How to complete the hip fire challenges in Call of Duty BO7?

Understanding Hip Fire Mechanics

To complete hip fire challenges in Call of Duty BO7, you need to focus on weapon selection, attachments, movement, and map awareness. The core idea is to fire your weapon without aiming down sights (ADS), which sacrifices accuracy for speed and mobility. This is most effective in close-quarters combat situations. The game’s mechanics reward a specific playstyle that prioritizes aggressive, fast-paced engagements where the time to ADS would put you at a disadvantage. Success hinges on turning your weapon into a close-range shredder and positioning yourself to force those types of fights consistently.

Weapon Choice: The Foundation of Success

Not all weapons are created equal for hip firing. Your primary focus should be on submachine guns (SMGs) and shotguns. These weapon classes have inherently better hip-fire accuracy stats compared to assault rifles or light machine guns. For SMGs, the VMP and the Kuda are top-tier choices. The VMP boasts a high fire rate and a manageable recoil pattern when fired from the hip, allowing you to “walk” your bullets onto a target. The Kuda offers better control and damage per bullet, making it more forgiving if your initial shots miss. For shotguns, the Argus and the KRM-262 are excellent. The Argus, when fired from the hip, acts like a traditional shotgun with a wide pellet spread, ideal for very close encounters. The KRM-262 offers a good balance of fire rate and one-shot-kill potential.

Here’s a quick comparison of top hip-fire weapons based on their in-game statistics for hip-fire spread (a lower number is better) and optimal engagement range:

Essential Attachments: Tuning Your Weapon

Attachments are non-negotiable for optimizing hip fire. They can turn a good hip-fire weapon into a great one. Your loadout should be built around these key attachments:

Laser Sight: This is the single most important attachment. It drastically reduces the crosshair spread when firing from the hip. There are two types: the standard Laser Sight and the more powerful Rapid Fire variant (which may be called something else depending on the specific game version, but the function is a faster fire rate). Always equip a Laser Sight. It’s a must-have.

Fast Mags or Extended Mags: Since you’ll be engaging multiple enemies quickly, reload speed and ammunition capacity are crucial. Fast Mags get you back into the fight faster after a kill, while Extended Mags allow you to take on several enemies without reloading. Choose based on your confidence in securing kills quickly.

Stock: This attachment allows you to move faster while aiming down sights, but its utility for a hip-fire class is in strafing. While you are hip-firing, moving side-to-side makes you a harder target to hit. A Stock increases your strafe speed, making your movement during engagements more unpredictable.

A sample, highly effective class setup would be: VMP with Laser Sight, Fast Mags, and Grip (Grip helps control the slight recoil even when hip-firing). Your secondary isn’t as critical, but a launcher like the BlackCell can help clear enemy scorestreaks that might otherwise ruin your flow.

Perks and Equipment: Supporting Your Playstyle

Your perks need to complement your aggressive, close-quarters approach. The right choices will keep you alive longer and in the fight.

Perk 1: Afterburner is fantastic for closing distances quickly with boosted thrust jumps. Overclock is also a solid choice if you rely on a specific Specialist weapon or ability to get multi-kills. Ghost keeps you off the radar from UAVs, which is vital for flanking.

Perk 2: This slot is stacked with good options. Tracker is arguably the best. Seeing enemy footprints gives you a massive tactical advantage, allowing you to pre-fire corners and track down wounded opponents. Hard Wired makes you immune to Sixth Sense, Tracker, and Trip Mines, which are common in defensive setups you’ll be breaking. Scavenger is essential for maintaining your streak, as you’ll burn through ammo.

Perk 3: Blast Suppressor is critical. It hides the sound of your thrust jumps from the mini-map. Without it, every movement you make is broadcasted. Dead Silence complements this by making your footsteps silent, allowing for true stealth flanks. Awareness can also be powerful if you have a good headset, letting you hear enemies from farther away.

For equipment, a Concussion Grenade or Flashbang is perfect for stunning enemies before you rush a room. A Smoke Grenade can provide cover for crossing open areas. For your wildcard, Perk 3 Greed is extremely popular, allowing you to run both Blast Suppressor and Dead Silence for maximum stealth.

Movement and Positioning: The Human Element

Your gear means nothing without the right technique. Hip firing is all about movement and map control.

Map Knowledge: You must stick to interior areas and tight lanes. Maps like Nuketown, Combine, and Skyjacked are perfect. Avoid long sightlines like the plague. Use the map’s geometry to your advantage—hug walls, cut corners tightly, and always be thinking about where you can find cover within a few steps. Your goal is to control the “CQB” (Close Quarters Battle) zones of the map.

Movement Techniques: Never stop moving. A stationary hip-fire player is an easy kill. Practice strafing left and right while engaging an enemy. Use your thrust jumps to jump-shot or slide into engagements. This changes your vertical and horizontal position rapidly, throwing off your opponent’s aim. The “slide-and-hip-fire” technique is particularly deadly; slide around a corner while already holding down the trigger, catching enemies completely off guard.

Pre-firing: If you have a good idea an enemy is around a corner (thanks to Tracker footprints or audio cues), start firing a fraction of a second before you actually see them. Because you aren’t slowed down by the ADS animation, your bullets will be hitting them as you round the corner, giving you a significant time-to-kill advantage.

Game Mode Selection for Efficient Progress

Some game modes are objectively better for grinding hip fire kills than others.

Free-for-All (FFA): This is arguably the best mode. Enemies are everywhere, and most engagements are 1v1. You can patrol a small, confined area of the map and consistently find isolated targets.

Team Deathmatch / Kill Confirmed: These are reliable choices. Stick to the high-traffic interior areas of the map. Follow your teammates, but let them go first to draw fire, then clean up the injured enemies with your hip fire.

Hardpoint or Domination: The objective forces players into predictable, confined spaces—the Hardpoint itself or the capture flags. You can pre-aim the entrances to these objectives and mow down players as they try to enter. This is excellent for multi-kills.

Avoid: Modes like Search and Destroy or large-scale maps in Ground War are less efficient. The pace is slower, engagements are more deliberate, and long sightlines are common, which is the opposite of what you want.

Advanced Tips and Mindset

Finally, your mindset is key. Hip fire challenges can be frustrating because you’re deliberately not using the primary aiming mechanic. You will die in situations where ADS would have saved you. Embrace the chaos.

Don’t be tempted to ADS “just this once.” Commit to the hip fire for an entire match. It’s the only way to build the muscle memory. Pay attention to your crosshair; its size indicates your spread. Fire in short, controlled bursts at the very edge of your effective range to maintain some accuracy. And most importantly, play aggressively but smart. You’re a shark; you need to keep moving to survive. Stop, and you die. Control the close-quarters areas, use every tool at your disposal, and the hip fire kills will stack up faster than you think.