There’s only one thing worse than the e…

There’s only one thing worse than the enemy using C4 on your crates, and that’s your team using it. I had a few games with gulwing tonight (he found me through hupitgaming today, thanks Geoff!) and both sides for many games were blowing up the MCOM stations.
When our own team used this technique a few players had scores that were multiples of the rest of us. Two players had a score of 4000+ vs around 900 for the rest. Argh!

Thankfully they left and we had some decent games as we were the stronger team. It was weird. We were asking each other, “Is this the same team we’re playing?”

I planted and blew at least 3, maybe 4 crates and defused more. On Laguna Presa we defended and stopped the enemy on the first base while we beat them all the way back to the end and destroyed each crate when attacking. The flanking routes in that map helped immensely. In a recent video Cards attacked the first Alpha by flanking right behind some blue fencing. The same technique worked wonders for us too!
The hillside flank on the last base puts you in a very strong position too and I got quite a number of kills there. Got knifed eventually unfortunately but gulwing avenged me with possibly the last kill of the game.

For the most part I was running with the XM8 Prototype and smoke. The smoke is invaluable after planting the crate!

KDR was mixed. In the first few games I did badly but I got 2+ and 3+ in the last game or two. Global KDR is still 0.82 and win/loss is 1.55. I got the “Rush good conduct” pin for destroying 100 M-COM stations too. Nice 5,000 points!

Oh, these were my first games of Bad Company 2 rush where I played with maximum sensitivity. It was too high for me to be accurate with the AN-94 but I did fairly well burst firing the XM8P and XM8C.

Edit: Here’s that video Cards7 posted showing the flank on base 1 of Laguna Presa.

Gulwing followed me on a second boat and I warned him not to shoot anyone until we got to Alpha, if at all possible. We got there safely, armed the crate and blew it. Smoke slowed defenders down and with Gulwing’s help we held them off.

Exposing a douchebag

I couldn’t be quite as calm as coynosham is while commentating the video above, though he does admit that including the audio message the sent the traitorous AMDLK in his video would get him banned from Youtube.

I don’t think I’ve come across any player on my own team blowing up MCOM stations though I know others have. I’d be livid and probably just quit with my squad if we were all in agreement.

Another thing Bad Company 2 Onslaught is…

Another thing Bad Company 2 Onslaught is good for is trying out higher controller sensitivity. I pushed mine all the way to the top and it’s great!

Granted, I’m playing on easy so it only takes 1 or 2 bullets to take down an enemy but it’s amazing how much fast aiming down sight is. Got into a good game on Isla too, just missed beating my previous best score by 1.1 seconds!

It really sucks when your squad is the o…

It really sucks when your squad is the only one attacking. Or at least it seems that way. In our last game there we lost but it felt like the rest of our team was just hanging back. It’s not as if it benefited them. We got best squad and our lowest score was easily 500 points above the nearest one below.

Some tough games of Bad Company 2 tonight but my KDR remains at 0.82. I played half an hour of Singularity first. I’m enjoying that game. The shotgun makes progress so much easier! 🙂

Edit: David got on just after I left, here’s his blog post about his rather different experience. Me? I’m up at 6am this morning. *yawn*

Bad Company 2 Squad Tactics

Colin featured the following video by Coyno on his channel yesterday and I think it’s worth posting here. Bad Company 2 squad tactics on Valparaiso.

I’ve only watched part 1 but I love how they distracted the enemy while someone else on their team got the plant on the one remaining crate. Having been on the receiving end of that type of attack I can tell you it’s highly effective!
More after the break ..
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I’m glad David made his latest smoke po…

I’m glad David made his latest smoke post a few days ago. I’ve been running it more and more since and it helped on Valpairaso last night. We were defending (Hi Conor!) and pushed back to the third base, but we were fighting all the way.

The attackers seemed to have an abundance of wookies who liked nothing better than to lay up on the hill firing mortar strikes and shooting into the village. Along with a light tank they did devastating damage to the buildings there. My attention was mostly on the tank but when I cottoned on that wookies were busy I put down a load of smoke on their hill. I think I made them mad. Even their UAV came after me! My KDR was shocking but they never got the last crate. We successfully disarmed it a few times under cover of smoke!

Unfortunately for one of my squad, he left and I got killed by him a few minutes later! Should have stayed with the winning team!

Earlier I had a game with Mike, and we stopped the enemy at the first base on that map. I joined late but still managed to down a helicopter or two!

My KDR was briefly 0.83 before last night’s game but it’s dropped back to 0.82 again. My skill level nose dived by 192 points too! I guess I’ll be first into game and invite the rest of you, eh?

Oh! Run vehicle smoke before you get on the UAV! I knew it could fire smoke but didn’t realise it fires 3 smoke canisters that creates a huge cloud of smoke! I tried it on Isla but unfortunately not enough of our team took advantage of it.

Rush on Atacama Desert is hard. Mike, Co…

Rush on Atacama Desert is hard. Mike, Conor and I played 2 rounds on it last night. Once defending and the second attacking.

In the first game we were pushed back to the last base before we managed to defeat the opposition. The maps are so wide they were able to get through time and again and even though we had full teams on both sides I only managed about 4 kills.
The second game was worse. We were attacking and didn’t even take the first base!

We played other maps with varying degrees of success. It seems to me that BC2 multiplayer is getting harder and harder. Perhaps only the “hardcore” players are left as everyone else has gotten bored of playing the same old maps time and again? Thanks Graham for joining us earlier in the evening!

My KDR is still at 0.82, but probably only just. My skill level plummeted to 222, or 156 depending on which number you look at. My win/loss is 1.53.

Here’s Stonefacelock and co attacking on Atacam Desert. We weren’t quite as successful.