Welcome back to Part II of the Battlefield Bad Company 2 Multiplayer Strategy Guide! I’ve got plenty of additional tips, tactics and advice to dispense that will hopefully improve your playing ability and make you a role-model for society, or at least a deadly teammate. If you somehow managed to bypass Part I, then you can find it right here.

I have also written an article titled When Bad Players Ruin Great Games, which is all about the dumb things players do in Bad Company 2 that ruin the experience for everyone else. You will hopefully find some useful information there and if not, you’ll at least know you’re not alone in feeling very frustrated with players who don’t quite grasp the Battlefield concept.

Okay, enough intro, let’s get down to business.

Playing the Medic

The Medic can make all the difference between you team losing or winning, assuming the person playing a medic knows what he or she is doing.

Your Role: You are a support class so you should play as one, which means not leading a charge into an enemy base, as your death will be of no benefit to anyone except the other team. Instead, stay behind you squad or teammates, dropping medkits in locations where your squaddies or teammates are currently staging a battle. You’ll accrue a ton of points for healing injured players if you’re placing your medkits in a useful, accessible location. Always drop a medit in a defensive location, like within a building that houses an objective, because you know fighting will be taking place sooner or later.

The Effective Medic: By trailing your squaddies or teammates, you can easily spot who needs healing and drop a medkit to alleviate their pain and suffering. More importantly, when a fellow player goes down for the count, the medic can fly into action and revive the fallen soldier with the Defibrillator. If you’re dead, you’re of no help or use…so don’t die by being overly aggressive.

Help Bring Down Helicopters: The Medic is typically outfitted with a machine-gun, capable of firing a ton of sustained rounds for extended periods of time. This makes the Medic an especially effective class at bringing down helicopters. You’ll need to master the art of leading your target, which means you should be firing your gun slightly ahead of the target’s flight-direction. You’ll know you’re hitting the copter when your crosshair briefly flashes with an X symbol.

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In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), England’s Telegraph newspaper asked readers to submit what they would like to communicate to aliens before the visit Earth. Expecting wonderful, uplifting notes extolling our virtues as humans, the Telegraph was shocked to discover the opposite, with the overwhelming majority asking for aliens to please put us out of our misery.

For what would he learn about mankind? First, that we are vicious, creatures who have already done a great job of wrecking our home. “Please kill us now … have no mercy,” urged a gentleman from Indiana. “We are evil and you must defend yourself.”

“Keep away from this planet,” agreed Pamela from Sicily. “Mankind is only intent on depleting, abusing and destroying [it]. They will do the same to yours should they find it. Mankind is the worst virus in the universe. You have been warned.”

Nick from Calne was equally blunt: “If you manage to work out how to travel to us, don’t bother, as we’ll probably probe you, try to blow you up or worse still, steal your technology and invade… Have a nice day.”

Rob from Georgia, meanwhile, was prepared to throw the rest of mankind to the lions: “Dearest Aliens, If you choose to conquer Earth, please do not kill or enslave those of us who can name all 12 men to have walked on the Moon. We are the ones worth keeping around.”

Seema from Elgin had a compelling reason for ET not to bother with us: “If you’re planning to visit our planet, please know you will need to remove all metal from your person, take your shoes off and submit to a full body scan, carry all liquids/gels/aerosols in clear plastic bottles no bigger than 3.4oz, surrender all cigarette lighters and batteries, pack all jams and jellies (but pies can be carried on)… Oh, yes. Welcome to the Earth!”

L’Ogre has created a wonderful music video for the song 70 Million, by the band Hold Your Horses! In the video, various art masterpieces are recreated with stunning accuracy, creating a beautiful montage of creativity.

70 Million by Hold Your Horses ! from L’Ogre on Vimeo.

The benchmark for useless talents is constantly shifting, evidenced by this video of a German game show. Here we see a young girl, blindfolded, with the uncanny ability to detect the identity of a Star Wars figurine by simply placing it in her mouth. I will leave the erotic ramifications of this talent to your own twisted imagination, but the video will clearly speak for itself. How does one stumble upon this ability? I guess we all have a purpose after all.