Call of Duty: WWII — Sledgehammer Games’ best tips for getting good at multiplayer

Death is inevitable in Call of Duty multiplayer. But you can always find ways to survive longer in a multiplayer round, and we caught up with the creators of Call of Duty: WWII to glean those tips for this year’s return to boots-on-the-ground combat.

The gameplay this year is far different from last year’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, where you could double-jump into the air and shoot down on unsuspecting noobs (new players). You move at a more deliberate pace through terrain with a lot of cover, and you have to use the right weapon at the right time. So far, with a couple of days of multiplayer combat behind me, I’m happy to report that I have a better kill-death ratio in multiplayer than I did with Infinite Warfare.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.