Things You Should Know Before You Play Delta Force

There’s a lot going on in Delta Force between its large-scale Warfare mode and the Operations extraction mode. Which you play ultimately comes down to your preference, but both modes can be incredibly fun if you go in with an open mind and follow a few basic beginner tips that work regardless of where you spend your time.

What’s great about Delta Force’s easy access to both its game modes is you can use features from one to improve your skills in the other, and though in-game progress doesn’t transfer, your skills can.

Use The Firing Range To Warm Up

Available at the Operations Black Site, the Firing Range is a fantastic place to learn how the armor and ammo system work in Operations and to practice your aim for Warfare mode.

To start, ignore the ammo type your weapon has installed, as we’re not here to test damage but to get our aiming skills ready to play. The dummies in the Firing Range don’t move side to side, but you can change how far away they are from the starting position, letting you test your aim at various distances.

You can also create various drills for yourself. Rather than simply standing in one place and shooting, move all the target dummies to the same distance and try to hit headshots on each of them in sequence.

Take the same system and, instead of standing still, strafe left to right and back again, aiming for headshots as you go.

You can also use the Firing Range to test out every weapon in the game with any combination of attachments to see which you prefer. You’ll still need to unlock your attachments in Warfare, but the guns should handle similarly across modes.

Calibrate Your Attachments

One of Delta Force’s neater mechanics is the ability to calibrate a selection of each weapon’s attachments. The optic, the foregrip, the stock, and several others have calibration options with visual and gameplay effects.

If you calibrate your foregrip’s position, you can move it forward or backward to change where it attaches to the handguard. The further out it goes, the more Control you get. As a balance, the further away the grip is, the more your ADS speed will increase.

Every calibration has this give-and-take; your choice will depend on the weapon and attachment. You’ll probably want to increase the thickness of your foregrip to buff your gun’s stability while moving, though you will sacrifice movement speed while aiming down your sights.

You can experiment with calibrating your weapon, and once everything is set, you can return to the Firing Range to see how it feels.

Use The Stinger Or Hackclaw Operators

It doesn’t matter which game mode you’re playing in Delta Force. The Stinger and Hackclaw Operators are the best, though for different reasons.

Stinger is probably the better of the two for solo play because he has a quickly recharging self-heal that removes debuffs in Operations and can heal teammates to rack up thousands of passive points in a game of Warfare.

Adding Hackclaw while playing as a team completely changes the power dynamics of your squad. Her ability to detect up to six enemies with her and the disruption effect of her Data Knife makes her a nuisance to your enemies no matter what you’re doing.

Stinger is also a major boon to team play, as his revive is significantly faster than other Operators’. Also, his smokescreen and Hex Grenade smokescreen both help keep your team alive and deny the enemy an easy kill.

Hackclaw moves more quietly when crouched or walking, which can be invaluable if you’re playing solo in Operations or want to try a cheeky flank in Warfare.

Play The Objective To Level Up

The greatest source of points in Delta Force is playing the objective, but that takes more than sitting on a flag in Warfare or extracting in Operations. You have to play for your team using everything at your disposal to secure the win, and in doing so, you’ll level up faster.

For example, in Warfare, if you’re playing as Stinger, you need to be healing and reviving teammates as — or more — effectively than you are defeating opponents. That means keeping your Hive-Tech Pistol handy whenever you aren’t in a fight and using it liberally to keep your squad and teammates topped up.

In Operations, the objective is to extract, sure, but it’s also to go in and loot as much as possible. Defeating AI and enemy players also grants XP, so rather than loading into a raid and beelining it for the exit, spend at least 60 percent of the activity time interacting with the game.

Use A Suppressed Weapon To Stay Off The Grid

Suppressors in Delta Force aren’t quite as potent as they are in Escape from Tarkov or Battlefield, but whether you’re playing Operations or Warfare, they can give enemies that little bit of extra uncertainty about where the threat’s coming from.

Using a suppressor can also help with your aim by reducing or removing the muzzle flash when your weapon fires. Most suppressors do reduce your weapon’s Control and/or Handling stat, so you lose a bit of accuracy there, but if visual noise is a major hurdle to aiming well, adding a suppressor can help.

Use Side Routes And Stay Clear Of Teammates To Flank

The maps in Delta Force aren’t very conducive to flank maneuvers in either mode, but you can get around that limitation by understanding where your teammates are and going literally anywhere else.

Here’s why: your teammates are the biggest distraction on the map, especially in big groups assaulting a point or holding a position in Operations. A lone or mostly lone player who goes out of their way to find where their teammates are can use the larger group as a distraction.

It’s not a foolproof strategy because flanking routes are so much rarer in this game than they are in others. However, if you can sneak your way onto an objective or to a surprising position, you’ll force the enemy to pull some of their resources your way, which can be all it takes to win an engagement.

Be Unpredictable

You could also call this tip “playing like a new player.” New players are the most difficult enemies to fight because they don’t know what they’re doing and can pull crazy strategies out of their hats without knowing what they’ve done is crazy.

So, think like a new player. When you find yourself in an unwinnable stalemate in Warfare or are forced to fight an enemy in Operations, consider not trying to out-think them. Instead, ask yourself what a new player would do when they’re cornered or have to go through someone to get where they want to go.

You might not win every fight using this strategy, but it’s almost always better to underthink a situation than overthink it.

Stick To One Weapon At A Time

There’s a healthy selection of weapons in Delta Force, and you’ll eventually need to master them all. However, trying out new weapons every few matches keeps you from digging deep into how any of them work. You won’t be leveling weapons quickly in Warfare if you’re constantly swapping out, either.

Instead, when you first get access to a weapon you like, stick with it for more than a few hours. You’ll learn a lot about your chosen firearm for doing so, including how to best control its recoil, how it feels to shoot at range and up close, and what kind of attachments you prefer on it.

You’ll need to use one weapon a lot to level it in Warfare, as weapons have more than 70 levels to grind through to unlock all the attachments there. And if you’re using one weapon repeatedly in Operations, either you’re surviving more raids with it, know it’s a weapon you can build quickly and cost effectively, or hopefully both.