The campaign of Call of Duty: Cold War also includes 2 side missions. These include “Operation Chaos,” which tasks you with decrypting a floppy disk and a code. We will show you how to do it.
This is Operation Chaos: The campaign of CoD Cold War guides you through various stages of the Cold War. Over the course of the story, you unlock two side missions named “Operation Chaos” and “Red Circus.”
Especially Operation Chaos is tricky, as you need to solve puzzles to succeed.
Start Operation Chaos – All Evidence
This is what you need to do: For Operation Chaos, you need to find a number and a solution word to decrypt a floppy disk. However, you will only find these solutions out if you have previously completed some missions in the campaign.
You can find the side mission on your board in the hideout and start it from there. However, we recommend that you progress a bit in the main story first, as only then will you find enough evidence to successfully start the side mission.
These are the evidences you need: To start Operation Chaos, you should have found 3 pieces of evidence in the main story beforehand. This includes:
- Mission “No Escape”: Here you will find a coded message that you need. For this, you must ask Quasim who Arash is meeting. In response, you will receive the message.
- Mission “Breach in the Wall”: Here you will find a tape, but only if you pursue the side objective and either free or kill the informant Richter. In the interrogation room, you will find the tape on the table.
- Mission “Red Light, Green Light”: In this mission, you will find a newspaper. For this, you need to photograph 3 of the 6 layout plans that are distributed throughout the level.
If you have found all these pieces of evidence, then you can dive into Operation Chaos and decrypt the floppy disk.
Decrypt floppy disk and find code
This is how to decrypt the floppy disk: For this, you need to combine the 3 pieces of evidence and solve a riddle. The riddle gives you a sequence of numbers and a solution word, which you can enter as a code.
We will show you step by step how to proceed:
- Grab the newspaper and look at the big headline. Some letters are colored red. You can write these down on a piece of paper – the order doesn’t matter at first.
- Then open the transmission of the number sender. There you will find several city names followed by numbers.
- The letters you wrote down from the newspaper will result in a city name when you correctly assemble the anagram – alternatively, you can also use an anagram solver.
- Once you have found the place from the list, write down the numbers behind the place. These numbers are the code you must enter first.
- For the second code, you again need a city name from the list – for this, you take the encrypted message, which is the first piece of evidence we described above.
- The encrypted message shows red and blue number sequences that you need to complete. Start with the red sequence and look for which number is missing in the sequence. This is usually quite easy and can then be repeated for the blue sequence.
- The missing numbers then make up the solution. For example, if the 23 was missing in the red sequence and the 31 in the blue sequence, then the code is 2331.
- Now you just need to check which city corresponds to the four-digit code. This city will then be the solution word.
- Finally, enter the number combination first and then the city name. After that, the floppy disk should be decrypted.
This is what you need to consider: There is no complete solution here. For each player, the solution words and numbers are different. So you can’t look at what your friend has, but you must solve the puzzle independently.
If you are not only playing the campaign but also the multiplayer, you should check out this setup: MP5 is considered the best weapon in CoD Cold War – With this setup, it performs really well
