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demi · « **Reply #660 on:** March 16, 2010, 04:19:50 AM »

No, I don't really. Enjoy your zzzz. Meet you back on MW2

GilloD · « **Reply #661 on:** March 16, 2010, 06:12:34 AM »

SOme Korean servers finally opened, which is AWESOME. Purchase REDEEMED. I had a 7,000 point round- I got some 5000 point badge. I forget what it was- I think it was for 100 heals or something. WIth a < 150ms lag, it's a whole new game. I'm charging across the field reviving people and healing dudes on the front line. So fun!

Still having random disconnect issues- I got DC'ed 3 times in the last hour and I have to exit out and come back before it'll let me RC. Also, a new bug: Every now nd then my FPS drops way way way down. Like .00001 fps. Wors ethan slideshow. The only thing that fixes is it is to ESC to the Scoreboard and come back. There was a hilarious incident where I like spotted a sniper across the river and I was with 3 other dudes and I had to just stand there and watch him pick each of us off.

Fun!

brawndolicious · « **Reply #662 on:** March 16, 2010, 08:27:01 AM »

Finally hit 22 and I also got the Gol sniper (max accuracy!!). popping domes off is so satisfying when you're only a pixel on their screen.

Quote from: demi on March 16, 2010, 04:19:50 AM

No, I don't really. Enjoy your zzzz. Meet you back on MW2

hey I'll play you a few rounds so you can get how the game works. it has a high learning curve since you effectively only have to focus on the strengths your class has. when it works, it really works.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #663 on:** March 16, 2010, 08:56:24 PM »

I wish I could play this. :/

ManaByte · « **Reply #664 on:** March 16, 2010, 10:28:50 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on March 16, 2010, 05:26:30 PM

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Yes.

That model of CC Sabathia looks pretty realistic.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #665 on:** March 17, 2010, 12:55:33 AM »

Finally unlocked the M16. It's pretty dope. I'll never use another gun for that class.

GilloD · « **Reply #666 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:07:29 AM »

My K/D ration is like 1:16 (I honestly 1 and 20 last night), but I'm always in the Top3 on my team because I am a balls out Rambo-ass medic and I charge into the thick of it to revive people. I get crazy points. I pretty much never stop using my Defibs

brawndolicious · « **Reply #667 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:48:14 AM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 17, 2010, 12:55:33 AM

Finally unlocked the M16. It's pretty dope. I'll never use another gun for that class.

I prefer the AN-94 because you get a few more shots per clip.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #668 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:53:41 AM »

Quote from: am nintenho on March 17, 2010, 01:48:14 AM

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 17, 2010, 12:55:33 AM
Finally unlocked the M16. It's pretty dope. I'll never use another gun for that class.
I prefer the AN-94 because you get a few more shots per clip.

I like how accurate the M16. I believe its the most accurate of the assault rifles. Very little recoil. So little that I don't have to use the low recoil perk and can instead use the damage bullets perk or the body armor.

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #669 on:** March 17, 2010, 02:38:23 AM »

I got the '3 guns' cheev for every class. Now I'm gonna stick to Medic and Engineer I think,

brawndolicious · « **Reply #670 on:** March 17, 2010, 03:42:27 AM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 17, 2010, 01:53:41 AM

Quote from: am nintenho on March 17, 2010, 01:48:14 AM
Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 17, 2010, 12:55:33 AM
Finally unlocked the M16. It's pretty dope. I'll never use another gun for that class.
I prefer the AN-94 because you get a few more shots per clip.

I like how accurate the M16. I believe its the most accurate of the assault rifles. Very little recoil. So little that I don't have to use the low recoil perk and can instead use the damage bullets perk or the body armor.

The in-game stat for accuracy is for how close the bullet lands to the center of your reticule/ironsight thing but the actual recoil of the M-16 is a bit higher plus each of the individual bullets do a little less damage making it harder for me to get perfect consecutive hits on people.

I never use the recoil perks so I don't know how much they really help.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #671 on:** March 17, 2010, 01:44:39 PM »

Quote from: am nintenho on March 17, 2010, 03:42:27 AM

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 17, 2010, 01:53:41 AM
Quote from: am nintenho on March 17, 2010, 01:48:14 AM
Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 17, 2010, 12:55:33 AM
Finally unlocked the M16. It's pretty dope. I'll never use another gun for that class.
I prefer the AN-94 because you get a few more shots per clip.

I like how accurate the M16. I believe its the most accurate of the assault rifles. Very little recoil. So little that I don't have to use the low recoil perk and can instead use the damage bullets perk or the body armor.
The in-game stat for accuracy is for how close the bullet lands to the center of your reticule/ironsight thing but the actual recoil of the M-16 is a bit higher plus each of the individual bullets do a little less damage making it harder for me to get perfect consecutive hits on people.

I never use the recoil perks so I don't know how much they really help.

Interesting. You are probably right about the recoil thing. I think I was mixing up recoil with the tight grouping which is a separate thing. I like the M16 because in that first burst you get a very tight grouping which is very effective for my play style.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #672 on:** March 17, 2010, 09:56:14 PM »

Worst online code ever.

I just crashed to the dashbord 5 times in a row trying to search for a game. So I guess that's a signal that the game servers are "full".

2 weeks after release huh...

GilloD · « **Reply #673 on:** March 18, 2010, 10:47:46 AM »

This patch seems to have exacerbated my problem with the framerate. On 7 separate occasions in one hour, my framerate would drop from 40-50fps to maybe .25 fps. Just CLUNK. The only fix is to ESC to the Scoreboard and wait about 30 seconds.

Also, is Medic really easy to play or am I really good? I finished 1st in 5 separate rounds. I got that 5000 pts pin and my 4x scope. LW Pack rules, too.

maxy · « **Reply #674 on:** March 18, 2010, 12:52:53 PM »

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Shopper enthusiasm for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 may not have been as fervent as for Modern Warfare 2, but DICE's shooter has gone on to break a record of its own, becoming the best-selling March release on record in North America and Europe.

Released in the first week of the month, Bad Company 2 has now sold over 2.3m copies - according to EA's internal counter.

Not bad...

brawndolicious · « **Reply #675 on:** March 18, 2010, 09:03:43 PM »

Quote from: GilloD on March 18, 2010, 10:47:46 AM

This patch seems to have exacerbated my problem with the framerate. On 7 separate occasions in one hour, my framerate would drop from 40-50fps to maybe .25 fps. Just CLUNK. The only fix is to ESC to the Scoreboard and wait about 30 seconds.

Also, is Medic really easy to play or am I really good? I finished 1st in 5 separate rounds. I got that 5000 pts pin and my 4x scope. LW Pack rules, too.

It's definitely the easiest class to gain xp for (I'd say Engineer is second) but you can't actually win a match if the other players on your team aren't aggressive and willing to take chances.

You can encourage them to not be k/d ratio whores by sniper copping.

http://fidgit.com/archives/2010/03/play_the_new_sniper_cop_class.php

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There technically aren't any snipers in Bad Company 2. There are just players with sniper rifles who are considered recon class. "Recon" is a verb that, surprisingly, doesn't mean "park somewhere off the beaten path and rack up as many kills as you can with no regard for actually trying to win the round or even doing anything to help the other players in your squad".

So I turned to more persuasive measures. I turned to the essential tool of the Bad Company 2 sniper cop: the tracer dart pistol. Did you know the tracer dart can stick to friendly targets? It sits there and glows. For instance, if you affix it to someone's head - say, someone with a sniper rifle crouching just behind a ridge or in some foliage - that person's head will be super easy to spot from a long way off by other players with sniper rifles. Furthermore, if you attach it to someone's face, it will shine a red glow into his line of site and maybe even obscure his vision. It's like a fantastic glowing clown nose, or the schnozz of a certain reindeer who saved Christmas. And the beauty of a friendly tracer dart is that there's no way to remove it short of dying.

This is really useful on Port Valdez where there's always a few snipers who camp on "noob mountain" and don't do anything really useful as far as taking the objective. The downside is that you have to give up your side-arm and you may even get neg-repped a few times before this becomes common practice (and why wouldn't it?). But I think that's worth the satisfaction you get from doing this.

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #676 on:** March 18, 2010, 09:06:21 PM »

i think i'm gonna adopt medic as my secondary class

i like engineer, but paddles dude

AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #677 on:** March 18, 2010, 09:09:59 PM »

That's fucking awesome, I'm gonna do it.

GilloD · « **Reply #678 on:** March 18, 2010, 09:21:21 PM »

Maybe it's the Asian mindset, but most snipers on Korean servers are really good and I'd say 60% of people play Assault. I rack up mad points as medic. Stick with your squAD, 20pts per heal adds up quick if everyone is getting shot up. I usually finish with around 1500-2k points. And like a 0-15 kd, haha.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #679 on:** March 18, 2010, 09:26:25 PM »

Quote from: GilloD on March 18, 2010, 09:21:21 PM

Maybe it's the Asian mindset, but most snipers on Korean servers are really good and I'd say 60% of people play Assault. I rack up mad points as medic. Stick with your squAD, 20pts per heal adds up quick if everyone is getting shot up. I usually finish with around 1500-2k points. And like a 0-15 kd, haha.

There are very few traditionally "good" snipers in my experience meaning they know how to operate as a sniper in a team context and don't just sit 1000 miles away on a map for the entire game. I play most of the time with randoms and its a fact that most people who play this game sniper or not, don't know what the hell they are doing. People who can't drive tanks or don't know how to use them when they have them or simply just leave them around for the enemy to grab and instead run all the way across a map. People who don't capture bases in conquest and in fact run away from bases they could capture instead of doing it.

The first 30 to 45 minutes of a play session for me is always spent bouncing from game to game trying to find a decent squad of people who know what they are doing.

GilloD · « **Reply #680 on:** March 19, 2010, 02:14:11 AM »

Quote from: Stoney Mason on March 18, 2010, 09:26:25 PM

Quote from: GilloD on March 18, 2010, 09:21:21 PM
Maybe it's the Asian mindset, but most snipers on Korean servers are really good and I'd say 60% of people play Assault. I rack up mad points as medic. Stick with your squAD, 20pts per heal adds up quick if everyone is getting shot up. I usually finish with around 1500-2k points. And like a 0-15 kd, haha.

There are very few traditionally "good" snipers in my experience meaning they know how to operate as a sniper in a team context and don't just sit 1000 miles away on a map for the entire game. I play most of the time with randoms and its a fact that most people who play this game sniper or not, don't know what the hell they are doing. People who can't drive tanks or don't know how to use them when they have them or simply just leave them around for the enemy to grab and instead run all the way across a map. People who don't capture bases in conquest and in fact run away from bases they could capture instead of doing it.

The first 30 to 45 minutes of a play session for me is always spent bouncing from game to game trying to find a decent squad of people who know what they are doing.

30-45 minutes? That's my WHOLE session. Geez, guys.

Anyway- I watched my team set a bomb yesterday, then some guy from the opther team like went in and just stood near the bomb and got blown up. He never defused it. Sometimes people confuse me

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #681 on:** March 19, 2010, 03:10:24 AM »

Oh holy shit. The asian version on 360 works on NTSC U consoles. Yesssss. So buying a korean copy!!!!

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #682 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:28:58 AM »

assault : shoot people. throw ammo boxes.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #683 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:47:58 AM »

yeah. but it's more honorable. getting to level 20 by doing work and not just being a bitch who heals people is very satisfying.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #684 on:** March 19, 2010, 11:20:18 AM »

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on March 19, 2010, 10:47:58 AM

yeah. but it's more honorable. getting to level 20 by doing work and not just being a bitch who heals people is very satisfying.

Not really because it's so easy to just hide and pick off any targets of opportunity. It takes some damn balls to run around with your paddles on the frontline, but that's the best way to cover ground and actually take an objective.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #685 on:** March 19, 2010, 11:38:27 AM »

fuck that. my pinky is firmly locked on the shift key at all times with knife ready to stab dudes

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #686 on:** March 19, 2010, 01:35:51 PM »

if i ever play with fistfulofmetal i'll just let him die, then

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #687 on:** March 19, 2010, 01:49:56 PM »

Quote from: The Business on March 19, 2010, 01:39:26 PM

What's the proper way to play recon if hiding on the other side of the map isn't?

In an objective game just hiding 1000 miles away on the map and never moving isn't the proper way to play. That's fine in a deathmatch context but in a conquest playlist its often useless. If you aren't ever capturing bases or adjusting your movement and positioning based on the flow of the game, then the few tickets you are taking in the grand scheme of things doesn't help. It also doesn't help if half your team is doing the same thing which often happens. I've been on plenty of teams where half my team is up sniping in the hills and we have lost all the bases which means we are going to lose. Not to mention a person doesn't always have to be a sniper recon. They can be recon and switch it up with an up close weapon when necessary. The people who play sniper badly in the game simply love the idea of being able to rack up easy kills and get relatively low deaths on a personal basis because while everyone else is running around trying to do objectives they get to kill them.

A good recon player varies it up and moves around to help his team based on the situation. That actually may even mean he needs to switch out of the recon class occasionally if it isn't helping the team in a certain situation. It actually requires a lot of smarts. But I guarantee you 90% of the people aren't playing it like that.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #688 on:** March 19, 2010, 09:58:19 PM »

Now I have every single gun and perk for every single class. Do you get anything for leveling up beyond 22?

Quote from: The Business on March 19, 2010, 01:39:26 PM

What's the proper way to play recon if hiding on the other side of the map isn't?

You shouldn't need to get that far away from the enemies unless you just want to shoot random people. The good thing about recon is that if you play it stealthy, you can do A LOT of damage all at once by throwing C4 on their tanks or mortaring a spot they're all sitting at. You should be really aggressive when playing as that class actually.

Honestly, my favorite sniper rifle is the VSS snaiperkaya which is a 20 shot, fully auto, silenced gun where each bullet only does about as much damage as the engineer SMG bullets. It actually plays a lot like Special Ops class in BF2 where you try to keep away from direct infantry combat but do some huge hits on the other team by blowing up their tanks or mortaring the spot where they're all guarding. You can also throw out motion mines to easily find where they're all going.

The only situation where the extremely accurate, bolt-action sniper rifles are the best thing to use is when you need to be able to take out another sniper really.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #689 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:43:36 PM »

Eel, you want to play some tomorrow?

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #690 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:45:30 PM »

I should be on tomorrow

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #691 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:47:34 PM »

i can play with you guys tomorrow night after 8 pm

probably going to play for an hour or so tonight, so if anyone's on, shoot me an invite

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #692 on:** March 19, 2010, 10:49:11 PM »

I was going to get something to drink, then hop in. I'll throw you an invite. BORESQUAD

brawndolicious · « **Reply #693 on:** March 19, 2010, 11:19:24 PM »

edit: nm.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #694 on:** March 19, 2010, 11:56:32 PM »

Hey sorry I had to get off so suddenly at the end, some people came over.

Quote from: The Business on March 19, 2010, 11:41:54 PM

What are the motion mines for?

It basically shows any enemies in its radius. it's good for when you attack an objective.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #695 on:** March 20, 2010, 12:17:46 AM »

Eel and I rocked the last round. We lost the map before that - down to just the last M-Com station with a few tickets remaining. I was heartbroken. We made up for it the next map, though!

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #696 on:** March 20, 2010, 12:19:48 AM »

how do i shot rush

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #697 on:** March 20, 2010, 11:01:43 PM »

Fuck Rush mode, I suck at it and I hate it

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #698 on:** March 20, 2010, 11:18:17 PM »

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #699 on:** March 21, 2010, 12:23:36 AM »

i got zero points

twice

i consoled myself with some conquest mode, where in one round i captured 5 flags entirely by myself because everyone on my team was running around doing everything except capturing flags

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #700 on:** March 21, 2010, 10:41:45 AM »

They need to nerf helicopters. The anti-aircraft guns are less effective in this game, due to their burst fire and it seems like they do less damage than before. The laser targeting gun still can't tag one, so missiles/rockets are a no go.

I was playing a game earlier where the other team had two helicopters (they stole ours, i guess $:-\$ ) and they were pretty much unstoppable.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #701 on:** March 21, 2010, 10:51:44 AM »

yes you can hit a helicopter with a tracer dart to lock onto it with the M2 but it's easier to shoot it with an AT4. If you don't have a rocket launcher or tank, a MG turret is also a good option.

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #702 on:** March 21, 2010, 10:55:20 AM »

Quote from: am nintenho on March 21, 2010, 10:51:44 AM

yes you can hit a helicopter with a tracer dart to lock onto it with the M2 but it's easier to shoot it with an AT4. If you don't have a rocket launcher or tank, a MG turret is also a good option.

Of course you can hit a helicopter with a tracer........if its idling. The tracer gun sucks at range and good luck hitting it while its moving. That was obviously designed for tanks, but it would have been nice to see it as a viable option for helicopters. I don't know what an AT4 is

huckleberry · « **Reply #703 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:07:29 AM »

I fucking suck

Finally started the mp yesterday, and while satisfying as hell to play, is frustrating the shit out of me. I can get the drop on a motherfucker and end up dying - pisses me off to no end. Do the default weapons suck that much? I finally got the second rifle with the assault loadout and that seemed to help tremendously.

Oh well, wouldn't be the first game I need to play for a week straight before I got good. Goddamn old decrepit eyes of mine. :'(

GilloD · « **Reply #704 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:16:41 AM »

Quote from: Arde0 on March 21, 2010, 11:07:29 AM

I fucking suck

Finally started the mp yesterday, and while satisfying as hell to play, is frustrating the shit out of me. I can get the drop on a motherfucker and end up dying - pisses me off to no end. Do the default weapons suck that much? I finally got the second rifle with the assault loadout and that seemed to help tremendously.

Oh well, wouldn't be the first game I need to play for a week straight before I got good. Goddamn old decrepit eyes of mine. :'(

Start with Medic. It doesn't require a lot of shooting and you can kind of get a feel for the game. I definitley felt the way you do and I eventually turned into a killing machine- Make sure you right clicj and pull up sight, too. Also, try and sneak up on people.

huckleberry · « **Reply #705 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:37:21 AM »

how long do you have to play before you get the medic paddles? I would have thought that it would be standard kit.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #706 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:44:12 AM »

Quote from: Kestastrophe on March 21, 2010, 10:55:20 AM

Quote from: am nintenho on March 21, 2010, 10:51:44 AM
yes you can hit a helicopter with a tracer dart to lock onto it with the M2 but it's easier to shoot it with an AT4. If you don't have a rocket launcher or tank, a MG turret is also a good option.
Of course you can hit a helicopter with a tracer........if its idling. The tracer gun sucks at range and good luck hitting it while its moving. That was obviously designed for tanks, but it would have been nice to see it as a viable option for helicopters. I don't know what an AT4 is

I can hit it with a tracer all the time, I dunno. you have to shoot it before or during a strafing run tho because that's when it'll be going in a straight line. when you shoot a missile at a vehicle, the alarms go off and they dodge but they don't get any warning for tracers.

AT4 is a laser guided missile that you can guide mdi-flight like the anti-tank turrets. very easy to shoot helis down with but like I said, the alarms will go off and a good pilot can be a challenge. it usually takes me a few tries.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #707 on:** March 21, 2010, 12:20:31 PM »

Quote from: am nintenho on March 18, 2010, 09:03:43 PM

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There technically aren't any snipers in Bad Company 2. There are just players with sniper rifles who are considered recon class. "Recon" is a verb that, surprisingly, doesn't mean "park somewhere off the beaten path and rack up as many kills as you can with no regard for actually trying to win the round or even doing anything to help the other players in your squad".

So I turned to more persuasive measures. I turned to the essential tool of the Bad Company 2 sniper cop: the tracer dart pistol. Did you know the tracer dart can stick to friendly targets? It sits there and glows. For instance, if you affix it to someone's head - say, someone with a sniper rifle crouching just behind a ridge or in some foliage - that person's head will be super easy to spot from a long way off by other players with sniper rifles. Furthermore, if you attach it to someone's face, it will shine a red glow into his line of site and maybe even obscure his vision. It's like a fantastic glowing clown nose, or the schnozz of a certain reindeer who saved Christmas. And the beauty of a friendly tracer dart is that there's no way to remove it short of dying.

This is really useful on Port Valdez where there's always a few snipers who camp on "noob mountain" and don't do anything really useful as far as taking the objective. The downside is that you have to give up your side-arm and you may even get neg-repped a few times before this becomes common practice (and why wouldn't it?). But I think that's worth the satisfaction you get from doing this.

This is so fucking awesome. I kept doing it this morning to one douchebag on our team who was just sitting in the bushes racking up his k/d ratio without trying to get to the objectives. Just being no help to anyone. Evertime I'd respawn I'd make sure to spawn on him so I could plant that tracer dart right in his face. He got pissed off enough that he planted C4 on a boat I was on and blew it up, but then I went right back and put another tracer on his ass. He evenutally got the point and changed classes....and we won.

The tracer dart is my new best friend.

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #708 on:** March 21, 2010, 01:06:32 PM »

Quote from: am nintenho on March 21, 2010, 11:44:12 AM

Quote from: Kestastrophe on March 21, 2010, 10:55:20 AM
Quote from: am nintenho on March 21, 2010, 10:51:44 AM
yes you can hit a helicopter with a tracer dart to lock onto it with the M2 but it's easier to shoot it with an AT4. If you don't have a rocket launcher or tank, a MG turret is also a good option.
Of course you can hit a helicopter with a tracer........if its idling. The tracer gun sucks at range and good luck hitting it while its moving. That was obviously designed for tanks, but it would have been nice to see it as a viable option for helicopters. I don't know what an AT4 is
I can hit it with a tracer all the time, I dunno. you have to shoot it before or during a strafing run tho because that's when it'll be going in a straight line. when you shoot a missile at a vehicle, the alarms go off and they dodge but they don't get any warning for tracers.

AT4 is a laser guided missile that you can guide mdi-flight like the anti-tank turrets. very easy to shoot helis down with but like I said, the alarms will go off and a good pilot can be a challenge. it usually takes me a few tries.

okay, I didn't realize there was a tracking rocket because I haven't unlocked it yet. Apparently everyone on my team was distinguished mentally-challenged (not a stretch $:-\$ ), because no one was using this weapon to take out the helicopters. I still wish that the AA guns were more effective, considering it only takes two shots to take out the tanks with those rocket emplacements.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #709 on:** March 21, 2010, 01:10:12 PM »

they finally fixed the M1 Garand. It's pretty boss.
But I prefer using the M14 (which I just unlocked I guess). I've been using that in conjunction with C4. Now with C4 I am a tank killer. I played several rounds last night and blew up at least 8 tanks with c4 alone.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #710 on:** March 21, 2010, 01:46:45 PM »

I would use the tracer dart more, but nobody uses missiles or anything because they're noobs. I use the one you can manually guide, and I have taken down some Apache helis that way.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #711 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:03:49 PM »

Quote from: The Business on March 21, 2010, 10:11:06 PM

I just earned the advance spotting scope for my second slot, but what does it do? How do I use it?

Basically you just equip it with one of the sniper rifles (you can't use it with that WW2 machine gun for example) and it auto-spots when you move the gun over people but its buggy and doesn't always work. Same goes with manual spotting in general for that matter which is also somewhat buggy.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #712 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:19:38 PM »

Quote from: The Business on March 21, 2010, 11:16:16 PM

Is there a perk that inhibits one from being spotted? Sometimes I can't spot someone no matter how well I see them.

No. It's just buggy like I said. Sometimes the most minor obstruction can stop someone from being spotted. And sometimes its simply very sensitive about having it "perfectly" lined up. And if you fail on the first spot even though you know you did it properly, there is a hidden timer where it won't let you spot for a few seconds again. It's supposed to stop spam spotting which occured in the beta but the spotting system in general is just sort of inconsistent and a bit frustrating. Not to mention its the stupid back button.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #713 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:41:59 PM »

since i'm using the m14 now i think i'm gonna start to using recon. at least i'll be able to start unlocking more stuff

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #714 on:** March 22, 2010, 02:05:46 AM »

I just played with probably the worst team in the history of this game.

drew · « **Reply #715 on:** March 22, 2010, 02:08:24 AM »

tell me more

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #716 on:** March 22, 2010, 02:09:39 AM »

Quote from: The Fake Shemp on March 22, 2010, 02:05:46 AM

I just played with probably the worst team in the history of this game.

you probably played with EVERY TEAM I SPAWN INTO EVERY TIME I PLAY

ffs. every time i pick and load into a server I end up spawning into the losing team and every jackass is hanging out in the outskirts of the bases being johnny sniper.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #717 on:** March 22, 2010, 02:15:37 AM »

It wouldn't be so bad if there was a real way to auto-balance between games. This would be tough enough with squads to auto-balance anyway but the game doesn't even attempt to do it from what I've seen squad or no squad. If you get crushed one game, you can be 95% certain you will be crushed the following game (and vice versa. I often go on mega winning streaks when I start winning). And then maybe quit and then join another game where you team is getting crushed already also.

The best thing about Bad Company 2 is also the worst thing. Its so team dependent that when it works its great and bad ass. When you are on a bad team it absolutely sucks and I hate it.

I wasn't kidding or exaggering when I mentioned early that the first 30 minutes of any play session for me minimum is me bouncing around and quitting from game to game until I find a good squad. It's absolutely crucial.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #718 on:** March 22, 2010, 02:26:23 AM »

Eh, I don't do that. I don't usually mind being on losing teams either, but we were playing Rush and literally the entire team was running away from the two M-Com stations we were supposed to defend. I sat and watch people sniping from cover as the enemy was setting charges.

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #719 on:** March 22, 2010, 02:27:44 AM »

I can't tolerate being on a bad team in a non death match context. To see people playing dumb and getting our team slaughtered sends me right to the quit option. I don't mind losing a relatively close game especially if we are playing the "right" way but if people are just playing incredibly stupid, I'm outta there.

edit: And just to clarify I don't want to come off like I'm a god. I'm a completely average to slightly below average player skill wise. But I know how to play the game conceptually at least fairly decently. It's painful when you play with people who don't really understand the concepts of the game. I can tolerate poor skill. I can't tolerate people ignoring vehicles, ignoring bases, all day sniping, etc. Those are the things that drive me to bounce from game to game until I find a decent squad.

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