The three maps available so far for Cutthroat are Estate, Favela, and Skidrow.

This isn’t necessarily an advantage - capturing the flag only comes into play occasionally.

), it’s very important to know where every enemy is coming from.

A player in a gas mask kneels during an execution finisher in Modern Warfare 3.

More often than not it’s deliberately placed in a difficult to defend location that forces open confrontation.

It’s far easier to learn a map in a game mode where respawns are enabled!

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A top-down view of the Dust map in Modern Warfare 3, with the spawn points for three teams highlighted in the Cutthroat game mode.

Two players in Modern Warfare 3 run together through a wartorn street.