How Do I get Better In Modern Warfare Without Using A Headset?

First off I just want to say I suck in FPS and when I am on a headset I can't concentrate so I prefer not to be on.

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to get better? I know everyone says knowing the maps will improve your games but I have been playing this game for a month and I still suck. Any tips?

One thing I don't have is patients. I don't like camping and always run around and looking for my enemies. When I do this I always get killed. Also when I camp anda guy spot me and I spot him he alawys kills me first in a shootout. Any tips on this?

Also how do I improve aiming with a scope? I see snipers on my deathcam with just 1 shot kills and when I try to snipe I usually miss my target with 4-5 shots and he gets away or spots me and kill me? Any tips on this?

Last but not least how do I avoid being shot?

One thing I don't have is patients. I don't like camping and always run around and looking for my enemies. When I do this I always get killed. Also when I camp anda guy spot me and I spot him he alawys kills me first in a shootout. Any tips on this?

Also how do I improve aiming with a scope? I see snipers on my deathcam with just 1 shot kills and when I try to snipe I usually miss my target with 4-5 shots and he gets away or spots me and kill me? Any tips on this?

Last but not least how do I avoid being shot?

dopeboy206

Practice.

Been practicing for the last2 months. I have a friend who just started and he is already better than me.

One thing I don't have is patients. I don't like camping and always run around and looking for my enemies. When I do this I always get killed. Also when I camp anda guy spot me and I spot him he alawys kills me first in a shootout. Any tips on this?

Also how do I improve aiming with a scope? I see snipers on my deathcam with just 1 shot kills and when I try to snipe I usually miss my target with 4-5 shots and he gets away or spots me and kill me? Any tips on this?

Last but not least how do I avoid being shot?

dopeboy206

I'm not convinced that wearing a headset works, unless you're playing on party chat with mates. Most of the time all you hear on chat is nonsense, and MW2 isn't known for it's team play. A few pointers that have worked for me:

• Follow higher ranked players, see where they go and what they do
• Spend some time getting to know the maps. Practice getting to the hard to get to spots in an empty map
• Make sure your loadout works for you. Personally, I rate the ACR with stopping power as a good all rounder
• Accept that you may not be a sniper. I'm not - tried it but it's doesn't work for me
• Spend a bit of time watching kill cams - and learn from them!
• Gun, run and reload in cover. Literally, fire and manouvre, fire and manouvre
• Adapt to the environment with different classes - if you're getting hammered with air, have an anti air class ready to switch to on respawn (stinger, hard line)
• Use claymores - they rock!

I used to be crap too. You say you run about looking for the enemies, thats prolly where you are going wrong. Run, find a good spot where you know enemies will be, kill a few, then run on to another spot where you know enemies are by looking at your radar. But make sure it is safe to run, and always use cover and aim down the sight when going around corners, thats when you pick off enemies before they kill you. I tend to crouch a lot as well as that stops your footsteps from being heard.

That other guy is right, depends how focused i am, whos in my team and how drunk i am on how well I do. But I have gotten my k/d ratio up to 1.32 by playing the game with a stretegy, not just running about aimlessly like I did when I fisrt played it. Once you know the maps and where people camp or snipe from you will get more kills.

Also set up your classes to suit your style of play and use different set-ups for different maps.Maps like rust and scrapyard are easiest for me if i am set up to run about like a nutter because they are small. Any other map I get my trusty bling aug hbar with stopping power and let the killing commence. On wasteland use perks to keep you hidden from the enemy and sneak around the outskirts of the map picking people off, dont bother with that bunker in the middle its mayhem and occasionally use the gun turrets when safe to do so.

also pay attention to where enemy air support is, if there is a harrier or chopper buzziing about keep out its direct line of sight or get to a building until it is gone.

what else can i think of? use claymores for cheap kills, planted in the right place they will always usually get you a kill. use flashbangs when you are in trouble. if someone fires a noobtube and it doesnt quite kill you runaway to cover because in a second or two they will fire another one and it will kill you.

and FMJ is my best friend.

My normal load out for most maps is: aug hbar with grip and FMJ, M1014 with grip and FMJ, claymore and flashbangs. perks: bling pro, stopping power pro and commando pro.

thats the way i play and ihave more kills than deaths 99% of the time. hope this helps, but you just need to find what suits you best, everyone plays different.

cant believ i wrote all that i must be bored at work again!

edited to say. I always play with a headset, it helps you know where your enemies are coming from. when i say a headset, i mean a surround sound set of headphones not just a headset for talking to folk. i dont plug a mic in unless i am playing with my friends.

know your enemy

good luck

get a turtlebeach headset, you can mute in game talk, and just have the game and hear your surroundings and if people are around you..

If you're not willing to use a headset just give it up and move to another game

All you're doing is being a liability to everyone you play with and making your team do worse

1. Mute everyone. Not all the people on your team, if any, will be helpful most of the time. There are rare exceptions but i find them few and far between.

2. Load out your custom classes as to how you want to play. If you want to run and gun use full auot AR's or better still the more powerful SMG's with a good secondary to back them up. If you want to camp, then things like the FAL, M16, sniper rifles and Machine guns may be the way to go.

3. Use cover as much as possible! You can use it to ambush people or fire from behind it and not take as much damage if any. Cold blooded helps here to hide you from the thermal used by snipers.

4. Crouch moving around corners and use your flashbangs or stun grenades.

5. Try to get a good feel for how the players are moving on the maps. Sometimes you will find people almost always take the same route over and over again no matter what and you take advantage of that. Either camping if you like or after each kill keep moving forward so you dont attract attention ot one spot.

Everyone here is going to play the game different so who is to say which is really the right way. Just take the advice and try to adapt it to your own way of playing and see what happens.

Number 1 rule of being good in Modern Warfare 2:

Be Cheap.

In CoD4, the game was balanced, requiring skill to actually be proficient at the game. Fortunetely, Modern Warfare 2 requires abosuletly no skill to be good. Make a loadout with a grenade launcher attachment, claymores and one man army. Pick a corner of the map, cover your back with claymores, and noob toob anyone who gets close. Easy! You can't lose. If anyone gets angry at you, they will keep running at you over and over again, and you just keep killing them. Some may call this cheap, but they are right! It is cheap! But if you aren't doing it, everyone else will and you will be the one dieing and getting upset. Enjoy!

(This is kind of the reason I stopped playing MW2...)

My first bit of advise is to be silent. A silencer and Ninja are really handy to have. You can run into an enemy base and not show up on UAV after firing. Second, Make sure to always check your corners before you just run around.

One factor that took me a bit to get a hang of was the repeated base switching. You have to be able to tell which way the guys will be coming from at all times. For equipment, I say Semtex all the way. It's a grenade covered in goo. What's not to love?

For your perks, I say to go with Marathon, Stopping Power, and Ninja. Kill fast, Move fast, No noise.

Finally, find the gun that works best for you. An ACR with Iron Sights and a Silencer is my personal favorite, but to each their own. If you are lower level, Try the FAMAS, since that gun is truly awesome.

Anyhow, have fun.