General Online Help

Beginner Tips - Use sniper rifles. The idea is to learn how to kill from far away, then learn to get closer to your target. This will really help you get into the game properly. Plus, sniper rifles usually kill in one pull of the trigger, so your target is dead, less chance of them turning around and blowing you away.

If you're new, it's imperative that you learn the maps. You'll want to take note of key hot spots, side paths, and sniping positions.

Try not to hide behind cars, as they can explode from gunfire/grenades.

ALWAYS, ALWAYS check your corners.

Flank enemy positions every opportunity you can.

Use all types of grenades that you have (special and frags).

Get into the habit of not aiming down the sights, all the time.

Start a private match by yourself and learn each map

Always crouch when moving in buildings. (You make less noise that way when not using Dead Silence.)

When in the open sprint for cover.

When enemy airstrikes come hug the wall and pray or run for the nearest building WITH a roof.

Pick which gun/perks work best for you and your playing style. (Like me, Snipewhore, so I use a scoped Kar98K, with some BB's, and deep impact.)

Movement - Always try to keep on the move, moving from 1 position to another. Be aware of your surroundings. Your spatial awareness has to be good for veteran and especially if you play online. If you move out in the open, try to plan in advance positions where you are going to run to next for cover, such as behind a wall, so if the enemy suddenly appears you have set places in your mind you can use for cover.Plan a few alternate cover positions in case you cant reach 1 in time. If you are behind a wall or other such cover, and you appear from it and snipe at the enemy, crawl back down and move to another position. that way you wont be predictably appearing up from the same position which would make you a much easier target.

Be Aware - It's simple. Always glance at your radar when you can. Then listen for footsteps and judge where an enemy will be.

Look at where your teammates are on the radar. Those areas are much less likely to have enemies.

Always try to get to know the map well enough to know where an enemy might be coming from.

Predict where enemies will be. Always be ready for an enemy around every corner...because as you know, it is very easy to hide with UAV jammer and a silenced weapon.

I dont know what it is about the game, or maps, but everyone always goes ramboing. these people, are in fact idiots. look out for long grass, tunnels, like on pipework, high rises, bottlenecks, anything you can multi-K or nade or spam to bump up kills. dont run at them screaming something about getting to the chopper all guns ablaze. i garauntee, death will be the only outcome.

If you hear a grenade drop, slow down what you're doing until you hear it explode. No reason to run right into a freshly thrown grenade.

Flaming cars will explode with a blast radius of almost double that of a C4.

If you see a C4, don't just run by it, chances are that the enemy is waiting for you to walk by

Airstrike? Predict enemy movement. - Before dropping an airstrike, try to narrow down the movement of the enemy players. When you launch the airstrike, don't launch it exactly in the center of many red dots on the radar, instead, look at the map, study it and predict exactly where that all those enemies will be when that air strike hits. It takes about 7 seconds for the air strike to start kicking in, so enemies could easily dodge it if you launch it in a predictable area. Instead determine if the area of the red dots is an open area, is it? Good, now determine if the area is more of a camping zone (or a choke area) or an area where the enemy is moving through. Now predict where the enemy will be in the next few seconds. You can now launch the airstrike. This is how to rack up many kills with it.

Aiming Tips:#1. Shoot the enemy in the body/chest and then in the head to kill him because, for most guns, even with stopping power it takes 2 bullets to kill, even if both land in the head.

#2. Aim for the tip/middle of the opponents head to land a headshot. This is due to the scope being mounted on TOP of the rifle, thus leading to a small bullet displacement that increases as the distance increases. At short ranges the bullet displacement maybe only 1 cm, but as the enemy get's farther away, the greater the bullet displacement becomes. (For example, it may hit them in the neck, instead of the head.) If you aim at the middle of that head or at the tip, there is more chance of the bullet hitting exactly where you want it. It works, 90% of the time.

Another great CoD5 (thanks for this one scarface) tip is, when firing any of the weapons (assault rifles, sub machine guns such as the mp40) at a distance, always try to fire single controlled shots (to avoid recoil which will just throw your aim off), just move the cross hair in a smooth motion covering any area where you think the enemy might appear.

Non-Headshot snipers: If you find it hard to get headshots with a sniper, use the stopping power and deep impact perks, you will almost always get a 1-hit kill when shooting the torso ( deep impact is for shooting other snipers hiding everything but there weapon behind a wall)

How to tell if someone has Juggernaut - When you fire at someone and you see a red cross, it means they are using the juggernaut perk.

Slow down - Don't always run out and think you're Rambo. This is why a lot of people are horrible at this game (PaceyJ). Other than that, have quick reflexes, think before you move into an area where there are a lot of enemy players and just stay attentive.

Oh and if a guy is camping in one spot and you get killed by him at least 2-3 times from that same spot, don't keep trying to kill him. Just avoid that area. The guy will usually get killed sooner or later or realise no one is coming his way so he'll move.

Stay Scoped - When sniping after geting a kill do not release the scope for 5 or more seconds so if they watch the kill cam it makes it harder for them to figure out where you are sniping from.

no headshot? - Never aim for the head with a pistol, aim for the neck, they are not 1 hit kills, by the time the second bullet flys out the recoil will have aimed for you.