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Bad Company 2: Boring Title

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  • SanguinarySanguinary Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Does anyone know how to actually get a VIP code, if say, the game isn't yours but you play? There's nothing in the store about actually acquiring a code and the website says that I can get it in the store and that's it. Any hints/ideas? Anyone have a phone no. I can call?

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  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Pajama_Man wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    So if you are in a vehicle (like a tank or the UAV) and you have the AltFire spec equipped, how do you zoom in? Is there a special "zoom in" button I haven't seen yet?

    Depending on which "vehicle perk" you have equipped those essentially act as your "Alt-Fire". The only way to get zoom in alt-fire is to equipped the zoom vehicle perk. The zoom perk is great on the UAV. Also pairing the UAV with the sensor will turn your UAV into a flying sensor ball. :mrgreen:

    Does the sensor perk have infinite vertical range?

    Arrath on
  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    Klyka wrote: »
    So if you are in a vehicle (like a tank or the UAV) and you have the AltFire spec equipped, how do you zoom in? Is there a special "zoom in" button I haven't seen yet?

    I think the altfire perk might take the place of your zoom.

    It does.

    Fun thing to do: Have both Attack chopper pilot and gunner pick the alt-fire perk. Gunner's alt fire is a tracer dart, and the Chopper pilot's alt fire is a tow missile. Gunner traces, pilot locks on and ruins a tank's day.

    I've always wondered about that...

    That sounds totally fucking awesome too.

    Sheep on
  • MeepZeroMeepZero Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Hi all! found a page with some stats...

    http://denkirson.xanga.com/722757523/bad-company-2/

    Just a few stats, really not that many
    actually its a truckload of data

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  • douglydougly Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Can anyone explain exactly how the missile locks work? I spent the least amount of time as an engineer, and with no previous BF experience, I think I might be doing it wrong.

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  • MasumeMasume Creator Caprica, FloridaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    dougly wrote: »
    Can anyone explain exactly how the missile locks work? I spent the least amount of time as an engineer, and with no previous BF experience, I think I might be doing it wrong.

    Just keep your aim on the traced vehicle, the block will change from missing sides to a full on block that blinks. That's it, your locked. Works behind walls too, from what I can tell.

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Masume wrote: »
    dougly wrote: »
    Can anyone explain exactly how the missile locks work? I spent the least amount of time as an engineer, and with no previous BF experience, I think I might be doing it wrong.

    Just keep your aim on the traced vehicle, the block will change from missing sides to a full on block that blinks. That's it, your locked. Works behind walls too, from what I can tell.

    And when you've got a lock on, you can fire in just about any direction and the missile will still track towards the target, as long as you stay scoped. Great for shooting around obstacles :^:

    Also, MeepZero, that info has already been posted, and it's actually old data from the beta.

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  • douglydougly Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    as long as you stay scoped.

    I was doing it wrong

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    the info Meep posted, some of it, has been reupdated to include the updated vehicles not included in the beta. also, a locked-on rocket doesn't require you to remain scoped for it to track the target.

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  • deusxanimedeusxanime Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Dang, Amazon has BC2 PC for $37! I should have waited another week to buy it... Ah well, Steam gave me instant gratification, and I'm all for that.

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  • douglydougly Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    tyrannus wrote: »
    the info Meep posted, some of it, has been reupdated to include the updated vehicles not included in the beta. also, a locked-on rocket doesn't require you to remain scoped for it to track the target.


    I figured ^^that^^ is how they should work.

    I'm pretty sure I just got the third rocket launcher, tried to manually guide a missile into a tank, got blown up while standing there like a goon and swapped back to the second launcher.

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  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Yeah, you don't need to be scoped to achieve or maintain the target lock.

    Nothing quite like rocket sniping a tank half way across Atamamamamca Desert.

    Arrath on
  • Raoulduke20Raoulduke20 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    dougly wrote: »
    tyrannus wrote: »
    the info Meep posted, some of it, has been reupdated to include the updated vehicles not included in the beta. also, a locked-on rocket doesn't require you to remain scoped for it to track the target.


    I figured ^^that^^ is how they should work.

    I'm pretty sure I just got the third rocket launcher, tried to manually guide a missile into a tank, got blown up while standing there like a goon and swapped back to the second launcher.

    While the missile definitely still seeks when you unscope, it seems like it has less accuracy or something for me. I'll often waste a missile or two trying to hit a dart'ed tank without any vehicle damage notification, then when I get some good cover and can stay scoped the missile pretty much always hits and gives me the damage and/or vehicle destruction popups.

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  • Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I had a fun time getting creative with the destructible buildings last night.

    Was solo sneaking to one of the mcoms in a house on Port Val. Run into the building next to it, knife 3 guys stationed at the different windows. Climb to the attic, blast a hole in the the wall and the adjacent building with my grenade launcher. Shoot a guy hiding in the other attic, then run and jump from house to house. Arm the mcom without ever going through the front door.

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  • hazywaterhazywater Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I play a lot of Rush. The best map has to be the jungle map Valparaso. Stage 2 of that map can get ridiculous as that entire village can be leveled. The worst map is probably Arica harbor because of stage 1. That first stage is open and situated in a bowl making it hell for infantry to survive the incessant sniping and liberal tank fire.

    Nelson bay is probably the most hectic.

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  • TKaneTKane Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Also, to whoever said the first guy you stab in Zero Dark Thirty in single player mode was a Legionniare was mistaken. He's not a Legionnaire, he's just a regular Russian grunt

    Also, I looked everywhere. I didn't see a single Acta Non Verba symbol anywhere. I even got 90% of the MComs, and still didn't find the symbol.

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  • MarikirMarikir Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Nelson Bay is a bitch to defend on Rush, in my opinion. I always feel like my team really accomplished something if we can hold that one.

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  • Xeno idXeno id Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    If a .50 cal rifle doesn't kill whoever it hits in one shot, a knife shouldn't either.

    THIS

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  • Xeno idXeno id Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Marikir wrote: »
    Nelson Bay is a bitch to defend on Rush, in my opinion. I always feel like my team really accomplished something if we can hold that one.

    I hate Nelson Bay the most so far. I mean... Seriously... Who makes a Battlefield map and doesn't include a single tank or a Helicopter? This isn't Call of Duty folks. I hate that fucking map.

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  • erraticrabbiterraticrabbit Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Yeah, I hate that Nelson the most too, 'cause I don't have any excuse to carry CG

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  • CarbonFireCarbonFire See you in the countryRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    hazywater wrote: »
    I play a lot of Rush. The best map has to be the jungle map Valparaso. Stage 2 of that map can get ridiculous as that entire village can be leveled. The worst map is probably Arica harbor because of stage 1. That first stage is open and situated in a bowl making it hell for infantry to survive the incessant sniping and liberal tank fire.

    Nelson bay is probably the most hectic.

    If your team cannot break through the first point on Arica, it's because your tanks aren't using the Zoom Upgrade. Point A is completely undefendable, and B can be tank sniped pretty easily.

    Also, Nelson Bay is awesome. It'll be even better if zombie medic trains get nerfed. I wouldn't mind a BDM on that map to help mix things up though.
    Yeah, I hate that Nelson the most too, 'cause I don't have any excuse to carry CG
    WHAT.

    If you can't find a use for CG on Nelson Bay, then Carl Gustov has no use for you.

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  • SoaLSoaL fantastic Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    holy shit I have 2 kicks

    that is the amount of seats the enemy team could take up on a skidoo


    hmm

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  • WarcryWarcry I'm getting my shit pushed in here! AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Went shotgun engy again, aussie server, ended up with a 2.71 K/D and over 20 kills.

    Lag is not beneficial, Klyka and Goomba.

    Warcry on
  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    TKane wrote: »
    Also, to whoever said the first guy you stab in Zero Dark Thirty in single player mode was a Legionniare was mistaken. He's not a Legionnaire, he's just a regular Russian grunt

    Also, I looked everywhere. I didn't see a single Acta Non Verba symbol anywhere. I even got 90% of the MComs, and still didn't find the symbol.

    I could've sworn I saw the symbol on some trucks that you shoot up from Flynn's chopper in the jungle.

    Arrath on
  • Raoulduke20Raoulduke20 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Warcry wrote: »
    Went shotgun engy again, aussie server, ended up with a 2.71 K/D and over 20 kills.

    Lag is not beneficial, Klyka and Goomba.

    You completely miss their point. Playing with moon ping is lame for those that are playing against you. You can't hit shit, but the people with reasonable ping also can't hit you for shit. Because you skip around and even direct hits sometimes don't register.

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  • BolthornBolthorn Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Damn these threads move really fast.

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  • hazywaterhazywater Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    CarbonFire wrote: »
    hazywater wrote: »
    I play a lot of Rush. The best map has to be the jungle map Valparaso. Stage 2 of that map can get ridiculous as that entire village can be leveled. The worst map is probably Arica harbor because of stage 1. That first stage is open and situated in a bowl making it hell for infantry to survive the incessant sniping and liberal tank fire.

    Nelson bay is probably the most hectic.

    If your team cannot break through the first point on Arica, it's because your tanks aren't using the Zoom Upgrade. Point A is completely undefendable, and B can be tank sniped pretty easily.

    That's my issue, actually. Stage 1 is completely undefendable unless teams are stacked. Stages 2 and 3 are fun though with nice house to house fighting and urban tanks.

    For nelson bay, shotgun wookie is amazing. Those motion sensors change everything.

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    k, I neutered the OP and added some names. would like to add a tips section.

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  • PuddingSenatorPuddingSenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Man, pump shotty + slugs + magnum rounds is god. My favorite thing is hearing a sniper's bullet whiz by, spinning around and putting a slug in their head from halfway across the map. So satisfying.

    As a side note, are all the PA servers just Rush 24/7 at this point? I like Rush, but the meat grinder aspect of it gets pretty old after a while. It seems like Conquest has the ability to create situations that are a bit more tactically interesting than the endless waves of men hurling themselves at M-Coms in Rush.

    At the same time, playing with pubbies sucks, so I hate straying from the PA servers.

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  • MetallikatMetallikat Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Soo...
    That part of the Airborne mission, where your falling in the air and have to shoot the bad guy and catch your parachute? Whoever designed that deserves an industrial strength cock punch. I'll be damned if I know what to do to catch the chute.

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  • SheepSheep Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    edited March 2010
    I don't think I've ever gotten a kill with the CG. Dunno how. Just does like the 40MM grenades do. Blows up with no one dead.

    Sheep on
  • Raoulduke20Raoulduke20 Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Man, pump shotty + slugs + magnum rounds is god. My favorite thing is hearing a sniper's bullet whiz by, spinning around and putting a slug in their head from halfway across the map. So satisfying.

    As a side note, are all the PA servers just Rush 24/7 at this point? I like Rush, but the meat grinder aspect of it gets pretty old after a while. It seems like Conquest has the ability to create situations that are a bit more tactically interesting than the endless waves of men hurling themselves at M-Coms in Rush.

    At the same time, playing with pubbies sucks, so I hate straying from the PA servers.

    I've been curious about this. Does the magnum ammo perk do anything for slugs? I know people say they have little to no effect on sniper rifles, and I know I've read that slugs are treated the same as sniper rounds by the game.

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  • DoomninjaDoomninja Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    OP needz weapon statz.

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  • AkiraAkira Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    I will now repost my amazing banner submission:

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Doomninja wrote: »
    OP needz weapon statz.

    it's on there now
    Man, pump shotty + slugs + magnum rounds is god. My favorite thing is hearing a sniper's bullet whiz by, spinning around and putting a slug in their head from halfway across the map. So satisfying.

    As a side note, are all the PA servers just Rush 24/7 at this point? I like Rush, but the meat grinder aspect of it gets pretty old after a while. It seems like Conquest has the ability to create situations that are a bit more tactically interesting than the endless waves of men hurling themselves at M-Coms in Rush.

    At the same time, playing with pubbies sucks, so I hate straying from the PA servers.

    I've been curious about this. Does the magnum ammo perk do anything for slugs? I know people say they have little to no effect on sniper rifles, and I know I've read that slugs are treated the same as sniper rounds by the game.

    magnum rounds add 25% extra damage to all bullets.

    tyrannus on
  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Metallikat wrote: »
    Soo...
    That part of the Airborne mission, where your falling in the air and have to shoot the bad guy and catch your parachute? Whoever designed that deserves an industrial strength cock punch. I'll be damned if I know what to do to catch the chute.
    What? I shot the dude and it went right into cutscene with Sweets passing me the chute.

    Arrath on
  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator mod
    edited March 2010
    4) Notice that my other 3 squadmates are Recon snipers camping somewhere useless

    Hey man, that's 20 meters less walking to the front when you spawn on them!

    Echo on
  • DoomninjaDoomninja Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    tyrannus wrote: »
    Doomninja wrote: »
    OP needz weapon statz.

    it's on there now

    /tyrannus

    god mode enabled.

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  • PuddingSenatorPuddingSenator Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Man, pump shotty + slugs + magnum rounds is god. My favorite thing is hearing a sniper's bullet whiz by, spinning around and putting a slug in their head from halfway across the map. So satisfying.

    As a side note, are all the PA servers just Rush 24/7 at this point? I like Rush, but the meat grinder aspect of it gets pretty old after a while. It seems like Conquest has the ability to create situations that are a bit more tactically interesting than the endless waves of men hurling themselves at M-Coms in Rush.

    At the same time, playing with pubbies sucks, so I hate straying from the PA servers.

    I've been curious about this. Does the magnum ammo perk do anything for slugs? I know people say they have little to no effect on sniper rifles, and I know I've read that slugs are treated the same as sniper rounds by the game.

    Hmm...I just sort of assumed it affected all bullets equally. Maybe I'll try hopping in an empty server tonight with a friend and testing it out a bit.

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  • tyrannustyrannus i am not fat Registered User regular
    edited March 2010
    Man, pump shotty + slugs + magnum rounds is god. My favorite thing is hearing a sniper's bullet whiz by, spinning around and putting a slug in their head from halfway across the map. So satisfying.

    As a side note, are all the PA servers just Rush 24/7 at this point? I like Rush, but the meat grinder aspect of it gets pretty old after a while. It seems like Conquest has the ability to create situations that are a bit more tactically interesting than the endless waves of men hurling themselves at M-Coms in Rush.

    At the same time, playing with pubbies sucks, so I hate straying from the PA servers.

    I've been curious about this. Does the magnum ammo perk do anything for slugs? I know people say they have little to no effect on sniper rifles, and I know I've read that slugs are treated the same as sniper rounds by the game.

    Hmm...I just sort of assumed it affected all bullets equally. Maybe I'll try hopping in an empty server tonight with a friend and testing it out a bit.
    no need! http://rigel.mirror.waffleimages.com/files/90/90f94d16f127c0b75021ad27ceeeadf89dbdafb9.png

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