Call of Duty 4: Finished it on Veteran!

I did it! It took some work, but I did it.

And... for those of you who read yesterday's post, I was able to get a checkpoint at the blast doors the second time I got there.

I'm not sure, but I think I may have triggered the checkpoint by picking up one of the flash grenades sitting in the alcove to the left of the blast doors. I was desperate to trigger a checkpoint and threw a flash at random so that I could pick up one that was laying on the ground. I picked it up and *checkpoint*!

I wasn't using flash grenades when going through that level (maybe I should have) so the other few times I'd gotten to the blast doors, I wasn't able to pick any of the grenades up.

Of course, there could be another explanation -- I had over 3:20 on the countdown clock when I got to the blast doors that last time -- almost a minute more time than I'd had on any prior run. It may be that they don't count the checkpoint if there isn't a reasonable amount of time left to complete the level.