Official Tips Thread!

Bind the knife button to an extra mouse button. That helps and doesnt mean you have to do the Claw position across the keyboard when you want to use it.
And my grenade button is the click on the mousewheel for the same reason.

Also for hardcore try using the m14, it will kill almost everytime with just one shoot, and is easier to manage than a sniper rifle. Especialy when you have the red dot sight attached. I find that it even out matches sniper rifles as there is no sway and it is just as accurate.
Another advantage is that, because it kills with one shoot there is no need for stoping power or double tap, so there is space for an extra perk such as: uav jammer or overkill. Enjoy!

[Lt Davis]

Steady aim + MP5 is great for CQB.

Knifing is easy as long as you stay pointed at your victim. So running at someone and pressing the hotkey at the very last second doesn't work very well.

When you want to be a sneaky bastard, make a kit with your favorite SMG + silencer, 3 stun nades, UAV jammer, and Dead Silence. Circle behind a group of enemies, stun the lot, and mow them down with your SMG (P90 works best because of the large clip). Anyone left standing gets knifed or pistoled. Then go hide, reload, and find some more enemies. With UAV jammer they'll never find you.

[seoulspirit]

cooking your nade for 3 seconds then throw is better then 4 seconds then throw...

your recticle makes "notches" when you cook a nade...the first one is .25 seconds...and the next 4 are 1 full second...when the nade hit's it fif notch it's misery loves company time...thus, the quote "a 5 second fuse only lasts four seconds" is true

[MechaManguskahn]

To all the BF2/2142 players out there:

1. When you start to play multiplayer, expect a ton of deaths and minimal kills. You die ALOT in COD4. So don't worry about your K/D for a while. My K/D finally got over 1 at around 2nd Lieutenant.

2. Watch your fire and try out every weapon at least once. You cannot replenish ammo, so either be conservative with your ammo (at least until you get the bandolier perk) or be able to pick up an abandoned weapon and be able to use it well enough to continue fighting effectively.

3. Explore the maps. The maps in COD4 are very complex compared to BF maps and have tons of different pieces of cover and sniper lookouts per map. I recommend finding an empty server and just go exploring. You may find some very surprising and advantageous terrain features

4. Take some off time to fine-tune your classes. You all probably know how to do this by now (especially you BF2142 folks). Most downtime between maps are too short to allow you to completely overhaul your custom classes so be prepared before-hand

5. Don't try to jump into vehicles on the maps. They don't work. Plus you would feel pretty stupid when you get your head blown off by a sniper while you were busy trying to hop in the tank in Bog.

6. When you earn a UAV sweep, Air strike, or Helicopter Support, you can use it after you die and re-spawn. Your kill counter resets to zero, though. I would often save an air strike or Helicopter until after I died and use it to rack up a bunch of kills immediately.

7. No dog tags. I wanna see them in 1.5.

8. Stealth actually works in COD4. You can easily hide yourself in the often abundant brush and rubble (even without a ghillie suit).

[Micster]

I still prefer the G5 over the G9, just doesn't fit my hand properly. :p

I do love the mousewheel and weight system though.
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Tip: The Knife is silent enough for you not to appear on the compass.

[-Shifty-]

SIDE MOUSE BOTTONS FTW!!!!


I got a G9 for a present...from a friend. Dang this is so awesome. And the weight adjustment system works wonders. I'm surprise how much a difference 2-4 grams make!!!


Anyway I got my mouse botton to knife, it totally owns. And the other to frag or air support.

[Kodakk]

It's all preference

hardcore = more damage, etc.

And, you can't tell (other than by server name) in browser (yet)

how about a stupid question like whats the pros(benefits) and cons of a hardcore vs regular server and how can you tell the difference on the server browser window?

[Iwantcable]

Not sure if it has been posted, but you can get over most obstacles without doing the climbing animation (and not being able to shoot) if you jump towards the object, then press space again at the peak of your jump (just holding spacebar works too). You should kind of "slide" over the object. Make sure you're not in "climbing" range before you jump though.

[HEFO]

The middle-mouse button is the default button for throwing nades...

[imported_Neptune]

To quickly take cover and get up again in a mounted mg, go next to it, go prone, and simply press f to switch between cover and shoot. Works wonders when lots of enemies are in the open.

Side mous buttons work wonders period. No matter the binding. I use mine for easy knife, and switching to my RPG/C4. Frags on there just randomly get thrown for some reason for me. So the tip being, go buy a mouse with side button(s)

[Micster]

If you have two side buttons, bind the other to Frag for easier cooking.

if you have a side button on your mouse:

bind it to knife, it works wonders

[Micster]

A good all around H/C loadout would be:

AK-47 Silenced
USP. 45 Silenced
3x Stun or Flash
UAV Jammer or Sleight of Hand
Dead Silence or Steady Aim

This has rarely failed me on H/C servers. :)