Call Of Duty: Black Ops Tips and Tactics

Here are a few Call of Duty: Black Ops tips and tactics.

CP
CoD Points, or CP, is the cash that'll buy you weapons, perks, attachments, customisation details and everything else in the Black Ops armoury. You earn CP through levelling and through completing the Contracts targets that you set yourself.
Pick the Contracts you know you can complete, and do those. Then do them over and over again once their cool-down timer expires. If you're going for a big bank account right away, stick within the normal progression. This is important, as the XP earns get larger over the long haul. If you go too far and mix them up too much, moving between 'this style' and 'that style' you won't necessarily be going for the big money. You'll be getting lots of CP wins, but in smaller amounts.

Contracts
You can have three Contracts running at any one time. They're in-game challenges you can set yourself while you play, and they'll drown you with rewards when you complete them.
Mercenary Contracts are for weapon fiends, Operation Contracts involve the game modes, and Specialist Contracts are usually higher risk and higher reward

Mercenary Contracts are usually about getting kills with particular guns. Every gun has three different contracts attached: Cruelty, Ferocity and Brutality. Take out a Brutality contract and kill 75 players within the next 40 minutes of gameplay time, and you'll be laughing...

XP Unlocks
In Call of Duty: Black Ops the XP you gain through your kills and victories, as ever, raises you up through levels - unlocking different features as you improve. What's new to Black Ops, however, is that once you've unlocked a game feature you can immediately buy anything from within it using CP. Guns are the only things left in the game that still get unlocked at different levels. You don't need to do challenges to unlock content - if you have enough money you can spend it where you want to. 

KillStreaks
The tendency is to take a Killstreak and use it right away - but you don't lose the Killstreak if you die, they stack on top of each other, so the smart placement of Killstreak rewards, and the smart timing of calling them in, creates a dynamic. Killstreak kills don't count towards other Killstreaks. You can't get a napalm strike and kill three people with it, then all of a sudden have the Blackbird SR71. There's more of a cat and mouse game here between players using Killstreaks and others using defensive Killstreaks to nullify them.

Gun GameEvery time you make a kill in Gun Game, your weapon cycles up a ladder of twenty weapons, and each time you're killed by a knife you drop a step down. A kill with weapon 20 will win the match, with weapons 19 and 20 being the crossbow and the ballistic knife. If you see someone with those weapons, attempt to melee kill them immediately.

One in the ChamberThis mode sees every player armed with one bullet, one pistol and three lives. Kill an enemy, and you'll salvage whatever collection of bullets they've built up. Our tip? It's tempting to sneak through levels, yet fast movement will let you catch up with other players - catching them off-guard and often allowing for bullet-sparing back-stabs

Sticks and Stones
In this mode, you're equipped with the Crossbow, the Ballistic Knife and the Tomahawk. The key is not getting too carried away by the hilarity of sticking people with crossbow bolts - learn to switch to the Tomahawk when you've got a dead cert kill and you'll bankrupt the other player, giving you a much better chance of hauling yourself into the top three.

Sharpshooter
The rotation of weapons is random, so it's all about being good with every weapon thrust into your hands. Our only tip is try not to overspecialise. If you're only familiar with one loadout, you'll be terrible at Sharpshooter. Use the facility to save multiple loadouts in regular multiplayer, and learn to use a greater percentage of weaponry when there isn't CP on the line.