Ultimatum

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Ultimatum
Game
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Character
"Soap" MacTavish
Team
S.A.S. with USMC
Weapons
M4 Carbine SOPMOD (30 + 390 rounds), USP .45 (12 + 60 rounds), 4 frag grenades, 4 flash grenades, M203 (10 rounds), 2 Claymores, 4 C4 packs, night vision goggles, Plus: M1014, MP5SD3, Mini-Uzi, G3A4, G36C, M249 SAW.
Place
Altay Mountains,Russia
Date
Day 6, 2011
Objective
Locate SSgt. Griggs. Destroy the power transmission tower. Plant C4 on the tower legs. Get to a safe distance. Regroup with 2nd squad.
Enemies
Ultranationalists

"It's quite simple: Either we retake the launch facility, or we won't recognize the world tomorrow."

— Captain Price

Ultimatum is a campaign level of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, where Captain Price and his team have to knock out a power station with the help of Staff Sergeant Griggs, who was captured by Ultranationalist forces.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Tips 3 Enemy Intelligence 4 Famous Speech 5 Trivia

[edit] Plot

The team parachutes down to the starting point but realizes that Griggs is missing and has triggered his emergency transponder. The team tracks his signal down to a small village. The team then systematically cleared each building; once they finally found and rescued Griggs, the team made their way to an electric tower, which Soap brought down with C4, disabling the power long enough for another team to infiltrate the nuclear facility.

Captain Price's team then fought their way into a group of buildings, separated, and then, encountering hostiles dropped in by helicopter along the way, met up with the American sniper team. As they rendezvoused, they witnessed the launching of two missiles from the nuclear facility; Imran Zakhaev's revenge for the death of his son. The missiles head towards the Eastern seaboard - with causalities projected to be approximately 41 million.

[edit] Tips

• When checking the houses, keep quiet so that the enemies in a nearby building aren't notified, preventing them and their dogs from attacking you.
• The helicopters which you have to hide from can't actually see you even if you stand up and shoot at them.
• When fighting the teams in the buildings, try and find suitable cover towards the sides of the courtyard.
• When the trucks are coming at the end of the level, sprint up to them and throw a C4 block on each and detonate them, or use your M203 grenade launcher, it will kill all the enemies in those vehicles much faster.
• It is also possible to bypass the troop transports altogether by simply sprinting past them.
• When you reach the small village, and after you clear the first building. Wait for Captain Price to say "Let's keep it quiet." Then follow him to the porch. Do not go past it. Now, when you come out of the door leading to the aforementioned porch, the right side of the porch has a thin metal plate. Face that and then ten metres in front of you is a small shack. Be silent, and take out your silenced USP .45, because it kills in one shot. Wait for the bad guy to come from behind the car and he will simply stride across your field of view. Shoot him. Then quietly, while crouching, exit the porch and basically crawl around to the right hand side of your house, until you see a portion of a guard behind a tree. Sneak up to the tree without alerting him, then lean around the tree and shoot him in the chest. With your powerful pistol you will take him out in one shot, and thus not alert anyone else, saving you the trouble of a fire fight before entering the house with Griggs in it.
  • Another way to do this without alerting the other guards, is to first shoot the Ultranationalist that is near the shack using the USP .45 or the M4A1 SOPMOD. Following that, go down and get to the side of the building you just came out. At your right should be another Ultranationalist. If you move fast enough, you can knife him before he can shoot and alert the others or just shoot him with your gun.
  • Yet another way to get past without alerting the others is to run up to the door after clearing the first building, wait for Captain Price to start talking, then quickly run back into the main room of the building and crouch on top of the table in the middle of the room. You can then use either your USP .45 or M4A1 SOPMOD to shoot the guards through the window, but remember to do it as quick as possible.
  • Another way is to set your Claymores next to the doors of the enemy houses after taking out the bad guy explained above, and go back to Captain Price, take out and grab an AK-74u, and fire a burst - the guards will leave the houses and if placed correctly the Claymores will eliminate most of them.

[edit] Enemy Intelligence

• Laptop 26 is found in the courtyard in a motor pool building on the opposite side of the courtyard (if you get to the RPGs on both ground floors and rooftops you've gone to far). The laptop is in a small room in the back.

[edit] Famous Speech

This mission's starting video shows Imran Zakhaev's speech being broadcast. It has become somewhat popular among the community. It is also part of the opening video by Imran Zakhaev. The speech has been reproduced fully below:

"Our so called leaders prostituted us to the West... destroyed our culture... our economies... our honor. Our blood has been spilled on our soil. My blood... on their hands. They are the invaders. All U.S. and British forces will leave Russia immediately... or suffer the consequences."

— Imran Zakhaev

[edit] Trivia

• The cutscene for this mission shows four soldiers in the squad (Soap, Price, Gaz, and Griggs). However, when the team forms up in the beginning, a random S.A.S. operator will join you from out of nowhere.
• When you enter the house where Griggs is being held, you can hear a Russian calmly interrogating him in spite of the rather loud firefight that had just concluded outside. You would think he would have heard something and at least checked on the outcome. However, if you manage to assassinate both guards outside quietly and with the gun you start out with, a loud firefight will not occur meaning the knifing scheme is the way the writers intended for the scenario to play out.
• If you put on the cheat "Super Contrast" at the beginning, you can view the mission as if it were the morning.
• When you rescue Griggs, Captain Price jokes that the reason that they rescued Griggs was because "...[his] arse had all the C4...", when clearly it was Soap who had and used the C4 to destroy the power lines.
• During Griggs interrogation, the player might hear his reply to the Ultranationalist was his name, rank and service number.
• In real life, Zakhaev would most likely be unable to launch the missiles, as such a procedure requires authorization from a high ranking official, such as the Russian President, similar to U.S. nuclear launch protocols.
• Two Topol-M missiles are launched from the silo. However, since the game takes place in 2011 (supposedly), the missiles should have been RS-24s, the replacement for the Topol-M scheduled to go into service with Russia in 2009. However, since the game came out in 2007, the developers had no way of knowing the missiles would be out of service by that time. It does seem that the launch area was a retired or abandoned facility judging from the dilapidated looks of the surrounding buildings.
• While the Ultranationalists are interrogating Griggs, you can kill them before Price opens the door by shooting through the walls.
• You cannot use or pick up Griggs' M249 SAW lying on the table beside him before you uncut him.
• You cannot destroy the towers if you just throw C4 on it's base, you must plant the C4 in order to take it down.
• When destroying the towers, you cannot stand under the tower as you detonate it.
• If you plant one C4 on the tower and detonate it, you will see that it doesn't do anything to the leg of the tower. Now plant the other C4 and blow it. The tower leg with no C4 just breaks apart without anything being done to it because the other C4 was already triggered.
• We hear that Griggs' service number is 678452056.
• When you enter the first house to find Griggs, upstairs there will be two guards; one sitting in a chair in the doorway and the other standing up in a doorway to the side. If you sneak around and knife the standing guard, the guard sitting in the chair, startled by the death of the other guard, will fall backwards out of his chair.
• Furthermore, the standing guard in the first house smokes a cigar - sometimes, when you kill him, his cigar will still be floating in mid-air for a few seconds.
• On the wire fences you can see many signs warning you about hostile dogs. The note reads: "This territory is guarded by military dogs" (translated from Russian)
• This is the only level in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare that has any noticable change in the time of day. From the start of the level to when you rescue Griggs the sun rises noticably.
• There's a rare glitch on this level. When you are searching for Griggs there is an Ultranationalist in the first house you enter with his back to you. If you wait for Price to attack him, and you knife the Ultranationalist at the same time neither blow affects him and he remains standing. Price and the others move on as though he's dead. You can run in front of him and shoot him and he still just stands there.
• There is another glitch when you reach the base. The part where you encounter several unmaned BTR-80's, if you go in front of the first one and jump in between the wal and the tank, you will be unable to move for a few seconds.
• There is a mistake in this level, when the sun begins to rise you can use your compass to see that it is actually rising from the north instead of the east.

Campaign Levels of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Prologue	F.N.G. · Crew Expendable · The Coup
Act I	Blackout · Charlie Don't Surf · The Bog · Hunted · Death From Above · War Pig · Shock and Awe · Aftermath
Act II	Safehouse · All Ghillied Up · One Shot, One Kill · Heat · Sins Of The Father
Act III	Ultimatum · All In · No Fighting In The War Room · Game Over
Epilogue	Mile High Club