Call of Duty 4 Perks

Perks let your custom class stand out and can help give you the edge against the enemy. What exactly are perks? Well perks are boosts to weapons and abilities. Maybe the gun you are using only offers mild to medium damage, but high accuracy. By using the stopping power perk you can increase its overall damage while still keeping the high accuracy to make for a truly deadly weapon. Keep getting blow up by claymores or C4? With the bomb squad perk you will be able to detect explosives before you get too close. Those are just two examples of what perks can do for you.



There are three different perk groups however you are only allowed to select one perk per group, so choose wisely. Attachments such as the grenade launcher for example, will fill your Perk 1 slot only leaving you with two actual perks.

Now that you have an idea of what perks do lets take a look at each perk. We have broken down the perks by group.


 

Perk 1 Group

Bomb Squad


Strengths: Just like the ability says it helps you seek out enemy explosives. When you start to get in range of an enemy's explosives you will see a small icon overtop of the explosives location. This should tell you when to either back off or give you the chance to blow up the explosives from a safe distance.

Weakness: You will not be able to carry extra explosives devices like claymores, C4, RPG, or special grenades.

Tips:
1.) This perk comes in very handy in objective based games. It is very common for the defending team to lace the bomb targets with explosives so they do not have to watch them as closely. With bomb squad you will be able to see that the target is laced before you go in and get yourself killed. Either blow up the explosives from a distance or head to the other bomb target.

C4 x2


Strengths: Gives you two extra explosives that can be detonated remotely. C4 has a decent sized blast radius.

Weakness: To detonate remotely you must have the trigger equipped instead of your weapon which leaves you vulnerable to the enemy.

Tips:
1.) Throw C4 around doorways instead of on the floor in front of them. Doing this will make the C4 much harder to see and the enemy will be much less likely to blow it up from a distance.

2.) Use the environment to your advantage. Placing C4 on cars will help increase the blast radius and could result in a large amount of kills if the enemy is moving together.

3.) You can use C4 to lace the bomb targets in objective-based games. If someone goes to plant the bomb you can end their run with the flick of the trigger.



Claymore x2


Strengths: Gives you two extra explosives that do not need to be detonated remotely. Very hard to see in tall grass.

Weakness: Easy to see if they are placed in the open. Easy too shoot from a distance.

Tips:
1.) Work great for lacing bomb targets especially since you do not have to detonate remotely.

2.) Placing claymores at the top of ladders will make them almost impossible to see usually resulting in an easy kill

3.) Claymores can be used to barricade yourself in a building/room as long as there are only one or two ways to enter said building/room.

4.) If you are sniping, claymores can help to keep the enemy from sneaking up on you. Setup a parameter and you can spend more time looking through the scope and less time worrying about being knifed from behind.

RPG-7 x2


Strengths: Powerful rockets that pack a large punch. These are the best way to take down an enemy helicopter or clear out a small room.

Weakness: Easily dodged from a distance

Tips:
1.) Use the environment. RPG's can quickly and easily be used to blow up cars from a distance causing any enemies near said car to be annihilated.

Special Grenades x3


Strengths: Gives you three extra special grenades. Special grenades include flash and stun grenades.

Weakness: Does not include smoke grenades.

Tips:
1.) Use stun and frag grenades in conjunction with each other. The stun grenade will slow your enemy down and give you an easy chance to toss a frag grenade right at their feet.

2.) Use flash grenades to blind enemies before entering a room. Using your radar you may be able to tell who is waiting for you in the next room and where they are positioned. A well placed flash grenade can result in you getting several kills on blind enemies.
 

Group 2 Perks

Group 3 of the perks has a healthy mix of both offensive and defensive perks. Upon release of the full game I will be adding many more perks to this section so please watch for those future updates.

Deep Impact


Strengths: Allows you to easily shoot through and have bullets penetrate objects from greater distances.

Weakness: None

Tips:
1.) This perk works well with heavy or fast shooting weapons.

2.) Pay close attention to your radar as you may be able to get kills through walls or other objects.



Extreme Conditioning


Strengths: Allows you to run longer distances before becoming fatigued. You are much harder to hit while you are running.

Weakness: You can not shoot while running.

Tips:
1.) A great perk for snipers. Since you will most likely be moving positions often as to not give your location away, this perk can get you to that next position much more quickly.

2.) This perk can be useful in objective-based game types like CTF, headquaters, sabotage, search & destroy and domination. Extreme conditioning will allow you to get to the objective faster or carry a flag/bomb across the map more quickly.

Last Stand


Strengths: Last stand gives you a last chance to kill your enemy and possibly earn you or your team extra points.

Weakness: You will be stuck in one place and will only be able to turn yourself 360 degree’s. Last stand will not activate if you die by headshot or explosion.

Tips:
1.) Be prepared to start firing immediately after you go down. It happens fast and if you aren’t ready your enemy may get the final shot on you or have a chance to run away leaving you to die.

2.) Last stand works best in fast paced game types when players don’t have a lot of time to make sure you are dead before moving on.



Martyrdom


Strengths: Allows you the chance to get kills from beyond the grave.

Weakness: Easily avoided.

Tips:
1.) Best used on full servers and in fast paced game types like deathmatches, domination and headquarters. Your enemy will be less focused on whether you dropped a live grenade and there is a greater chance of other enemies walking across it when it goes off.


Steady Aim


Strengths: Increases your accuracy and helps with heavy recoil weapons.

Weakness: Does not increase accuracy when looking down the iron sights.

Tips:
1.) Steady aim seems to work best with small machine guns or weapons with heavy recoil.

This concludes the perks sections of this guide. Hopefully we were able to provide you with a clearer understanding of CoD4’s multiplayer perks and how to best use them.

 

 

Special thanks to Connors at CBW Gaming for creating this guide