Build a ranked loadout around your squad role
Choose complementary weapons, compatible attachments, and useful utility.
Cover the engagement gap
Choose your primary around the fights you can control and your secondary around the distance or cadence it does not cover. Match ammunition and attachments to the weapons you expect to keep.
Budget utility before spare items
Smoke, healing, and enough ammunition for a second engagement can matter more than carrying every spare attachment. Agree on who holds long angles and who moves first before saving the build.
Review and repeat
Record the result of the experiment and the conditions under which you tried it. Keep the changes that make a repeatable difference and revisit them when a patch changes the relevant mechanic.
Turn it into a repeatable drill
- Record your baseline
- Test one change
- Review a comparable sample
A visual mechanics lesson
WackyJacky101 · Looting fundamentals · 2022. Older footage may differ from the current game; use it for the practice method, not current patch values.
Keep learning
Build a repeatable first five minutes
A practical landing, looting, and first-rotation checklist.
Improve your ranked decision process
Review the decisions you can repeat instead of chasing a single good result.
Plan a rotation with two exits
Turn map awareness into a route with alternatives and a useful departure time.