Ranking Up with XP and Challenges
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Walkthrough and Guide
by Absolute Steve and Just One More
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Multiplayer Guide
Ranking Up with XP and Challenges
 The Barracks menu, where you can keep track of your progress toward the next rank and view your Challenges, Accolades, and the Leaderboards. |
The first thing you’ll notice if you played COD4 MP is that you now get many more points for in-game accomplishments. Not only are basic kills worth 100 points instead of 10, but new aspects of kills are also tracked and rewarded with extra points. Getting revenge on someone who has killed you earlier in that match, for example, gains extra points, as do avenging a teammate or saving a teammate who is under threat from your victim at the time of your kill. Each game mode has its own specific rewards within the context of that match’s rules.
Objective games such as Domination have their own points rewards. Map: Skidrow
Given the many new opportunities to gain XP in-game, it is not surprising that the number of points required to move up in rank has risen accordingly: it now takes almost two and a half million points to reach Level 70. Once you’ve reached Level 70 and earned enough XP to unlock the Prestige option, you can start over with a shiny Level 1 next to your Prestige icon and work toward another couple million points before Prestige 2 is an option. As with COD4, Prestige 10 is the limit. (Callsign elements and some Prestige Challenges do not reset with each Prestige level, but everything else does; all regular challenges, weapons, perks and equipment are relocked as if you were starting the game for the first time.)
Every level reached unlocks something, as shown below:
Level Points to Achieve Unlock
1 0 Grenadier Class (Famas with grenade launcher, Silenced SPAS-12 shotgun, frag grenade, 2x Stun grenades, Scavenger Pro, Stopping Power, Commando, Copycat)
First Recon Class (UMP with holographic sight, .44 Magnum with knife, Semtex, 2x Flash grenades, Marathon Pro, Lightweight, Ninja Pro, Final Stand)
Overwatch Class (L86 LSW with grip and holographic sight, AT4-HS launcher, Semtex, 2x Flash grenades, Bling Pro, Danger Close, SitRep, Painkiller)
2 500 Scout Sniper Class (Barrett .50cal with Heartbeat Monitor and FMJ, Silenced USP .45, Tactical Insertion, 1x Smoke grenade, Bling Pro, Cold-Blooded, Scrambler Pro, Copycat)
Titles
Emblems
3 1700 Riot Control Class (Riot Shield, Akimbo PP2000s, Blast Shield, 2x Stun grenades, Marathon Pro, Hardline Pro, Commando, Painkiller)
4 3600 Create-a-Class
5 6200 Challenges (Weapons, Perks, Equipment)
6 9500 Challenges (Basic Training)
Clan Tag
Painkiller (Death Streak)
7 13500 Throwing Knife (Equipment)
Challenges (rest of Basic Training)
8 18200 SCAR-H (Assault Rifle)
9 23600 Hardline (Slot Two Perk)
10 29700 Challenges (Operations)
3rd Killstreak slot unlocked
11 36500 Tactical Insertion (Equipment)
12 44300 Vector (SMG)
13 53100 Scavenger (Slot One Perk)
14 62900 Thumper (Launcher)
15 73700 4th Killstreak slot unlocked
16 85500 Challenges (Killstreak)
MG4 (LMG)
17 98300 Scrambler (Slot Three Perk)
18 112100 AA-12 (Shotgun)
19 126900 Blast Shield (Equipment)
20 142700 TAR-21 (Assault Rifle)
21 159500 Bling (Slot One Perk)
22 177300 G18 (Machine Pistol)
23 196100 5th Killstreak slot unlocked
24 215900 P90 (SMG)
25 236700 Cold-Blooded (Slot Two Perk)
26 258500 Challenges (Precision)
.44 Magnum (Handgun)
27 281300 Martyrdom (Deathstreak)
28 305100 FAL (Assault Rifle)
29 329900 Ninja (Slot Three Perk)
30 355700 Stinger (Launcher)
31 382700 Claymore (Equipment)
32 410900 AUG HBAR (LMG)
33 440300 Danger Close (Slot Two Perk)
34 470900 Striker (Shotgun)
35 502700 Challenges (Finishing Moves)
6th Killstreak slot unlocked
36 535700 WA2000 (Sniper Rifle)
37 569900 SitRep (Slot Three Perk)
38 605300 M93 Raffica (Machine Pistol)
39 641900 Final Stand (Deathstreak)
40 679700 M16A4 (Assault Rifle)
41 718700 Challenges (Humiliation)
Last Stand (Slot Three Perk)
7th Killstreak slot unlocked
42 758900 Ranger (Shotgun)
43 800300 C4 (Equipment)
Challenges (rest of Humiliation)
44 842900 Mini Uzi (SMG)
45 886700 One Man Army (Slot One Perk)
46 931700 M9 (Handgun)
47 977900 Payback Challenges
8th Killstreak slot unlocked
48 1025300 ACR (Assault Rifle)
49 1073900 Challenges (rest of Payback)
50 1123700 Javelin (Launcher)
51 1175000 9th Killstreak slot unlocked
52 1227800 M240 (LMG)
53 1282100 Challenges (Elite)
54 1337900 M1014 (Shotgun)
55 1395200 10th Killstreak slot unlocked
56 1454000 M21 EBR (Sniper Rifle)
57 1514300 Challenges (rest of Elite)
58 1576100 TMP (Machine Pistol)
59 1639400 11th Killstreak slot unlocked
60 1704200 F2000 (Assault Rifle)
61 1770500 Challenges (Intimidation)
62 1838300 Desert Eagle (Handgun)
63 1907600 12th Killstreak slot unlocked
64 1978400 Challenges (rest of Intimidation)
65 2050700 RPG x2 (Launcher)
66 2124500 13th Killstreak slot unlocked
67 2199800 Model 1887 (Shotgun)
68 2276600 14th Killstreak slot unlocked
69 2354900 15th Killstreak slot unlocked
70 2434700 AK47 (Assault Rifle)
It may seem that as your level increases, the number of points needed to rank up becomes much too high, but you regularly unlock new challenges to complete for bonus XP, and the points granted for in-game experience go up steadily as your rank increases. A lower ranked player will receive many fewer XP for a completed match than will a higher ranked player who participates in the same exact game. Winning helps a lot: in Team DM, for example, the winning players get twice as many points for the match as the losers get. You earn points for time spent in each match, and the points you earn are adjusted down from the maximum if you join after the game starts.
I'm prestige
i prestiged only so i could get more custom classes
I took my first prestige but now to get rank it's like a hundred million xp requiered to move up, isn't that a bit much? Right before that the game was moving fast with endless ammo and players walking in the air.
nice dude im at level 68