BF2 Online Guides

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Check these guides out here...good info for all.

GAME GUIDE
http://www.gamespot.com/features/6127838/index.html

TWEAK GUIDE FOR YOUR PC
http://www.tweakguides.com/BF2_1.html

Commander Guide
http://www.webturd.com/modules.php?name=BFGuides&file=Commander

This seemed an important one to post, although some of you already know to look for this type of setting.

"View Distance Scale: This slider determines the amount of visible detail your character can see in the distance. The screenshot comparison below shows the differences at 50% (the minimum), 75% and 100% (the maximum) View Distance settings. Note the crane in the distance becomes invisible at 75% view distance. While reducing the view distance improves performance due to less scenery being rendered, it is strongly recommended that you do not reduce your view distance below 100%. A reduced view distance can place you at a disadvantage in the game against other players who use 100% view distance, making it harder for you to spot distant players and vehicles. Keep this setting at its maximum and reduce other settings first to improve your performance if you can."


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[Tombstone]

Great tips post by SteelGeek below:

Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:53 am Post subject: Tips and tricks - copied from other forum

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[From a different forum, some good stuff in here, esp c4 tricks. Can you say suicide bomber?]
Gameplay Tips and Tricks
This is a Tips and Tricks guide. It’s not a gameplay guide or a strategy guide. This is where you can pick upp stuff that other users found and contribute with your own. If you’ve found something cool or helpful, share it !

All tips and tricks are contributed by the members of totalbf2.com. All contributors will be credited at the end. Just post your own goddies and they will be added to the list. Let’s make this the best Tipps and Tricks collection for BF2 on the net.

Infantry:

All:
Hold down "E" as a friendly vehicle is coming at you; no matter how fast it's going, you'll be picked up unharmed. Also works while jumping of a building.

Engineers can defuse friendly and enemy mines and claymores by crouching over it with the wrench.

Bombers can spot enemy vehicles and AA stations. So it's not wise to camp so much especially in the AA station since you're an extemely easy target. Hop into them only when you got something to shoot at within range.

Get your fingers familiar with the switch kit key. Default 'G'. I set mine to 'F' since it's a bit easier. It comes in handy if you want to save a medic that's dead. Pick up his hit and save him.

Certain maps have barrels and tanks on the streets that can be blown up if you shoot at it. Use them to your advantage and be aware of your surroundings so you don't get owned by them.

If you see a friendly spec ops attempting to c4 a tank, but gets killed up before he can press the detonator, run over and pick up his kit. You can then press the detonator to blow up the tank yourself. Really important if theres no other AT or spec ops around.

If your squad leader is a medic and gets killed, pick up his kit and use it to revive him. Hell, if he gets killed and isn't a medic, look around for other medic kits to pick up and use to revive him.

Hit 3 to switch between firing modes, depending on your weapon/kit you can choose Full auto, 3 shot burst and single fire. This can make HUGE difference in accuracy.

Pressing the sprint button while going down ladders will make you slide down the ladder. Quick way to get down without risking health jumping down. Also you can change to different camera views for some reason on the ladder.

Sniper:
with in 100m (untested at longer range) take one shot with the sniper rifle then quickly take out the pistol and take one shot its a kill, almost every time.

Keep holding the fire button down after taking a sniper shot, you will be able to see where the bullet lands and adjust.

Avoid skylining your self on ridges. If you have sniper shots incoming the first place you look is towards any high ground and if you see a smooth green ridgeline against the blue sky and there is a supicious bump in the middle you are going to start shooting back.

Engineer:
When mining remember that any flag you are defending your army may soon be attacking and that entrances are also exits, don't mine friendly bases closed.

People highly underesmate the shot gun it can take out people from 40 yards away with 3 or 4 shots

Remember that whist repairing friendly vehicles it is not so smart to be running up behind a friendly tank with your wrench out. It’s a sure way to get backed over.


Spec. Ops.:
If you wanna hide C4 at a base, just throw it into the cement block that holds the flag up and it'll disappear.

You can stick C4 to everything, including infantery soldiers.

Antitank:
Keep holding the fire button down after shooting the anti-tank missle, you'll be able to guide it. Or you cam aim above or beside your target. Then fire and wait until the missile gets close before putting the reticle over the target. That way, the target doesn't get a missle warning until a split second before your missle hits. Works great at long range.

When behind a tank shoot the treads not the chassis. It takes them out faster, can be the difference between life and death.


Tanks and APC’s:

If you are in a tank or APC in an urban area guarding a flag or trying to cap it allways stay in external view. This way you can see if any sneaky sneaky Spec Ops are trying to set C4 on your tank, or if any Eng. are trying to plant mines around you. Make sure you can press internal view quickly when spotting someone.

Shooting the Cannon:
Shooting the cannon on ground units is the same learning curve as using the grenade launcher since it also has a drop (not as bad as the grenade launder though). It just takes little time to learn and you will get the feel for it. Shooting at helos is a little more tuff since the gravitational force shooting at a higher angle is alot more stressful on the cannon. Whichever the way the helo is flying shoot far more ahead of it depending on how fast its going. You'll be amazed on how much lag time there is shooting the cannon upwards then you do shooting it horizontally. This too you can overcome with a little practice and when you do you will be a menace to helos.

Be an Engineer when tanking:
When coupled it can be the deadliest thing on the field. When your armor bar goes a lower then half bar, reverse and find a safe spot to repair then head back into combat. You get massive kill points and massive Engineer points and you will be suprised on how much repairing you will be doing to other vehicles you pass by.

Flag capturing:
Instead of going in and capturing a flag, stay far away and shoot your cannon on spawning players until your teammates start to go in. It helps keep the enemies low for your teammates to go in. When you see any of your teammates capturing the flag, move in and give him protection and support. Your range is your advantage against infantry.

Against other tanks:
shoot and move. A moving target is harder to aim at. As a tanker, always find corners of buildings to shoot from. After you shoot you can easily reverse and get cover. Use your smoke when you have low armor left and find a safe place to repair.

Try to get a secondary gunner:
Suprisingly Anti-tankers are not your worst enemy, Spec Ops are. You will get killed mostly from this class since they can insta-kill you and they tend to be sneaky and always come from behind. Have you support gunner look out for these people since your view is limited to where your barrel faces.

Against Helos:
When you see a helo coming straight at you, either start moving to to side, or move towards him. Staying at the line of his barrage of missles is not the smart thing to do. Moving to the side will make it hard on the helo to change directions and moving towards him will limit his time to get his missles off. After he passes you go back towards him and try to stay below him limiting his view and shoot the belly of the helo. He will turn back around and relize you're not there.

Against Jets:
another one of your worst enemies: they usually are too fast to even notice one coming but if you do try to stay out of his line of attack and do the best to shoot him.

Remeber, tanks and APC's can blow smoke by pushing X. This is great for flag assaults as it gives your grunts some cover.


Planes:

For plane dogfighting, switch to bombing mode while chasing down planes. You can sneak behind them then switch to missles when you're lined up and surprise them snice the wont get the alarm while you are in bombmode.

When doing bomb runs hit the external camera to get the nose back view, this way you can spot where your bombs land.


Helos:

Helicopters can be repaired using the supply crates. So get your commander to set one up in a good spot so you don't always have to fly back to the pad to repair/resupply

Once you capture an enemy air base, you can use their runway and helipads to repair and to get ammo.

Before taking off in a chopper, look around in mouse-look mode by holding the CTRL key.

When flying the blackhawk, make sure you are the squad leader and fly it HIGH!!!! Hover over a cap point and your team mates can spawn in on you and parachute out.


Commander:

As commander you have the option of repairing the artillery (if they are close together) by dropping a supply crate.

Find a hiding spot and stay there and focus all your attention to the comander controls. You may not get as many kills or points but it really helps your team. Look for commanding spots which are only accesible by helocopter.

Commanders benefit from using the engineer kit as it allows for them to easily repair the arty, uav, and radar without wasting a supply drop or calling an engineer out from a squad.


Other tipps:

Tired of not understanding the incoming artillery warnings as MEC or China? Set "English VO Only" under Options->Audio->Language

Hitting F9 (cockpit view) will remove the model of your plane/heli. This greatly increases the FoV.

On maps with cliffs, use the vehicle to slide/drop down the declines to get to lower roads quicker. If down right your vehicle will take no or almost no damage and you save loads of time. Also if there is a body of water an APC will take no damage and requires little skill to do.

When you are on foot You can get yourself down a mountain with many odd angles with minimal loss of health by spamming jump and 9 -buttons as soon as your feet touch the ground. Pressing jump while on a diagonal slant will actually push you away from the face of the mountain that could avoid other odd protrusions. The best place to practice this is Songhua Stalemate map by the American most rearward base.

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Contributors: MGDom, Jiga, Jon, Attila, Strike-Phoenix, gloobnib, donnieb, Riggz, CrosshairCJ, Forest, HullBreach, Remy X.O., GSX0r, Tysn, Rotoman, Kronos, Tranzphat, MC_Frank, Bob_The_Insane, LostWraith, Yellownet.

Sorry if I forgot someone. Sorry for typos. Idea came from this nice thread.

[Balti]

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