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I went through the campaign on Veteran and finished everything except the Strike Force missions.
I want to go back to the beginning and finish up the challenges I missed and do the Strike Force missions on a lower difficulty.
Does rewinding the story back to the first mission reset challenges/intel? Once I rewind the story, can I lower the difficulty?
I know New Story clears out everything, but how does Rewind Story (to the first mission) differ?
No...you can hit rewind story. It's R1 on PlayStation so I'm assuming it's RB on Xbox. I don't know about PC. It gives you the option to rewind story so that the events and outcomes are different. If you hit replay mission and select a mission, you can rewind the story back to there.
You will be set back to the same point as when you started up multi player the first time, that is 0 on all your stats.
There is one thing you actually do get though, and that is a new Fresh Start Title / Calling Card to use on your player card, looking like this:
Best Answer
No, your challenges and intel will not reset. From what I have observed changing the difficulty does not affect intel either. In otherwords, if you're having trouble getting at it, play it in the lower difficulty.
One quick note however. If you are replaying missions in attempt to gain some of the "missable" achievements (ie. You must make specific decisions across various successive missions etc) then you must use the "Continue Story" option rather than "Mission Select" when progressing past the starting point of your rewind.