Aye, especially if you aren’t the best of shots when it comes to moving targets – like me. It’s always hard to know when to engage & a lot of people will get antsy & just go for the kill because they know they have the drop on someone, but you will give away your position as soon as you fire if you aren’t using a suppressed weapon. I think a good time to just leave people be – even when you have the drop on them – is if you can hear gunshots somewhere close, like to one side, or especially behind you as you could potentially give your position away to them which might end up allowing someone to get the drop on you after you engage with your own prey or while you are descending on your preys body like a bloody vulture.
Speaking of bodies, if you knock a person down but not out, it might be worth leaving them crawling around & moving position to watch & see if one of their team mates comes to revive them. Let them start healing for a couple seconds, then blast the shit out of both of them.
One last thing. When in the plane. Decide on one place. Mark it on the map & everyone else remove your markers as it often ends up leading to confusion on where to go & members of your squad end up getting split up to different locations. A sound tactic would be setting 2 locations. Primary destination & peel off destination in case the place you were heading for has lots of other people going to it. Communication is the key, though it’s really hard sometimes because someone will be saying north > north-west or a bearing degree, but what you have to remember is that the direction & bearing will likely be absolutely useless if everyone in your squad is spread too far out. If you are clustered near each other then bearings are fine, if you are close-ish then just use general compass directions like north to north-west because they at least give the rest of the squad a general direction to use for their own recon, unlike the bearing which could have them looking way too far of-course.
Final note: I wish I could actually employ half the tactics I’ve written about on here, but unfortunately my head just seems to throw caution to the wind when I’m actually in-game. It’s so hard keeping cool, calm & collected as soon as the bullets start flying.
