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Truck: "So what's the gameplan?"
Sandman: "Same as before. Burn the jammer, kill the bad guys."
Grinch: "I like it."
— Truck, Sandman and Grinch during Black Tuesday.
"Black Tuesday"[1] is the second level of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.[2] The player takes control of Derek "Frost" Westbrook, a Delta Force operator in New York. The objective of the mission is to destroy a Russian radio/microwave jammer placed on the Stock Exchange. Once the jammer is destroyed, the player will be extracted by a Black Hawk and must duel against Russian helicopters to reach New York Harbor, the location of the next mission.
The level begins with the player, Sgt. Derek "Frost" Westbrook and Sandman climbing from the wreckage of an overturned Humvee in Manhattan. They emerge to find themselves and a friendly Stryker battalion under attack from Russian infantry and vehicles. The player fights his way up the street, past heavy resistance and meets up with a convoy of Strykers at the corner of Exchange and Broadway.
Frost, Sandman and the convoy are then ambushed by a Mi-24 at an enemy roadblock, forcing the team of Deltas to circumnavigate the road block and enter another building. After they clear the shop and alley, they meet with Grizzly and his team of Deltas, as they fight in front of the Stock Exchange.
As the team reaches the New York Stock Exchange, they fight their way through the trade floor and take a service ladder to the roof. Using thermite, Frost destroys the radio jammer on the roof, restoring radio communications to friendly forces. They then come under attack from enemy forces positioned on some nearby rooftops.
Frost uses guided missiles from a Predator Drone to neutralize the enemy troops on the roof, as well as an enemy gunship that arrives to provide support for the enemies. A Black Hawk then flies in to extract the team, but they are pursued by several Hinds. The player, manning a minigun, destroys several gunships, but one of them hits the Black Hawk as it crashes. The impact causes the Black Hawk to spin, having Frost nearly thrown out of the cabin. The pilot eventually regains control of the helicopter and the team proceeds to their next mission in New York Harbor.
Another TV in the stock exchange showing Activision (ATVI), Infinity Ward (IW), Sledgehammer Games (SHG), Treyarch (TREY), Blizzard (BLZ) and Raven Software (WAR) with stocks on the rise.
Intel
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Head to the third floor of the first building entered at the beginning of the game. Poke around the bedrooms on that floor and the intel will be located on the floor of one of them.
Enter the Jewelry Store and look for a table back underneath the stairs. This intel is located on top of that table.
Stay in the Stock Exchange lobby and now look over on the left side. Spot a pair of ammo crates and look for the intel to be sitting near them.
Enter the main Stock Exchange area after the brief cutscene and look toward the right side of it. In the corner next to the stairs is a trading kiosk counter, and on that counter is the fourth piece of intel.
From the Stock Exchange lobby, go to the roof and find the intel resting on top of a fold-out table just before the final set of stairs.
Trivia
The news bulletin
The name of the mission is a reference to the day when the Stock Market Crash of 1929 only got worse.
The date of this level in the E3 Demo was May 13, 2016, as reported by the TV, where a news program displays the title "BATTLE FOR NEW YORK - America's last stand?" The date is changed to August 17 in the retail release.
Despite the fact that an EMP blacked out the East Coast of the US in the level Second Sun during the events of the second game, which is chronologically set only a few days before this mission, electric devices work as usual.
This is the only first mission in the Modern Warfare series that does not require the player to speedrun through a time trial course, but rather takes the player straight into the action.
The quote that runs on the TV newscrawl is a near word-for-word copy of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's comments about casualties following 9/11.
Standing near the TVs allow the player to hear some of the reporting on them, although it is hard to make out much during battle.
The signs in the Stock Exchange say MSE instead of NYSE.
A board in the Stock Exchange shows all of the major stock exchanges posting large losses, hardly a surprise given that the world's largest economy is under attack, and a battle is raging in one of the world's major economic centers.
During the intel on the loading screen for this mission, it can be seen that the 75th Ranger Regiment is also fighting in New York. This regiment is the one which James Ramirez, Foley and Dunn are part of.
The 2nd Marine Division is also present on the loading screen, apparently fighting in the northern area of Manhattan Island.
During the communication to Delta during the cutscene, a portrait of Frost, as well as the other members of Delta, is shown, though he is wearing a balaclava and goggles.
Sandman tossing Frost a magazine is similar to how Foley passes a spare mag to Ramirez in Of Their Own Accord/Second Sun.
When getting into the Blackhawk, there is no pilot in the pilot's seat.
In the alley where the player has to throw a 9-Bang, there is graffiti on the wall that says "SHG" and "Sledgehammer", which are both references to Sledgehammer Games.
One of the soldiers on the radio after the jammer is destroyed says "Juillet 2-4 needs air support" which is a reference to the movie Black Hawk Down.
It is impossible to down the third Hind until it is above the construction site.
In one destroyed newspaper boxes, one can see a newspaper with the headline "Call of Duty 3".
If one looks closely when leaving New York at the end of the mission, the new World Trade Center building can be seen.
One can see a picture of Operation Kingfish in the briefing scene, though everyone's face except Sandman's are blacked out.
The M4A1 the player starts with has its attachments in the pickup icon.
The Delta Force full theme is played when the player enters the stock exchange.
/ Bronze Trophy File:Trophy bronze.png) - Complete "Black Tuesday" on any difficulty.
