General Tips

Go High

In many cases during the game, you're going to have the opportunity to breach through multiple doorways, using your team members to head through one while you head through another. This can be valuable when you have tangos on multiple sides of a room without clear lines of sight to one another.

Whenever possible, aim down at your opponents from above.

However, in some cases you will also have the choice to enter through to the second floor or the first floor of a room. In almost every case here, you'll want to pick the second floor entrance. Getting height on your enemies will let you fire on them from above, and will also reduce the chance that they'll be able to throw grenades at you. The exceptions to this rule is when there's inadequate cover on the upper floor, or when the upper floor is filled with catwalks. Catwalks can usually be shot through, meaning that enemies below you will have an easy kill waiting for them.

Using Silencers

You can easily tell your team members to use their silencers by tapping the Back or Select buttons, and you can also attach silencers to your own weapons to prevent them from making a huge amount of noise. This infiltration mode works quite well in most cases, but silenced weapons will be a bit less accurate than normal and also deal less damage; they'll probably also penetrate materials less well than they normally would. If you manage to shoot enemies without making much noise, though, they won't have an opportunity to call in reinforcements and thus you'll wind up fighting fewer enemies.

If you're playing on the normal difficulty, then you can definitely play through the entire game with silencers off; you'll have bigger firefights and more enemies to kill, but that's all part of the fun. However, if you choose to use silencers, you'll want to know when to use them. In most cases, taking on large concentrations of enemies, such as are normally found in large rooms, will simply be more difficult if using a silencer; the gunshots of your enemies will almost always draw in more enemies. There are exceptions, though, such as when you can nab a bunch of patrolling enemies with headshots while they're standing away from their posse. In most cases, though, firefights will erupt based on scripts. Even if you enter some rooms completely quietly, you'll still sometimes be forced into a huge battle, so go ahead and take off your silencers for these kinds of encounters.

Still, though, in most cases it's probably best to keep your silencers on, both for yourself and your teammates. If you use the single-fire mode for your weapons, you can get headshots from a decent range, even with an SMG, which will let you stealthily bypass many enemy positions. Plus, it's just kind of fun to kill someone without his friend across the room knowing about it.

Use Your Teammates

Your AI-controlled teammates are very good at their jobs. They have the ability to see enemies relatively easily, whether they’re above them or behind them, and will fire on almost anything that comes into vision immediately. They will also adjust to different lighting conditions, as well, using thermal goggles to see through smoke and nightvision to see in the dark.

It's generally safer to let your teammates move ahead of you and take the lead.

What this all adds up to is the fact that your teammates are probably better at the game than you are. There's also the little fact that the game ends when you go down, but doesn't end if a teammate gets shot; you can always attempt to heal them and get them back in the game before moving on.

Thus, in situations where you suspect there might be enemies that you can't see, it's usually beneficial to send your teammates into a room before you and get them behind cover. They'll fire on anything they can, allowing them to take down enemies in odd positions that would probably have capped you had you moved in first. You can, of course, rush in yourself if you like to get experience for all the kills in a level, but don't be surprised if you wind up getting dead more often than not.

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