Top 5 tips to dominate Nuketown ’84 in Black Ops Cold War
The return of one of Call of Duty’s most famous and popular maps means another year of killing, raging, and nuking. But if you want to finish top of the leaderboard every time, then use these 5 top tips to dominate Nuketown in BOCW.
It’s no surprise that Nuketown constantly reappears in later iterations of CoD to keep duking and nuking over and over again. It’s a small map absolutely jam-packed with character, personality, and lots of good spots and tactics.
The map is far more diverse than people ever give it credit for. From the house-to-house battles, to the left channel, the unpredictability of the middle, and much more. It works in all modes, showcases some tense altercations, and there are ways to ensure you come out on top.
#1 – Try to avoid camping
Honestly, due to how volatile and frequent the spawn points change in this map it’s highly unadvisable to stay in the same spot for too long. If you want to truly dominate, then you need to keep moving and monitor the spawns. Given how small Nuketown is, you can guarantee a multitude of Spy Planes, so you’ll basically always know where the enemy is.
Also, camping in the houses upstairs is not the play. Everyone knows to look there ASAP, you can’t actually see that much up there, and you’re prone to grenades, penetrative damage, and being crept up on.
#2 – If you do camp, use these spots
Top tips and tricks are so supposed to encompass all aspects of the map and some people won’t be comfortable running around and getting gunned down constantly. So if you need a breather or a few “easy” kills to cement that scorestreak, then these spots should work for you.
Behind the blue car
You can easily peer through the windows across the map and down the left side, and you can also see down the right too. Its only flaw is the threat of enemies spawning behind you.
The jeep
A pretty obvious one here, you get great coverage of the map and can hide behind it like the blue car. But you’re susceptible to a grenade blowing it, and you, up. Also, because of where it’s situated, you won’t have a full field of view, meaning you’ll have to quickly keep looking left and right.
Next to the mannequin lady
Very hard to be seen here, plus if enemies are spawning in the house behind you, 9 times out of 10 they’ll run straight past you and leave themselves open. Conversely, if the enemy spawns on the other side, you’re risking multiple enemies spotting you and probably killing you.
Prone in the middle
An absolute hidden gem of the map that barely anyone does for some reason. Given how chaotic and frantic Nuketown is, no one ever stops to wonder if someone is prone behind a bus in the middle. This trick is most effective in S&D if you can get there first. The downside is trying to determine if you’ve overstayed your welcome.
#3 – Constantly monitor the spawns
I know we’ve mentioned this a few times now, but the importance of it cannot be underestimated. For example, if you’re in one of the houses above and see your teammate running from the opposite house, or an enemy running from beneath you, then it’s obvious they’ve switched. Now you can run to the balcony behind you and score some easy spawn kills.
#4 – When you spawn, sometimes wait for a second or two
Most of the time it will seem counter-productive, but you’ve no idea how many times you’ll spawn in the garden, run out of it, and be dead again within two seconds. The variables in Nuketown can literally change in a heartbeat. Whether it’s the enemy placement or the whereabouts of an enemy in a key location.
It’s very easy to become locked down in one of the garden areas for a few deaths until the map sorts itself out. If you’re doing Team Deathmatch or a proper, objective-focused mode, then you might want to be careful.
#5 – The RC-XD easter egg
Even to this day, lots of people are completely unaware this even exists. This is another one for S&D, or if you know the spawns are locked down for a few seconds. To do this, you’ll need an RC-XD scorestreak.
At the back of each house, the respective gardens have a gaping hole in one section of the fence that can fit an RC-XD. You can drive this from one side of the map, jumping over a ramp in the process, to the other garden and take out enemies from behind.
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And there you go. Hopefully you’ve picked up some essential tidbits about Nuketown 84′ that should definitely increase your performance in the map.