Summary
Doorkickers 2: Task Force Northis a game built around the concept of room-clearing drills and close-quarters battles. With its own dictionary of terms and phrases and no shortage of gatekeepers, just attempting to dip your toes into the subject feels like deciphering hieroglyphics.
On top of all of this, every decision made in Door Kickers 2 has weight and consequences, leading to a rapid onset of decision fatigue and analysis paralysis. Luckily, mastering the basics of the game is pretty straightforward, and you’ll be clearing rooms like a pro with just these few tips.
8Learn About CQB
Door Kickers 2 is surprisingly accurate in how it simulates close-quarters combat, solearning the real-world basicsof it can help you in-game. In its most basic form, proper execution of CQB tactics can be distilled down to:
These concepts are relatively simple, but no two rooms are ever the same. Keeping these steps somewhat vague allows you to maintain enough tactical flexibility to apply them to any room or space of any size or shape.
Take advantage of the game’s ability to pause and plan your team’s movements meticulously.
Stacking upis simply arranging your assaulters on your side of the door and prepping the breach. Next, youclear the thresholdby either fighting from it, or committing to it. Once you commit to the room, your first two assaulters shoulddig the hardcorners by turning to face them and engaging anyone hiding there.
After those hard corners are clear, all of your operators are going torun along their wallswhileclearing their sectors- areas of the room assigned to each soldier.
7Always Watch Your Back
You should alwayskeep your operators' muzzle pointedat areas that are potentially dangerous. Of course,immediate threatsyou can see are the most dangerous, butdon’t forget about open doors and windows, too.
Dead space within the room presents an imminent threat, too. Anyone trying to harm your operators could be waiting on the other side. Finally,closed doors and windowsare possible threats. Anyone could be on the other side.
6Deliberate vs. Dynamic Clearance
Knowing when and where to usedeliberate or dynamic clearanceis another crucial tactic when performing direct action duties. When the objective is not time-sensitive or risk to civilians or hostages is not present,deliberate clearanceis the technique to choose.
You can perform this method of clearance byusing limited penetration techniques, leading with bangers or frags, andfighting from the thresholdbefore committing to the room.
Dynamic clearance is optimal whentime is of the essenceor when innocent lives are in immediate danger. Immediately committing to the room andflooding it with bodies and barrels, clearing sectors as quickly as possible, andmoving with extreme speed and surpriseare the keys to dynamic clearance.
5Diversify Your Team’s Gear
Having a wide array of tools and gear for your team can help open doors for you, often quite literally. Sometimes, wall and door charges are too kinetic or risky, so having a dynamic hammer or breaching shotgun is a handy and quick way of dealing with locked doors. Also,hammers and shotguns have unlimited uses, while explosive charges are expendable.
Doors can be approached in many different ways. you’re able to kick them open for a dynamic entry or employ breaching charges for a surprise assault.
Some gear, like the thermal torch, ishighly specializedand used for a specific purpose. This one-time-use tool is used specifically forcutting chainlink fencesand gates and fences very quickly, at the cost of producing a ton of light and noise.
4Prep Deployables Before Breaching
Just before initiating your breaching method (i.e., kicking the door or detonating a charge), you can have another person in your stackprepare a frag or flashbang. Just choose which operator you want to deploy the device and have them toss it in the room before opening the breach.
There is a very short window of time between starting the animation and the deployable being thrown, so stay sharp. It requires a little practice and finesse, but this is especially useful for minimizing the time between the breach and the device being employed.
3Pay Attention To Mission Parameters
Mission dictates gear, and the missions in Doorkickers 2: Task Force North are no different. Switching your gear and your tactics based onwhat each mission requiresis paramount to your success. For example, if the mission is to pacify all hostiles in the area, and there is no civilian presence, you canmake very heavy use of explosives.
However, if there are civilians, hostages, or a High Value Target, then using door charges and frags may not be advised. You’ll need toadjust your strategyand gear to fit your mission needs.
2Balance Speed, Surprise, And Violence Of Action
One of the most commonly referenced principles of CQB is that ofspeed, surprise, and violence of action(VOA).
You can imagine all three of these principles existing on sliding bars. At the start of a mission, you should focus onsurpriseoverspeed and VOA. There is no need to work with maximum VOA at this point, but some speed may be required. Once the surprise is gone, either by engaging the enemy, using explosives, or being spotted, you must instead focus onspeed and VOA.
Always clear rooms one by one, ensuring no threats are overlooked.
Failing to balance these principles will lead to many of your operators dying very quickly or missions being failed.Moving too quicklywill run them into a trap whileengaging the enemy with maximum violence100 percent of the time will lead to you throwing frags at civilians.
1Buddy Teams
Your operatorsshould almost never be alone, especially when they’re working a breach. Soldiers who are alone are vulnerable to enemy actions. To mitigate this,keep your troops in pairsat the very minimum. By having pairs of troops, it does not matter what one assaulter is doing because at least one other gun is in the fight at all times.
Additionally, having buddy teams helpsmitigate riskwhen making risky maneuvers. For example, if peeking a corner would expose one operator to another angle, his buddy can ‘body block’ that angle by moving with his partner to cover the angle.
