Tactics & Strategy

**Tactics** - Actions that can be done anywhere to improve your chances

Tactic #1 ---- **Never Stand Behind your Teammates**. This is very self explanatory, as standing behind your teammates just gives you a huge disadvantage and snipers a super high chance of getting a collateral. By disadvantage, I mean #1-Your teammate blocks your view, #2-you cannot fire through your teammate, and #3, even if there is an enemy, your teammate might get the kill first.

Tactic #2 ---- **Move Unpredictably.** What I like to do is that when crossing a corner, I always do a jump to crouch, as it is the closest thing to a slide, and it is almost impossible to track unless you are facing an opponent with a very high firerate gun. This also shrinks your hitbox. Another general tip is to strafe when aiming. This makes it infuriating for snipers, especially if you are behind cover too.

Tactic #3 ---- **Don't Stay Aimed.** Hardscoping is widely discouraged and disgraced as it makes you look like a noob. an added disadvantage of this is that you cannot track your enemies if they are too close, and you can only see a cone that is about 40% of what you normally see. Hardscoping is incredibly discouraged for Snipers as the sniper has a very distinct sniper glint which is just a bullseye for people to headshot you.

Tactic #4 ---- **Throwables.** Throwables are extremely underrated in the sense that barely anybody uses them. There are pros and cons to each throwable.

* Grenade -- High Damage, but is hard to kill with and you only get one (two if you use the Overpack perk)
* Flashbang -- Disorients your enemies, making them blind for a few seconds, but it only affects them if they are looking at the flashbang. It is highly recommended to throw the flashbang in the air, in which more people might be looking. It also affects yourself.
* Smoke Grenade -- Can hide you from snipers, and makes you practically invisible depending on where you throw it. Spray and Pray classes can combat this easily, but you can also throw smoke grenades as diversions to catch your enemies' attention

**Strategies** - A game plan or a way to get through the current situation

Strategy #1 - **Don't Return to the Same Spot,** This is a widely known noob strategy, as noobs will try to go back to the last place they died because that is the last place they know their enemy was in. Pros know this and will often exploit it, usually camping at a certain path that people try to take revenge from. You must always choose a different place of attack every time you get shot, as it makes you unpredictable, and the enemy might not notice you while they are busy aiming.

Strategy #2 - **Go with Obscure and Hidden Routes,** There are many routes in which you can go on many maps. Say for outpost, instead of going through the truck, try going around the truck. Sure it does take slightly more time, but it lowers your chance of being killed by campers. Only in special situations do you go in well-known routes, such as a situation where most of the team is conglomerated there, or most of the team is going with the obscure/hidden routes. Also by "Hidden" is to not be out in the open as much. This is an especially good tactic for snipers or people who tap fire. Say for instance, Outpost, there is a huge gap between the cargo container and the edge, in which it is extremely easy to be picked off by from campers. What you would want to do is to go through the base, and keep alternating between cover.