Check this list to see if you are making this 5 common mistakes. Remember: admitting that there’s a problem is the first step for solving it.

1 – Wasting Stamina

I could write an entire post on it (and I probably will). People just waste too much stamina resulting in characters that can be heard from a mile away and that don’t have enough stamina to run away in sticky situations. Main reasons are:

• You have always the sprint button pressed.
• You don’t walk and/or crouch when you should.
• Unnecessary jumps (most common error)
• You don’t know how to circle jump correctly.

A great way to save stamina is mixing powerslides with walking. I’ve never heard my character breath again since I started to use this technique which to me is very important. There should be a post about this very soon.

2 – Lack of patience

Sometimes you should just step back and wait. The most common error is in a 1v1 situation when your opponent runs away to reload or to medic himself and you just try to finish him with your sidearm. It’s a big error when you try to do so while bleeding or with low stamina.
Depending on the number of hits that you’ve taken and also the number of hits that you dealt to your opponent you should decide if it is convenient to finish the fight quickly. I try always to bandage if an opponent runs away and also with the help of a good pair of headphones I can hear what he’s doing (bandaging or running away).

3 – Challenging the sniper

This is a very common mistake among good players.. the reason is they got pissed because they got killed by a sniper usually in the opening of the round. Normally a good sniper runs to take position and aim towards doors or cracks where he thinks that enemies will show up. A good example is aiming from the spawn to the plaza (oasis) in Algiers 0r Casa’s Narrow (spawning from New Alley). For a sniper it is a very easy kill since his opponent just doesn’t have the time to spot him and eventually shoot him down. This lends to serious discussions on pubs usually (“You’re a frakkin’ camper!” etc..) and eventually players gets pissed and try over and over to kill the sniper from the same position with poor results. If a players has a natural position advantage you shouldn’t even try. The solution is very simple: flanking. Is very easy to kill the sniper at the spawn in Algiers by flanking him from the left.

4 – Not using the knife

I can’t tell you how important the knife is in sticky situations. You should pull it out whenever an enemy comes too close to you. The reason is that models overlap and you miss him even if you shouldn’t due to bad hits recognition (caused by ping, server, bugs etc..). You should always have your knife ready in slash mode and if you feel that you are going to use it (example if you’re trying to finish your opponent with the DE) try running towards them instead of running away from them.

5 – Reloading

There are two problems about reloading. Reloading too often (reloading with 23/30 is a waste imho) or not reloading at all (for example not reloading the sidearm). It’s a common issue especially when you want to finish off a fight quickly and you forgot to reload. Every bullet is important.

Tell us if you are making other mistakes and if you found yourself in these 5.