Since I couldn’t find proper images of all the Hardpoint mini-maps to learn the Hardpoints / Hills and their order of rotation – I made a consolidated version of what I was looking for and I am sharing that here. My average ranked teammates – PLEASE use this and learn where the OBJ is 🙏🏻😅.
Also, I had made a post with useful tips for Hardpoint, but the tips got mixed up in a wall of text and didn’t get enough views, so making a cleaner version of it now.
– Tip #1: The most obvious, yet widely elusive concept – STOP PLAYING ONLY FOR THE KILLS! The name of game mode is HP, so HP gives Ws – not kills. Stop acting like stepping into the HP is a crime just because you are an AR main.
– Tip #2: Learn the HPs and the order in which they shift – but more importantly, learn what are [“Money hills”](https://youtu.be/oKTJQ2ey0zk), if any, in different maps.
In short, “Money hill” is the hill / HP which is best suited for being able to hold the HP for whole duration after capturing it because it is a difficult hill to break through once captured with the right spawn manipulation.
– Tip #3: Keep a watch on the timer as well as the position of your teammates on the mini map (use perspective teammate setting ON as well). Now, use this information to rotate closer to the next HP, especially the Money hill, and place yourself in such a position that either helps your teammates spawn at favourable angles, or gives you a gun-fight advantage over enemies trying to break your hold on the HP, or both.
FOCUS! Because if you nail this – you are maximising your influence in getting the W that you want.
Even if your teammates are running like *headless chicken*, if you get them to spawn closer to the HP, eventually they will be more useful.
– Tip #4: Try not to go alone while trying to break a hill. If teammates are a few seconds away, wait and try break into the HP with them or use them as bait or whatever. Unfortunately this doesn’t always work, as some people play marathon simulator and run all over the map randomly.
– Tip #5: Master a few guns and then use the right guns for the right maps. For example: As a full time OBJ player who also does Rotation and sometimes Anchoring – I use the Fennec in maps with a lot of corners and rooms where most OBJ gunfights are exclusively CQC and dependent on movement and faster TTK, like Rush, Shoothouse, Nuketown etc. I use the DRH for more “open” maps like Crash, Terminal, Raid, Apocalypse, etc. where OBJ gunfights range may extend to Mid-range or even Long-range. I use Snipers in maps like Terminal, Firing Range, Hacienda etc., usually to try and counter other snipers if we are suffering too many deaths while trying to play OBJ.
– Tip #6: Use the right guns for the right situations! Of course, don’t swap weapons too often in a single game – but sometimes in the right situation, using a different weapon may come in handy. For example: I primarily use the DRH or SX9 in Summit for beaming the flanking pathways that lead to P4 and the spawn point from P3 and so on. But sometimes, when it feels like it’s needed, I swap to the Fennec for P2 in Summit because the faster TTK helps in defending against opponents sliding in to break the hill.
Similarly, to break into P2 or P4 wood in Firing range where opponents are sitting in the corners – I switch to DRH when it feels like wall bangs are necessary.
– Tip #7: Don’t repeat mistakes! This one applies for all modes actually. If you rush mid or other open areas or choke points and die – don’t repeat the exact same thing and die again and again – [like this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/CallOfDutyMobile/s/21hAvgVHAV). Choose your path to the destination wisely and always check the corners.
– Tip #8: Chose your Operator Skills and use them wisely. For example: I am now replacing my usual Claw with Reactor Core for Standoff because it is useful in clearing P2, P3 and P4 safely from outside or from above / below the hills, and I consider these to be potential “money hills”. I won’t use the Reactor Core for a map like Hacienda where all of the Hardpoints are too large to be covered effectively by the Reactor Core and also too out in the open to be used safely – Instead I will use Equaliser for clearing such hills.
– Tip #9: This one basically deserves a separate post because of its importance – Learn and understand what (bad) CAMPING actually is! I am tired of literal idiots who do the following things:
– They don’t stay inside the hill because they are not campers. Instead they rush out in the open while nobody else is available to hold the OBJ and die (happens especially when I have used the Cluster strike to clear out a hill and I am unable to capture it myself because of the damage 😭)
– They don’t check corners and die constantly and start bashing opponents for “camping”, while in reality the opponents are actually moving around but holding angles whenever they hear the rushing idiots.
– They keep rushing mid in Firing Range or Crash with an SMG and have a (very short and unsuccessful) gunfight with Snipers, and then start bashing them for “camping”. They expect Snipers to rush out and act like it’s Shipment Sr1v1 or what?
– Tip #10: Learn when to retreat and re-engage, fight the urge to “Ego-Chal”! This one is actually something even the pros forget… the most common version of this mistake – after barely surviving shots from a sniper or AR guy while playing with an SMG or something, we sometimes (without even thinking about it) just re-peek that corner and try to shoot-back at that guy and die in the process.
There are other basic ‘tips’ that we need to keep in mid constantly as well – like taking cover while reloading, slide-peeking every corner while rotating, etc., which I haven’t mentioned here to keep it lighter.
I hope the content will be useful for players who need it to improve. If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading such a long post. Share it with people who you think might need this and like it so that it may reach more people who need to learn this and we have lesser *headless chicken* to carry in HP.
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An important tip to get better at hardpoint. You can win hardpoint with just being decent at gunfights. You don’t need exceptionally good gun skills, however what you need is a good understanding of the map and how the spawn works. If you can manipulate the spawn to your own liking, you can win hardpoint with just decent gun skills.
I hope people will appreciate your post but half way I stopped reading. Very accurate and useful information btw.