Reviving Downed Teammates Is Essential
When all four players on your squad are downed, you’ll fail your Spec Ops mission and get stuck restarting from your last major checkpoint. Failure can be a serious setback, but any time a teammate falls in battle, another teammate can revive them. If you don’t, that member of your team will bleed out after a short time, and you’ll have to wait a full minute for them to return to the battlefield. You don’t have to be a medic to save another member of your squad, but your revives will be slower. Still, in most cases, it’s possible to get a revive done without getting killed for it, and it’s always worth trying to save a squadmate rather than letting them bleed out. You can also give yourself an edge in reviving by equipping the riot shield as part of your loadout, which will protect you from fire to your back while you’re helping up a teammate.
A smart team sticks together so that revives are as easy as possible, and stays on top of them to keep their squad as close to full strength as possible at all times. If you get downed in battle, try to help your team revive you by shooting nearby enemies with your pistol and crawling behind cover. Getting out of harm’s way can make getting to you easier, which will help get you back into the action faster.
