Seven tips to be better at Call of Duty Black Ops 6 – from professional players

‘You can absolutely destroy’ … visitors play Call of Duty Black Ops 6 during the Paris game week. Photograph: Abdullah Firas/ABACA/REX/Shutterstock

Let me guess: you recently bought Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, strayed into the multiplayer mode and now you’re being mercilessly pummelled by hundreds of teenagers with suggestive usernames? Don’t worry, that’s perfectly normal. Call of Duty has always been the arcade twitchfest of the online shooter scene, but Black Ops 6 has a whole new feel thanks to its omni-movement system, which lets you dive, roll and sprint in every direction. And the weapons have all been completely redesigned. It is, as Olivia Rodrigo put it, brutal out there.

So I asked two excellent pro players – Ethan “Fifakill” Pink and Liam “Jukeyz” James – for their tips. Instead of laughing and pointing at me, they agreed.