Strategies
The only way to really dominate CoD4 is to master getting the 5 kill streaks. once you get that then you call in an airstrike and then a helicopter strike and then rinse and repeat. So what do those guys that consistently get the top scores do? Well there are four methods that consistently work:
1) Sonic Boom: You get this skill at level one and it essentially makes your grenades and grenade launcher into WMD's. You can then get three super shots off: 2 grenade launchers + 1 frag or 3 frags (level 41). This method is pretty handy on most levels/maps because it works with big and small servers alike. You'll die alot sometimes but you're always going to take alot of people down with you.
2) Sniper: It may take a while until you get a hang of it but its pretty easy to get 5 kill streaks with the sniper rifle. Really the only things that will kill a good sniper is a good sniper! Especially maps that have long streets which you have to make your way down.
3) Camping: Be it a Light Machine gun or assault rifle or smg or maybe even a shotgun (though i've not tried), they can dominate when coupled with sweet camping spots. Take bottle necks, high traffic areas or places where shooting through walls can get lots of kills. This one is all about finding the right spots which takes some trial and error or some good tips...i won't go into what sweet spots i know in this post!
4) Balanced Play: Take any kit and just go fight. Forget the strategies, some maps just require great overall skills!
MAPS
Ambush – Large desert town, excels in Sabotage Matches. US Forces vs. OpFor
This is an urban desert town divided horizontally by a main road, on which a convoy has been destroyed. The northern side is a shanty town, while the south side is constructed of sturdy materials and offers more stable cover. There are two drainage pipes running under the main road that run south to north.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
4) Balanced Play
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Backlot – Medium sized construction Site, great level for any mode. US Forces vs OpFor
This urban desert setting contains many two story buildings, including the hotly contested Construction Zone. A lot of fighting Takes place just in front of it, especially down the north/south streets on either side. There’s plenty of cover here, but you’ll need a buddy to watch your back.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
4) Balanced Play
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Bloc – Large Russian apartment bloc. Intense Domination Matches. Spec Ops vs. Spetsnaz
This is a snowy, low visibility complex of apartment buildings. A central court yard with low walls slows your advance from building to building. Definitely a snipers map. There are some great stairwells that you can use, and of course a host of windows and other openings to snipe through. Most of the action takes place in the two facing apartment buildings, which both have upper and lower levels.
Top Strategies:
2) Sniper
3) Camping
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Bog – Small desert bog. Open level, excellent for smaller groups. US Forces vs. OpFor
This is a swampy, nasty dumping ground at night, featuring a large trash pile in the center as well as broken vehicles, a bus,and several cargo containers. There are two buildings you can enter on the south side of the map, and they feature one level only.
Top Strategies:
2) Sniper
4) Balanced Play
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Countdown – Open launch pad. Huge sight lines and dangerous maneuvering. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
A freshly used missile launch site, Countdown has six underground missile silos dead center on the map. There are three launch doors open (You can fall to you death) and one with a missile ready to launch. The smoke and steam coming off these silos is great cover. There are two large hangers on the north and south sides of the level that can provide good cover as well, and two trucks with ladders for sniping.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
2) Sniper
4) Balanced Play
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Crash – Downed Sea Knight in a desert town. Fantastic team games. US Forces vs. OpFor
This map is centered around a downed helicopter, and most of the action takes place directly around it. The chopper has crashed in the center of a war torn town, and the teams initially spawn at the southwest corner and the northeast corner. Initial meeting areas include the Back Ally, the Restaurant, and the Crash site
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
2) Sniper
3) Camping
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Crossfire – Small desert town. Intense interior fighting and strong firefights. US Forces vs. OpFor
Split by an S-Shaped road, this urban desert town is filled with tons of accessible buildings. Two main Overwatch buildings bookend the street, which is lined with buildings that your team can use to advance from one end of the road to the other.
Top Strategies:
2) Sniper
3) Camping
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District – Large urban town with a market in the middle. Great for team games. US Forces vs. OpFor
This is a large urban area centered around a marketplace in the late afternoon. Several streets and all ways make it difficult to pin down enemies. There are only four accessible building interiors throughout this map, but plenty of ambush locations
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Downpour – Big rainy Russian farm. Excellent for Sabotage Matches. Spec Ops vs. Spetsnaz
This map is a farm on an overcast, rainy day. Lots of vegetation allows for great stealth maneuvering and use of the ghillie suit. The weather on this map makes for low visibility, but some good cover as well. Use it to your advantage when ever possible.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
4) Balanced Play
*fixed machine gun whoring is another way to go here. very effective but only one person per team can man it.
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Overgrown – Large overgrown rural Russian area. Sniper ghillie suits make for good cover… SAS vs. Spetsnaz
This map also takes place on a farm, but the time of day is morning. A dried up riverbed separates the farm from the small abandoned town on tthe south side. Two main bridges connect the two sides of the level, and a main road runs down the center of the town on the south sode. There are several buildings accessible on both sides of the river bead, and lots of vegetation in which to take cover.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Pipeline – Russian train yard. Excellent team games. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
Morning on a gloomy day at an abandoned oil refinery is the setting for this map. A winding road spills into the center of the plant, with silos to the south and a train yard to the north. Two large warehouse buildings face each other in the center of the map, and an underground network of tunnels leads from the crew quarters tot he station house and building two.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Shipment – Tiny Russian shipyard. Fast paced action with no hiding. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
This is a very small, very fun map, no matter how many players ore involved. It takes place in the late afternoon in a walled-off cargo container storage drop on the docks. Gravel and short grass provides the footing, while the symmetrically stacked cargo containers provide the cover.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
**find safe spots is real key
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Showdown – Small desert arena. Great fast gameplay for small numbers of players. US Forces vs. Opfor
The setting is a desert palace complex at the end of the day. It’s currently under construction, with a construction site on the west side of the palace and a central courtyard with an enormous statue at it’s center. There are passages from both spawn points to the courtyard and to an interior second-level catwalk.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Strike – Large urban desert town. Excellent team games. US Forces vs. OpFor
This large urban desert area provides tons of buildings and secondary levels for players to take cover. The marketplace is full of shops, and the streets see lots of action. It takes place in the morning, so visibility is high. Use the multitude of building interiors to advance your team throughout the map.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Vacant – Deserted Russian office. Intense interior fighting. Spec Ops vs. Spetsnaz
This is an abandoned shipping facility near the end of the day. The Spetsnaz have set up a temporary operations center to plan their attacks on the Spec Ops. The office complex consists of a maze of hallways and offices, including a warehouse and an Ops center. It’s surrounded by a parking lot on the east side and a loading/ unloading area on the south and west sides.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
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Wetwork – Medium-Large cargo ship. Fast-paced Search & Destroy Matches. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
This map takes place on a cargo ship out to sea. It’s night, but visibility is still good. Night vision helps quite a bit on this level, but it can be disorienting in close quarters. There are only two indoor areas, located at each end of the ship. There are two raised platforms for snipers as well.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
2) Sniper
The only way to really dominate CoD4 is to master getting the 5 kill streaks. once you get that then you call in an airstrike and then a helicopter strike and then rinse and repeat. So what do those guys that consistently get the top scores do? Well there are four methods that consistently work:
1) Sonic Boom: You get this skill at level one and it essentially makes your grenades and grenade launcher into WMD's. You can then get three super shots off: 2 grenade launchers + 1 frag or 3 frags (level 41). This method is pretty handy on most levels/maps because it works with big and small servers alike. You'll die alot sometimes but you're always going to take alot of people down with you.
2) Sniper: It may take a while until you get a hang of it but its pretty easy to get 5 kill streaks with the sniper rifle. Really the only things that will kill a good sniper is a good sniper! Especially maps that have long streets which you have to make your way down.
3) Camping: Be it a Light Machine gun or assault rifle or smg or maybe even a shotgun (though i've not tried), they can dominate when coupled with sweet camping spots. Take bottle necks, high traffic areas or places where shooting through walls can get lots of kills. This one is all about finding the right spots which takes some trial and error or some good tips...i won't go into what sweet spots i know in this post!
4) Balanced Play: Take any kit and just go fight. Forget the strategies, some maps just require great overall skills!
MAPS
Ambush – Large desert town, excels in Sabotage Matches. US Forces vs. OpFor
This is an urban desert town divided horizontally by a main road, on which a convoy has been destroyed. The northern side is a shanty town, while the south side is constructed of sturdy materials and offers more stable cover. There are two drainage pipes running under the main road that run south to north.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
4) Balanced Play
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Backlot – Medium sized construction Site, great level for any mode. US Forces vs OpFor
This urban desert setting contains many two story buildings, including the hotly contested Construction Zone. A lot of fighting Takes place just in front of it, especially down the north/south streets on either side. There’s plenty of cover here, but you’ll need a buddy to watch your back.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
4) Balanced Play
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Bloc – Large Russian apartment bloc. Intense Domination Matches. Spec Ops vs. Spetsnaz
This is a snowy, low visibility complex of apartment buildings. A central court yard with low walls slows your advance from building to building. Definitely a snipers map. There are some great stairwells that you can use, and of course a host of windows and other openings to snipe through. Most of the action takes place in the two facing apartment buildings, which both have upper and lower levels.
Top Strategies:
2) Sniper
3) Camping
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Bog – Small desert bog. Open level, excellent for smaller groups. US Forces vs. OpFor
This is a swampy, nasty dumping ground at night, featuring a large trash pile in the center as well as broken vehicles, a bus,and several cargo containers. There are two buildings you can enter on the south side of the map, and they feature one level only.
Top Strategies:
2) Sniper
4) Balanced Play
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Countdown – Open launch pad. Huge sight lines and dangerous maneuvering. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
A freshly used missile launch site, Countdown has six underground missile silos dead center on the map. There are three launch doors open (You can fall to you death) and one with a missile ready to launch. The smoke and steam coming off these silos is great cover. There are two large hangers on the north and south sides of the level that can provide good cover as well, and two trucks with ladders for sniping.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
2) Sniper
4) Balanced Play
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Crash – Downed Sea Knight in a desert town. Fantastic team games. US Forces vs. OpFor
This map is centered around a downed helicopter, and most of the action takes place directly around it. The chopper has crashed in the center of a war torn town, and the teams initially spawn at the southwest corner and the northeast corner. Initial meeting areas include the Back Ally, the Restaurant, and the Crash site
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
2) Sniper
3) Camping
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Crossfire – Small desert town. Intense interior fighting and strong firefights. US Forces vs. OpFor
Split by an S-Shaped road, this urban desert town is filled with tons of accessible buildings. Two main Overwatch buildings bookend the street, which is lined with buildings that your team can use to advance from one end of the road to the other.
Top Strategies:
2) Sniper
3) Camping
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District – Large urban town with a market in the middle. Great for team games. US Forces vs. OpFor
This is a large urban area centered around a marketplace in the late afternoon. Several streets and all ways make it difficult to pin down enemies. There are only four accessible building interiors throughout this map, but plenty of ambush locations
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Downpour – Big rainy Russian farm. Excellent for Sabotage Matches. Spec Ops vs. Spetsnaz
This map is a farm on an overcast, rainy day. Lots of vegetation allows for great stealth maneuvering and use of the ghillie suit. The weather on this map makes for low visibility, but some good cover as well. Use it to your advantage when ever possible.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
4) Balanced Play
*fixed machine gun whoring is another way to go here. very effective but only one person per team can man it.
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Overgrown – Large overgrown rural Russian area. Sniper ghillie suits make for good cover… SAS vs. Spetsnaz
This map also takes place on a farm, but the time of day is morning. A dried up riverbed separates the farm from the small abandoned town on tthe south side. Two main bridges connect the two sides of the level, and a main road runs down the center of the town on the south sode. There are several buildings accessible on both sides of the river bead, and lots of vegetation in which to take cover.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Pipeline – Russian train yard. Excellent team games. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
Morning on a gloomy day at an abandoned oil refinery is the setting for this map. A winding road spills into the center of the plant, with silos to the south and a train yard to the north. Two large warehouse buildings face each other in the center of the map, and an underground network of tunnels leads from the crew quarters tot he station house and building two.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Shipment – Tiny Russian shipyard. Fast paced action with no hiding. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
This is a very small, very fun map, no matter how many players ore involved. It takes place in the late afternoon in a walled-off cargo container storage drop on the docks. Gravel and short grass provides the footing, while the symmetrically stacked cargo containers provide the cover.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
**find safe spots is real key
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Showdown – Small desert arena. Great fast gameplay for small numbers of players. US Forces vs. Opfor
The setting is a desert palace complex at the end of the day. It’s currently under construction, with a construction site on the west side of the palace and a central courtyard with an enormous statue at it’s center. There are passages from both spawn points to the courtyard and to an interior second-level catwalk.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Strike – Large urban desert town. Excellent team games. US Forces vs. OpFor
This large urban desert area provides tons of buildings and secondary levels for players to take cover. The marketplace is full of shops, and the streets see lots of action. It takes place in the morning, so visibility is high. Use the multitude of building interiors to advance your team throughout the map.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
4) Balanced Play
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Vacant – Deserted Russian office. Intense interior fighting. Spec Ops vs. Spetsnaz
This is an abandoned shipping facility near the end of the day. The Spetsnaz have set up a temporary operations center to plan their attacks on the Spec Ops. The office complex consists of a maze of hallways and offices, including a warehouse and an Ops center. It’s surrounded by a parking lot on the east side and a loading/ unloading area on the south and west sides.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
3) Camping
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Wetwork – Medium-Large cargo ship. Fast-paced Search & Destroy Matches. SAS vs. Spetsnaz
This map takes place on a cargo ship out to sea. It’s night, but visibility is still good. Night vision helps quite a bit on this level, but it can be disorienting in close quarters. There are only two indoor areas, located at each end of the ship. There are two raised platforms for snipers as well.
Top Strategies:
1) Sonic Boom
2) Sniper
