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I don’t think anyone plays Bad Company …

I don’t think anyone plays Bad Company 2 Onslaught any more. Or at least hardly anyone does and it’s only been out a short while (which makes things worse!)

If Onslaught is the bastard child of Bad Company 2 that nobody wants to know about then it’s curtains for it. In Onslaught review Fieldoperative suggests some disturbing figures for Xbox usage of the game:

I don’t wanna be dramatic and everything, but have you checked the latest Major Nelson‘s Xbox Live Activity lists? Well, for a whole month now BFBC2 has dropped even below COD4! Which is very alarming, because when once in a while I play a few COD4 matches, I check how many people are online and there aren’t more than 20.000-25.000 at any given time!

If there are fewer than 20,000 people playing Bad Company 2 regularly then it’s going to be really hard to play Onslaught, a DLC that requires further monetary commitment.

Anyway, I had a quick game over lunch. I went looking for an “easy” game, any level, and found a game on Valparaiso, played by a solitary soldier, SKMG42, fighting against the odds. He had made it right to the last base when I joined and with only a few kills left the game ended in a win. He scored 155 kills, but it took 33 minutes to do it! I stuck around for the next one and we had a chat about the game. Unfortunately his friends haven’t bought the DLC and he spend quite some time looking for a game to play. I presume he created a “public game” but it took 33 minutes for someone to join him? That’s depressing and a bad sign.
We had fun, I came out of the game with 79 kills and 3 deaths. We were desperately looking for an engineer kit in the last base to take out the tank but all the enemy soldiers are assault or medics! Took us 12 minutes this time. Not great but there were only the 2 of us there.

I joined Mike in a game last night and ended up playing against him first. I hopped in a tank doing some damage to his team and he almost blew up the vehicle with C4 but got killed just before he hit the trigger. When the tank did blow I quit and asked him to invite me later. Which he did! I ended up on his team attacking and had good fun.
Here’s a tip (if you didn’t know it already), if you’re attacking lay down C4 on the crate. We were attacking on Port Valdez. I took a quad bike and raced down to Alpha with Mike. Dived into the house and plastered explosive all over it. Jumped out and pressed the trigger. 360 points later and I had a big grin on my face. 🙂

We eventually won the round. A memorable moment in the last base was when Muse got killed by a medic sitting on top of a filing cabinet next to Bravo. I took the medic out, grabbed Muse’s medic kit and revived him. We defended the crate until it blew! Woo!

47-0 on Atacama Desert

I think the highest number of kills I got in Bad Company 2 Onslaught is 79, in one of my first games with Mike last week. It was only the two of us playing, and it was on easy difficulty so the enemy practically stand in the middle of the road for you to shoot.

Here’s a screenshot of the scores from a game this weekend. It was on Atacama Desert, on hard difficulty and I had the tank most of the time. We crushed all who opposed us. I got 47 kills and I didn’t die once!

I have to give credit to Mike who can land a tracer on a speeding bullet. Without his skills those Havoc helicopters would have been a lot more deadly.

For more tracer hell, check out this video David created of a Rush game on Isla. Mike helped take down helicopter after helicopter. Madness!

I got tea bagged last night. Well sort o…

I got tea bagged last night. Well sort of. Mike and myself were defending on Arica Harbour and we tore through the enemy on the first base thanks to our tank.
On the second base it was more varied but I sneaked up to the top construction site and hid behind some bushes. Enemy soldiers poured past, and even though I got 4 or 5 kills in the space of 10-20 seconds nobody came looking for me! Two lads ran past me so I decided to follow them around the back of the town. I knifed the guy behind, and knowing that he might alert his squad mate rushed the second guy but unluckily ran out of ammo just as I caught up with him. He turned around and shot me! Argh!

I laughed out loud when he went over to my corpse and fired round after round into it. I should have sent him a “LOL” message. Nice to see I upset someone’s plans. 🙂

I only played the one game of rush after a game of Onslaught. My KDR remains at 0.81, but I got a KDR of 1.43 in that game. Skill level went up 75 points! Oh dear.

Onslaught is great for practising. Fire …

Onslaught is great for practising. Fire up a private game and you can fly a Hind, or shoot enemies with your M24 and learn how distance affects bullet drop. It doesn’t matter if you die because you’ll respawn if there’s only one player.

I played a game on Isla, and figured out that the bullet drop on the M24 wasn’t as great as I imagined before. The Hind that appeared shortly afterwards was very annoying but I made short work of it after I respawned as an engineer. Good opportunity to try the M1 Garand too.

Mike brushed up on his heli skills last night while he waited for us to finish a game. Good thing too as in our first game on Atacama Desert I piloted the Hind out of our base and promptly crashed, with the Hind landing upside down! We both got out unscathed.

I don’t think I or anyone will obsess about Onslaught like we do about Rush because it’s like playing a single player game, but with your friends. There is the leaderboard, and I noticed that I had the best time for at least one maplast night among my friends. It’s competitive that way, but more than anything it’s a great diversion and just what I need for a quick 5 minute blast.

Bad Company 2 Onslaught of Death

I played a few games of Onslaught after work there. On easy difficulty level because I want a nice gentle introduction to the mode. First of all on Isla I joined 3 others and completed it in about 8 minutes. Worked out well and yes, it was easy.

Then Mike got online and I set up a private match. We played Atacama Desert and there are a lot of vehicles on this level! We got into the Hind which was a bad mistake. Didn’t last long and had to contend with 2 or 3 tanks on the first flag without armour. Luckily I was an engineer, took out one with an RPG and another with my repair tool. Mike respawned as an assault class to supply us with ammo.

The enemy hinds are really annoying! Luckily they’re pretty dumb too. They’ll hover overhead after bombing us so it’s an easy kill with the RPG. On to the last base where we took out a few tanks, rolled in there, rolled out to repair and in again and sat on the flag until the game ended.

Final score? I got 79 kills, Mike got 96. Both of us died 3 times. One of those deaths for both of us was changing class. Me from assault to engineer, and Mike from medic to assault. In retrospect we should have just looked for appropriate kits from fallen enemies but we did have 2 tanks breathing down our throats! Besides, what a KDR! 🙂

Once the sheen wears off I can see myself playing Onslaught mode when I’m too tired to go up against human players. On easy difficulty the enemy will fall with just a few rounds from a UMP, without magnum ammo.

The aim of the game is to complete it with the best time. Mike and myself finished in Atacama Desert in 23 minutes which we’ll probably destroy in the coming days. There’s a leaderboard made up from your friendslist and I see Geoff and Gary completed it in 9 minutes. So, plenty of room for improvement.

Oh yes, to repeat something that was said in a video below, the best squad needs one or two engineers, and assault guys, and probably a medic too. Medic isn’t so important as you have infinite tickets but if all the team die it’s game over. I don’t think there’s any point in a recon player in Onslaught is there?

So, is Onslaught worth getting? Hell yeah. It should have been included in the original game as it uses much the same assets as the regular multiplayer game. It wasn’t, and EA have spotted an opportunity to make more money. Suck it up and buy it. It’s fun.

Getting behind the enemy is a great tact…

Getting behind the enemy is a great tactic. I love doing it on the last base on Isla while defending. I did that last night, first when everyone retreating after the village was taken and then dropped off by Dave a few times. Did so much damage, it was great!
One good thing you can do is stopping the UAV. I was huddled in the corner near where Alpha used to be, and unfortunately as a recon I zoomed in on the UAV operator and saw and heard an engineer slapping C4 onto the UAV! Nasty! They weren’t even close to losing so this was a really cheap tactic. With my M24 I tried shooting the engineer, and a body shot didn’t take him down. He ran for cover but the UAV guy stayed so I reloaded, lined up on his head, BANG! Down he goes, and with him the UAV laden with C4! Hehe. I didn’t last too long when they realised where I was.
Next I had a good killstreak when Dave dropped me back there next, he hovered low so they wouldn’t notice the parachute and I got 4-5 kills, including a medic who ducked down next to me. He didn’t know, but I did. BANG! Woo!

Ah fun. It was great. I started the evening playing in a game with Conor, Dave sent me an invite but his squad was then full when I joined so I went back to Conor’s game. Unfortunately I got kicked from that and couldn’t join. The server filled up too. Grrr. I joined Dave’s squad again with the intention of seeing if there was space but no, Dave, Mike and Gary were already playing together. I played with them for a bit, thinking, “alright, how do I get back to Conor’s game?” but Conor joined our team, of course not on our squad unfortunately.
I wish the PS3 had party chat like the Xbox does! There wouldn’t have been any problem then.

Oh, removing the blue fence on the 3rd base in Arica Harbour really helped. I swear, enemies weren’t expecting it and walked out into the open several times!

Anyway, my KDR increased to 0.81, win/loss to 1.63 and my skill level has rocketed to 323 or 174 depending on which skill stat you look at. I just noticed my average lifetime has increased from 59 seconds to 1m 9s which is welcome too.

In a tough game of Bad Company 2 it’s a…

In a tough game of Bad Company 2 it’s always great when you steal their tank. Thanks Dave for the lift in the Hind, and Tye for all the repairs! They hadn’t a clue, and I got a few kils on my way back to the final base on Isla. A team that beat us several times finally succumbed to our awesome fighting skills!

KDR remains unchanged which I was surprised about. I made it to level 26, and thanks to Conor who nudged me to play BC1 online I’m now a veteran and unlocked the Garand. I also unlocked the recon’s RDS.

Tough bloody games with Mike, David and later TyeWebb.

Edit: How did my skill level go up? No wonder they were difficult games if I was killing so many players with higher skill levels than I had!

Proof positive if any was needed that a …

Proof positive if any was needed that a team composed of recons will not win a game of Bad Company 2 rush. We were defending on Port Valdez and there was 3-4 snipers on the hill with a medic reviving them. They were annoying but they never made it past the first base.
They never stood a chance defending. It was with pleasure I took out of those snipers after their second base went down. They were sitting up on the pipes behind Alpha taking pot shots at people, so I snuck around the containers. Took aim, 1 down, adjust aim, 2 down! Another sniper was taking shelter on the other side of the base and he suffered a similar fate. Unfortunately their medic came along at the wrong moment and made mince meat of me with his M60.
I probably shouldn’t have stolen the Apache from the last base. We didn’t need it! Dave would have done more damage with it on the ground. And yes, I drove it like a drunken judge. I couldn’t remember how to go up. Ooops.

Oh, and I started on Arica Harbour as usual. Defending, and we stopped them at the third base, and then won attacking in the next round. I joined a good team! 🙂

All in all, some great games. David invited a PSN buddy, Jackmufc (I think?) and later Cardsnumber7 joined us and did a fine job taking out the annoying snipers I mentioned earlier. I only got one I think. I’m still trying to get the hang of the 12x scope.

My KDR didn’t increase, but my skill level did, from 22 to 105 (although BfBC2 says it’s 176!). That probably explains why we tore up the other team as I was first into the game. Win/Loss ratio has jumped from 1.54 to 1.60 which is always nice. And woohoo, got my sixth gold star for the AN-94!

Some crazy games of Bad Company 2 last n…

Some crazy games of Bad Company 2 last night. We won 4 and lost 2 rounds. It was late at night and the games were sometimes quite empty. One game we were attacking only had 2, then 1 enemy defending. Needless to say we won that one. In the next round we were defending and this one player was joined by a pretty good team who put up a good fight and eventually won.
Unfortunately the rest of our team left except for our squad so it was tough.

Poor Mike. If Dave‘s latest video is anything to go by, he doesn’t have much luck when he gets into a Hind with either of us.

On Port Valdez he got in the Hind after I said I’d drive, err fly. We zoomed into the air and off to shoot some enemy butt. Unfortunately we failed miserably. We got hit a few times, aircraft health plummeted to 27 points and I did a mad turn about, screeching through a tight circle and headed home. We hit the ground by Bravo just as the health hit 1 point and jumped out to fight another day.

Thanks Mike and Conor for some great games. I didn’t do all that well, suffering from a negative KDR for the evening. Still though, my skill level plummeted so I should get an easier game the next time!

Insane few games with Mike, Conor and Ga…

Insane few games with Mike, Conor and Gavin tonight. I’m pretty sure we won every single game. It was one of those nights where I hung back and didn’t fight as aggressively as I usually do so I didn’t get that many kills, except in the last game. 19/11 was pretty good for me! The team we joined were really aggressive and played really well. So good in fact I was catching up with them all the time!

I only got one crate, 3rd Alpha on Valperaiso. The crate was lit and I remember Mike saying earlier to throw a grenade on it so I fired a 40mm grenade and boom! I got the crate! (Sorry to whoever armed it!)

I also got a cheeky smoke grenade kill! 🙂

My KDR has gone up to 0.80, looking at this page it’s my assault and engineer classes that are dragging everything else up. Win/Loss ratio has jumped from 1.42 to 1.53 tonight. Good games!