Strategies to Improve Your Call of Duty Kill to Death Ratio

Call of Duty 4 and 4.5 (Modern Warfare and World at War, respectively) boast some of the best online multiplayer around. Chances are if you're reading this you've already experienced the adrenaline rush of taking out multiple enemies in a Rambo-style - you versus the world - with you coming out on top.

"But wait a second," you say. "I usually get slaughtered whenever I go online and deathmatch in Call of Duty!".

If that's the case, than read on for suggestions to improve your online CoD skills.

[Bubble Buddy]

"Aim for the head." ;)

[LinuxGuru]

I agree.

Aim for the head, or just aim better overall.

That's one way that's guaranteed to get results.

[-MD-]

Call of duty is one of those games where aiming for the head actually hurts you... pretty much a single burst from any gun on any part of the body will drop someone.

See something move? Shoot in it's general direction odds are a stray bullet will hit his foot and drop him.

[jessehaysfl]

also burst not full auto, if you burst 2,3, or even 4 you stand a much better chance to hit.

[n4g-gamer]

Those tips are all nonsense, best tool you can have to heighten your k/d ratio is have a good team with you, they keep putting uavs for you, you return the favor by getting kill streaks because you know ahead of time where the enemy is. Or you can be like me and set up 2 claymores in a building and snipe camping the crap out that building and whipping out the pistol when they approach. This is my guaranteed way of getting atleast an airstrike.

[Syronicus]

Sounds like somebody is not any good at hardcore team death match...?

Look, you just have to have a decent connection and some good aiming skills to win those matches. Also, learn to aim using both sticks. Short precise movements with your strafe and large angle turns with your view controls.

In the end, you need to learn to control your movements and you will have the game down.

Also, know when to run. If you do not know where the enemy is, don't run down alleys blindly. Run cover to cover and use smoke or stun grenades.

[BadboyCivic]

but as much as you may think you are good, there is someone better...

[Troll-Killer]

...but Hardcore Mode, with a sniper rifle, works every time. ;)

[TheBand1t]

W@W is simple:

Get MP40.
Equip Dual Mag.
Bandolier.
Double Tap/Stopping Power
Steady Aim.

Aim crosshair at target for autowin.

[JEDI WOLVERINE]

That is what a majority of players use online in deathmatch - although alot do use the 'juggernaut' perk aswell

I traded my WaW game in a while ago because of the lack of weapon balance

[peeps]

biggest problem with the weapons in waw = bolt action rifles take 2 shots to kill someone but 1 shot if you attach a scope :| the fact that you could put dot sites on sub machine guns just mean more and more ppl used them at range than bolts/rifles

[TheChosenWon]

Have you ever tried the MP-40 with doubletap? The kick is insane! If you can kill anything with MP40+doubletap, more power to you, I find it to be a complete mess. I might as well be pointing at the sky and spinning in circles while firing.

And I'd argue that the MP40 isn't the reason people win, I've seen (and partaken in) plenty of ass kickings with the STG-44, PPSh-41, Type 100, and the Thompson. Is it popular? Sure. It's one of the more well-rounded guns in the game. It does almost everything "OK", but doesn't excel at anything.

Not to mention, the MP40 has plenty of weaknesses. People who constantly biotch about the gun apparently don't know how to adapt and/or are just not good to begin with and need something to blame other than themselves.

[KingKionic]

In hardcore mode...move slowly.

[DARK WITNESS]

those are actually some good points...

nothing amazing, more common sense, but still good points. I think anyone who is a half good player at the game would be doing all that out of instinct.

it is supprizing though the number of people who just have not got a clue, then when they run out and die all the time they wonder why.

[Syronicus]

All it takes is common sense to win. You just need to know when to run, when to walk, and when to shoot. Keep your shots on targets you know you can hit and don't make yourself visible to the radar. One of the best weapons to use is the M16 with the suppressor. 3 shots and boom, they're dead and you are nowhere to be found.

[DARK WITNESS]

not sure i understand you, " what would be the point " ?

do you mean whats the point of my comment, whats the point of this guy listing these tips ?

you seem to be saying what i was trying to say. they are very simple and basic which is what i was saying, just that you will still find people who don't play this way so hence the tips may be useful to people like that.

[peeps]

camp like every other noob on the game, get airstike getting you 2 more kills (it's not like dropping an airstrike and not making at least 2 kills is common lol) get helicopter and sit back and let the ai do the work.

seriously all you have to do in the COD games is camp to get a few kills then the streak just doubles as soon as you call in dogs/helicopter. I remember in a clan match on waw. the mode was war and for the whole match we had the opposition at their last flag, we kept pushing and pushing and eventually the timer ran down and we went into sudden death, then their guys release dogs. Was just sad that while we'd been pushing so hard for their last flag all game they'd just had a guy camping for kill streaks :/

[N2NOther]

Rarely does a camper get that many kills. If a camper kills me, I throw a very well placed stun to get their location and either flank them or toss a follow up grenade that they can't escape from. But if you're playing with an ACTUAL team, they'll communicate where he's camping.

[DARK WITNESS]

if someone is camping and getting all those kills and your just letting them get away with it then i would say the real noob is you or the people on your team.

apart from hardcore games, you have a kill cam, there is no excuse letting someone get away with all those kills. i would say 2 kills at most and someone on your team should have taken them out, or they would have moved location ( which really means they are not camping.

if anything, in my book camping just makes you an easy target.

[Blow Out Your Brains]

I have played over 8 days in COD4 online and I just started sniping today. Damn is it hard when you aren't used to it. I'm improving though and my kills are now almost always above my deaths.

[dogmeat eater]

I usually get like 29 kills and 5 deaths each round on team deathmatch in COD4. Of course Ive moved on from COD4 a long time ago. That game started to get old really quick once you put in 3 days of playtime.

[TheChosenWon]

>>I usually get like 29 kills and 5 deaths each round on team deathmatch in COD4.<<

Then this article isn't for you. :)

It's really geared towards the folks that you raped to get your 29-5 score. Really good matches against good competition are usually much closer, but unfortunately are few and far between.

Here's to hoping folks get better so we can avoid the 750-310 scores that are all too common in COD!