none

 

Q: If I buy the shortcut pack for each class do I still need to get to rank 74?
A: No idea, I have never seen anyone throw out the money to get any of the shortcut packs. Knowing EA, it will not unlock anything and it will just be a waste of money, but I have NOT tested this.

 

Hope this helps some of you, please, if you have any questions bugging (even something that might sound stupid) feel free to ask me while the game is fresh on my mind. I'll do my best to reply to you ASAP and I'll add the question into this post.

 

Happy Hunting

Edit: Just a small edit for people using this FAQ, I have decided to disconnect and reconnect my PSN account with my original Origin account, meaning all of my old stats from Warfighter may be gone, therefore some of the links in this FAQ that link to my stats might stop working, thank you for understanding.

Edited December 14, 2022 by Letenko

[Vynzen]

Congrats and best regards, man!

[eternit_pl]

Global Warfighters is glitched for me second time.

[Letenko]

10 minutes ago, eternit_pl said:

Global Warfighters is glitched for me second time.

Very possible, it can glitch more times in a row. The precedure is unfortunately the same. You'll have to contact EA and let them either disconnect your PSN or just delete the EA account.

[Last-_-Judgment]

@Letenko22 Thank you for the info. This inspires me to get it done. Cheers pal.

[Bilpe]

On 1/20/2020 at 3:57 PM, Letenko22 said:

I consider myself just above average with a K/D ratio of 1.45

 

Hardly just above average.  I've seen you go 47-6 in a match before.  Nice try, though. 

[Letenko]

1 hour ago, Last-_-Judgment said:

@Letenko22 Thank you for the info. This inspires me to get it done. Cheers pal.

No problem at all, I'm sure you can do it if you keep at it. Good luck!

 

49 minutes ago, Bilpe said:

 

Hardly just above average.  I've seen you go 47-6 in a match before.  Nice try, though. 

Heh, I had some good games, altough there were game where I went 02-27 while doing the CS5, so it evens out. 

[Kolm]

@Letenko22 One very important glitch I miss is the trophy for completing 1 tour with all classes (Back in the fight). This trophy can glitch if you complete a tour for a class with the points you earn on the stats screen after the game. If you think you might complete a tour on the stats screen, it's best to change class and respawn before the end of the game. Ingame you should see a progress bar in the top left when you're about to complete a tour with the class you're playing with.

If it does glitch on you, I believe it's a matter of completing the tour you finished on the stats screen a 2nd time or if you're unlucky, complete all of them a 2nd time. Not sure how that fix works.

 

Once I had a disconnect and thought I lost everything I earned during that game including a weapon pin, battlelog didn't show what I earned. But after completing another game, the stats from that disconnected game were all added as if nothing happened. So I never saw stats disappear in the long run.

[Letenko]

3 hours ago, Kolm said:

@Letenko22 One very important glitch I miss is the trophy for completing 1 tour with all classes (Back in the fight). This trophy can glitch if you complete a tour for a class with the points you earn on the stats screen after the game. If you think you might complete a tour on the stats screen, it's best to change class and respawn before the end of the game. Ingame you should see a progress bar in the top left when you're about to complete a tour with the class you're playing with.

If it does glitch on you, I believe it's a matter of completing the tour you finished on the stats screen a 2nd time or if you're unlucky, complete all of them a 2nd time. Not sure how that fix works.

 

Once I had a disconnect and thought I lost everything I earned during that game including a weapon pin, battlelog didn't show what I earned. But after completing another game, the stats from that disconnected game were all added as if nothing happened. So I never saw stats disappear in the long run.

Thank you, I'll add it to the list in the first question.

[Kolm]

11 hours ago, Letenko22 said:

Thank you, I'll add it to the list in the first question.

@Letenko22I think I didn't explain the glitch with the tours well enough to make the problem clear.

 

The problem is not with completing the last tour but with all tours. If you complete a tour with the points you get on the stats screen, that tour won't always register as completed for the 'Back in the fight' trophy. So even if you finish your last tour during a game, the trophy can still glitch because you finished your first tour on the stats screen instead of ingame.

My boosting partner and me made sure to finish all tours during a game and things went fine. 

 

I started this game in 2013 and back then you could find some information on the glitch and the cause and the fix. When I started again a few months ago, this was one of the things I still remembered from back in the day. Only info I could still find is a topic on PST about the glitch, but most of those people suffered a freeze the moment the trophy should have popped.
Maybe the info is somewhere in that thread, maybe it was from another source, it's too long ago to really remember where I got the info.

 

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/medal-of-honor-warfighter/177741-back-fight-trophy-glitched.html

[Letenko]

8 hours ago, Kolm said:

@Letenko22I think I didn't explain the glitch with the tours well enough to make the problem clear.

 

The problem is not with completing the last tour but with all tours. If you complete a tour with the points you get on the stats screen, that tour won't always register as completed for the 'Back in the fight' trophy. So even if you finish your last tour during a game, the trophy can still glitch because you finished your first tour on the stats screen instead of ingame.

My boosting partner and me made sure to finish all tours during a game and things went fine. 

 

I started this game in 2013 and back then you could find some information on the glitch and the cause and the fix. When I started again a few months ago, this was one of the things I still remembered from back in the day. Only info I could still find is a topic on PST about the glitch, but most of those people suffered a freeze the moment the trophy should have popped.
Maybe the info is somewhere in that thread, maybe it was from another source, it's too long ago to really remember where I got the info.

 

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/forum/medal-of-honor-warfighter/177741-back-fight-trophy-glitched.html

Post edited, thank you for the clarification. I also linked the thread you gave us, thank you for that as well.

[gafernandes1996]

So started multiplayer yestarday and Global Warfighters did glitch (got to level 14 at the post game screen). Not very worried as after i get the other stuff i will reset my ea account. I am worried about Back in The Fight, i will make sure to only complete tours during the match and never at the loading screen. One thing i remember from reading some PST forums is that sometimes the game freezes once a tour is completed, not sure if it happens only at the final tour or at any tour. When that happens, it can probably screw up the trophy. The solution posted at PST which i will use during my multiplayer run was found by some

guys back in 2012:

 

1) Get close to 50k on a class (like 49.5k)

2) Go to XMB, delete game data and save

3) Start game again, install and update, then quit

4) Go to battlelog, spend all tokens, log out battlelog

5) Get back to game and get 50k on the class

 

This method should avoid the freeze issue, not sure if it this problem still happens today or was patched as its something from 2012 but its good to know. I will also follow the tip from everyone on this post to always complete the tours while in the match. Hope those 2 methods used together can 100% avoid the glitch. I will let you guys know what happens, the game is very active this days and level up and pins can be done legit on public matches no problem.

 

 

[Letenko]

On 16. 3. 2020 at 7:27 AM, gafernandes1996 said:

So started multiplayer yestarday and Global Warfighters did glitch (got to level 14 at the post game screen). Not very worried as after i get the other stuff i will reset my ea account. I am worried about Back in The Fight, i will make sure to only complete tours during the match and never at the loading screen. One thing i remember from reading some PST forums is that sometimes the game freezes once a tour is completed, not sure if it happens only at the final tour or at any tour. When that happens, it can probably screw up the trophy. The solution posted at PST which i will use during my multiplayer run was found by some

guys back in 2012:

 

1) Get close to 50k on a class (like 49.5k)

2) Go to XMB, delete game data and save

3) Start game again, install and update, then quit

4) Go to battlelog, spend all tokens, log out battlelog

5) Get back to game and get 50k on the class

 

This method should avoid the freeze issue, not sure if it this problem still happens today or was patched as its something from 2012 but its good to know. I will also follow the tip from everyone on this post to always complete the tours while in the match. Hope those 2 methods used together can 100% avoid the glitch. I will let you guys know what happens, the game is very active this days and level up and pins can be done legit on public matches no problem.

 

 

I have never encountered that issue myself on any of the tours, but it's always good to be careful, especially in a game like this. Thank you for letting people know.

[Nitro]

Great Q&A mate. I recall it taking me more than 26 hours, but then again I wasn't going for trophies from the start and I played on Australian servers whilst there was an Australian clan going around. If they played against you, you were screwed

 

But I'm sure this is going to work for anyone yet to start the game

[KekkoPazzini]

On 16/3/2020 at 7:27 AM, gafernandes1996 said:

So started multiplayer yestarday and Global Warfighters did glitch (got to level 14 at the post game screen). Not very worried as after i get the other stuff i will reset my ea account. I am worried about Back in The Fight, i will make sure to only complete tours during the match and never at the loading screen. One thing i remember from reading some PST forums is that sometimes the game freezes once a tour is completed, not sure if it happens only at the final tour or at any tour. When that happens, it can probably screw up the trophy. The solution posted at PST which i will use during my multiplayer run was found by some

guys back in 2012:

 

1) Get close to 50k on a class (like 49.5k)

2) Go to XMB, delete game data and save

3) Start game again, install and update, then quit

4) Go to battlelog, spend all tokens, log out battlelog

5) Get back to game and get 50k on the class

 

This method should avoid the freeze issue, not sure if it this problem still happens today or was patched as its something from 2012 but its good to know. I will also follow the tip from everyone on this post to always complete the tours while in the match. Hope those 2 methods used together can 100% avoid the glitch. I will let you guys know what happens, the game is very active this days and level up and pins can be done legit on public matches no problem.

 

 

What you said happened to me. I reached 50k of a class tour during the game ... but shortly after 2 minutes the game freezes. I had to restart the play, once I got back to the game it seemed to me that I got the tour anyway. So the trophy is already ruined? Now I'm just missing a sniper tour to finish. I will let you know if I got it.

[gafernandes1996]

Got my plat today. The only trophy that glitched for me was Global Warfighters. So i did the EA persona transfer, choose the default US soldier at the start and reached lv14 in a match. It unlocked normally. Avoid reaching in post match screen or selecting another soldier at start because i did both things during my glitched run. For tours, also reached 50k during matches for all of the 6 tours. Didn't do the game and save delete and had no freezes so i cant say if freezing break the trophy for the tours or not, looks luck based. Pins and reaching lv74 unlocked normally too.

[DarkZoro_7]

When you spend more than 20 nation tokens, is it count as 1 ribbon?

[Letenko]

17 hours ago, zoroluffy7 said:

When you spend more than 20 nation tokens, is it count as 1 ribbon?

Hey Zoro, long time no see, hope you're staying safe. Spending 10 tokens should get you 1 ribbon AFAIK.

[DarkZoro_7]

2 hours ago, Letenko22 said:

Hey Zoro, long time no see, hope you're staying safe. Spending 10 tokens should get you 1 ribbon AFAIK.

So if you spend 30 tokens, you will get 3 ribbons and when you get the xp? 

[Letenko]

On 21. 4. 2020 at 1:28 PM, zoroluffy7 said:

So if you spend 30 tokens, you will get 3 ribbons and when you get the xp? 

Exactly. You get the ribbons the next time you complete a match, on the post-game screen.

[DarkZoro_7]

I can take up to 1 ribbon, even i spend 20+ tokens. Do you know why?

[Letenko]

2 hours ago, zoroluffy7 said:

I can take up to 1 ribbon, even i spend 20+ tokens. Do you know why?

Can't tell you, sorry. When I boosted it worked fine without any problems, even if I spent 50 tokens at once I got everything.

[dcdimitri7]

I think this post is awesome! I honestly wish there were more of these out there since I've recently been cleaning up my backlog of the last gen games. Often times there isn't a lot of up-to-date information to know what I'm getting into, or how to complete it as efficiently as possible. Or if I'm curious about starting a game, this will certainly help me make the decision. Really appreciated!

[seyhano]

@Letenko22 We were in the same boosting group with You for this game. I would want to say thank you so much again for your justice and useful informations.

 

MP trophies were really tough but if you like the game, these trophies become enjoyable. 

Pins trophy was like a homework.

Imo, hurry up before the game dies.

[Letenko]

On 15. 6. 2020 at 5:54 PM, dcdimitri7 said:

I think this post is awesome! I honestly wish there were more of these out there since I've recently been cleaning up my backlog of the last gen games. Often times there isn't a lot of up-to-date information to know what I'm getting into, or how to complete it as efficiently as possible. Or if I'm curious about starting a game, this will certainly help me make the decision. Really appreciated!

Glad the post could be of use, I wish we had this for more games as well, especially with that games that have unstable/ glitched trophies.

 

On 17. 6. 2020 at 7:52 AM, seyhano said:

@Letenko22 We were in the same boosting group with You for this game. I would want to say thank you so much again for your justice and useful informations.

 

MP trophies were really tough but if you like the game, these trophies become enjoyable. 

Pins trophy was like a homework.

Imo, hurry up before the game dies.

I remember you seyhano, you're most certainly welcome.I do hope more people give this game a try, even with the MP grind I think it was a lot of fun. It was great playing with you and the other guys.