MW3 Gold Camo Progress Lost, Can't Unlock Gold Skins

Are your Gold Camo challenges not showing up in MW3? Modern Warfare 3 Season 1 is now finally here, and players can’t wait to start grinding for their fancy camos and skins. In the previous Call of Duty games, some of the most prestigious camos were Gold Camos, which players can unlock by completing a set of challenges. However, it seems that Gold Camo’s challenges are currently bugged. For some, MW3 Gold Camo Challenges don’t show up. For others, challenges are not tracking and progressing. Finally, some players are unable to equip MW3 gold camos. In our guide, we explain how to equip Gold Camo in Modern Warfare 3 and how to unlock them.

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MW3 Gold Camo Challenges Not Showing, Can't Unlock Gold Skin
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MW3 Gold Camo Challenges not Registering, Can’t Unlock Gold Skins

UPDATE on December 6th, 2023: With the release of the Season 1 update in Modern Warfare 3 and Warzone 2, players have again lost their Gold camo progress. Players report across Reddit and forums that their “gold progress has been reset with the newest update”. We will update the article once we have more information. Activision and Sledgehammer are yet to acknowledge these issues.

When first revealed, many players were happy to see that this time around, Gold Camos will be unlockable relatively fast. First reports indicated that players should expect to spend around four hours per Gold Camo to unlock it, which is much less time than in previous COD games. True, some didn’t like this, as they thought this chips off the prestige quality of these skins. However, there’s currently an annoying bug related to Gold Camos in MW3. Namely, it seems that players are unable to unlock them. Or, to be more precise, MW3 Gold Camo Challenges are not showing for some players.

Why is this happening? Well, the challenges are still there; it’s just that they do not appear for some reason. For example, to unlock the M4 gold camo, you’ll need to complete the “Get 3 kills without dying 10 times” challenge. It doesn’t show up, but you can still complete it, and you’ll unlock the M4 gold camo. Now, there’s another problem here. Many players can’t select and equip their Gold Camo in MW3. This is because there is a mouse bug currently. Hovering with the mouse over Camos or challenges will not work. Rather, you will have to use a controller or your keyboard to select the camo manually. With that said, that’s all you need to know about the “MW3 Gold Camo Challenges Not Showing” bug.

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25 COMMENTS

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    Wiseguy

    My Bug is the last challenge is not tracking, I have 9 of 10 on 3 with out dying but it wont track the last one. I have 8 of 9 AR’s unlocked. Its as if since i got the 8th Gold camo for AR the palatium challenge is now tracking for AR now and won’t let the last AR unlock.

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    simple fix

    Just plug in a controller and it works and then you can go back to your mouse.

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    Dave

    Ive unlocked the gold but after getting the 100 kills with the gold it wont let me do anything else to get the other camos

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    Golden Arm

    Okay so I did all the challenges they are all there. Gold should be unlocked but it has a green bar like the other mastery camos and I tried the controller thing and manual with keyboard still doesnt work

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    itsXDevil

    Gold camo is unlocked but I cant use it now. What the hell is goin on with this game xDDDDD

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    keoskey

    For me i unlocked my gold camo for my knife and i did the 100 kills with the camo equipped but the gold Mastery is not unlocking.

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      Nyra

      same here, gold camo works, but after i got the 100 kills for knife gold camo mastery, i didnt get the icon and the card

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        denlillefete

        Same here

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    Timothy

    I unlocked gold and got the required 100 kills with it. Why is the “Gold Mastery” not unlocked?

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      fade

      i unlocked the gold camo and cant even equip it

      1. Read the article, it says what you need to do 🙂 The mouse won’t work, use a controller or a keyboard to select the camo.

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    Gavin Rodriguez

    Anyone know a fix for this?

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    Gabriel "f4bihype"

    Thanks! I was almost unistalling the game…

    for me the gold challenge has a “white square”

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    Notcaught

    I completed all the 4 camos, its still not letting my progress to gold camo because its locked.

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      Gabriel "f4bihype"

      For me aswell, but as “Nikola” said up there we can do the challenges even if its not showing 4 us.

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      Notcaught Fan

      To unlock gold, you have to get 3 kills 10 times without dying. With every weapon once you get the 4 unlocked. Or get a bloodthirsty 10 times without dying.

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    Allan

    I unlocked the Urban Renewal camo but its not letting me progress too gold camo because its still locked what do I do?

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    asd

    It just doesnt even work for me, all 4 haev been completed but It shows the gold as not completed.

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      itsXDevil

      Same here. I have the same problem. All of the 4 challenges are done but the gold is still locked. Damn this game came with tons of bugs :||||

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        andrew

        i had that problem to but i realized that you have to still to a unknown challenge in matches to unlock it and there is a bar that fills up and its different for most guns. You complete it then it will show what you have to do to unlock it but it doesn’t tell you unless you complete another challenge on top of the 4 you already completed.

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          Aaron

          I have the platinum for the smgs but the challenge to get the emblem and calling card still hasn’t unlocked even though it says I got all 100 kills with the gold equipped

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      Crystal

      None of my challenges are progressing, especially the get 3 kills without dying, which ive done multiple times?its not even tracking and im on the ps4?

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    Meek

    THANKYOU SO MUCH !!!!!
    almost went back and uninstalled and reinstalled the game. you’ve saved me hours.

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      jenna

      same here, thank you!