Medal of Honor

Today we’re bringing you another special blog written by EA_Dink, helping give some pro-tips when playing Medal of Honor online. For those who missed out the first time around, EA_Dink is a Product Manager for EA shooters and is, by far and wide, the best Medal of Honor player in the company. In fact, he's given me some mighty tips to help me with my game on more than one occasion. In short, the man has skills and he knows what he's talking about.

Without further ado, take it away Dink!

Today, I want to tell you about one of the more under-rated sniper rifles, the G3. While you can find plenty of history on it here, what you really want to know is how to use it online in Medal of Honor. Matty P may have his own take on this particular sniper selection, the fragalicious kills I’ve dished out with this weapon has enlightened me with this advice:

Right setup: The G3 is a medium range rifle so don’t be looking to park it in one spot with this gun. Rather, I see it as a tactical and mobile attack weapon. For me, the best setup is combat scope with the extended ammo, open-tip doesn’t add the pop that it does for some of the other weapons.

Now that you’re set with your hardware, here are a few strategies I employ when running and gunning with the G3. First, like any weapon in the sniper class, you should try to only fire that weapon while zoomed in (more on this later) and preferably not moving, but alas that won’t always hold true. Secondly, this is a run and gun weapon; get to a location, crouching in cover if possible, and pick out your targets, this best works for Combat Mission and Sector Control modes IMO. Once you’ve spotted an enemy or two, let loose at least 5 rounds – remember, the extended mag holds plenty (20 rounds I believe) so spread your leaded love. The trick here is to forget your “sniper” mentality of making every shot count for a kill, because the weapon licks off rounds so quickly jam on that trigger as fast as you can. In fact, I often prefer to get closer to the mix where soldiers are running through an open area and just follow them across the map, rather than picking a location and waiting for someone to run into my scope (as I would for an M24 shot).

Another helpful tactic, for two reasons, is to makes sure that if and when you are in tight spaces you run around with you pistol out, rather than the G3. In this case, your primary weapon has a slower raise-to-zoom than some of the more compact weapons out there and having your pistol drawn helps give you that edge back, although you sacrifice distance and accuracy. Secondly, due to its semi-auto nature, firing the G3 from the hip results in amazing inaccurate shots (you might kill someone on another server, who knows).

That’s all for now on this topic, give it a whirl and let me know what you think! I'll be happy to hear your woes and “just pwned you, noob” rants based on this post.

-Dinkster

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