I completely agree with everything that eek is saying, and it's actually what I did in all of the previous games. For some reason I just can't seem to get that going in this one though, I'm really not sure why.
In previous games I would run either a SMG or AR loadout depending on the map and situation, and I would frequently get in this zone like eek described above of basically getting the flow of the map. You can never know absolutely for sure where every single enemy player is (short of a Blackbird/VSAT/etc), but paying attention to where you are, where your teammates are, and more importantly where they are not is key. I'm just really not sure why I haven't been able to click with BO2 at all in this regard. Hell, I still can't even find a gun/loadout setup that I even feel comfortable with :/. But that's all very good advice, situational awareness is probably the most important thing that people lack, especially since the game can reward people at low levels by running around like a jackass with a SMG (which is fun and can be the way to go at times, but come on).
In previous games I would run either a SMG or AR loadout depending on the map and situation, and I would frequently get in this zone like eek described above of basically getting the flow of the map. You can never know absolutely for sure where every single enemy player is (short of a Blackbird/VSAT/etc), but paying attention to where you are, where your teammates are, and more importantly where they are not is key. I'm just really not sure why I haven't been able to click with BO2 at all in this regard. Hell, I still can't even find a gun/loadout setup that I even feel comfortable with :/. But that's all very good advice, situational awareness is probably the most important thing that people lack, especially since the game can reward people at low levels by running around like a jackass with a SMG (which is fun and can be the way to go at times, but come on).