I’m going to archive my Battlefield Bad Company 2 stats. Over the last 2 weeks it’s obvious I’ve played the PS3 version a lot more but I want to get back to the Xbox too. I find it fascinating how my different stats go up and down.
‘Course it’s probably only fascinating to me! 🙂
Bad Company 2 with David, Mark and Conor tonight. I found it hard to get into my stride but we were playing on a great team and I think won every game. I did come out with a decent KDR in two rounds too!
Ok, ok, never mind that they were crap scores. I was laying down smoke and refilling ammo quite a bit too but whenever my KDR gets near 1 I celebrate!
Still waiting on my component switcher cable. Friday night’s game was in HD and it made a huge difference.
Edit – never mind the above, thinking back over the games I think I’m just peeved that we were playing with such a strong team who played for the objective. I did my share of setting and defending the bomb but this time our squad wasn’t the only one doing so. It was quite amazing how fast we overran the enemy base sometimes. I honestly prefer those games where we have to fight for every inch (but not have to fight too hard!)
Not another helicopter tutorial? Yes, yes, but this one is good and it’s short. Flying a helicopter in Bad Company 2 is damn hard and AdaptableFuton suggests changing the air controls to BC1 controls. Might make it easier but you probably lose manoeuvrability.
Also, and this is the important bit. Engineers can only repair the helicopter when it’s flying low. I didn’t know that. Must have been dumb luck when I was repairing that we were at the right altitude.
It’s really easy to kill the first Alpha crate on Port Valdez with a tank from afar. When an M-COM station is in a solid building there’s always a danger of the building falling down around it. I don’t think it’s a bug, it’s a design feature. Bravo on that map is much more exposed and harder to take. (via)
On Isla all it takes is a knife! Watch and enjoy!
Some choice quotes from Bad Company 2: When Bad Players Ruin a Great Game (via)
If you are not actively engaged in either defending or assaulting crates or control zones, you are wasting everyone’s time who has an interest in playing the game as it is designed.
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Let me make this real simple: When you are on the attacking team, you cannot win by killing more of the defensive team than they kill of you. It’s not possible. It’s doesn’t matter how many times you try or wish things were differently, it just won’t work. This isn’t Modern Warfare 2.
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Instead, I see people standing around, making no effort whatsoever. Or, if they make an effort, it is so half-assed as to be useless, like the dainty noobs who appear too frightened to enter a building because they might get killed so they hang around outside like a gaggle of drifters, waiting for god knows what until finally the bomb explodes, objective lost. Good work men. Try not to work up a sweat next time.
I’m adding his strategy guide, part 1 and part 2 to my own Bad Company 2 beginners guide.
Reddit users share the stories of their most memorable Battlefield Bad Company 2 moments. What’s yours?
My brain is still half asleep after the games last night and early start so I’m at a loss for one of my own. So please start the ball rolling by leaving your stories here or on Reddit!
Geoff received quite a rude message from someone so he compiled the following montage of helicopter kills. I just love the soundtrack! More Amiga music please!
David was playing during the first montage, nice to see his gamertag on Geoff’s squad!
Let’s hope Geoff never thinks like these guys! 😉
Wow, that’s all I can say about tonight’s games, and smoke grenades FTW, I think.
While I waited for the others I hopped into a game with strangers. They were useless! The totally ignored the bases, nobody had a mic on and everyone ran around like headless chickens! I actually had to mute my mic I wanted to scream so much at them!
I was playing first with Mark, David and Conor but unfortunately Conor had problems with his PS3 or at least he disconnected a few times. Must talk to him about that. Mark’s friend Gary got into the squad then. We left a game in which we were getting overrun at every turn, but we still managed to be “the best squad” twice maybe? The rest of our team sucked big time.
Then on to Squad Death Match. We did okish. There were some good moments but we went back to Rush and had a blast.
I concentrated on my assault class. I unlocked the second assault rifle and the smoke grenade eventually and went to town on it. I think it helped!
When defending, the attackers had to be right on top of us to see us, and the smoke provided cover when defusing bombs. When attacking it provided a corridor for us to run through to the bomb and blow it up. While waiting for a bomb to blow a few smoke grenades tossed on the ground made it very difficult for the opposition to figure out where we waited for them. Oh yes, smoking kills! Especially when you hit someone in the chest with a smoke grenade.
We combined smoke and spotting in the second base in Valparaiso. I laid down smoke over the village while Mark spotted from the back and then on the lighthouse. I swear, all those bobbing orange triangles were like Christmas lights on a foggy evening! 🙂
When on smoke grenade duty you probably won’t get many kills. You’re too busy reloading and laying down cover for your team. It was worth it. Did we lose any game after we got into our stride? The night’s a blur. My stats haven’t updated yet. It probably will have by the time you read this. I got to level 7 8 tonight!
PS. check out David’s post on the night’s gameplay!
Smoke grenades. They’re one of the main reasons I spent so much time leveling up the assault class yesterday. If the video in my previous post didn’t convince you they’re useful, check this one out. (via)
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It’s like walking a tightrope. Lean one way or another and you’ll get hammered when you fall.
EA are deploying their R9 servers and among the fixes is the following:
Autobalance improved, it shuffles people both during and between rounds now, and does a better job.
I hope so. Some of the games last night were so lopsided that rounds were over in minutes. I suspect there might have been one other squad working together, and David and myself in our small mini squad may have been bumped to the other side to shore up a losing team. Unfortunately we were overrun a in our last game I think and we noticed our team was 2 men down.
The best games are those that go on and on, and you have to fight and hold your positions with a team that’s doing it’s job. Again and again I saw team mates run past a detonating bomb without a care for disarming it. So frustrating.