In Call of Duty, the winner is actually the one who shoots his opponent down first. However, it is also possible to take a more peaceful approach, as a pacifist player proves.
Actually, Black Ops: Cold War is pretty much all about getting as many kills as possible and dying the less. But one Call of Duty fan has come up with a different tactic for the latest installment of the shooter series: Achieve prestige without making a single kill.
A pacifist in Call of Duty, but prestige nonetheless.
Pilgore1 shared his achievement on Reddit. Here you can read that the Cold War player reached the first prestige rank after about 37 hours and can look back on an impressive K/D ratio of zero. Of course, his statistics don’t show any preferred weapons, since he didn’t use any for real kills.
The Call of Duty player explains how Pilgore1 achieved Prestige in Black Ops: Cold War without a single kill in the comments below his post. He reports that while playing, he simply focused on completing objectives and clearing the sky of other players’ kill rewards.
To do this, Pilgore used the three different LMGs available in Cold War with attachments that do extra vehicle damage and on rocket launchers with lock-on function. For the Perks, he relied on Engineer and Cold Blooded so as to better detect enemy Scorestreaks and not be detected by AI-controlled ones.
Pilgore1 also commented on the reasons for playing Black Ops: Cold War for 37 hours without a kill to achieve prestige: “For fun,” he wrote under his Reddit post. He himself is a patient person, he states in the comments. And for his patience, he is now earning the respect of Call of Duty fans on the online platform.
Pacifism in other video games
Playing video games without killing or even injuring opponents is a trend that can be observed and followed again and again – whether in more recent or already older titles. Of course, it’s especially exciting when games don’t really allow you to spare your opponents.
