Weapon Customization and Perks - In the past most FPS games forced you to pick up weapons and perks as you went on in the game, only to loose them the moment you die. This makes it difficult for players to familiarize themselves with all the weapons and find their niche in the game. Create a Classes also give you some level of attachment to the being you are controlling and the weapons they are using, almost like an MMORPG would. The leveling system is also very similar to that of an MMORPG, you don’t just start with all the weapons and perks, you have to play the game and earn them. Call of Duty 4 also gives you as much time as you want to customize your Create a Classes, unlike say, Counter Strike where you have a few milliseconds to hit “B-1-4″ and go to town.??To see the power of class customization in action just playing an Old School TDM match and compare that to a normal game on your own fun scale.

Balanced Yet Unique Weapons - Weapon balance is a huge problem for most FPS video games. You either get totally unfair rocket launcher vs. knife battles or 10 versions of the exact same pistol that might as well shoot paintballs. As much as we try to analyze which weapon is the absolute best on this website they weapons are balanced enough that is impossible to say with any certainty. Sure you have some weapons that are generally better than others, the P90, M16 and RPD come to mind. But you don’t have that single gun on par with the sword of Excalibur.

No Vehicles - This is another issue of weapon balance and even handed game play. Any Halo player out there can tell you it isn’t very fun getting killed by the same Warthog over and over again when all you have is a pistol to defend yourself. A player in a tank is always going to be better than a player off by his or her lonesome, no matter how much you twist the game and nerf the power level of vehicles.

Map Packs - Extra downloadable content is the new thing out there for video game developers. Somewhere along the line game developers realized that people would be more likely to buy a game if it actually evolved and didn’t become boring after the first week. It also helped that figured out they can make a nice chunk of extra cash charging for the new content.??The 4 new maps in the pack may have not been the best designed ones ever,??but the only thing that mattered was that they were new.??The release of map pack for both console and PC players infused new life into the game and ensured that Call of Duty 4 would hold it’s stance as one of the best first person shooters of all time.

Call of Duty 4 isn’t perfect, nade spam, martyrdom, short single player campaign and a myriad of other things can be a drag. Sometimes though you have to forget those negatives and look at what makes Call of Duty 4 great.

First to clear up a common misconception, in Call of Duty 4 bullets will travel forever through the air until they exit the map or hit some sort of object (Enemy Player, Wall, Car etc). The amount of damage a bullet does change while it goes through the air. The best way to explain this is with an example, so lets take someone firing an unsilenced MP5. The bullet begins with a damage value of 40. It continues to hold the damage value of 40 until it hits 750 units of length. At 750 units the damage value begins to drop off until it reaches 1000 units of length where it reaches it’s minimum damage value of 20. So if the bullet from an MP5 hit a target 2000 units of measurement away it would do 20 damage. To give you an idea of how long a unit of measurement is the knife has a maximum range of 128 units to hit a target.

The range and damage a bullet does in Call of Duty 4 can be changed by other factors too, silencers, hitting walls and bugs in the game. Let us know in the comments section if you have any more questions about bullet range in Call of Duty 4.

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Aim down your sights - Firing from the hip makes gives you terrible accuracy, which even though you are blindly shooting through a wall, still matters. You have to remember that the goal here isn’t just to have the bullet hit the wall, but go through and hit someone on the other side of the wall. Aiming down the your sights is also very important so that the bullet hits the wall at a 90 degree angle, which brings us to our next tip.

Shoot the wall at a 90?? angle - As we have previously explained on this site calculating the damage a bullet does after going through a wall in Call of Duty 4 can be a complex process. One simple applicable fact is that bullets entering a wall straight on will do more damage than bullets entering a wall at an angle. This means that for max damage bullet damage you should move along a wall firing down your sights straight ahead.

Use your UAV - This one should be obvious. Use your UAV to pinpoint the exact location of targets on the other side of the wall, at which point you should have no trouble getting a kill. If you can catch the map just after it refreshes you will have the best chance, otherwise the target may have moved.

Aim at crouched level - Aiming at the level where in enemies body would be crouching gives you the best chance of a kill. This is because it is also the center of mass of standing Call of Duty players. You won’t be able to hit players that are prone, but if aiming that low means you would only have the feet of standing or crouching players to hit.

I hope you found this Call of Duty 4 bullet penetration tips helpful, feel free to comment and add your own.

Getting a successful Ninja Defuse off is probably one of the most satisfying things a person can do in a Call of Duty 4 Search and Destroy game. Not only does it give you that nice full leet feeling but it absolutely humiliates and demoralizes the opposing team. It isn’t the impossible task that some people make it out to be. The most relevant variables, the skill/blindness of your opponents and plain old luck are out of your hands. There are a few things you can control to get successful Ninja Defuses more often.

First and most importantly is to choose a good camping spot to wait for the plant. Some maps and bomb sites just don’t have enough cover to camp, so if that is the case don’t camp that site. Second is to match your camouflage to the map and place you are camping. The guille suit snipers get is great for maps like Downpour, but I wouldn’t be using it on Chinatown. In that same vein you want to have the smallest weapon possible out when you are camping, a Pistol is much harder to see than someone lugging around a RPD trying to camp. Pistols that aren’t silenced are prefered but not required. because the length of the suppressor sticks out quite a bit. When you actually get camped sit absolutely still still. Aim and stare straight ahead, any motion whatsoever and you will be spotted. Finally you need patience, you probably won’t get a Ninja Defuse on your first try but after the first it gets much easier.

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This place on Broadcast is a little more difficult to get to than others, so here are some directions on how to get there. 1. Jump on the chairs by the vending machine 2. Jump on the picture frame like objects on the wall 3. Jump from there to the top of the vending machine 4. Jump from the top of the vending machine to your final destination atop the TV. None of the jumps are particularly difficult or long, you just need to know the sequence. Once you get there it is a great location to camp because virtually no one will check upwards for enemies, so you can just pick them off as they run by.

The picture doesn’t show this very well, this location is on the 2nd story of the building with the mounted machine gun which looks into the grassy field on Chinatown. Being able to hide behind the fridge and pull an Indiana Jones and escape death every time a grenade is thrown up is extremely useful. That building receives a huge amount of fire and explosives so having a good place to hide is paramount.

This picture is of the trail on Creek right below the major, more travel trial. You can get to it by either dropping down from the upper trail or walking over the various log bridges to it. It is a great camping spot because it gives you visual access to the trial above you, the entrance to the cave and the large open field on the other side. Basically you are covering all possible travel points that an enemy player can take. Couple this with the fact that you blend right into the wall and most Call of Duty 4 players don’t bother checking it for enemies and you have a great spot.

Killhouse might be the most hated map, after Shipment for Call of Duty 4 players but with a proper number of players it can still be enjoyable. This spot under the wooden stairs is most useful if you are playing with a large number of people though because you have such a small range of movement under the wooden structure. It can come in extremely handy if you just want to spawn kill on Free for All games to level (although I don’t recommend that strategy).

I hope you found this camping/hiding spots useful, please feel free to suggest your own though.

Normally when you plant a Claymore in Call of Duty you have to wait for the planting motion to play itself out for several seconds before you can pull out your gun. You can totally bypass that motion by throwing a normal or special grenade. What you want to do is wait just until the moment the Claymore hits the ground and immediately hit the relevant key to throw a grenade in Call of Duty 4.You will skip the Claymore plant motion and go immediately to the grenade throwing motion.

You do have to wait some time for the grenade to be thrown but #1 the grenade gives you some sort of cover and potential for a kill and #2 the grenade throwing motion is much shorter than the claymore plant motion so you will be saving time overall. After throwing the grenade you can quickly switch back over to your primary weapon.It takes some practice to get the coordination and timing down for the Call of Duty Claymore fast plant so be patient. Please comment you have any questions or things to add.

Grenade - An extremely useful multi purpose explosive. No matter what perk or weapon set up you have the single denominator is that they all come equipped with at least one grenade. The multi purpose abilities is what makes grenades great. No other explosive kills with deadly accuracy no matter whether you are exploding it right at your feet or tossing it distances to enemies inside a building. Each grenade has a fuse of 3.5 seconds and a talented grenadier can cook a grenade so perfectly that it explodes right in the enemies face, giving them no time to throw it back to you. the biggest reason why grenades are one of the best explosives is that you can spam them over buildings or in random locations where there is a high probability of an enemy being located. The range and damage values of grenades means that one grenade is all you will need.

RPG - Great for taking out helicopters, but that’s about it. The poor accuracy of the projectile makes it strictly worse than the grenade launcher for taking out individual players. You also stand a good chance of killing yourself with the RPG if you are firing from crouch or prone in a hilly area. The RPG is invaluable however at taking out helicopters always appearing in Call of Duty 4, no other explosive or weapon can come remotely close.

Grenade Launcher - The often whined about Noobtube, great for taking out obscured targets quickly. The grenade launcher couples the great range and accuracy of the grenade with the explosion on contact power of the RPG. It is often complained about but in most situations normal bullets could do a better job at getting a kill than the Noobtube. Think about it, to fire a round from the Noobtube you need to get a relatively clear view of the enemy, enable the launcher, fire the grenade and wait a few moments for it to actually hit. In that same time or less a skilled Call of Duty player could have pulled out his or her M16 and fired a quick three round burst killing the enemy. The Noobtube is not without it’s uses, but because you can’t use it around corners or for spam like a normal grenade it is far from overpowered.

Claymore - The best choice explosive for snipers or to hold an important building. The great part about claymores is that you can just set it and forget it. There is no hassle of aiming or risking your life in battle. Just set it by a high traffic location and wait for the kill to pop up. Planting them correctly so that they are no visible, but still do more than just wound the enemy can take some practice but is fairly simple. The claymore is the only explosive you should bother using for passive play.

C4 - A strong explosive for aggressive, not passive uses. Most people try to use C4 as a camping tool and end up waiting hours on end for someone to walk by that they can blow up. If you want a passive explosive device Claymores are always the better choice. C4 does have a place if you use it actively though. Basically you want to use it as a grenade with a shorter range and a shorter fuse. Check out this post for more information on C4 throwing in Call of Duty 4.

That’s it for the call of Duty 4 explosive review, please comment if you have anything to add or think I missed something.

Playing on modded servers is simple. First go to the list of online multiplayer Call of Duty 4 servers like you would if you were joining an other game. Then click the “Filter” option from the menu at the top of the screen. This will bring up a menu allowing you to sort servers by different specifications; click the button that says “Mods” and change it to “Yes” or “All”. Then refresh the server list and a bunch of modded servers will pop up, choose a populated one and join the game.

You will then be prompted with a download screen which will automatically download the necessary information that allows you to play the game. Depending on your connection speed and the speed of the server on the other end this can take anywhere from minutes to hours to happen. After the download is finish Call of Duty will restart and automatically join the modded game. That’s all you need to do, you can now frag like you would on any other game!

Please comment if you have any questions on this tutorial or how to join modded servers.