BOREALIS CAMO - Was It Worth It?

[@M3RKMUS1C]

*LIKE* this video if I should go for Bioluminescent Camo next! Borealis Camo = UNLOCKED, but I have some mastery camo hot takes to share as well

[@ax3_wadd01]

I enjoyed watching you get it live it was a massive W love you m3rk :)

[@conker205]

@M3RKMUS1C will you going for the camo grind on xdefiant when it comes out

[@Toasty_Toast.]

Give us a highlight reel of the VOD please I would love to see a condensed version of it!

[@itsSoullessGaming]

Fr that’d be gas, I ain’t got 6.5 hours to watch the whole vod lmao

[@Brodman2k]

The classified category of schematics are in the Dark Aether. The Flawless Crystal, Legendary Aether Tool, and Scorcher weapon are from fighting the Redworm boss in Urzikstan

[@wz91_]

a cheater gave me all shematics😮‍💨

[@AstralLunaa]

Thanks for including my guide and it’s credit! I just made it for people who were interested and never expected it to pick up this much attention!

[@JoeandBrooke]

Back in Bo3 I was genuinely trying to get all the camos just to get them. One of my favorite memories in playing video games was seeing the Dark Matter camo pop up on my screen. Nostalgia 🎆

[@beatgamer99]

Also for Serpertinite and Zircon Scale Camo, if you are early in on the grind I would suggest looking at wall buy weapons and hit the mystery box cause you can unlock more than 2 camos in a single game. It gets worse near the end of the grind cause the weapon pool you need to get camos for becomes smaller with a larger pool of overall weapons. Can reduce what would take 18 matches down to like 8-10 matches. Can easily get 4-5 guns done in a match solo.

[@thimbletoe]

For anyone that doesn't know, outlast contracts are still amazing, if you leave the area after getting to about 90% it will keep spawning zombies i was able to get to 1200 kills in about 20 mins so anyone going for levelling or 250 kills its super fast

[@simongruescu5584]

I would LOVE for an ultra mastery camo reward to be a mix between MW2019 Obsidian and MWR Exclusion zone. I know it's a combo between two things we've already seen, but imagine...

[@jaweel6205]

5 serpentinite challenges away from Borealis. Got interstellar around Thanksgiving. The Borealis grind isn’t hard but it’s so TEDIOUS haha it’s taken sooo long. Edit: I got it! Burnt out is an understatement. I did my last 8 zircon scales as well as all 36 serpentinite challenges in under 24 hours

[@billysmith3286]

Haha damn, congrats! I just unlocked zircon. Still considering if I’m seriously going to attempt this lol I want serpentine but at that point I might as well get borealis too

[@DJ_Wrat]

I feel like the dev teams don't do the whole secret camo deal any more is because the community just data mines and leaks everything and that takes the fun out if it for the dev team

[@M3RKMUS1C]

Yeah that’s the big downside to leaks, it sucks the fun and surprise out of things in exchange for knowing things in advance

[@thehotelcalifas4941]

what about the serpentine camo from dmz

[@junyaiwase]

Womp womp

[@dill0n.g]

4:13 that's crazy how it actually works like that now

[@AnthonyBC93]

IMO I think they should also let you put MWII Zombie mastery camos on to MWIII guns. I really like the MWII Zombies mastery camos, I just spent a year using MWII guns, I don't wanna use them again, There is very little incentive for me to go for Bioluminescent

[@JGibbgg]

Top Tip if your grinding camo’s for any Burst fire or Semi Automatic weapons, Go to settings, Go to Controller, Then the Gameplay submenu, scroll down to Combat Behaviours, at the bottom of this list you will see Manual Fire Behaviour, change this to Hold. Any Semi-Automatic will now tap fire and burst fire, it will have a slight delay and it’s a slower fire rate but man does it save your digits. You can set the same on M&K, you go to Combat Advanced Settings at the bottom of the Combat behaviours list, and you will see Manual Fire Behaviour too.

[@monty5832]

I’m ngl i love the whole multiple mastery camo system. Usually with just one im done with the game in a month or so. But with all of the different mastery’s im genuinely still having fun with the game and taking it slow. Ngl tho id love to see a huge community challenge where they bring in a dark matter esque camo

[@Sleepyjoe221]

Escort contracts are also extremely good for zombie kills and special’s because I believe about 10 manglers spawn when you do it at least in the tier 1 zone

[@elixir478]

I remember when there were secret challenges that had hidden requirements to unlock until you unlocked them and have you a cool animated calling card. I want those back

[@jonasmattern3534]

After finishing 2 guns i would grind zone 2 contracts for the rest of the time for a chance to get a crystal for next round , use crystal on one weapon and after finishing the 300pack kills with that weapon you have enough essence to pack your second weapon.for serpentite use a good and a bad gun ,shoot manglers low with good gun ,finish them with the bad gun

[@LiveTUNA]

Day 2 of working on Bioluminescent for my MWII weapons. 26 Golden Ivory's and 8 Spinal Husk's. I really enjoyed the Borealis grind so much that I just kept going and now doing the Bioluminescent grind. No breathing, no stopping! Just constant fun!

[@Di_D3M0N]

I tried to go for bioluminescent and borealis at the same time but I just decided to go for Borealis first then bioluminescent

[@senor_potter]

So in my experience, to get zircon scales it takes about 3 or 4 tier one exfil, or about 10 minuets of an outlast, I've gotten the handguns and snipers all in one day each doing them

[@LU6TIE]

18:06 well, yes for bo3 but it was the same with bo2. diamond was also a secret reward as well

[@holydracoeva2476]

Seeing borealis on that katt amr honestly reminded me of the ghoulie camo, the only difference being the star lights on the mag and the other gun you showed

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

IMO I find it sad how people are looking at Cod as a glorified time waster… AND IT IS! These MW2023 devs haven’t stopped talking about playtime/engagement. And these camo grinds are prime example, get 1 interesting camo in exchange of being a NO LIFE. Call me crazy but I preferred when Gold was the ultimate camo and games focused on fun instead of being psychologically manipulative.

[@andrewgleeson2228]

I have just started the bio illuminescent grind and I’m taking it so chill no rush for this

[@WheatenKarma]

This video popped up literally a minute after I completed Borealis

[@M3RKMUS1C]

COD timing

[@nathandoerfler2952]

For Zircon scale tier 1 escort contracts are a very fast way to get ~200 kills, if I got lucky with my spawns I was able to get 2 weapons done in like 20 minutes

[@QuikHunter]

I think there should be an extra camo for doing both Interstellar and Borealis. Or like complete both, plus one of the charms or both charms and you get a super camo. IW had similar where there was dark matter, but if you got that and did the retro weapons you got solar.

[@MOBROOKS]

Help!! Anyone else get the invalid camouflage message when you try to equip the borealis camouflage?

[@cheezyz4049]

Same

[@messydb]

My tip five was just writing the camo quests on a sticky note and cross them off when it popped up

[@ttofi]

I got the Interstellar camo: took me 2 and a half weeks. Then started grinding for the Borealis: took me 10 days to get. It’s definitely worth it 👍

[@randompillow5146]

Sad thing is that if they did a secret mastery camo, it would just get leaked.

[@miguelvelez8516]

I have interstellar, would you guys recommend i do borrealis too? Im going on a cruise on Thursday so i dont have time but im thinking of doing it after i arrive from vacations

[@Romansbook]

Yea honestly it’s really easy once you finish the 36x 4x base camo challenges. I would recommend unlocking a second weapon slot by completing act 1 first then doing two weapons at a time and writing down the base camo challenges for each weapon and bringing in the necessary ammo mods for those challenges. After the base challeneges you just have to do the packapunch x300 kills x 36. Which can be a drag but once you pass that you literally just have to farm elite zombies at exfil x 10 for each of the 36 guns. Which is surprisingly easy and fast. It is a lot of grinding though, I highly recommend you break it up over several weeks like do assault rifles and subs one week then shotguns and pistols the next etc..

[@SockRatTees]

congrats merk on getting borealis, i finished my grind a day before season 1 and in my opinion borealis is worth it

[@thimbletoe]

I also noticed the DG 56 conversion kit removed the borealis part of the borealis camo but I still kinda like how it looks because its so weird lmao

[@RoseDeDax]

Ngl, they dropped the ball if ww2 zombies can keep the grinding for even keep contracts on track

[@jasonvoorhees310]

Thankgod i max out my weapons in multiplayer. So much easier now that i think of it. I'm starting the zombies after the new year. Already got interstellar.

[@gabebuckli6973]

same, good luck

[@0xgalaxygamerx062]

Bioluminescent isnt THAT bad if you have all the weapons max, which M3RK does, because you can knock out all base camos in one deployment and unlock the gold camo to add onto it for 2 weapons at a time! The only downside is some require specific weapon ammo type mods and if you are on cooldown for the crafting of said mod, you either gotta go do a different weapon that doesnt need it, or try to find the mod in-game, which would slow you down since youd be looking for one specific mod out of the many

[@prototype2963]

The flawless crystal schematic only drops from the red worm boss fight and its a 1/3 chance to get the crystal, scorcher or the legendary tool schematic

[@Spade_FoxDerg]

you can progress the multiplayer camos in warzone but it takes FOREVER, zombies is not progress able because there are no zombies in warzone (no, the haunting event does not count)

[@redspy6089]

I honestly don’t really buy the wz mastery camo. It would be frustrating for both the grinder or their teammates to play with a grinder who only goes for the camo instead of the win

[@snake5621]

Appreciate the tips

[@Diorske]

all they gotta do is give us the ability to add any mastery camo we unlock to any gun regardless if its a MW2 gun or MW3 gun but only if u unlock all 4 mastery camos.

[@arcanearnor6669]

For pap 1 crystals, I found two, even at times 3 in tier 2 infested strongholds. Save them for zircon scale.

[@juiceboxarmy]

i want it so bad but some of the camo challenges are a bit much cus idk how to constantly get rare weapon tools and stuff

[@ScientistNico]

Do you know that Chinese Call of Duty game you played earlier it's becoming Global so that's cool

[@armando_the_pianist3026]

I love that idea about wz camos i only play warzone right now cause i dont think mw3 is worth it yet and we cant grind the regular camos in wz

[@Filthyt]

Easiest way to get borealis is to have all ur guns maxed out💀

[@Indacouchh]

Definitely one of the most time consuming camo grinds ever but I like the challenges that you need to complete. Getting 100 mp headshots and long shots with every single gun is a complete nightmare

[@mclarendrive]

mp camo grind was easy sounds like a skill issue to me ngl

[@ERZO]

I would rather have the headshot+5 camo challenges back from older CoDs than the chore list we have nowadays. Even MW19 and BOCW did a great job with them. Camo grinding have become way too easy since MW22 sadly.

[@morehouse98]

9:00 quality of life? pssshhh, look at this UI. 18:37 it's a good idea in concept and would cause a lot more people to play warzone, but personally don't feel like playing a $500k tournament every game for the entire camo grind to get a camo i probably wouldn't use over Interstellar 😂

[@TheBrickSquad11]

And can't you unlock the multiplayer camos in warzone anyway? Like you would be getting double the camos at the same time

[@SoWillOh]

It reminds me of candy fizz from BO3

[@jtelder8813]

Just curious, how long does the grind really take after unlocking interstellar?

[@rayne9065]

ive grinded all 16 camos and biolum is definitely my fav, it looks mid in the menus but in game its beautimus

[@LambFlameman]

AURORA BOREALIS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, THIS TIME OF THE DAY THEY PUT THIS IN THE GAME

[@Mythictempest]

How did you do the dm56? The challenge to get 250 kills with 5 attachments isn’t tracking at all for me. I’ve tried every attachment combination and it won’t track for me. Help please 😅😅😅

[@SHURIIKEENN]

18:58 i did it last year i unlocked orion on Plunder and i'm almost done this year, only 15 priceless guns left

[@Di_D3M0N]

I have seen mp challenges track in warzone tho

[@mxtt_]

i have personally grinded each mastery camo in mw2 and mw3 and I feel like after all that I deserve to have at a least a calling card or something for putting in all that time to show off other than just the camos themselves, just like in BO3 and such we got calling cards for putting in all that time for getting dark matter

[@minidiablo2518]

bruh they think you deserve a weapon charm

[@stashphl5348]

Man I got interstellar the other day, but I know nothing I mean nothing about zombies. It seems super tedious. I do not want to do this but I’m the type of person to can’t back down from a challenge. Sigh, I just got interstellar yesterday. I will start this grind thursday. Ima let my mental reset from cod.

[@theterminator2879]

Did you get it by now

[@Gaming_Weirdo]

@ 19:00 Merk said you couldn't grind master cameo in WZ but that isnt not true I've managed to get gold on multiple gun all without playing MP just in WZ

[@glockdookie2863]

I’m yeah it to about 4-5 days in game going for this camo

[@tonybolognagaming6288]

You get flawless from red worm boss only way you get it you get the gold plate dog bone and knife from dark aether I got all of them makes the game super easy three day cool down is breaking my soul every time fr lol

[@bagelbaki4977]

Would it be better if the mastery camps were hidden so people could see it until it was unlocked, for instance we could have known there was a mastery camo but did know what it was

[@MeischelHD]

so you don't need 100 extra kills for golden enigma once you have the base camos unlocked?

[@anticcube]

I want to grind this camo but it’s just that I don’t play a lot of zombies on this game just multiplayer in general but my question is it worth it I already have all the weapons max level and Instellar even the dlc weapons

[@alex857tgg]

What the hell was up with the merky moo "incident" in chat

[@Icecreamnoodlebean]

Yeah some of the cooldowns are way ott, something has a cooldown of 2-3 days🤣

[@WallhacksYT]

I'm doing interstellar now and a bunch of the guns are bugged and make no progress to challenges.

[@austindaugherty5933]

Started doing this grind two weeks ago and my melee weapons from mw2 camos are not tracking.. at all

[@zephirussalinas8769]

I’m getting burnt out going for the bioluminescent camo for mw2 guns

[@malikcook8944]

The amount of game crashes still gives me nightmarea

[@takoda100]

Is there any good xp method?

[@chickennugget9216]

I would love if they brought back obsidian

[@Hayden.999]

the hardest part is weapon levels

[@CadenFoley]

Bro looks like Ali-A

[@selflessscribe]

Could you play combat master because battle royal got released

[@derwahreramboxbox3610]

I think its now almost a month that i cant unlock bioluminezent, cause of the camo Bug that you dont get Progress for camos. I dont know it they fix this or Not. I Just lost Hope they fix IT in time.

[@dashawnmorrison6530]

Keep up the amazing work. I just unlocked this camo last night. And I’m happy as hell. Now time for multiplayer ❤

[@CraqerFactor]

Merk is sm2 actually coming back or is lex Lying to us

[@ExtraVaganZa252]

Is it tougher thn the interstellar?

[@selfgod10]

GOOD DAY FLESHY MAMMELS WELCOME BACK TO SOME INFINITE WARFARE 8 YEARS LATER

[@MonkeyManTL]

I unlocked everything for crafting and 70% of the schematics were from some random people sent by god who dropped them for the lobby in different matches. God bless the zombies community

[@ninecontainer9885]

Borealis? Half life 3 confirmed? 😮

[@despile]

Revive Advanced Warfare rn, like make it huge again

[@daydreamprod4192]

I did the weapon mastery for the xrk stalker and the charm doesn’t even fucking work it won’t even equip to any of my guns

[@crow9760]

portal and half life reference

[@seancooper4058]

simpsons reference

[@bomberboyz1308]

I like bioluminescent on the mw2 guns better but the camo challenges for them are broken at least they are for me right now and you can't get any of the challenges done

[@ChiliCheesin]

I commend anyone that does this camo grind it’s too mind numbing for me interstellar was a piece of cake cuz I got to engage with other ppl at least

[@Dossoboy]

merk you gotta play pixel strike 3d on xbox it’s so dumb it’s fantastic.

[@foolishsparky]

I really don't care for the new MW3, but I still deeply enjoy Merk's vids and how helpful he is in giving tips and advice to people who are either in the middle of, or just starting their grinds. I just wish the rest of the game was enjoyable.

[@Will.s550]

100 percent worth it tbh

[@iancutchen5457]

Goo Goo Gaga

[@Xeno_KaiKai]

Make one for interstellar?????

[@PattyMcFatty115]

How many times did you say camo in this video lol

[@JQDeathFromAbove96]

Battle Royal doesn’t deserve to be part of call of duty.

[@J_Lep11]

He left out the best tip. Learn how to do the tombstone glitch

[@Matty-kelly]

Indeed it is

[@mrsparkygaming9306]

Warzone will in b06

[@joelkarito7572]

Zombies I need 50 storage space or 100 storage space

[@SaneU_c]

The entire game wasn’t worth it, never mind the mastery camo 😂💀

[@rokebi]

it feels like multiplayer is already dead 😢 .....

[@jeffdcgamer1077]

yeah it pretty much is coz of warzone and zombies