Adree
1582
Yup, accurate enough to kill someone even if you don’t headshot and strong enough to kill them quickly even without magnum. Tiny clip though but most of you are PC users so you never miss right?
Pretty much. The 1911 makes other pistols kind of pointless.
Adree
1584
Depends, the revolver is what I normally use because even though I’m on the console I’m good at snap-firing when I’m in trouble and the extra damage helps take out people using the armor perk. And it looks really cool.
Good to know. I probably have to earn the damn thing, though…
Man, it’s really frustrating as a new player that no one used the VOIP. I’m still getting the hang of the various roles and need a tight squad to roll with, but everyone just dashes all the hell over the place. Good ol’ Battlefield!
Otherwise that preview 10.4 patch for ATI cards works wonders. My load time is down to like 10 seconds. Maybe less. Now I can jump between servers quicker!
rei
1586
server browser still fucked up. history and favorites has never worked for me.
Yeah, I recently arrived at the decision that the 1911 is better than the garand and M14.
I can’t figure out how to join the Mumble server other than hitting THISlink. How do I connect to it manually using its address?
If you want “extra damage”, you should use the 1911, it does have higher DPS. That’s the reason most people use it ;)
Lux
1590
I’m sold, downloading now.
The revolver only helps with armour users. Otherwise it takes the same number of shots to kill, fires slower and has more recoil. IOW, the 1911 is certainly better.
The M14 would be great! If you could replace the terrible terrible ironsight with at least the red dot…
As somebody with 4 gold stars on the M14, I’m going to have to disagree with you there. Yes, optics would be nice, but at its core the M14 has too much recoil and too little damage. A semi-auto M60 with a 10-round magazine would smoke it. Also, due to its single-shot nature, anybody actually shooting back in a long-range engagement will foil your sight picture and kill you, even if you almost killed them before they landed their first shot. It’s good at killing people who don’t shoot back, but that’s true of pretty much any gun in BC2 except the tracer pistol.
In addition to allowing optics and the custom AR spec, IMO it needs a slight damage buff and a major range buff. Currently, I find it most useful in CQB, which is wrong on so many levels. It’s not good in CQB, per se, it just doesn’t suffer from the aforementioned uselessness once you’re hit at that range. If a weapon design pretty much requires killing the other guy before he can return fire, then it should be balanced accordingly.
Rward
1593
Great Game!
Someone was asking about how to level up quickly:
I’ve gotten to about level 18 or 19 then I got about 18000 points in 1 round, about 2000 from ‘normal round points’ then the rest from ‘bonuses’. I think there was a 10 000 point award for something and a couple other ‘long term service’ awards.
Obviously it can’t be done every round and I’m not too sure what ‘triggers’ it.
Another way is playing low number servers.
I was on a 10 v 10 last night and at about 1am everyone left except a sniper on the opposition side, so it was now 1 v 1.
We killed each other quite a few times in that round, capturing flags, losing flags, regaining them again. All this lead to multiple medals, the flag capture one, vengeance (I think that the right one), nemesis, etc. all providing a nice boost to points too.
Stats, fuck yeah!!
http://bfbc2.elxx.net/
BTW, they gave me the “48 hours online” pin yesterday. I am not playing as much as in the first two weeks, or course, but i am not tired either, i think i can play another 50 hours before i am bored with the game. Which for me it’s a very good mark (i never play a game in a regular way, month after month, like some people).
Cobra
1595
So yeah… the M60 is overused?
zombo77
1596
I would have thought more people use the VSS for close-medium range recon work. It’s a silenced, more accurate M60 and with a red dot sight pretty much feels like an assault rifle or a SMG on crack.
A diagram with weapons used by class would have been great, I wonder who swaps out their class weapons for shotguns and the like the most.
Weird, both history and favorites tabs work fine for me, I haven’t used the regular server browser for over a week now.
Adree
1598
My primary usage of a pistol is for the one shot I need to finish someone off. I’m not so much Damage Per Second but Damage That Second.
KevinC
1599
I think you’d still find yourself better off with the M1911, but I like your style. I oftentimes play with the underutilized guns just because I get sick of seeing everyone with the M60/40mm/Carl Gustav/M1911.
And who knows, maybe someday in the future we’ll see that balance patch on the PC…
The medic has the fewest kills and lowest kill to death ratio. As we know they’re all carrying the M60, that doesn’t really suggest an overpowered weapon to me. Am I missing something…?
