MW4 · Campaign
Following Orders
As a North Korean soldier serving under Ri Ju-Young, you search a village house by house for a man accused of trying to defect.
- Location
- North Korea
- Type
- Investigation
- Collectibles
- 8
Walkthrough
9 steps across 3 objectives
- Find Information About the Defector
Go into the first house. When Ko tells you to, stop the wife from slipping out the back.
- Find Information About the Defector
Search the house for contraband and notes. The red toolbox opens with code 214, which is hidden in the recipe note in the kitchen.
The heart medicine inside the toolbox gives you an extra interrogation option.
- Find Information About the Defector
Question the couple. You can interrogate them or kill them; neither fails the mission, but killing them skips the conversation.
Confiscate at least two contraband items and bring them up with the wife in the room to get the location without force (No Harm Done).
- Find Information About the Defector
Leave with Ko and meet back up with Ri outside.
- Bring the Defector Out Alive
Enter the second house and check the rooms one by one. The defector is in the bedroom or the bathroom, whichever you search last.
- Bring the Defector Out Alive
Counter his attack when he jumps you, let Ko subdue him, then follow them out to Ri.
- Make Sure All Civilians Are Accounted For
In the third house, open the hatch in the kitchen floor, either with the key found in the house or by threatening or hitting your way in.
- Make Sure All Civilians Are Accounted For
Get the woman hiding below out alive by grabbing her twice, then crouch into the hidden room to read the note on the shelf.
Killing her fails the objective, and if she stays hidden you miss the last note.
- Make Sure All Civilians Are Accounted For
Regroup with Ko and Ri and make your choice about the defector. Both options finish the mission.
Collectibles
8 to find in this mission
Achievements
Read all 4 notes and confiscate all 4 contraband items in this mission.
Find out where the defector is without harming any civilians: take at least two contraband items and question the couple about them with the wife present.
Rewards for finishing
- Double XP Token
Story recapSpoilers
Story
The campaign switches sides. You play a North Korean soldier working with Ko Jin-Hyuk under Ri Ju-Young, sweeping a village for a man suspected of planning to defect. The search goes house by house, and how roughly you treat the villagers is up to you.
You get the defector’s hiding place out of a frightened couple, drag him out of the second house, and then find a woman hiding in a cellar in the third.
At the end, Ri orders you to execute the defector. If you refuse, you’re shot and the execution goes ahead anyway; if you obey, your soldier does it. Either way the mission ends the same.
Sources
- Game8: Following Orders walkthrough (2026-10-20)
- AllThings.how: MW4 campaign collectibles (2026-10-21)
- U4N: MW4 campaign guide, rewards, difficulties and collectibles (2026-11-11)
- KeenGamer: MW4 campaign walkthrough, all 16 missions (2026-10-17)
- TheGamer: MW4 campaign missions list (2026-10-25)