Originally Posted by Sluggo78

This might have been brought up before in the past, i dont know.
But every time I come face to face with an enemy, its 50/50 chance i live or die. Especially in infantry maps such as tunis or camp G. Say im walking around a corner advancing to a flag, and there is 1 or 2 guys coming my way, and i have to take them out. Sometimes it will look like i won the shootout, like getting more shots on him than he does on me, or behind cover.
In the end sometimes i will just... Die, and i keep wondering to myself what i did wrong.

Any tips i should remember, tips that might increase my chances of surviving shootouts with enemy players on infantry maps?

I really liked Crux's Infantry guides here: Tactical Gamer Guide Index

Originally Posted by Crux's Infantry Guide Part I: The Definition of Insanity

What Just Happened?

Bob runs around a corner and sees four enemy soldiers. He drops to one knee and begins shooting. He takes one down, gets killed. They revive their fallen man and move on.

Five minutes later, Bob runs around a corner and sees four enemy soldiers. He drops to one knee and begins shooting…

Bob’s AI is not very sophisticated. This is because Bob doesn’t ask that one critical question: what just happened? And because Bob doesn’t ask this, he cannot evaluate his combat actions for effectiveness. In essence, Bob isn’t stopping to consider if there isn’t a better way to react to this circumstance. One time, six months ago Bob probably came around that corner and managed to kill all four. Never mind that they were all snipers at 20% health, in Bob’s mind all he recalls is watching those bodies fall to the ground. He spends the rest of his gaming career trying to recreate that moment of glory.

I realized from reading it that for the most part I was an aggressive player - didn't like to stand still at all, running was better. I still move around a lot, but now I wait also, which has worked really well.

As for what to do, you against two other players both trying to kill you isn't very good odds. Find some way to break people up and shoot them separately - grenades are really good for this, a well aimed grenade will net you more kills than a full clip of rifle bullets, and cause people to scatter.
The objective should be to stack to stack the odds as high as you can in your favor, without resorting to illegal/TOS-violating methods. Shooting people in the back works great.

Hope some of this made sense,
David