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Battlefield Bad Company 2 |OT2| See, Spot, Run
- Thread starter EviLore
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THIS IS WHY YOU STAY IN THE GODDAMN BASE. ARGHARGHARGHARGHARGHARGH.
Okay, nevermind. We held off A despite the fact they nearly took it a few times. But man, them getting into the first base annoyed the hell out of me. :|
Okay, nevermind. We held off A despite the fact they nearly took it a few times. But man, them getting into the first base annoyed the hell out of me. :|
AlmostMilk
Member
yea, it seems like it. it seems like they are a lot less effective at range.Jtrizzy said:
Kibbles said:
Then your fine.
Anyway, holding B fourth set on Arica Rush was intense. I take out a dude with the MP442 (James Bond/Craig would be proud) switch from Recon to his kit (tracer SMH).
I start to M14 dudes in the face as I push toward B.
"JJD_ITBA" (a lurker, apparently from Brazil) spawned on me along with some "[MAD]dudenameI'mforgetting." I think JJD armed B, I used the red dot on the M14 to spray and hit and kill a few dudes (SMH for scopes, throws my recoil firing skills off. ARGH!) while they tagged them. I get killed, [MAD] picks me back up and we hold them off (close call on a disarm that I headshotted and prevented the medic reviving him from doing) to push to last set.
But man, that series was a bit annoying along with third set as I kept being shot all over until I got into that base, when I became a wookie/assault/medic triad on the push to last set and never died after that one death. :lol
The Faceless Master
Member
i dunno, maybe i just haven't been up against one of those crazy awesome teams yet, but the chopper on Oasis Rush hasn't been anything more than a casual annoyance. i mean, sure, in an occasional game, they have a great pilot and gunner, but they just have too far to travel over a very low slope and you can see the chopper coming a mile away. i mean, they're getting shot down with tanks, not even just the aa.
and a big shout out to that team who decided to UAV C4 on Isla Inocentes. hope you enjoyed trying to go uphill with no cover on the final set and damn, that Hind rape was brutal!
and a big shout out to that team who decided to UAV C4 on Isla Inocentes. hope you enjoyed trying to go uphill with no cover on the final set and damn, that Hind rape was brutal!
Dreamgazer
Member
The Faceless Master said:
Indeed it was.
A sweet revenge to all that UAV/Chopper - c4 bs.
The Faceless Master
Member
so i actually checked, looks fine on console!Stallion Free said:
whoa, when did you change your GAF handle? i didn't even notice until just now!Dreamgazer said:
Well this is just swell...
Was really into BC2 some months back, playing with work colleagues every evening - loving the open tactical approach and team-work required.
However I never got around to downloading the VIP code (got the game second hand). Getting hyped for Vietnam and with the prompting of my BC2 playing friends I decided to finally purchase the VIP code and get all the map packs, including the latest one while I'm at it...
Problem is I'm the intervening period I have moved countries, so the credit card on my account, while valid, no longer has a UK billing address - so it's impossible for me to purchase it. Gah! So frustrating.
Was really into BC2 some months back, playing with work colleagues every evening - loving the open tactical approach and team-work required.
However I never got around to downloading the VIP code (got the game second hand). Getting hyped for Vietnam and with the prompting of my BC2 playing friends I decided to finally purchase the VIP code and get all the map packs, including the latest one while I'm at it...
Problem is I'm the intervening period I have moved countries, so the credit card on my account, while valid, no longer has a UK billing address - so it's impossible for me to purchase it. Gah! So frustrating.
The Faceless Master
Member
it hasn't been so bad this weekend... most people seem to stick around now... except for Nelson Bay and White Pass.OldJadedGamer said:
The Faceless Master said:
Wait, you mean Laguna Presa, right? Because I remember a slow round there where they tried to snipe until they got a team of 6 or so and then tried to push in. They held on the beach until we mobilized and pushed out.
The Faceless Master
Member
nope, i mean Isla... Dreamgazer was gunner. must have had 40 kills!TheSeks said:
Harvest Day Rush
My entire team spent the entire match outside the MCOMs areas, just camping in the flanks.
At least i got to destroy 3 MCOMs (The only MCOMs my team got before losing like a bunch of pansies)
Playing with randoms is so awesome....
My entire team spent the entire match outside the MCOMs areas, just camping in the flanks.
At least i got to destroy 3 MCOMs (The only MCOMs my team got before losing like a bunch of pansies)
Playing with randoms is so awesome....
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
The Faceless Master said:
It's the tight nature of the base and the placement of the AA, right outside of the view that most Pr0 circle strafers use. It is placed perfectly. Also once you move into the city people in choppers freeze:lol
Anton Sugar
Member
Had some fun impromptu games with GAF last night, good times. PC GAF has been out in force lately.
Yeah, I've noticed this with Harvest Day. The wooded area to the right (as attacker) is the new Port Valdez "Wookie Hill". Even tanks will hang back and snipe :-\
Fersis said:
Yeah, I've noticed this with Harvest Day. The wooded area to the right (as attacker) is the new Port Valdez "Wookie Hill". Even tanks will hang back and snipe :-\
Dreamgazer
Member
The Faceless Master said:
Nah...only 30 kills in the hind.:lol
Would have been 58 kills at the end of the round if I wasn't booted out.
I changed my handle over the thanksgiving weekend.
Most people have no clue who I am when they see my original handle, so I figured I might as well switch over.
Anton Sugar
Member
Sanjay said:
Yeah, that was frustrating :lol
betweenthewheels
Member
At this point in the game's lifecycle, how noob-friendly is it?
Been thinking of picking it up.
Been thinking of picking it up.
BrLvgThrChmstry
Banned
Fersis said:
I'm hoping to join BC2 PS3 GAF for some games soon. Jumped ship from the 360 version.
betweenthewheels
Member
Why's this? General XBL douchery?BrLvgThrChmstry said:
betweenthewheels said:
More of us on PS3 than 360 and PC.
PS3:
Strike
Faceless
Dreamgazer
Evolved
Myself
Abu
FERSIS(!)
Olimpia
Starfish Oxide
Numerous lurkers (++5?)
360
dskillshtown(haven't seen him here in a while)
some other dude with moving tits avatar
Faceless
Yourself(?)
PC
Splinter
Snrub
Two or three others
Along with mumble
PS3: ~14 (6 active players daily or near daily)
360: 5 players off the top of my head, 1 active daily
PC: 5 off the top of my head. 2 active semi-randomly-daily.
OldJadedGamer
Banned
I don't know but I kind of really can't stand playing Harvest Day or Heavy Metal. I try and try to get into them but I just can't. Oasis is amazing and Cold War is the shit but no matter how hard I try the other maps just are too boring.
Cuban Legend
Member
I'd love to see PS3/360 GAF try PC-GAF :lol
PC-BC2-GAF is more like:
Stallion Free
Jenga
ADogChasingCars
Sanjuro
Morningbus
Spl1nter
Anton Sugar
Conceptor
Nabs
s1lversun
derFeef
Cuban Legend
PC-BC2-GAF is more like:
Stallion Free
Jenga
ADogChasingCars
Sanjuro
Morningbus
Spl1nter
Anton Sugar
Conceptor
Nabs
s1lversun
derFeef
Cuban Legend
Mr Sandman
Banned
Me and Nightman though we usually just play with stupid randoms.Cuban Legend said:
Dreamgazer
Member
betweenthewheels said:
I would say the game is still pretty newbie friendly.
Overall weapon balance is fine, and vehicles are always around to level the playing field.
Just don't start out thinking you can just run and gun everyone off the bat.
Consider staying back until you unlock all your support abilities, find the right gun for yourself, and LEARN TO SPOT.
Anton Sugar
Member
Cuban Legend said:
I have three friends (brothers) who are honorary PC GAF, they play with me and Spl1nter so much. And there's a few other gaffers not on that list that I see playing (Chespace, for one).
bean breath
Member
Been playing Heavy Metal conquest over and over.
Spawned on a squad that was sniping from the top of a wind turbine, but they made it too obvious, so it didn't last too long. That was kind of fun.
Lately, it's just been half the team waiting for the choppers at the base. So I started playing recon and would walk across the map to the outskirts of the other team's deployment and mortar and trace the choppers. None of my team had rockets, or if they did they didn't use them, so the tracers were useless. Unless I traced just as they were taking off, then they'd hang around the base looking for me and wait for it to wear off.
I had one sequence were I sniped the pilot of the apache while it was still on the landing pad like four times within about 10 seconds, meaning four different dudes climbing in and dying.:lol
So that's fun but the biggest problem that map has is that it's only 200 tickets. It's over way too quick. By the time I get to the opposing base, one team has already lost 50 tickets.
This wasn't obvious to me until one night playing with faceless and others. We started out on heavy metal, once that ended Arica conquest was next with it's mind-meltingly boring 300 tickets, per round.
I don't even want to bother with conquest maps that don't have vehicles anymore, they're just so boring.
Spawned on a squad that was sniping from the top of a wind turbine, but they made it too obvious, so it didn't last too long. That was kind of fun.
Lately, it's just been half the team waiting for the choppers at the base. So I started playing recon and would walk across the map to the outskirts of the other team's deployment and mortar and trace the choppers. None of my team had rockets, or if they did they didn't use them, so the tracers were useless. Unless I traced just as they were taking off, then they'd hang around the base looking for me and wait for it to wear off.
I had one sequence were I sniped the pilot of the apache while it was still on the landing pad like four times within about 10 seconds, meaning four different dudes climbing in and dying.:lol
So that's fun but the biggest problem that map has is that it's only 200 tickets. It's over way too quick. By the time I get to the opposing base, one team has already lost 50 tickets.
This wasn't obvious to me until one night playing with faceless and others. We started out on heavy metal, once that ended Arica conquest was next with it's mind-meltingly boring 300 tickets, per round.
I don't even want to bother with conquest maps that don't have vehicles anymore, they're just so boring.
Anton Sugar
Member
bean breath said:
Gotta love 1000 ticket servers!
BrLvgThrChmstry
Banned
betweenthewheels said:
Definitely a factor, playing with randoms was more of a chore than fun. I also seldom played with fellow gaffers. BC2 PS3 GAF seems to have a larger, more consistent player base and my PS3 is now my primary gaming platform (till GoW3).
bean breath
Member
To top it off, it wasn't even a full game. Like 6 on 6, so that's like 600 tickets. Not to mention that I was playing medic and they had medics too so like, 625 tickets give or take, plus two rounds, 1250 damn tickets! Nope, I'm sorry, shit sucks. Arica rush is fine but not conquest.TheSeks said:What? Arica Conquest is just as good as the vehicle maps when people are <D 2.0>ing buildings and RPG's everywhere. You take that back right now.
I switched it up a little just now while playing Heavy Metal again. Same tactics but this time as an engineer w/ tracer gun and rpg's. Much, much, more effective and fun. Only thing that makes it tough, aside from the low ticket count, is the kill-cam and smoke trail from the rockets giving away my position. Might be one of the few times I actually try hardcore mode.
It is damn satisfying tagging a chopper right as the propellers start moving so they have no clue and then biding my time till I switch to rpgs and let the horrible truth be known: that yes, all that time you spent waiting for the chopper was for nothing. I love watching the chopper squirm in the air while the rpg locks on, and then the useless evasive maneuvers they attempt when I'm finally locked on. Sooooo good
Each time they finally tracked me down and killed me I got tea bagged.
I think next time I'm going to go for the classic c4 on the parked chopper, that way I won't have to worry about them flying out range.
The Faceless Master
Member
bean breath said:To top it off, it wasn't even a full game. Like 6 on 6, so that's like 600 tickets. Not to mention that I was playing medic and they had medics too so like, 625 tickets give or take, plus two rounds, 1250 damn tickets! Nope, I'm sorry, shit sucks. Arica rush is fine but not conquest.
I switched it up a little just now while playing Heavy Metal again. Same tactics but this time as an engineer w/ tracer gun and rpg's. Much, much, more effective and fun. Only thing that makes it tough, aside from the low ticket count, is the kill-cam and smoke trail from the rockets giving away my position. Might be one of the few times I actually try hardcore mode.
It is damn satisfying tagging a chopper right as the propellers start moving so they have no clue and then biding my time till I switch to rpgs and let the horrible truth be known: that yes, all that time you spent waiting for the chopper was for nothing. I love watching the chopper squirm in the air while the rpg locks on, and then the useless evasive maneuvers they attempt when I'm finally locked on. Sooooo good
Each time they finally tracked me down and killed me I got tea bagged.
I think next time I'm going to go for the classic c4 on the parked chopper, that way I won't have to worry about them flying out range.
there's almost nothing more hilarious than watching as a chopper takes off, seeing them readying to attack and then *boom* detonating C4
Dreamgazer
Member
BrLvgThrChmstry said:
That may be the case for now, but I wonder how many we'll lose once killzone 3 comes around.
(We have no problem getting 6+ on a daily basis right now.)
Kill of the month for me happened on Heavy Metal earlier. I got out of my tank to repair it when a mortar hit it and killed me, kill cam showed that it was a sniper on one of the wind turbines. I function under a strict code of payback, especially when it comes to useless snipers, so as soon as I spawned I hopped in a blackhawk and flew to where I thought he was at based on the angle he was facing. Sure enough, the dummy was still there waiting to be killed, so I bailed from the blackhawk, this dude had no idea a helicopter just flew over him. I pulled my chute and started floating towards him, I wasn't going to make it onto the turbine but I was close enough that my USAS12 would do the job. I dumped an entire clip on him, and killed him just as I went past him. So he got to watch the kill-cam of me relaxing and floating back down to earth :lol
Dreamgazer said:
Well, I know Faceless won't bail. I probably won't as KZ3 now has shitty matchmaking (SMH, despite the fact they FINALLY fixed the shit controls). It's a question about the others. Killthee (who is a casual) may bail to KZ3 as him/his group in Uncharted 2 generally will play KZ2.
TheSeks said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4m4wbYc08k
You know what, I'm going to quote this more often, it's just perfect.
olimpia84
Member
abuC said:
That's awesome :lol did that happened last night on that close Heavy Metal game?
It was a close one and we were losing by a bunch of tickets but managed to come back
Then for the second game both you and dreamgazer quit so I thought our team was going to lose for sure but we managed to snag another close one right at the end! The other team (full of level 50 chopper whores) focused way too much on flying choppers and that's how we got them at the last second by capturing all the flags and just pretty much hiding until the tickets bled (and I swear for some reason in Heavy Metal the tickets bleed faster than other levels so capturing more flags than the other team is key).
Dreamgazer
Member
TheSeks said:
Killthee bailed on us loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ago.
Not sure why I still keep him on my friendlist (as I'm hitting the limit every other day now
xKilltheMx
Member
Well I just bought it Last Night for PS3 used on Gamefly, gotta wait for it to get here. This VIP Code thing, what is it and will it affect me playing online?
Dreamgazer
Member
xKilltheMx said:
It will not affect you from playing online.
The VIP code is essentially EA's "Project 10 dollars" to prevent people from buying used copies. You would need the code to have official access to the 7 "map packs".
However, since most of the maps are already on disk, you can actually still play the maps in online games. It's just that you will not be able to earn any points in those games, and nothing will go toward your stats.
Gamefly usually keep those things out of their rentals and put everything back in (including an unused VIP code) when they sell the games. Assuming you're lucky that is.
I'm about 80% positive I won't be getting KZ3. I was disappointed with the maps all being like super complex mazes and then getting spawn camped every 4 seconds.
I really want to do some matches in this game again since I haven't even played it since the recent patch!
GT5 is consuming my life, plus in the off chance I take a break from GT5 my old MW2 clan dudes beg me to play and I feel bad since I abandoned them for the last 4 months or so.
I promised them to play tonight, but I'd like to jump into BC2 sometime this week with you guys.
I really want to do some matches in this game again since I haven't even played it since the recent patch!
GT5 is consuming my life, plus in the off chance I take a break from GT5 my old MW2 clan dudes beg me to play and I feel bad since I abandoned them for the last 4 months or so.
I promised them to play tonight, but I'd like to jump into BC2 sometime this week with you guys.
Dreamgazer
Member
UFRA said:
O
So I just haven't begged hard enough, is that it?:lol