Strafe Jumping and Prone Moves in COD4 Call of Duty 4

Posted date: April 19, 2008 In: Strategy | comment : 33

To improve at Call of Duty you have to improve at not only offensive strategies, but defensive ones. A key defensive strategy for COD4 and all video games are moves that make it more difficult for your opponent to land bullets on their target. In this particular video game you have to be fast with two simple moves, jumping and going prone. You can then combine these to form more complex moves and defensive measures. The first step to being fast with Jump and Prone is making sure you can physically reach them easily on your controls. After you change your controls to something comfortable practice jumping and going prone over and over until you can do it on an almost sub conscious level. The next step is learning what situations to use these moves.

Jumping – Jumping is useful in close range confrontations to avoid bullets. Jumping in long range battles is not going to do anything because you are still easily in the field of view of the enemy. At close range the enemy has to move their weapon considerably to get the target back on you. This gives you time to aim yourself and fire off a few rounds and hopefully get a kill. Contrary to a lot of whining people on multiplayer game servers you cannot bunny hope in COD4. You get decent jump and then a bunch of feeble half inch attempts to escape the gravity of the earth. This makes spamming jumps a bad idea, what you want to do is use the first jump and wait for jump height to recharge, if the battle continues long enough then use the second jump.

Prone – Going Prone is best for mid-long range encounters. By going prone you force the enemy to move their sights and create a smaller target to aim at. This small advantage can mean the difference between life and death. Never go prone in a short range situation because the enemy can just run behind you and knife you in the back, which you cannot prevent because being prone restricts your movement. It is also critical to stay for you to stay on target with the enemy and continue firing while you go prone so you don’t waste the precious seconds gained by going prone initially.

If we combine sprinting, jumping and prone we get something called a Strafe Jump. The strafe jump is simple to execute, all you have to do is sprint forward, jump, go prone and fire your weapon, all in one motion. This makes you an almost impossible target for your opponent to hit. You should use only when the initial sprint isn’t visible to the enemy because in that sprint you are totally defenseless. For example you can use the Strafe Jump to go around corners that an enemy is camping and clear the way for your allies to move in.

There are many other great combinations of these basic moves so experiment with them and feel free to comment and post your own moves.

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BorisYeltsnFart

one thing to add for proning/jump-proning is to avoid doing it when back is to wall because you’ll get Prone-blocked. sucks when it happens. also, works best in grass.
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Good point, make sure you have room prone before you try to strafe jump. If you don’t have room to prone you still can always just do the sprint+jump but it won’t be as effective. Going prone in grassy areas can be a mixed blessing. On the one hand you are harder to see, but on the other it is harder for you to see over all that grass. If you do go prone in grass make sure you already know exactly where your target is.
Citizen_Erased

I find that going prone in long-range encounters leads to a greater incidence of being shot in the head. When prone and facing your enemy, the foremost target they can see is your head with your body behind that… Therefore if they hit you at all it is much more likely to kill straight away.
M

@ Citizen_Erased: Luckily (?) most weapons won’t kill with a headshot, so I’ll have to disagree.
HoucK

don’t go prone, if your in sniper lane… like Crossfire, cos it makes you alot easier to kil… crouch and move left and right… xD
iKe

verry good advice HoucK i love it when people go prone hopeing to evade me, its just like going in to last stand… such an easy headshot
Adam

HoucK,, you could also snake it across. Run crouch prone, run crouch prone. mix that up a lil and he wont get ya
L0GiS

I do this all the time and find it very effective, espically in close range when my opponent is shellin out bullets at me from an mp5 and i have a m16, i strafe jump to the nearest cover and pop out real fast and put a burst in his face
cheese block

nice help houcK
rooke

Strafe Jump is differnt than the prone jump you mentioned. A strafe Jump lets you jump further than normal. Its a great way to make it to soo many more places you never thought you could get to. Many distance jumps you can only get to in oldschool, you can get to with a strafe jump in normal. Sprint, turn about 60 deg and jump right away and you have more hops.
vanquish

2 things;
- going near grassy bushes (like those outside broadcast suicide lobby or all over creek, they’re on almost every map) makes a rustling sound…which will give away your position,
- strafe jumpiing/dolphin diving is good for perpendicular corridors, the noobs with their P90′s will be camping the wall waiting for you to walk past. you jump past the wall and kill them, easy. however whilst going from jump to prone you cannot shoot making you vunerable, however; if you crouch then you can get some shots off in crouch and it will make getting to prove faster. I’ve been a dolphin (strafe jumper) for 2 months and scores are 2-4:1 (which is nice) and i’m killing the P90 noob’s before i touch the floor. (yay)
iKe444

you mean p-noobies not p-90s…. owns every day… except weekends…… ha
Anonymous

instead of jumping, holding down me and tapping trigger ( shotgun ) i run, hold down b, hold down the trigger (only 1 shot) then start tapping b :p need a bit more practice.
Anonymous

holding down b*
Anonymous

errrrr;
holding down b*
Pacman Paz

Controller settings: Tactical
Dropshot like nothing…
Anonymous

it’s not whining, hoppers suck. a lot of the info here rocks, but calling hopping a strategy I’ll have to disagree with. yes, it works; yes, it’s very very gay. COD4 is refreshingly realistic until you see homo’s jumping all over the place like trampoline fags. I’d like to see them try hopping around in a real firefight
and see how long they last-not very long, I can assure you
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well all in all, its a video game. if hopping gives you the upperhand, then so be it. you do whatever you have to to get kills.
Anonymous

uhm, ” in a real firefight” uhm, I think if someone was shooting at me in real life, I would probably be jumping all around… considering that you are actually wrong…
Sergeant Murphy

Not all P-90 users are P-noobies….. I use a silenced P-90 with overkill and an ACOG M40a3, and Im usually in between 4th and 1st in TDM games.

And an afterthought, if a P-nooby is camping a door or corner, stun grenade through the door or around the corner and *BOOM* pretty light, rush in and blow ‘em away.
Yo Mama

anybody got some good controls other than the default ones for this move?
Yo Mama

different controller setup?
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Anonymous

umm if you stun or flash… they know ur gunna rush. so they just spray i dont know how you didnt figure that out yet……..
ModernKid

Instead of focusing on evading bullets, focus on shooting. This will get you the win most of the time. oh and it is a good idea to use this method when getting behind an object for cover while hurt, then throwing a flash or stun grenade and peaking OR using an object such as a truck to shoot underneath.
aden

I am yet to try this strategy, would anyone recommend using the scroll wheel to crouch/prone with a shotgun, my shotgun is my friend although i was on a server the other day and the dude was just hatin me because i was using it(its not the auto shotty just so you know)
the guy thats right

@anonymous LOL ill have to disagree with you, most information here sucks balls. strafe jumping is nothing like what the moderator of this retard site describes it, and hopping then laying (in mid air-IMPOSSIBLE) will only get you killed faster. ‘yeah guys! im gonna give my enemy a 100% accuracy chance to hit me in my friggen FACE!’ PSN ‘A-Glitching-Guy’ rant and flare all you want, its the truth.
Quade64

If someone shoots at you midrange go prone and shoot at same time..also when you see someone start shooting by hipfiring and keep firing while your going to scope to get max number of shots.
WayZer

Sprint + jump + crouch and shoot, that’s gay around tight corners
Gold-_-boy2001

i won’t to download COD4 to play zombieland but i can’t how can i download COD4???!!!
Royma37

Sorry, no zombies on cod4