I write this guide not for your benefit but my own. You see, I am tired of playing with teammates who treat a round of Bad Company 2 (BC2) like it’s Halo or Modern Warfare 2. An overwhelming amount of players just don’t seem to grasp the fundamentals; how to score, how to win, how not to suck, how not to play like a lone wolf who doesn’t contribute anything except a few useless sniper-rifle kills.
Not to brag, but I consistently rule at Battlefield games and have since the genre originally debuted back on the PC with Battlefield 1942. I play like a man on a mission with clear goals and objectives, a style that usually finds my score high enough to lead the team. It’s not because I wield l33t weapon skills, it’s because I play the game as it is intended. Hopefully, by the end of this guide, you’ll be playing in a similar style and I won’t have to curse my team for being top-heavy with noobs.
1. Objective Based, Not Kill-Based
Contrary to how a lot of people play Battlefield, killing members of the other team is NOT your objective. Killing other players is a fringe-benefit of completing objectives.
Your overall objective is to destroy targets dotted across the map, usually two crates in each zone. These crates represent your holy crusade. If you’re on the attacking team, every thing you do as a player should be geared towards taking down a crate. Any activity not related to taking down a crate is a waste of time. If you’re on defense, saving those crates is your prime directive.
Why This is Effective: The entire game is based around destroying or saving crates. Destroy all the crates as the attacking team and you win. Prevent the attacking team from destroying your crates and you win. It’s as simple as that. Winning has nothing to do with how many players you kill, unless you are on defense, where every kill will slowly bring you towards victory, but not at the expense of losing crates.
2. Hey Rambo, Join a Squad!
I was hoping that DICE, the designers of BC2, would make joining a squad mandatory in their latest version of the game, but my hopes and dreams didn’t pan out. It’s too bad, as compulsory squad enlistment would go a long way in forcing players to play properly. As it stands, you have the option to either join a squad or go it alone when loading up a new map.
There is zero reason not to join a squad, nor is there a single benefit to playing solo.
Why This is Effective: Joining a squad allows you to spawn with any living squad-mate currently playing on the map. If you have squadie who has already penetrated enemy lines then you can select him and spawn right next to his location, giving him a much-needed hand. This saves you a ton of time by not forcing you to run or drive from the initial base all the way to the objective. With a full squad of four guys, you’ll usually have three good spawning options, allowing you to appear closer to the action. This ensures you keep the pressure on the opposing team. If you elect to not join a squad, then you will always spawn at a base, costing you valuable time.
Additionally, joining a squad opens up a ton of extra scoring modifiers that will greatly increase your point total.
3. Proper Spawning
A lot of people just button-mash the spawn button until they return to action, giving little thought about where they are appearing or why. If you’re in a squad then you have a lot of options. You can either spawn with a teammate or at your base, depending upon your current needs.
When you die and the time to spawn arrives, analyze the map and see what assets you have available in the form of vehicles or aircraft. If there is an unused tank at your main base then you should spawn there and use the asset. If the base is empty of assets, then spawn with a member of your squad.
Why This is Effective: One sure way for a team to lose a round of BC2 is by not using all available assets. If your team is not using available tanks, helicopters or UAV, then your team is going to lose. Nothing is more depressing than watching your entire team just go running by all the heavy equipment as they make their long journey towards an enemy position.
If you have a squad-mate in a tank or copter then you can spawn within his vehicle, assuming a position is free. You’ll wrack up extra points working as a unit, plus you’ll be using available assets at their maximum efficiency.
4. Play Your Class
Every class in BC2 has special abilities that can make all the difference between victory or defeat. Additionally, using these abilities will earn you extra points for faster leveling. If you’re a medic, then you should be dropping med-kits where your teammates are making a stand, plus reviving dead teammates as they go down. If you’re an engineer then you should be using your wrench to fix damaged vehicles. Pay attention to the radar, as icons will appear that indicate what needs doing by your class. If you see a wrench icon, that means a friendly vehicle is in need of repairs.
Why This is Effective: Having an engineer repair a tank while the tank blasts enemy positions is a very effective use of the class. Done properly, a tank can withstand a great number of direct hits. Add a second engineer to the repair process and you’re virtually unstoppable.
5. Use the BACK Button
The BACK button, which is seldom used in games, gets a real workout in BC2. When targeting an enemy or enemy vehicle, you can press the BACK button and essentially call out that target to the rest of the team. This makes the target appear on the map so everyone will see what you are seeing and can begin blasting. Plus, you get a few extra points for calling out targets.
Why This is Effective: It all comes down to situational awareness. The more your team knows about enemy positions, the better.
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Much appreciated. Just the info I needed. Having been a team deathmatch player - BC2 is a nice change and challenge from the standard run & gun. Look forward to more tips.
Havent played FPS since BF2. I'm definitely rusty. Good tips. I'm loving BC2 so far, any tips on how to achieve points more effectively would be appreciated. Look forward to Part 2.
thanks for thew tips. This game is hella tough to get used to after a year of mw. played for over an hour and still dont really know what im doing but im close to getting the paddles for my medic so i can actually contribute a bit. also, it is fucking nice to be able to talk to people, ask advice, etc. and actually get a decent response instead of the usual "lol faggot learn to headshot!"
Thanks for the tips, should come in handy.If anyone on 360 wants to play my GT is CrippledMist
Thanks for the tips. TIP: The Medic in the Squad should always go from cover to cover and stay 10-30 meters behind the frontal assault. This way the medic will function as a spawn point. :)USE WHEN THE ENEMY BASE IS DAMAGE FREE!TIP 2- RUSH mode: If the MAP has a high rise (high building/mountain etc.) 1 of 4 squads should lay down a base of fire 50-120 meters away from objectiv (not to snipe, but to take out stategic placements and to bombard the area a moment, before a PUSH. Works great for my team. Unit'will write some more.. need more experience on the battlefield :)
Like this guide. Please keep it up. Also, can you tell me where I can find an explanation of how to spot on 360? Also, anywhere you know of lists to get into a regular squad for 360 players, in order to get into parties before launching games? I would wager the whole "getting stuck with a shitty squad" happens even more often on the console versions of game. I rarely even get into a squad where anyone answers me when I try to communicate
i see u wrote this for team rush not conquest though i agree stop treating games like halo honestly i stil hear people bitch about fall damage
Thanks for the guide! MODERN DORKFARE 2 SUCKS!!! who wants to play some game thats based on solo twitchy gun play!
thanks dude but next time you explain all this stuff dont assume that everyone is a noob and likes to be a lone wolf, i have played BC2 since the demo and since then i pretty much have done everything on here. i thought it was common sense, very helpful tho to players who dont know. also i think another thing should be that the game was designed so ppl can have "fun" not just to do buisness and crank out levels. so yea if you wanna go in with all medics with tracer darts and make someones face look like a glowing red mass of dots then go ahed, also if your gonna have a squad where 3 out of 4 ppl are sniping then make sure you have either a medic or a assault neerby for ammo and revives.
thanks, nice guide. hopefully there will be a server mod for weapons balancing soon to limit those annoying snipers on your team!
thanks for this. am a long time gamer but never played Battlefield til now and this helped me understand better as i've come to discover no one talks. cant wait for my friends to get the game then everything will be better.
Good info and much appreciated. Your obvious anger at the beginning almost caused me not to read the entire article, but the game info was valuable. Good luck on your quest to find worthwhile squadmates!
Really nice and instructive. Good that you're telling unknowing shmucks what to do. What I dislike though is that you went from the PC :(That's just... fail
dude, this was a really helpful guide, even though i too am always the top player. but i have one huge complaint, you ripped on snipers. i gotta admit it's annoying when you have a sniper that's five miles away, but not all are like that. i use the m24 just like any other gun, and to me it works better than any other gun. i get so many amazing headshot kills and yet i still manage to kill the objectives. don't expect to rip on the best and most versatile class in the game and get away with it. 'nuff said.
Some nice tips. However occasionally it helps not to be in a squad, even for the team overall. If you are sniping from a good spot and in a squad, squad mates spawning on you can easily give away your position. Recon are very useful for spotting enemies as well as mortar support. We had one round where most of the attacking team as recon and the defenders were plastered with mortar fire constantly until they had no cover at all. Only two men had to go in on foot to secure the crates.
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Anyone looking to start a squad on Xbox Live. I'm on the East coast and play late. Send me a friend request. Gamer tag : MercNALL. Preferably people using voice chat.
I have several tips! For the love of christ stop running into the middle of objectives with your pants down. If you're capturing an objective stay out of obvious lines of sight. Park it by a dumpster or in the corner of an empty room with a covering and small windows. There is nothing more frustrating that watching 3 guys hump the flag like it's see you at the pole. They ALWAYS get shanked by the opposing team. You can actually stay fairly distanced from the flag and not be seen by anyone. I cap objectives ALL THE TIME this way. Also, when you finally cap an objective, stick around for a minute or two. Cause you're bound to get a patrolling tank or the enemy strolling back to re-cap.Also, if you're going to fly a helicopter, know the boundaries of the map you're on (an addendum to the original tip about vehicles). I've gotten on a helicopter only to join the pilot in a suicide because he was too much of an idiot to turn around and stay within the map's boundaries.Those are just a couple I've encountered.
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Thanks for the info, as will as the tips from some of the others here. I´m an absolute noob in online playing but this game got me hooked. First couple of rounds I couldn´t keep enemies and allies apart. Most things people are complaining about, I do those things! but keep in mind, a lot of people are new at this, or only have about 30 minutes per day to spend on it, so we don´t get to be so good at it... i didn´t know about spotting and thought you had to stay near the pole when capturing. And c4... ow man ow man, gonna use that one.
XBL: themorningstar1 please feel free to send me an inviteFirstly, thanks for your well-written, funny, and solid tutorials (I am the noob you're taking about sometimes, lol, but hopefully no more) I'm a gamer and consider myself to be decent at most games. This is my very first battlefield experience and transitioning from a "team deathmatch" mentality to objective based play is fun, new, exciting, and...difficult. Anyways, I will be getting good at this game and I'd like to find some veterans to squad up with for some non-noobish playtime.XBL: themorningstar1 please feel free to send me an invite
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All good advice, though I wouldn't be so quick to assume ALL recon players simply hang out at the back sniping... I consider myself more of an urban sniper, usually around the objectives with my m95 noscoping and knifing, and of course using motion sensors and c4 to my (and my team's) advantage. So just saying, not everyone plays the same way.
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Very helpful. I am new to tactical shooters. Thank you
how the hell are you suppose to tell who is on youre side in team matches the location map is so small you cant see anyone or anything on it and everyone is running around just shooting anything i think i have been shot down by my own teammates because they cant tell either
Great tips people. although i have a rather obvious comment to make. When i play with a squad we have separate tiers of the squad, with recon in the back, engineers and medics in the middle, and assault are always in the front. if anyone wants to play my GT is Brawley RULEZ.
I just got into playing BC2 online and you're right. too many guys just playing to shoot and shoot and shoot, and die and die and die. Meaningless action. I'm getting better as I play a little more, and I try hard to play as a team and actually play towards the objective, sticking together with teamates covering each others' asses. A lot of people ruin the game by just playing to shoot and don't even care about the objective. Bro, I should be looking you up to play with.
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very useful info!
superbly written, very useful guide. many thx!!!1
I read part two before reading part one. In part one, everything seems kosher except in regards to UAV tips. A good UAV should stay low so that it can use building as cover. Even hiding behind a building for 10 seconds will make an average player forget you exist. Moving is good for UAVs but specifically, flying forward and vertically will make you a more elusive target. Roadkilling with UAVs is also something to take advantage of. Taking out helicopters is also pretty easy. To push it to pro-status, I encourage trying to fly through trees and at eye level. You have to be able to fly out of sight quickly, but a UAV can easily move past enemy lines, and is difficult to spot because they are unexpected to be there and the UAV machine gun is pretty decent.Also, there is one advantage of going solo. No one can spawn on you. This is more of making aware of an annoyance rather than a tip, but sometimes I kill my own teammate for this (HC). If you spawn next to a recon sniper who has a good spot, please DO NOT give away his position by shooting away at a few pickings. At least walk away and create some distance so that you can hit the enemy from a different angle.Great tips. I support the anti-Rambo movement.
This is great intel. BFBC2 is one of my favorites and player competency is a big part of what makes this game really kick ass. Anybody out there that agrees with whats in this guide and wants to hook up (noob or not) on Xbox Live can hit me up at MAL1C10US1NT3NT. i are ones, O is a 0, and obviously the E is a 3. Again, great job CJ; keep em comin! I ALSO SUPPORT THE ANTI-RAMBO MOVEMENT. SQUAD UP AND GET SOME....TACTICALLY
Great Guide! I realize why I wasn;t leading in points :) all I did was kill and cared little for the objectives. My ranking was slow and the game sucked. After this, I ranked up quickly and got loads of unlocks. Thnaks!Remember! Everything BURNS! no such thing as indestructable cover ;)
guy ur plain awesome this guide has helped a LOT thx.
yes I agree with all and i too get fed up in meny rounds things that also pive me off big time is ppl that take a tank or any other attack car in to the the enemy and give it to them,or seeing 6 ppl in your base waiting for it to spawn
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stop bein a little bitch n let ppl play how they wana play n if u dnt like it go make sum frends n play wiv dem den u dnt need 2 bitch
I' m new to battlefield and love the game. My problem is my friends like to play rambo and don't communicate effectively forcing me to play on my own. I'd love to find some intelligent teamates who will corrdinate better and be willing to give me a little coaching and feedback. I enjoy using stragedy and communication much more than running around just trying to get as many kills as possible. Anybody who feels the same way feel free to hit me up. Gamertag D Puncherelo
I dont mind the 2nd gunfire on a tank... I always want the improved armour because if u try it out (especially with a repairman near u) u are hard to destroy if ur not a fully moron...e.g.: u have impr. armour.... enemytank has impr.dmg.... its kinda the same if there are tanks without any improving... but... if u have a repairman near u.... the improved dmg tank goes to hell... u can take a lot dmg while the enemy engineer isnt fast enough to repair his tank
If all players read this it would be a better game. I think I would like this game better than MW2 if people played it right. I've only been playing a couple weeks, & have only been in a couple of squads that worked together. Lets get rid of the RAMBO'S and play. This is a squad based game with straight forward objectives. If you want to be RAMBO play MW2 you'll fit right in. But not here.
Pac Man is a really good game. You are a little yellow guy and you can eat these dots.Thanks!!
This might be a really newbie question but my UAV doesnt seem to have a button that operates this machine gun that I see people killing me with... one thing i REALLY HATE about this game is that if you "spot" someone for your team sometimes you "spot" all the guys near him that actually you couldnt see yourself! I am of the opinion that to make it more interesting the the enemy player wont be spotted unless you press your back button with him IN YOUR SIGHT! i get so annoyed if i am hiding in a bush and my team-mates get spotted and the game lights me up like a beacon! i consider myself to be the best recon player in the game and to get that good you need to use recon when your team-mates are not, stay back but with a LOS (line of sight) on your teams objectives and spot the shit out of everything as well ascontributing protection by picking off the defusers of said objective. also mortars are great for 'cover chopping' love the guide, love your comments, peace out.
Boy you speak the truth don't you? I've only seen good MG, and missile emplacements used by soldiers in ONE SINGLE GAME! That was the most advanced Rush game I ever played; Laguna Innocentas on defense with the enemy pounding us with PT-Boats and Blackhawks our team finally wises up and joins me on the offensive. We manned all those turrets and I actually got ace pin for once (yay for me). Problem with BC2 is to many people are coming off COD: MW2. They think its the same game! Vehicles are just pests and their to dumb for their own good. Me and one good teammate jumped in a Bradley on Panama Canal and we break a full two MBT and Light Tank assault by the enemy! We take out the light tank and he jumps out to repair me. While he repairs I jump out and take out a stolen Abrams with a mortar strike! Then we knock out a T-90 with a BRADLEY! This game is filled with idiots that us smart people feed on.You're guide will hopefully help and I wish you luck.
Thanks for the info. I got bored with MW2 and bought BC2 and am loving it! I didn't realize how much I appreciated highly objective-based games. It's also great to have players like you who take the game seriously around. It reminds me of the old days when I played BFE: WaW (which everyone should check out http://www.bfewaw.com/) Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
thanks for the info bro it helped alot.if any one wants to squad up and play im almost always on live 24/7...my gamertag is Jordan C Moore
Brilliant! Finally (I know I'm months behind the search engine curve here but you get the idea) someone has documented my frustrations... excellent work!!Can we get a link in-game for our teams to read this during intermission? ;)
This is going to be one of my first games I get (alongside Uncharted 2) for my PS3 (my first current-gen console). Thanks, man, now I won't be such a noob when I get into my first round.
Hey, I just got the game, I'm playing on PC, read Your guide before installing, hope we'll meet on the battlefield sometimes, hopefully on the same side.
Campaign mode is a pretty good tutorial for learning to fly and drive.
yo I got this game 2 days ago. haven't played ANY game since halo3 first came (06-07?) out so I'm a noob at this bc2 stuff (beat campain on hard easily tho). controls and reflexes are finally comin back... way different strats on bc2 than im used to also.i die like 1.4 times each time i kill 1 online haha. So if any non hating good players out there want to help me out friend me and lets have squads that dont run around in the open making me lose, friend me @ Lazykilla420 xbox of course. I just want to know the most effecient ways to win/kill people better in multiplayer. The halo got me fucked up... gotta be patient and more careful of ur surroundings on bc2. and less life and harder accuracy.yea i had a few brews. sorry if nothing i said makes senxce.
Enjoyed the info. Just started playing the game. I start by being lone wolf though, because I have to get used to buttons,maps, and equipment. Not as quick as my kids at this stuff.
One other thing: if a squad-mate is flying a UAV, cover his ass in over watch. Any opponents smart enough will either be sniping at, or rushing your position, so cover your team mate while he takes out the enemy assets. Same thing if you are all in a fire base. Be responsible to your team. In conquest, once you are raising your flag, divide up the jobs... one of you is watching the entrance (or the stairs) so the the others can keep up the fire/heat/attention on the invading forces.It is good insurance and good team play. Even though my name hints at recon, I don't play it much, and when I do, its to spot, destroy and cover my team, not rack up noob kills.
this game is garbage, multiplayer is decent, rounds hitting your enemy isnt consistant; as much as 17 rounds to kill someone with a light machine gun, about 2-3 hits with a sniper rifle, about 1/2 a mag with the sub and rifles, and varies with the pistols. no one understands how to set up an overwatch and effectively use their teammates (other than to spawn on) riflemens dont distribute ammo, medics dont want to revive you, snipers never throw out motion sensors, they take out random targets instead of the ones going after the objectives, and rarely use god's gift...UNLIMITED mortar strikes, get 2 or 3 snipers and constantly mortar strike an objective..game over..engineers are probably the least selfish class...
Well this advise is valid, I just tried sticking to the objectives and my score was ten fold, 3rd or 4th highest contributor and about 3 medals in one 20 minute session, cheers sticksjase