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I've been playing engineer and medic lately, and I almost have the red dot sight. Soon, I 'll be one of the hated LMG spammers with the T88 and RDS 😀

Less luck with engineer..looks like it's quite tough to get kills at the lower levels...the RPG is just too slow and the default SMG sucks ass. Is the SCAR-L any better? I have the repair tool now, and I hope to rack up some points with it on vehicles heavy maps to finally get the 'much loved' CG 😀.

Tried playing recon with shotguns, and I got my ass handed back to me on a silver platter. Tried all the combos..slugs, magnum ammo etc..everyone else with a shotgun instakills me from a distance, but I can't seem to kill shit even if I shoot someone in the face. Apart from the 'free' motion mine assist points, I suck at recon. On another note, not many recons seem to use the recon balls..wonder why. They are extremely useful in vegetation heavy maps like Laguna Presa and valparaiso.

Finally, I am still getting CGed all the way to hell and back, especially on smaller maps like Arica conquest where the houses provide a lot of cover for lurking toobers. 😡
 
Capt Caveman said:
Any new maps on the horizon? I'm really starting to get bored with current ones.
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No hard info as of yet. Next release should be VIP map pack 3, which doesn't contain any truly new maps, just new modes on old maps.

On a related note (well, related to the map pack), my K/D ratio is going up, but my W/L ratio is trending down, since I have taken to playing Squad Deathmatch. You only have a 1 out of 4 chance of winning, rather than 1/2... 🙄
 
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Less luck with engineer..looks like it's quite tough to get kills at the lower levels...the RPG is just too slow and the default SMG sucks ass. Is the SCAR-L any better? I have the repair tool now, and I hope to rack up some points with it on vehicles heavy maps to finally get the 'much loved' CG 😀.
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Actually the first engineer SMG is pretty powerful, at close range it does as much damage as the m60 (20 per bullet). It's easier to use with a red dot, but it's range is limited. The SCAR is pretty good, and has a somewhat more usage range to it.


Shotguns are challenging to use, although semi/full auto ones are easiest. I think they were easier to use before the latest patch, now I have more trouble with them.
 
I think it's the AKS-74U which I use the most as engi. Decent range, accuracy and damage. The SCAR-L would be my second choice until I unlocked the UMP-45. IMHO, if I weren't going after stars, I'd still be using the AKS.
 
GullyFoyle said:
How to revive and get your own kit back
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As an interesting side note, if you have trouble surviving with a particular kit, but are trying to level it up anyway, tag along with someone who uses a kit you're good with, or kill an enemy with a kit you're good with. When they die, take their kit and be on your merry way. Any points you rack up with the new kit get applied to the class you spawned with. For example, you spawn as Assault, pick up a Medic kit and start reviving, healing and killing with the medic kit - all those points go towards your Assault total, not start accruing medic points.
 
SunnyD said:
As an interesting side note, if you have trouble surviving with a particular kit, but are trying to level it up anyway, tag along with someone who uses a kit you're good with, or kill an enemy with a kit you're good with. When they die, take their kit and be on your merry way. Any points you rack up with the new kit get applied to the class you spawned with. For example, you spawn as Assault, pick up a Medic kit and start reviving, healing and killing with the medic kit - all those points go towards your Assault total, not start accruing medic points.
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That's how I finished out my recon class. I ran around with a g3 racking up points until I unlocked everything. ^_^
 
Demo24 said:
That's how I finished out my recon class. I ran around with a g3 racking up points until I unlocked everything. ^_^
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No no... not talking about the "all kits" weapons. I'm talking the "class specific kits". Like my previous example says, you SPAWN as an Assault with whatever loadout, but during the course of that single life you pick up a medic's kit and start healing people or killing with the M60 you picked up. You get credit as assault, not as medic.
 
SunnyD said:
As an interesting side note, if you have trouble surviving with a particular kit, but are trying to level it up anyway, tag along with someone who uses a kit you're good with, or kill an enemy with a kit you're good with. When they die, take their kit and be on your merry way. Any points you rack up with the new kit get applied to the class you spawned with. For example, you spawn as Assault, pick up a Medic kit and start reviving, healing and killing with the medic kit - all those points go towards your Assault total, not start accruing medic points.
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Ahaha why didn't I think of that! I've been doing this in reverse thinking as assault when I picked up the medic kit the points were going to the medic line.

So what that video is saying is when I am assault and pickup a dead medics kit to revive him when he awakens he's now holding my old loadout which is an assault weapon? I could swear I've seen the opposite.
 
paperfist said:
Ahaha why didn't I think of that! I've been doing this in reverse thinking as assault when I picked up the medic kit the points were going to the medic line.

So what that video is saying is when I am assault and pickup a dead medics kit to revive him when he awakens he's now holding my old loadout which is an assault weapon? I could swear I've seen the opposite.
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If your assault and see a medic die, you drop your kit to pick up his. However when he revives he gets whatever kit is nearby. What the video was showing was how to return to your previous kit and continue on with your assault kit.
 
Demo24 said:
If your assault and see a medic die, you drop your kit to pick up his. However when he revives he gets whatever kit is nearby. What the video was showing was how to return to your previous kit and continue on with your assault kit.
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Yeah I was just under the impression that when he revives he gets his original kit back, I didn't know you essential stole it from him 🙂
 
Demo24 said:
Had my first major WTF moment. Just walking along the backside of panama canal with no one around and I get a death notice that I just blew up a tank with a hand grenade killing 2 guys. Tank was all the way across the map, and I'd thrown a nade already and watched it explode. :hmm:
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Odd, I didn't think hand grenades damaged tanks.
 
So even after all these updates I still can't have the voices come out in english? I don't give a crap about authenticity, I just want to hear what my team mates are saying. Is there a way to force english voices for everyone in the game? The Localised and Original options simply don't work.
 
Mike Gayner said:
So even after all these updates I still can't have the voices come out in english? I don't give a crap about authenticity, I just want to hear what my team mates are saying. Is there a way to force english voices for everyone in the game? The Localised and Original options simply don't work.
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yes you can, it is in this thread....i will look for it, but it is a modification to i think the gamesettings.ini file...will edit when i find the link
 
Mike Gayner said:
So the menu option is just for show? God dammit Dice UI programmers are incompetent idiots.
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yup it's just for show because it changes nothing. you have to manually go into ini file to change voiceover. i find it odd because it WORKED in beta, but they decided to break it for release. i just don't get them sometimes...
 
Mike Gayner said:
In what possible sense is it easier to edit the ini files than to have a working menu option?
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in my experience w/ dice/ea, editing the txt file works, their menus are iffy. if there menus worked even 75% of the time that would be great, but they don't.

also the issues you can't get to that aren't in the menu like brightness, contrast, the mouse stuff, etc.
 
made a second Soldier to fool around and mainly try to UAV road kill

it's a lot harder than I expected. I've had people just sitting there and thinking my UAV was lined up, but I end up with a swing and a miss when I complete the run.
 
I just got out of a game where were just just getting absolutely crushed on Valparaiso. Turns out they had a guy running a spotting hack, so they knew where we were at all times. I was wondering why I kept dying as soon as I would move. Wouldn't have known about it, but the other team was wanting to votekick him.
 
MrMatt said:
How do you get the GOL?? It doesn't show up under sniper rifles or global unlocks...does it have some other name?
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You unlock it like every other rifle, I think it's like the 6th or so unlock. It's the 4th gun, but they throw in the sights and mortars somewhere in that mix.
 
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