Strategy Guide

I finally got my shotty and sniper class diamond. To get a weapon diamond you have to get every weapon in the class gold. To get a weapon gold you have to complete all weapon camo challenges.

To complete all weapon challenges you have to get 20 instances of 5 kills in a row without dying using only that weapon. This is much harder than it sounds because if someone comes up behind you and you switch weapons to kill them it resets your kill count on your primary weapon. So I would have to snipe, and then retreat and snipe their assault instead of just whipping out my shotgun.

There were only 3 snipers and 2 shotguns at the launch of the game. Now there are 4 snipers and 3 shotguns.

Streetsweeper

The best shotgun is the streetsweeper. It's the newest shotgun and you can see it in my picture. I have more kills with it than any other weapon because it is an 18 round fully automatic one shot kill. It dominates, however they just balanced it with a season 3 patch and now it struggles to get one shot kills and also suffers in midrange aiming down sights where it used to be functional.

This class was the best, but now I think I have to run my AK74U for close range again after the nerf of the Shotty.

LW3 Tundra

The best sniper is the Tundra you can see above. It's the strongest sniper before the latest one released super recently but it's also deadly accurate.

The key to winning in Cold War is to have 2 weapons. 1 for long range and 1 for short range, and then to choose your battles carefully. If every engagement I get into is long range with a sniper or close range with a shotgun I'm going to have a kill death above 1.6 which I do for that reason. Really it's probably closer to 2 when I'm actually using a sniper shotgun, because sometimes I'm messing around with a revolver and tomahawk.

You can see my perks above and I will explain why they dominate.

Perk Greed is the best way to go. You get 6 perks and 2 from each perk class.

Perk 1

Flak Jacket

Flak Jacket is so dominant they had to nerf it but it's still super clutch to survive otherwise deadly explosions.

Engineer

I use engineer for 1 reason. Stealth. In Perk 3, you can only chose 2 of them, unless you're rocking Law Breaker and can grab 3 of any perks you want and 2 primary weapons. Since I use Ghost Ninja in perk 3, that means I cannot also use Spycraft. Spycraft prevents you from showing up on field mics, which are like stationary personal radars. With Engineer, I can see the field mics through walls, so I can at least know not to walk into anyone who is ready to ambush me.

Perk 2

Gearhead

Gearhead is the best perk two because it lets you charge up your equipment faster and store 2 of them. Field Mics are incredibly powerful. I can put one on the stairs of where I'm sniping from, and then it will alert me when someone is coming up the stairs and I'll pull out my shotgun and blow them away. It's necessary.

Quartermaster

Quartermaster allows your grenade to regenerate. I use frag grenades because they got a buff and flak jacket got a nerf and I can cook them and bounce them off walls at the start of matches and when I'm sniper but people are hiding. Having them regenerate means I can feel free to chuck them and get some free kills without regretting a wild throw later.

Perk 3

Perk 3 are the most important by far. When I have Law Breaker and can choose any 3 perks I want from any perk tree, I choose all 3 perks from Perk 3.

Ghost

Ghost in Cold War prevents you from showing up on enemy radar. It doesn't work if you're not moving. This is a cool concept and causes me to move around and flank people whenever they use a UAV. It's a necessary perk and you have to combine it with ninja, otherwise everyone will be ready for you.

Ninja

Ninja used to be overpowered and prevent detection by field mics but they moved that to spycraft. It's still the best perk in the game because you can sprint up to someone and they won't hear your footsteps. It's all about getting the drop on people. If you can hear someone coming up behind you, they're as good as dead. Don't be that guy. Use ninja 100% of the time.

Tactical Equipment and Lethal

Frag Grenade

Field Mic

I already kind of mentioned these but they are the best. Semtex can be nice too. C4 isn't as good in this game. RPGs are worthless too.

Stim Shot

They had to neft the stim shot and slow the healing speed but it's still the best and I recommend having the same tactical for every class because it becomes instinctual to press L1 after getting shot, so you don't want to be flashing or stunning yourself. Stim shot recovers health quickly and combined with flak jacket you can usually survive two grenades by healing in between the two explosions.

Killstreaks

War Machine

This Grenade Launcher is ridiculously strong and makes one a master of death.

Blackbird

If you're on a killstreak with your war machine and you get a blackbird (advanced UAV) you are basically immortal. You can blow people up around corners.

Gunship

The best killstreak in the game. If you combine your blackbird and war machine effectively you can finish the game from the AC-130 in style.

That combination of killstreaks is good enough that I was 29-0 once before the game even really got started.

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