The Reset Trick

I discovered a way to exploit the way the auto-save system works in PW to help with codename hunting. This is what I refer to as the “reset trick”.

Before explaining how to do it, I like to first point out that there are several codenames which can be unlocked with different weapon types. E.g. ANT/BUTTERFLY/BEE/SCORPION can be unlocked with HG, SG or SMG. While you can unlock these codenames with any one of the weapon types, the elite codenames (FOX/FOXHOUND/HOUND/DOBERMAN) requires you to have pretty much even usage for ALL 11 weapon types.

So, imagine you never used SMG (majority never do), and unlocked ANT/BUTTERFLY with HG and BEE/SCORPION with SG, all at rank 5. You are pretty much screwed over for the elites because you will have no way at all to know how much SMG usage you need to get them, unless you keep an accurate weapon usage count. But keeping count makes things difficult and sometimes stressful. It is unreliable as well, most people are unable to keep absolute accurate count because of the little quirks and accidents that can happen, or simply because they do not know what kind of usages count and what don’t.

Another thing, if you haven’t figured out yet, is that when you unlock a codename, it means that you have just racked up enough usage for the weapon type you are using to equalize or exceed the current highest weapon usage count, and the amount you exceed by is at the very most the number of usage you racked up in the mission you were doing to unlock the codename less one. E.g. if you do exop 38 and kill all 40 soldiers with your ML and got ORCA at the end of the mission, with PUMA being your last codename, then you can conclude that ML usage is now at most 39 uses ahead of AR (or MG, whichever is used for PUMA). Or, if you did a mission and killed only one soldier with the ML and got ORCA, then you can conclude, with absolute certainty, that ML now has the exact same usage as AR.

Of course, there is another situation where you can unlock a codename. That is when your kill/disable ratio switches. E.g. if you are killing with the ML while your last codename is CAT, and PUMA unlocks after the mission, then this means that your kill/disable ratio just switched from being disable biased to kill biased (i.e. using the equation given in the earlier section, the kill/disable count went below 1). Again, if you only killed one soldier in the mission when this happened, you can conclusively say that you have enough kills to cancel out all the disable counts you have exactly.

So where do auto-saving and resetting come into play here? Notice that when you finish a mission, you get the mission results page where you get a rank and given heroism/camaraderie. If you get a new codename, the codename award screen comes next. It is only after this screen that the game auto-saves. So, if you press the PS home button and quit the game while the screen is still on the codename award screen, you will have to load the game at the point BEFORE you unlocked the codename. E.g. you got ORCA after using ML on 40 soldiers in exop 38 and your last codename was PUMA. If you reset at the ORCA award screen, you will reload the game with ORCA still not unlocked with ML. But now you know that you only need at most 40 ML usage for it to match AR usage exactly.
So how is this useful? You can now switch weapons to grenades until ORCA unlocks again, and conclude the same for thrown weapon types. And then reset and repeat for PLW. So, without keeping counts on a piece of paper, you know that ML, grenades and PLW have roughly the same usages as all three types are within 40 uses to equaling AR. Taking that further, if you do single kills with ML and reset when ORCA unlocks, switch to grenades, do the same, and finally with the PLW, save ORCA, and do one more kill with ML and one kill with grenade. You will know, without a shadow of doubt, that ML, grenades, PLW and AR have EXACTLY the same usage.

This is how, with the reset trick, you can use and re-use codenames to make sure that all weapon types have about the same usages for the elite codenames to unlock.

Je veux pas être méchant vu que c'est surement pour le lolz et ce type doit faire plein d'autre truc a coté, mais avoir ce talent pour faire ça...