Learn the Art of Warfare in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Discover strategies like leapfrogging, stealth, and maintaining a cool head to dominate the battlefield and increase your survival rate.
To be successful in war, armies have used the centuries-old work of Sun Tzu, entitled the Art of War. Think of this a condensed, Modern Warfare Reflex version of that timeless book.
War is not for those who don't understand it. The same thing goes for MWR. If you go in rushing around constantly, trying to destroy anyone and everyone you see, you're going to die a lot more than you would if you simply let your enemies come to you. Instead, move minimally, staying in a rough area of "your" control while taking out enemies quickly and efficiently. When the enemy pushes too far into your area, take down the rushers and move forward in towards their area. This method is known as leapfrogging, and is fairly effective on medium to large size maps, but works best on small maps like Wetworks where one man can effectively hold down an area.
Engaging an enemy without evaluating the risks is a surefire way to get yourself killed. In MWR, that means not firing on an enemy unless you're sure you can kill them quickly, and cleanly. If you're going to start a massive firefight, chances are you're going to get killed a few more times than you kill. Silenced weapons are good for this strategy, as they can keep you clean. Use them as often as possible to ensure that only the most observant enemies know you're close by. If you can take out an enemy without them firing a single shot, you can increase your survival rate by a lot.
Moving and flanking your enemies is a good strategy if they begin to use your tactics against you. When you have a few guys camping in a building, and they are massacring your teammates, you need to do something about it. Use a route that not many people use, and move stealthily towards your target. If there's a back door to the building, use that, but be aware that your enemies may know that door is there too. If you know a specific room where one of them is, you can start cooking a grenade to clear out that room if there's a window there.
Silence is golden. This doesn't necessarily mean using silencers, but that is also a large part of it. If you stay quiet, enemies will have a very tough time finding you. Don't be afraid to use your knife if you don't want to alert observant enemies by firing a silenced weapon like the AK-47 or the P90, since they make a rather distinctive sound. Keep in mind, knifing is only effective if you can make the knife connect right at the tip of the blade. Due to the lag in MWR, knifing with the body of the blade is a risky job. A knife only makes a swishing sound, so you can use it to great effect once you learn how to use it.
A cool head is a head that stays on your shoulders. Trust me here, I know how frustrating it is when an enemy kills you cheaply, and without giving you much of a chance to stop them, but you have to remain calm. If you get angry, you will start to make more mistakes and not be as cautious. You see, MWR, and all FPS games, are realistic enough to engage the flight or fight reflex in most people. Since they're realistic enough to engage that, they can also start making adrenaline course through your body. In MWR, adrenaline is the enemy. If you get too pumped up, you'll start forgetting caution and get sloppy. When you get sloppy, the enemy that's causing your vexation will eat you alive. It is true that when you get adrenaline you get more daring, but daring doesn't necessarily help all that much when death is one trigger pull away...
Pride comes before the fall. If you start getting cocky because you're on a nice killstreak, you might as well be standing in the middle of Crossfire spamming an M60 into the air. Getting cocky will cloud your judgment just as much, if not more than, adrenaline. Play cautiously all the time, and you'll notice you die a lot less than you used to while you still put up good scores. Combine the above knowledge, and you can easily have games where you kill twice at the very least for every death. Use the things in this strategy, and you'll be an extremely deadly force on the battlefield. Call me Sun Dbc.
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