Vacant
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| Vacant | |
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| Game | |
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| Place | |
| Terrain | |
| Abandoned office complex with an outside yard area
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| Modes (Console Only; PC can play any map in any mode) | |
| Type of Combat | |
| Medium range to close quarters combat
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| Singleplayer Map | |
| None
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Vacant is a small map that is based in an abandoned office. Shotguns and SMGs are generally favoured, but LMGs and Assault rifles can prove useful in the outdoor sections of the map. Though the map is roughly half indoors and half outdoors, almost all of the combat occurs indoors. Because of this, helicopters are nearly pointless on this level. However, due to holes in the ceiling of the warehouse on the left-most side, and the small open area in the center, a well placed air strike can easily kill unsuspecting members of the other team. Be very careful when running through the hallways. Usually the hallways are literally exploding with all the grenades being droped from martyrdom and thrown grenades. Also this map is very useful for getting the multi-RPG challenge, multi grenade challenge, and pretty much anyother challenge having to do with explosives and a lot of people because of the closeness of the hallways. Woodland or digital camouflage is often preferred.
[edit] Tips
- The hallway next to the rooms where an RPD and M1014 can be found always have people in the window ready to kill you.
- The bathroom is a hotspot area, it is not worth going there unless you want to die.
- At about 2 mins into the game and onwards, the warehouse and loading bay and area near the shipping crates and tanks become the focus points for the match (especially in Team Deathmatch).
- If you get an airstrike, place it either outside or in the hallways with holes in the roof, as alot of the fight also goes on in the hallways near the windows.
- If there is an enemy helicopter in the air try and avoid the computer room. This is because the helicopter sometimes will almost land (it hovers a metre above the ground) in the courtyard outside. When near it will fire a hail of minigun rounds into the room making it hard to avoid. However there's a good chance you'll hit it with an RPG, or possibly even take it out with C4.
- The atrium is also a hotspot, be prepared for a firefight if you wish to go through!
Try to stay away from the Halls at the center of the map, this is where you can get killed quite easily.
A machine gun/SMG combination is good on this map. The machine gun can cover the medium-long ranges, while the SMG can cover the short-medium ranges. The RPD performs well on this map, due to its low recoil, so that would be a good LMG choice. The SMG should be one that can perform decently at medium ranges, the P90 is probably the best. And the M16 can do well.
SAS will often run up to the dumpsters of the building, then proceed to fire inside. If you are on the Opfor side try to hold that hallway and take down anyone who tries and approaches the dumpster.
The buildings while they look secure aren't the best protection from Air Strikes. At least one has a hole in the roof which an Airstrke Bomb can go through.
Near the SAS start there are crates. It is deep and a lot of people use it for cover. Throwing a grenade in there can net a lot of kills, but beware when trying to attack it they can attack you but they will be very small targets.
[edit] Trivia
- This map, and Shipment, are thought to be located close to Prypiat, Ukraine, where the Chernobyl Nuclear Power station's workers lived. This is because the 1980s style Ukrainian tower blocks can be seen in the distance. This is strange, because flat screen computer screens can be seen in the office. This is most likely an oversight or simply done for the sake of convenience so the developers wouldn't have to take the time to develop a whole new set of models for 1980s-era office equipment.
- The portion of the office that features the cubicles bears an uncanny resemblance to the starting building in the Call of Duty 2 singleplayer mission Demolition.
- When you spectate outside the map and look at the sides of the buildings outside their, there are weird and kind of disturbing graffiti paintings of cartoon characters. They look a bit like the cartoon band Gorillaz.
- There is a poster on a wall in one of the rooms depicting a World War II-era female Russian soldier that is strangely wielding an American Thompson, which the Russians never used.
[edit] Ghost Rumors
There have been multiple rumors concerning what is called the "Ghost of Vacant", which is assumed to take the form of a random player and walks in the form of a zombie. The zombie is indestructible and seems to skip around the map. This is however fake as in the YouTube video that depicts it the clock skips and there is a well known glitch to get the characters to skip around the map.
| Multiplayer Maps in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare |
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| Ambush – Backlot – Bloc – Bog – Broadcast – Chinatown – Countdown – Crash – Creek – Crossfire – District - Downpour – Killhouse – Overgrown – Pipeline – Shipment – Showdown – Strike – Vacant – Wet Work |
