Call of Duty Vanguard camo challenges and mastery skins explained

How to unlock and complete all camo and mastery challenges in COD Vanguard

Call of Duty Vanguard camo challenges and mastery skins are often seen as must-haves for anyone looking to show off their skills and dedication in a Call of Duty game. While a Diamond-encrusted barrel or gold-plated rifle can look pretty garish on the battlefield, but taste is relative and other players can at least admire what it took to get that skin. Mastery challenges and weapon camo skins aren't easy to unlock, with each one requiring special levels and challenges to do so. We've got all the information you'll need on COD Vanguard's camo challenges and mastery skins below, including the Gold, Diamond, Atomic and the Dark Aether skins that are often highly sought after.

Weapon camo challenges and mastery skins in Call of Duty Vanguard are tied to specific challenges on each gun, as well as achieving certain ranks and levels to boot. It's a bit fractal and layered, but we'll lay out the process below for achieving the vast majority of specific skins and camo challenges.

Challenges and camo for weapons are divided separately into Zombies and Multiplayer modes, though you can bring camo unlocked in one mode through into the other. So if, for example, you can only unlock the Plague Diamond camo in Zombies mode, you can still put it on your Multiplayer loadouts once you've earned it battling the undead.

Challenges themselves vary and are usually tied to specific kinds of kills in-game, ranging from basic "kills while crouching", to more elaborate challenges based around specific builds, attachments and loadouts. By paying attention, players can make a set-up and playstyle that fulfils multiple challenges at once.

The most elite of the elite challenges in Call of Duty Vanguard, the camo mastery or "Completionist" challenges unlock the rarest and most difficult weapon skins for your guns possible, and there's mastery challenges for both Multiplayer and Zombies modes. We'll lay them out below, and what you need to do to complete them successfully.

It's important to keep in mind that at time of writing, you can't unlock every skin in Multiplayer. The Call of Duty Vanguard Assassin Proficiency glitch means that players who want to fill out the Automaton's weapon camo scoresheet can't, as one of the challenges demands players use an attachment option that doesn't seem to be in the game yet. This means that Gold Camo for the Automaton, Diamond Camo for Assault Rifles, and Atomic Camo for anything in multiplayer is currently impossible until they fix it. Woops.

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Call of Duty Vanguard camo challenges and mastery skins explained