Battlefield: Bad Company 2

[rrazcueta]

Only some, on some maps. Instead, I often see them just being used from up the back as a super-sniper rifle while the attacking infantry get fucked up.

Especially on a regular server. I'm noticing that Rush is getting much harder as people get better at the game, rank up and get more unlocks, and learn the fine layout of the maps. May not be true on random PUB servers, but it's true on the ones I'm playing on.

Then get in the tank and drive it yourself? Or yell at them?

[fuser]

Community Auto-Balancer

I've started this up on a local PC and it seems quite good.

ingame chat commands (for Admins):
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@start         // starts the balancer
@stop         // stops the balancer
@kick <name>       // kick a player
@last          // show the last joined player
@kicklast       // kick the last joined player (for instance,
                           to get free slots for clanmates)
@lastswitched       // show the last switched player
@kicklastswitched    // kick the last switched player
@kickable       // show the player who could be kicked to get
                           teams balanced
@balancekick       // issue a balancekick will effect in a new
                           kick task like the balancer does
@update       // force to update the playerlist and start
                           the balancer if needed

I'll start adding f13 people to the "admin list"

[Furiously]

That should help.

[WayAbvPar]

Does kick last switched work on just automated switches, or will it kick players that switch on their own? Because those are the fuckers that need to DIAF.

[Azazel]

But I'm becoming increasingly amused by running around with a siaga on a recon and using it as close sensor mine support and mortar battery. Because I don't have magnum ammo or slugs yet <3

I'm not too good or experienced with Carl yet, I'm actually a pretty good shot with the ye olde RPG but that hasn't yet transferred to CG.

On recon with saiga though, that's not far off my best class combo. And I only have a few sniper kills. If you're good with the saiga you can really devastate sometimes especially as recon able to close assault and drop your own sensor mines which your team also tends to appreciate. Add in extended mag and extra ammo.

Also C4 on offense rush missions makes for some fun tactics - drop C4 all around the room, activate the MCom, drop sensor next to it, then bug out and hide in the next building. When you see the enemy swarming the MCom, just detonate, wiping out a wave of defnders in one shot who now all have a 10 sec respawn, watch the point roll in and the MCom go off since the guys who were willling to defuse it just got wiped. Win!

[WayAbvPar]

Also C4 on offense rush missions makes for some fun tactics - drop C4 all around the room, activate the MCom, drop sensor next to it, then bug out and hide in the next building. When you see the enemy swarming the MCom, just detonate, wiping out a wave of defnders in one shot who now all have a 10 sec respawn, watch the point roll in and the MCom go off since the guys who were willling to defuse it just got wiped. Win!

If only I had thought of that!   

I stole it from a video a guy post on SA though, so I suppose all's fair. 

[Strazos]

Wow, we had some epic battles going on last night. People actually pushing up and shit.

Too bad I still hate the 40mm and the CG when used exclusively; using them to kill single targets feels stupid to me.

[fuser]

scratch that

[Trouble]

I'm Mr. Bonkers. Sometimes I suck, sometimes I do not suck.

[WayAbvPar]

It is time to turn PB back on, shitty as it is. I kick/banned one guy who was 30/5 and killed me from across the map like 5 straight times. I would bet money it was an aimbot. Another guy on our team was like 69/15, which is almost impossible without some sort of help. I just kicked him, since I didn't see anything directly.

[kildorn]

The aimbot dude was pretty obvious, too. He was headshotting 3-4 people in a row from around half a rush map's starting area using a thompson :P

[Azazel]

If only I had thought of that!   

I stole it from a video a guy post on SA though, so I suppose all's fair. 

Lol, I actually read about that trick on a different forum to here (not SA). I must have read it in this thread as well, but it didn't sink in.

[fuser]

It is time to turn PB back on, shitty as it is. I kick/banned one guy who was 30/5 and killed me from across the map like 5 straight times. I would bet money it was an aimbot. Another guy on our team was like 69/15, which is almost impossible without some sort of help. I just kicked him, since I didn't see anything directly.

What's the chance we could get a sticky in PC/Console with all the info (clan/f13) people, admin list, info, etc? I have a post ready to go but PBBan's won't approve f13's application for a streaming ban account unless we have a sticky post.

[NiX]

I'll run it by Schild for you.

[fuser]

I'll run it by Schild for you.

Thanks, also punkbuster is back on and server is upgraded to R8

• Workaround for the “player manages to join server twice” crash. Now the server detects this and refuses the player entry. Client might hang but it will not take down the server as well.
• Workaround for the “cannot join player to any team” crash. Teams might get uneven, most notably SQDM sessions with 5v3 players, but the server should no longer crash.
• Game sends PB output to pbucon (so pb webtool can be used to run PB commands and see their results)

Cheating has become insanely bad. Aim bots are all over the place now with punk buster starting to pick some up. The PBBans site has a running tally of people caught and banned with a jump of around 500 bans over the past week. One guy last night had 75 kills and 10 deaths which is insane for a rush attacker (probably the guy you banned).

[kildorn]

I was going to ask last night if it's a bannable offense to get an explosives efficiency pin on Bat Country <3

The aimbots were crazy, though. The rest of the games were fun. Barring that island map where we had 8 snipers and 4 medics backing them up, and a whole 4 poor bastards trying to actually take points.

[Azazel]

Cheating has become insanely bad. Aim bots are all over the place now with punk buster starting to pick some up. The PBBans site has a running tally of people caught and banned with a jump of around 500 bans over the past week. One guy last night had 75 kills and 10 deaths which is insane for a rush attacker (probably the guy you banned).

I've seen people getting banned left and right on the server I play on. Luckily most people on it are from the same group (not quite clan) so others get bumped for us. Haven't played for a few days, but it's good to see the bans happening. Do they ban my account or by copy of the game?

[WayAbvPar]

I am going to ban first and ask questions later. There are plenty of players to keep the server full.

[Nonentity]

I should start playing on this server. I'll have to see what my ping is like.

Is there a way to manually add a server to favorites? I haven't even checked.

[Trouble]

Search for the server name "Bat Country". Add to Favs.

[WayAbvPar]

There is a huge long hash that EA adds to the server name that you can manually edit into your .ini or something too. Not sure how to find that info, however.

[kildorn]

That was the most frustrating match ever. The other team decided to bring back oldschool tactics. Half their team was shotgun recons with C4, explosives upgrade, and explosives capacity. If a single one lived through to the objective, you lost it instantly. *sigh* And my team refused to compensate by playing closer to the objectives.

God I want that patch that adds "does c4 damage objectives?" to the server flags. I'm fine with taking out the building on some objectives. Whatever. But I'm really sick of the idea that a lone recon can suicide into an objective twice and there's very little you can do about it besides "uh, spam motion sensors around and hope you can intercept?"

[fuser]

Haven't played for a few days, but it's good to see the bans happening. Do they ban my account or by copy of the game?

Generally there's only one way to ban right now and thats via Punkbuster. Punkbuster uses a GUID hash thats unique based upon your EA account which is tied to your game key. Last patch they fixed a loop hole that allowed you to generate a new GUID by making a new soldier name.

If you look at PBBans for example they list the users GUID. A lot of people are using the "streaming" part which is a distributed GUID banlist to auto kick and ban people where the server forgets bans after restarts.

[Strazos]

MG36 - Best Gun Ever.

I mean, come on...a MG, with a free scope? Just use it semi-auto, and it's gold.

[Der Helm]

MG36 - Best Gun Ever.

I mean, come on...a MG, with a free scope? Just use it semi-auto, and it's gold.

If it is anything like the real gun (which I have used) it should be mad fun. 

[Nightblade]

MG36 - Best Gun Ever.

I mean, come on...a MG, with a free scope? Just use it semi-auto, and it's gold.

I unlocked that gun yesterday. Funnest damn gun ever. Frees up a perk to let you use a speedboost, which is great for getting to teammates to help them. I don't know whether to use magnum or LMG Spec though. LMG spec lets you fire from the hip with insanely good accuracy, but magnum is... well, magnum.

[Azazel]

So I decided to have a play around with SP mode tonight, and I find that since the update(s) I can't play SP any more, since my digital downlaod steam copy now wants me to insert the disc to play SP.. 

[Strazos]

MG36 - Best Gun Ever.

I mean, come on...a MG, with a free scope? Just use it semi-auto, and it's gold.

I unlocked that gun yesterday. Funnest damn gun ever. Frees up a perk to let you use a speedboost, which is great for getting to teammates to help them. I don't know whether to use magnum or LMG Spec though. LMG spec lets you fire from the hip with insanely good accuracy, but magnum is... well, magnum.

I rarely fire from the hip, so Magnum for me when I get it....though, I thought LM spec helped with aimed fire as well?

[Nightblade]

MG36 - Best Gun Ever.

I mean, come on...a MG, with a free scope? Just use it semi-auto, and it's gold.

I unlocked that gun yesterday. Funnest damn gun ever. Frees up a perk to let you use a speedboost, which is great for getting to teammates to help them. I don't know whether to use magnum or LMG Spec though. LMG spec lets you fire from the hip with insanely good accuracy, but magnum is... well, magnum.

I rarely fire from the hip, so Magnum for me when I get it....though, I thought LM spec helped with aimed fire as well?

Im not even sure honestly, I think it does; but I've heard to the contrary sometimes.

[Nonentity]

Strazos is mean when he's on the server by himself.
 

[Engels]

Ya, what's been up with that? Last three times I checked today, the server pop was down to nothing.

[Astorax]

For those that haven't picked it up yet, there's a deal right now, $10 bucks off for the weekend, and another $20 bucks off if you use the code PAXEAST842 on checkout.

Today is the last day for both deals.

[Nebu]

For those that haven't picked it up yet, there's a deal right now, $10 bucks off for the weekend, and another $20 bucks off if you use the code PAXEAST842 on checkout.

Today is the last day for both deals.

Is this on the EA site, Steam, or where?

[Astorax]

For those that haven't picked it up yet, there's a deal right now, $10 bucks off for the weekend, and another $20 bucks off if you use the code PAXEAST842 on checkout.

Today is the last day for both deals.

Is this on the EA site, Steam, or where?

Sorry, EA store, DD only, no physical copies.

[Pennilenko]

Strazos is mean when he's on the server by himself.
 

I was there with him.