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Even though the outside area is huge, most combat takes place around the corridors connecting the Bookstore and Burger Town (and between a few campers in the plane’s cockpit). It’s a good level for Sentry guns.
Free-for-All
There’s a good bit of cover on offer in this map, so take good advantage of it, and if you have a scoped weapon, you can rack up a fair number of kills from staying outside.
Team Deathmatch
If a group of you can control the plane area, the top of the escalators and the corner of Burger Town then you can dominate this map with ease. Throwing Semtex with abandon can also cause a lot of carnage on this map.
S&D/Demolition
Target A is instinctively the one to go for as it’s the closest to you and the furthest from your enemy, but try being unpredictable and head for B as well to catch them off guard.
Headquarters
The bookstore is probably the hardest HQ to defend as it not only has two entrances, but it’s in a prime place for snipers from the plane’s cockpit, the nearby building or the metal detectors.
Domination
If you start at the bottom of the escalators then sites B and C are the two best to go for as site A is difficult to get first. Use 2 Riot Shield players to protect site B and a Sentry on C to keep the enemy at bay.
CTF
Flanking the flag positions (either from the outside plane area or from around the metal detectors) is probably the recommended tactic here, as the central corridors beside the bookstore tend to be the best guarded.
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Tip 1: Hanging around the outskirts of the greenhouse will give you an excellent overarching view of a lot of the ‘high-traffic’ areas (such as the lodge or the garages). Just remember to keep a close eye on your back at all times!
Tip 2: This map is well suited for calling in airborne attacks, so be sure to tweak your kill streak setup to favour such attacks, as the openness of the map will leave your enemies exposed much more often.
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Tip 1: To the South-East of the map there’s a platform dangling down, if you jump right, you can climb up it, walk around the edge of the building, up the next platform to the very top of the roof...
Tip 2: Another one for all you budding snipers, if you climb up to the roof of the Western elevators, you can jump over to the cranes and from here jump over to the hidden second level of the Northern building!
