5 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Tips

Posted on Tuesday, December 13 @ 14:57:09 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

I sat down to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 the other day and I sucked so bad. Then I played for 24 hours and 27 minutes. This is what I learned.

1) Learn the Maps:

It might seem like people are constantly flanking you or that you're spawning right in front of them. That may in fact be true (although an upcoming title update should address this issue). I know it hurts, but you'll definitely find games where you're opposition has found the perfect place to exploit your team's spawn points. The most vulnerable game modes are demolition and domination.

Once you do get out of your spawn, explore the map. There are tons of nooks and crannies and alternate paths to flank your enemies or set up a good defensive position. Sometimes it's that one overlooked path that'll let you split the enemy force and flank for several kills.

2) Match Perks, Strike Package, and Weapons:

It's not enough to just pick a weapon, a handful of perks, and the default killstreak rewards. Your weapons, perks, and strike package can form together to keep you a successful and contributing member of your team, even if you don't wrack up a ton of kills.

Take this one for free: The Recon Perk allows you to mark enemies on the map for your team mates if you do explosive damage to them giving you assist points. Once you've leveled it up to Recon Pro, your bullet damage achieves the same effect. This makes it an ideal perk for Support Strike Package users who're using Hardline Pro. The pro version of that perk allows you to count up killstreak points for every two assists.

3) Play with Friends:

Everyone is always complaining about the grating, vulgar teenagers on Xbox Live. When you sell millions of copies it's not surprising that there'll be a few horribly rotten apples that stink up to high heaven. That can be pretty easily fixed by playing with a few decent people in a party. Maybe you meet them in the game because they were actually coordinating with the rest of the team or maybe you use the Call of Duty Elite service to find a group of like-minded individuals.

4) Make it a Meta Game:

Call of Duty has become increasingly focused on challenges and levels, with Modern Warfare 3 including the ability to level the gun in your hands and tweak it to your liking. There are tons of ways to earn new emblems and titles and most of them will make a losing game a lot more fun. Finding the rest of your team uncooperative? Go for three kills with knives only. Try to nab a set number of skills with a killstreak reward.

It might seem like a drip feed of new content, but collecting the titles and emblems can feel like an achievement on its own.

5) Don't Play Call of Duty, Go Outside:

It might seem silly to say this, but if you're not enjoying the game, don't play multiplayer. There's single-player and spec-ops missions and survival mode too. There are other options. Once you've spent some time in the other game modes you might find your reflexes and knowledge of the game's mechanics have increased.

Or you know... just play something else... or go outside.

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Tags: Call of Duty, Activision, Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games, tips

Comments

De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Dec 13th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
My remedy for too much Skyrim is CoD, and my remedy for too much CoD is Skyrim.

Also, if all else fails, use Assassin.

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spartan317
Joined: Dec 2005

Posted: Dec 13th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
How do I make this my Sig?

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Dec 13th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
I say touch yourself instead of going outside. It's much easier.

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warmaster670
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Dec 13th, 2011 at 10:43 pm
This, easier AND funner, just make sure you dont end up doing that and CoD at the same time.

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dirty_f
Joined: Nov 2010

Posted: Dec 14th, 2011 at 12:19 am
or outside.

just sayin.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Dec 14th, 2011 at 12:45 pm
It was embarrassing the last time I accidentally played CoD outside while touching myself. Gave new meaning to "Killstreak".

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Dorlimin
Joined: Oct 2007

Posted: Dec 14th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Nominate comment thread for TPS

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Blazin13
Joined: Dec 2010

Posted: Dec 14th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
No way am I going outside. I don't want to participate in a world where I might encounter the live version of that 12 year old boy who managed to insult my mother, sexual orientation, political affiliation, and Tim Tebow all in a single breath.

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drathbone
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Dec 14th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
I'm also scared of the new breed of children.

Nominated for TPS

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drathbone
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Dec 14th, 2011 at 8:14 pm
Only because you added Tim Tebow. Otherwise It would just be pretty funny and not REALLY funny.

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SweetHat
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Dec 15th, 2011 at 8:23 am
I whole Heartedly agree with 5 Im not picking up mw3 till i can find it used on a shelf.
Its nothing but the same crap released once a year, Rail shooter, no open world, multiplayer that is dominated by 13 year olds, and pros who play 24/7, multiplayer used to be fun in MW and COD. Not anymore, if you dont get it on day 1 Expect to get dominated the rest of you multiplayer life by people that have no lives. I work, i dont have time to sit on my ass all day and yell at people for being noobs.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Dec 17th, 2011 at 3:21 am
Every good competitive online game has the people who dominate the lobby because they play 24/7: halo, cod, gears, cs... it just comes with the territory. And trust me there are MANY awful awful players out there so it balances out.

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Battousai8
Joined: Mar 2007

Posted: Dec 15th, 2011 at 9:10 am
Play Battlefield.

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