CoD4 Support


As you rack up kills, you will be notified of support abilities that you can use by pressing the 6 key. These should be used whenever you get them, as they can help your team immensely. You can only have one support ability at a time, so be careful to use your ability before increasing your streak. If you die, you keep any support ability you had.


3-kill streak

- UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle): scans the map, pinging the locations of all enemies who don't have the UAV Jammer perk. Everyone on your team can see the pings. I believe that one call lasts for 30 seconds, and I think that multiple calls stack for your team, so two calls made at the same time give a 60 second scan. Feel free to correct me on this.


5-kill streak

- Airstrike: if no jet icons are on the radar map, you may call an airstrike. The map will appear and you can click where you want the bombs to fall. The area around your click will be bombarded with three strikes in quick succession. Try to hold your strike until your team's UAV is active, and don't bomb enemies under solid roofs (it won't do anything). This support can sometimes be more effective at taking out enemies than the helicopter, so make sure to use it before racking up a larger kill streak. Be extremely careful when using this on a friendly fire server! Also, consider saving it for critical offensives or saving efforts in Headquarters, Sabotage, Search and Destroy, and Domination.



7-kill streak

- Helicopter: if no helicopter icon is on the radar map, you can call an AI helicopter gunship to fly around the map shooting at any enemy it can find. The chopper has missiles and a minigun with considerable bullet penetration. Any kill the chopper makes goes towards your kill count. If you're dealing with an enemy chopper, shoot at it if your fire won't give your position away to the enemy. All bullets that can reach the chopper (i.e. not shotgun shells) will damage it, and every little bit helps. RPGs usually either kill choppers or reduce their HP to within a few bullets of damage, but LMGs also do considerable damage. Some servers have custom settings for the chopper's HP; I recall a server where the chopper spawned with only one HP! Don't count on something like that, though.