Black Tuesday

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Black Tuesday
Next level	Hunter Killer
Character	Derek "Frost" Westbrook
Team	Delta Force U.S. Army
Place	Manhattan, New York City, United States
Date	August 17th, 2016
Objective	Fight your way to the Stock Exchange Flank the Russians on Wall Street Fight your way to the Stock Exchange Rally with your squad in the lobby Get to the Stock Exchange roof Climb the ladder to the roof Plant a thermite charge on the jammer Detonate the thermite charge Use the Predator to take out enemy forces Use the Predator to take out the enemy Hind Board the Black Hawk
Enemies	Russian Army

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" is the second level of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. 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.

Characters

Playable Character:

• Sgt. Derek "Frost" Westbrook

Non-Playable Friendlies:

• Sandman
• Truck
• Grinch
• Grizzly
• Thumper
• Worm

Plot

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 through the Downtown Manhattan airspace. The player, manning a minigun, destroys several gunships. At a nearby construction site, as Frost destroys one of them, it hits the Delta team's Black Hawk as it crashes into the scaffolding. The impact causes the Black Hawk to spin out of control, having Frost nearly thrown out of the cabin. The pilot eventually regains control of the helicopter and the team is briefed while proceeding to their next mission in New York Harbor.

Weapon Loadout

Starting Weaponry

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M4A1 with Hybrid Sight

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XM25

Found in Level

The following weapons can be found with and without attachments:

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AK-47

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PKP Pecheneg

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P90

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SPAS-12

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MP412

Transcript

Main article: Black Tuesday/Transcript

Achievements/Trophies

Too Big to Fail (10 / Bronze Trophy File:Trophy bronze.png) - Complete "Black Tuesday" on any difficulty.

The Big Apple (25 / Silver Trophy File:Trophy silver.png) - Complete "Black Tuesday" and "Hunter Killer" on Veteran difficulty.

This Is My Boomstick (20 / Bronze Trophy File:Trophy bronze.png) - Kill 30 enemies with the XM25 in "Black Tuesday".

Gallery

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Frost aims his M4A1 on Wall Street.

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Delta Force soldiers fighting off Ultranationalists.

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Frost with an M4A1 magazine in the reveal trailer (notice the MW2 M4A1).

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A TV in the stock exchange depicting the decline of stock values.

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Another TV in the stock exchange showing Activision (ATVI), Infinity Ward (IW), Sledgehammer Games (SHG), Treyarch (TREY), Raven Software (WAR) and Blizzard (BLZ) with stocks on the rise.

Intel

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1. 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.
2. Enter the Jewelry Store and look for a table back underneath the stairs. This intel is located on top of that table.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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 crashed in 1929.
• 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.
• The quote that runs on the TV news crawl is a near word-for-word copy of Mayor Rudy Giuliani's comments about casualties following 9/11.
• 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.
• The MSE's symbol is a pyramid with the all-seeing eye.
• 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.

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On this picture, you can see the flags of the US, EU and India, which is the setting in this game.

• All stock markets can be seen as falling, apart from those of Activision, Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, Blizzard (part of the merger with Activision, developer and publisher of World of Warcraft and Diablo), Raven Software and Treyarch, who have stocks on the rise.
• Chronologically, this level takes place after Persona Non Grata.
• 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.
  • Additionally, there is a sledgehammer on the table near the fifth intel.
• It is impossible to down the third Hind until it is above the construction site.
• In one of the 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.
• The sound effect which plays when the player destroys the last Hind is reused from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.
• This is the first time in the Modern Warfare series, where the first mission takes place during a battle.
  • It is also the first time in the Modern Warfare series where the name of the first mission is not an acronym.
• The date of this mission - August 17th, 2016 - is actually a Wednesday, not a Tuesday.