There are a few hints that can give away a trap, though. If you see a car in the open, you should immediately be cautious. One particularly devious ambush involves abandoning cars where they'd be handy for a player to grab, and then waiting for someone to make a run for the vehicle. Open interior doors in buildings with closed outer ones are a good indication someone is hoping you’ll wander inside, as are rooms that have clearly been looted of their best gear with the weaker stuff left behind. Because so many players are often stuck running across open fields to get to better positions, there are lots of opportunities to hide out, wait for someone to happen along, and take them out. If you intend to throw a grenade, make sure you get rid of it even if you change your mind, or else you’ll end your chicken dinner aspirations sooner than expected. Treat your grenades like the bombs that they are. If you ready a grenade and then switch to another gun, you basically put the live grenade back in your bag (as opposed to other games like Call of Duty, where you can’t switch off your grenade without throwing it). But you can also accidentally stow it during this period, too. Holding a grenade allows you to 'cook' it so that it’ll explode more immediately when it lands. Once you do that, the grenade becomes live, meaning you have only seconds to get rid of it. When you switch to a grenade, you 'pull the pin' by pushing the Left Mouse Button, which brings up a trajectory marker that shows where you’ll throw it. But something that’s not immediately apparent is that you can accidentally put away a live grenade and then blow yourself up with it. Like real life, grenades are pretty deadly and more than a little dangerous. When you pull out a gun in the heat of the moment, you want it to act exactly as you expect-there are plenty of times when players die thinking they were about to spray an enemy with lead but only wind up firing one shot, because they forgot to reset their firing mode.

Make sure you know before you switch off a gun or stow your weapons what firing mode you left it on (and generally, switch everything to automatic before you put it away). Guns that you might think should always be set to automatic can be very useful as single-firing weapons as well-for example, a scoped AK-47 can be used more or less like a sniper rifle if you set it to single-action, and that’ll keep the recoil down and ensure you don’t accidentally waste a bunch of extra shots. Some guns include single, 'burst,' and automatic modes, and some only have one. Hit the B key to toggle firing modes on guns that have them, and pay attention to their settings.

Even assault rifles default to single-shot when you pick them up, and if you forget to change it, you might be wondering why you can’t seem to get bullets to come out of your rifle as someone charges you. This is something you really want to keep an eye on, and it’s easy to forget about. Just about every gun you pick up will have more than one firing mode-usually, single-shot and automatic. This is particularly true of scopes-2x, 4x and 8x scopes are tougher to come by than any other sights, but the range they offer you on rifles can be the difference between taking someone out from a hidden position, or having to risk fighting them up close. Sometimes you’ll find attachments that you can’t use yet, and it can be useful to sacrifice a little backpack space for a cheek pad in hopes that you’ll find the gun you want to slap it on. If you know you’re hunting a particular gun, it can pay to grab the attachments before you actually find the weapon you want.

Pay attention to how some of the less obvious attachments-like foregrips and stocks-affect your guns when you use them, so you know what items you want. Having the right attachments for your guns can make them more effective, and make you more likely to win a firefight. But throw on some stocks and extended magazines, and suddenly they’re much more manageable. For instance, the AK-47 or SCAR can present some tough-to-handle recoil in their initial state. Finding an assault rifle or a sniper rifle will often make you feel like you’re ready for anything in a match, but most guns are greatly improved by the attachments you add to them.

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