Following our featured article of Tips and Tricks for Rainbow Six Siege, here at esportsguide we’re moving on. Indeed, our next title is also a first-person-shooter, being one of the most popular in the world. Accordingly, here are our Call of Duty Tips and Tricks to help you gain the advantage and understand the game better.

Mechanical Skills

One stark difference lies between Rainbow Six Siege and Call of Duty – the competitive platform. While R6S is focused on the PC community through mouse and keyboard, Call of Duty is played competitively on a controller.

Mastering mechanical aim will differ here. It’s a matter of mastering the few buttons on a controller while coordinating multiple actions, here are some tips:

• Finding the correct grip: different grips suit certain playstyles. Standard grip is positioning your palms around the grips, thumbs pressing on the facial buttons with index and middle fingers on the triggers. Other grips include Claw, which can allow for better in-game movement – it’s worth experimenting here
• Changing the button layout and customizing controllers – professional grade controllers with additional paddles and buttons while assigning different buttons can help out tremendously
• Experiment with the sensitivity of the analogue sticks – controller players can’t be as accurate as PC players. That’s where adjusting sensitivity comes into play.

• Mastering the movement – each title has varying movement and combining this with precise aim is essential
• A common saying in the professional community is ‘shoot a thousand bots a day’ – aim may be improved by practising against AI in custom games. I recommend you try it out.

In-Game Knowledge and Awareness

With Call of Duty, it’s not all about pointing and shooting at fast-moving targets. One can have incredible mechanical aim, but fail to grasp the in-game knowledge and awareness. Year after year, competitive Call of Duty makes use of different game modes.

Here are some tips behind in-game awareness across multiple game modes:

• Understand and master the maps – you need to know each corner of the map. This involves knowing the standard rotations for Hardpoint, bomb sites for Search and Destroy and flags for Domination.
• Mastering the spawning system – each CoD utilizes spawn logic. To make the most of an in-game objective, it’s essential for your team to spawn as close as possible to it. By positioning yourself in key positions, these can shape the outcome of a game.

• Proper utilization of lethals and tactical equipment
• Making proper use of specialist abilities at the right time
• Clutching up in Search and Destroy: high-stress situations require the right play at the right time.
• Keep up to date with the meta changes – gun balances can shift which weapon is ideal in any situation.
• Stay up to date with the competitive scene and watch competitive games

Personal and Interpersonal – Call of Duty Tips and Tricks

Probably a highlight of our Call of Duty Tips and Tricks is the personal and interpersonal segment. The professional scene is notorious for being vocal, embracing trash-talk, raging and screaming across the stage.

As a player, someone who’s serious about their performance will want to focus on some tips:

• Communicate with your teammates – offer valuable information such as the location of enemies, their amount of health and observable enemy movements
• Do not ego challenge – engage in clever gunfights, trade out your teammate’s death and don’t be over-aggressive.
• Learn from teammates and find your role accordingly – being a main assault rifle, submachine gun player or a flex will require coordination with the team

Tips and Tricks will vary due to the fact that Call of Duty changes every year. Yearly releases mean that players have to adapt to changing of in-game mechanics and other notable information.

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