Tips and Tricks for BFBC2

Since we are all n00bs, we have the crappiest weapons. When someone dies, they leave their kit behind. If you pick them up, you get their weapons and all of their perks. So, pick up kits to level out the playing field a little.

Don't run head long into a fight. Use the cover to your advantage. Flank and take kills from behind.

If you are in a tank and there are two story buildings, blow up the 2nd story to keep guys out. On the flip side, use higher ground to your advantage.

If your capping a flag hit Q to focus on it. When capped you'll get extra points for a quad objective -

Speaking of Q it's your do all use all key

Put cross hair on Tank hit Q and the tank show on mini map for 15 seconds, Q on Solders the same, Q on flag sets objective Q on jeep driving away you say Hey I need a ride.

If you try to spot something that isnt there, or miss, you have a cooldown before you can spot again. This has been killing me because I've been spamming spot and it wouldn't do anything. Now I know.

Spot on a target, then kill that target and you actually get a few more points.

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yeah remembered that last night, grabbed someones kit and went on like an 8 or 9-0 kill streak.

While DAMN frustrating - (review last nights /Rage Quit) in a way it's fun - I don't mind the aggravation it's somewhat refreshing - and we're all in this together.
It's not like you all have been playing for a year and one of us is jumping in late. I think this is a first for us.

The skill will come - I refuse to let the rape get me down, I'll just move to a new server and try again!

Yeah I was nearing quitting time anyways. But I will admit in a matter of 10 minutes I was 100% reminded why I stopped playing battlefield. None of my complaints happen in COD. I will continue to play for now, but I can't say I am not at least a little jaded already, 2.5 hours of gametime in.

With the release of the Vietnam expansion, we are all back to square one and everyone goes to ironsights and no perks. I'm hopeful that will level things enough to get me to stop swearing a little bit at least.

I felt like a useless rouge in "Proof is in the poison"

Bubbaspanky wrote:I felt like a useless rouge in "Proof is in the poison"

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I guess I should ask I f they have seeing eye wizards for your pitiful uselessness in BF2?
If they do - I'll step up Little Buddie.

Wow... Was it really that bad last night?

I wanted to jump on, but it was the Wife's Birthday and no amount of protection can save me from that Wife Agrro.

I wasn't frustrated, so much as I felt like I didn't know what I was doing. Adding a new tip. Don't run head long into a fight. Use the cover to your advantage. Flank and take kills from behind. ;-)

Then again, I'm the guy who doesn't mind being spawn raped at the last spawn point which is not capturable. 9 out of 10 times, I view it as a huge challenge to get out and take a flag. Yea, I'll get frustrated once in a while, but for the most part, if I'm getting pwn'd, I either switch servers or switch my playing style.

Not that it is a tip - but I now have both my medic gadgets paddles and heal kits - I make far more points supporting than killing - interesting thing your heal kits DO NOT disappear when you change class - they go away after the amount of Heal/Ammo are used up.
I was still getting points for healing even after I changed to Assault.

Also note Assault is the class that passes out ammo boxes in this version.

One Medic (who also have the suppressing fire MG) one Assault (Grenade launcher and Ammo pack) maybe an Engineer for RPG and a Scout to be eyes in the hills as a group?

Adding a new tip that Joe told me last night. If you are in a tank and there are two story buildings, blow up the 2nd story to keep guys out.

Seeing how a squad is 4 in BC2 and we're getting 6 people - how about 2 squads of 3 / or 2 squads of 2 if 4 show up?

Then the issue is 2 separate channels so the people in opposite squads are not confusing each other - Joe and I were working with each other very well while Drix and Bubba were on the other team there for a while and Drix kept trying to react to our work.

I don't m ind having both sides on comms - I think it's fun no matter what side were fighting on but if it's to confusing for separate squads to share the same channel the we may need to divide it up.

Truth be told that is the reason why I /Rage Quit last night - it was just to fucked up for me to have ANY fun so instead of just getting more and more pissed I just bounced.

The first thing we need to do is to work on getting everyone on the same teams. That should be the priority. I think once we did that, things started going a lot smother.

Also, if we have two squads, then there is no reason we can't all be on the same coms and just focus on the same objectives or at the least coordinate attacks at two different objectives. We've always seemed to manage coordinating in the past.

I dunno. It may be my play style, but coms has never really affected me. What I do miss a lot from BF2 is the ability to give squad orders via the game and the ability of a commander to give multiple squads orders. I hope they don't ditch that in BF3.

I will say at the end of the night, I was fairly frustrated and tired of playing. It was hard going up against all those dang laser scopes.

If your capping a flag hit Q to focus on it. When capped you'll get extra points for a quad objective -
Speaking of Q it's your do all use all key
Put cross hair on Tank hit Q and the tank show on mini map for 15 seconds, Q on Solders the same, Q on flag sets objective Q on jeep driving away you say Hey I need a ride.


Q is your friend,

Good suggestions Duck. I added them to the main post.

Q is definitely your friend.

If you try to spot something that isnt there, or miss, you have a cooldown before you can spot again. This has been killing me because I've been spamming spot and it wouldn't do anything. Now I know.

Spot on a target, then kill that target and you actually get a few more points.

In the setup fille change carRadio=0 to carRadio=1 and the X key will play and change 60's music when in vehicles (like the old days)

Atomm wrote:If you try to spot something that isnt there, or miss, you have a cooldown before you can spot again. This has been killing me because I've been spamming spot and it wouldn't do anything. Now I know.

Spot on a target, then kill that target and you actually get a few more points.

From one of the sites:

Spotting, like the repair tool, uses "overheat" to prevent excessive Socialize use.
The player is capable of about five Socialize button presses in rapid succession before overheating and being inoperable for five seconds.
With the cooldown, the fastest continuous rate that a player can spot without overheating is once every two seconds.


Is there actual audio you all hear when spotting (or when someone else spots) something?
I don't hear a thing. All I get is the "something" appearing on my mini/full map for "X" seconds.

I believe that there is audio. I seem to recall hearing "Charlie Spotted" or something like that. Maybe it was just my imagination though.

Tip? Trick? Exploit!
We're always bitching about RPG Snipers (AT Snipers) wana know how the cool kids do it for real?

Tracer darts. At level 11 you get the tracer dart gun, AT weapons will lock on to the tracer dart - Tracer darts stick to kids.

First video shows good use from a single person AT gunner using tracer darts for him self, second video is a team sniper using the dart and AT gunner off to the side.
Notice the sniper uses the scoped rifle to set cross hair then with out moving "F" keys to tracer dart - forum consensus is no drop with tracer dart - they mover slower than bullet but with no gravity effect.

Third video a professional how to use instructional video.

Also note (again) that it sticks to people, so sniper tags another sniper and the AT guy takes them out.
Also acording to last video only RPG and Carl Gustav are Tracer Dart tracking the AT4 is not.

Way to many videos to paste - check out the tips sections..... we are not Jedi that's for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BadCompany2Training#g/p

From what I've read, Tracer Darts are not used in Vietnam, only Vanilla.

What setup file are you refering to Duck? Because if it's the elusive settings.ini, I don't have the darn thing. Also, when I get in vehicles, it shows me X to change channel and always change it to no sound. If I could turn it off without having to do that every time, that would be great.

I hear a lot of background vocals saying different things. My understanding is all of that is based on the Q button. Like when we point to a Flag, I hear something about getting that objective.

C:\Documents and Settings\26\My Documents\BFBC2

Game settings.

The very top of the file (in blue) - just noticed (in orange) the Dialog volume..... will change to see if it helps other spotting issue.

[GstAudio]
DialogueVolume=0.170000
CarRadio=1
VoipEnable=1
OriginalVOForEnemyTeam=0

What is the name of the file because I've done everything I can to find settings.ini and it is not in there.

Atomm wrote:What is the name of the file because I've done everything I can to find settings.ini and it is not in there.

C:\Documents and Settings\26\My Documents\BFBC2 < < < < Path to file for standard install

Gamesettings < < < Name of file opened with notepad

for me it's a 4 kb Configuration file.

Ah. Sorry, the space earlier was throwing me.

I wonder if that's where the FOV is now.

Yah it was a good round.

Do perks transfer if you pick up a higher level players kit?

I know they specifically say VEHICLE perks DO NOT but if I kill an assault player that has Body armor and Heavy bullets do I get when I pick it off his still twitching body?

I was told they did, but I'm not sure. If anything, they may have been talking about the fact that you can get access to better weapons than you have.

Decided to try and figure out Recon today.... took a few maps but once I got it - I GOT IT.
Unlocked 2 rifles and the M93R pistol - it's a 3 round burst AUTO pistol - excellent sneak around weapon for sure!

Unlocked the sensor ball which is a localized UAV of sorts for the recon class and got my knife on with 18 knife kills in a single map. (Te desert one with the ships n the sand)
Just stayed closest to their flag and did not cap - kept sensor balls active and cut throats.

Also have mortar strike too - the game gets better with rank - there is no doubt about it now.

I think you may be right Atomm - not all the perks but you can scoop up the weapon, that's why I asked also - all I was seeing (I thought) in proof - I picked up a fallen medics kit and all I had was pistol and health pack - no perks - checked score board and he was level 1 So even though I have all medic unlocks and parks and specializations, none showed when I picked a level 1's gear.

So, I figured out why it was wierd that I had unlocks, yet Duck and Bubba did not. I registered as a Veteran on the BF site. That gave me the M1, Thomspon and squad support unlocks from the get go.

http://www.battlefieldbadcompany2.com/veteran

Go register and see if everything shows up.

If you don't have any BF games to register (yea right), then go play BF Heroes free to play for 10 minutes using the same email address you registered for BFBC2.

My EA Registration is M730A2 but the game is on Steam which is GRB_Duck
So the Vet status is not showing up for Slugnutty - and M730A2 is lvl 1 with no time or preks in BFBC2....

No issue though I unlocked the F2000 already.

Duck, it's tied to email, not usernames.

20,880 points in a round.
57 Awards
18 Knife kills - Them's the funest!

The shotgun (Favorite Siaga 5 Hours + in game so far...(But just unlocked the USAS)) a shot shell in game is 12 pellets so when you pull the trigger once the game reflects 12 shots fired.

The 3516 shots fired is really 293 trigger pulls.

Was that a HiTicket server?

We probably should move this to another thread though.

Tip on flying a helo

Invert the vertical mouse axis. Swap the yaw and roll controls (move the keyboard to the mouse and vice versa). This will allow you to aim your nose in the same manner that you aim your gun.