Warzone: Slide-canceling made easy

Slide-canceling is one of the basic building blocks in the gameplay of Call of Duty: Warzone. Today we'll explain why this technique is important and how to execute it correctly.

If you've been loyal to Warzone for years and pay attention to the meta, you've probably heard of slide-canceling. Essentially, it describes the mechanic of breaking off the slide across the floor. This trick gives an advantage in many situations, but it's not only interesting for eSports players.

Sprinting is important here, because it allows players to run instead of walking or sneaking. However, sprinting is limited in time, after all, the soldiers should not be able to run across the map incessantly at top speed. The slide cancel, however, allows for just that. Basically, this technique resets the cooldown time of the sprint.

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How does the slide cancel work?

Now it's time for the infamous sausage! If you can perform the following steps correctly, your K/D rate will increase by at least 150 percent… no guarantees, of course. To make slide-canceling as easy as possible, you first need to select the correct settings.

In the movement options, the „slide behavior“ can be found. This has to be changed to „Tap“ and „Automatic Sprint“ has to be changed to „Tactical Sprint“. After that, it is a matter of putting the settings into practice, and for this the following steps must be followed:

while sprinting, tap the „Sneak“ or the „Duck“ button (Then you will slide across the ground instead of stopping sprinting).
during the slide animation, the same key must be tapped again.
with the right timing you move back to the sprint animation, which now starts „from the beginning“ and allows you to run for a longer time.

Since fast movements are the key to success in Warzone, this is a true pro tip that many players are already doing. Practice makes perfect, at first the whole thing should be tried out in an easier setting than Warzone. It also works in normal Call of Duty multiplayer and brings an enormous advantage there as well.