Thanks for posting this!

Nice thread.  I'll probably add more and more as time goes by.  But to start with, now I am P20, a few tips on levelling up fast, aimed at the average player as most good players probably do all this anyway...

Play drop zone and dont worry about your KDR, seriously there is so much on offer in that game type you can breeze through perks and challenges.

Always try to have a set up that provides two or more challenges per kill, i.e. using two attachments completes two parts of the gun challenges.

Keep a close eye on the daily and weekly challenges they are usually simple enough to achieve.

Use stinger to take down air support until you get blind eye pro then use BE pro with an LMG to take them down.  The LMGs are quicker than pulling out a launcher and you can have something more useful as a secondary.  Taking down air support is very good XP.

Once you've maxed out a perk use a different one.  Might feel uncomfortable at first but as well as getting you more XP it will improve your game long term.

In order of preference use support, then specialist then assault packages.  Sounds a bit daft but if you go fro assault and end up getting nothing then you wont get as much XP.  At least with support you will get something.  I always had a support class with just the UAC and CUAV for those 30 second thrown in at the end matches, you will get something.

If you play objective games play the objective, dont killwhore.  Seriously, you might end up buffing your KDR but you will get far more XP playing the objective than getting kills.

There is probably plenty more but that is off the top of my head.

Here's a few contributions:

Saving Killstreaks Before Rollover

1. Earn whatever streaks you want to save.

2. Switch your loadout and die.

3. All earned killstreaks move to the bottom 4th generic banked slot.

- can make two copies of the same loadout if you don't want to switch your playstyle

- can't get moabs

- cannot use the d-pad to cycle through items in the 4th slot, so you'll have to use them in order.

Longshots

Are not based on having to shoot from a certain distance. Every weapon has a different distance you must shoot from to achieve a longshot. Shotties and pistols are actually easier than AR's and snipers. Here's the numbers, thanks to DK boards:

14 yards for shotguns

22 yards for pistols

34 yards for machine pistols and SMGs

42 yards for assault rifles and LMGs

43 yards for projectiles (RPG, grenade launcher, etc.)

56 yards for sniper rifles

Visibility

Hate the way things look from the perspective of the killstreaks (fuzzy, thermal, etc.)? Hit back/select to pull up the scoreboard. Obviously it obscures your vision in more drastic manners, but everything that you can see will look clear & familiar.

Daily Challenges

Obviously this varies by challenge, but some of them can be abused for extra information. Example of a recent one "Kill a bomb carrier". If you are playing S&D, the daily challenge triggers when it happens. Man down, get challenge announcement, tell your team where the bomb is. Only works once for you, but for a team of 6, that's 6 times you can utilize it every time it comes up, instead of only once per entire prestige.

Speaking of Care Packages...

If you are an avid Javelin user, you are always looking for fun spots to lock on to that get you seemingly impossible kills. Care package helicopters are amazing for this. Have your Javelin ready to go, and when the care package helicopter flies in, lock on to where it stops. The helicopter will fly away out of the map as you expect, but your Javelin will stay locked on to where the helicopter was instead of the helicopter itself if you let it leave. Lots of fun can be had this way.

If there's a couple of people upstairs in Resistance stop just blindly running head first into the house step back have a class with recon pro, radar C4 and RPG and blast them out from the safety of the road.

Perfect overall extractor class is any SMG ,RPG, recon pro, assassin and steady aim, C4 and porti-radar.

When stacking killstreaks never overlap anything that comes in an airdrop (C.P and sentries) as you will lose them. Unless theyve fixed it within the last couple of weeks

I thought what the hey and give the tips and tricks thread a bit of a bump, of course it's for perfectly selfless reasons and nothing to do with posting a clip.

In another thread someone mentioned problems clearing people out of the one house in seatown so I thought i'd pop up what works for me.

Recon pro is easily the best perk.

Anybody have any tips for playing demolition. I was trying to complete the clan challenge, defusing the most bombs, and got absolutely raped.

Dead Silence tip:

Use shotties.  Gets you in close range kill mode (until you get range).  So you can rack up the close range kills quite easily. 

Once you get pro, spend a game or two jumping out of windows, of ledges, cliffs, anything high enough to make a crunch under your feet when you jump off.  2-3 games messing around doing this and you can get some good xp.

Extreme Conditioning tip:

Nothing you can do will make you complete the challenge faster, just simply remember to sprint every chance you get.

Once you get pro, find anything that would normally toggle an "x" indicator to climb up on, rinse and repeat over and over again until spammed out.  Best levels for this are Bootleg, Resistance and Hardhat.  They all have tons of stuff for you to climb over and into. 

To earn Hardline pro faster,use it in conjunction with Specialist. 1 kill and you have your "killstreak".  Even if you are dying a lot, you can easily get Hardline pro. 

When I did level up (sitting pretty at 20 now ):

I'd immediately jump into Drop Zone.  There I'd spam both Recon and Blast Shield perks.  You can easily have BOTH of these perks proby the 5th or 6th games.  Key to spamming BS is owning the DZ.  If you've ever played then you know what I mean.  Constantly spam your lethals and tacticals as well, remember your using RECON.  Die, rinse, repeat.  I could easily be at level 20 in 4 games in that mode. 

After spamming DZ and getting those perks pro, switch to your favorite game mode but be sure you are running Specialist.  This is the EASIEST method of leveling up.  Earn a certain perk 150 times, switch to new perk, rinse and repeat over and over and over for a steady stream of 10,000 xp.  Easiest way to earning said perk 150 times, as I pointed out above, is using Specialist in conjunction with Hardline.

-wridtrvlr

Good placement of your porti-radar allows you to nail kills without puting yourself in to much danger

A good tip for Kill Confirmed if you're hanging out around a specific area is to use enemy tags as a portable radar of sorts.

Although I rarely pick up tags, a buddy of mine who is more inclined to play the objective does this and it works to his advantage. If you leave a tag in a chokepoint, and it gets denied you know an enemy is coming that way.

A pretty simple tactic that can have huge rewards