Part 3 - Basics to Online Multiplayer, Getting the Best Out of You

Part 3 - Avoiding Mistakes and Focusing.

 Here are some mistakes you want to avoid, these include:

• Mis-throwing a grenade that backfires on you, hurts/kills a team mate or flips a friendly vehicle.
• Rushing into battle constantly with only an assault rifle and grenades. (seen it thousands and thousands of times) Unless you're very experienced and have deduced that the enemy is not good enough to beat you. 
• Rocket killing your own team mates. Which is even easier that grenade killing them.
• Carrying 2 power weapons at a time. Rockets and Shotgun. Sniper and Rockets. Are bad combos for one player, it's generally much better to assign a team mate the other power weapon and have a DMR or Pistol in reserve.
• Rushing into battles, and giving away your position. (again see I this thousands of times)
• Running out in the open with short range power weapons.
• Staying indoors with long range power weapons like the sniper rifle.

That point about rushing into battles ties in with being focused, because most times it's your attitude that makes you rush in and dying ( which just feeds the enemy kills until they get a free win.) You just get frustrated and try the same thing over and over again. Use your map knowledge, learn where the right weapons are that you need.

Being Focused.

This is something you need to get in the habit of doing. And it's best described as being in the zone. Sounds a little cliched, but it's almost like you have to be sensitive to everything going on in the game. The movement of your team and the opposing team, the power weapons, who controls them, what the current score is, who the good and bad players are.

The more you stay focused on these things and especially on achieving your short term and overall game goals, the better you will do. This means having as few out of game distractions, like eating, drinking, talking etc... this of course is different for everybody, but do what's best for you.

Another thing is to try and stay loose. An overly tense player can't fully focus on playing as they are too tense. And this can change throughout the course of a game. Try to relax and focus on playing your game.