Overview
The purpose of this guide is to help you to raise your K/D ratio in deathmatch mode. Advanced players will not find anything new here, guide is just for new players.
Overall tactics
First and the most important thing – avoid roaming the whole map. You should pick best spots nearby your respawn location and change them after 1-2 kills
(for example: when playing construction and you respawn at left low ladder, first you stay there and make couple of kills, then you go to left middle ladder, make kills there, return on left low ladder and continue the cycle until you die)
The best spots on the map are where you can kill on sight easily, where an enemy will have troubles with killing you, and where players with spawn protection won’t punish you easily. I will tell about those spots in this guide.
Remember – these spots will give you advantage, not a winning. How will you use your advantage is up to you. Big part of a gameplay is adaptation to certain playstyles of your enemies and LOTS OF PRACTICE!
Keep in mind that respawned enemies have spawn protection, so if you approach a just respawned player, he will have an advantage against you, and in this case you better retreat, wait until spawn protection dissapears and do a counter attack.
Ladder techniques
Ladders have some important mechanics.
When you move on a ladder without crouch and sprint button, you will move faster, but you will expose more parts of your body. So you need to vary standing/сrouching position in certain situations.
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If you move up, down left and right with crouching combined on a ladder while camping, it’s being more difficult for an enemy to kill you.
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While sitting on a ladder you have to care about 2 floors – let’s call them upper and lower floors. Observation should be done consistently and with high frequency. Always check all ways your enemy could get to you with.
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While observing the upper floor you need just your head and your gun sticking out of the surface. (a ballistic helmet will help you to avoid instant headshot). Release the crouch button and press again for detecting an enemy quickly.
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While observing the lower floor you have to expose your full body, so you need to go halfway down without crouching and press crouch at the last moment.
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You can spin something like that for observing each direction of each floor.
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You can look down like this in a middle between floors, so your head won’t show above the surface.
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Shooting on a ladder should be in tandem with movement techniques.
There are algorhytms of your actions:
For shooting upper floor: crouching position – standing position with shooting – crouching position.
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For shooting lower floor: quick descend while standing – crouching position – quick ascend while standing.
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The quicker you are, the more effective you are.
If your enemy is approaching from upper floor, you can descend on ladder to get more cover and wait your enemy retreat or rush on you. Your position in this situation is advantageous. Keep in mind that you are vulnerable to attack from a lower floor.
If your enemy is approaching from lower floor you can accend on the ladder to get cover, but in this situation an enemy has advantage over you. Wait him rush and try to kill or retreat on upper floor and take a position above ladder. Keep in mind that you are vulnerable to attack from a higher floor.
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Maps
There are 7 maps where you can play deathmatch: mall, hospital, hospital_new, siber, warehouse, construcrion, deposite.
I’ll show you some good spots in every deathmach map with some tips. Remember that you have to change your position after 1-2 kills and check nearby respawns.
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Pretty difficult map to play, because there are many open spots. Pay EXTREME attention to nearby spawnpoints and change location frequently. Claymores are effective on the lower part of the map, especially when you hide them in dead bodies.
This map is an exception for my tactics. You don’t really need to change a locations after several kills. Just pay enough attention to both floors and learn to avoid greandes. Long range weapons are dominating here. Claymores are crucial here, because they serve 2 purposes. 1st – of course – blowing up inattentive enemy, and 2nd – if an enemy sees your claymore and shoots it, at least it will indicate that player will approach from lower floor. Don’t place claymore right under yourself, because if an enemy will shoot it, you will take damage, maybe lethal. If you will place it like shown on pictures, you can avoid damage from your own landmine.
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This map is pretty easy to play. Main problem is with spot in picture 1 to check nearby ladder, which you can’t observe without descending into little deepening between ladders. When you check this ladder I reccomend you to prefire couple of rounds.
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Another difficult map for beginners, because of very open structure. Try to observe everything with very-very high frequency. I don’t reccomend to stay on ladders between structures because these spots are being checked and prefired very often. You can quickly shoot through corridors from position as shown on picture 4, but don’t stay there for a long time because enemy can kill you from behind very quickly.
My favorite map! Right manipulations in these spots will make you really hard to kill. Always listen to the sound of doors and prefire it immediately if you hear one opening nearby. Don’t respawn inside, because if you come out of door there will be a strong possibility that you will be prefired.
In picture 1, spawnpoint is on your lower floor. Time, for a player who will respawn there, may be insufficient to get to you until spawn protection will dissapear, but always check that spawn. Also pay attention to ladder, which connects you upper floor with small room above it. From there players can throw grenades precisely at your position. Also grenades can be thrown from the middle (pic. 2), so pay attention to this too.
This is the only spot i suggest to camping. You can put claymore on the box on your lower floor. Pay attention to the small ladder near you, because there is the fastest way your enemy can get to you.
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Conclusion
If you want to get good in deathmatch, you need to know important mechanics, know maps, look at good players and try to learn from them, and the most crucial thing – practice a lot. With enough time spent you will get better and better.
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Guys, I would really like to get feedback from you in comments. I hope this guide was somehow useful for you.