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We’re back with another installment of our Sarcastic Gamer Survival Guide to Battlefield: Bad Company’s multiplayer. Feeling a bit overwhelmed? Annoyed that you can’t just pick up and play the game like Call of Duty 4? This is a totally different type of multiplayer game. The openness of the maps and multiple options on offense and defense can be daunting to get a quick handle on.
So if you’re new and need a boost, read on, as we’ll give the newbies that just purchased the game enough tips and tricks to get you ranked up and into some unlockable goodness in no time!
In Battlefield: Bad Company, the retail version ships with only one mode: Gold Rush. As you probably know, there’s two sides, the Attackers and Defenders. The Attackers job is to blow up two crates, however they can, while the Defenders do everything they can to hold on long enough, until the Attackers run out of respawn tickets. I’ll separate the two sides and give my tips on surviving and eventually kicking ass and taking names in Battlefield: Bad Company.
Playing as an Attacker
Playing as an Attacker means giving up racking up a body count to make sure you do everything in your power to destroy those crates. Players that go for kill counts as an Attacker, usually wind up on the losing end of the game. Here’s my recommendations for playing as an Attacker.
Class Recommendations
1. Assault- As an attacker, choose either an Assault class or Support class. I’d stay away from the Sniper, Demolition and Recon classes when first starting off as an Attacker. As an Assault class, you’ll have a powerful rifle with a grenade launcher and grenades. This class is perfect for the head long rush into the thick of the fight. Remember, use your grenade launcher to soften them up and take them out at range and use your rifle to mop up.
*Assault tip: Unlock the first aid syringe as soon as possible to increase your survivability on the battlefield. Nothing pisses off a sniper more than hitting an enemy multiple times without finishing them off because they keep healing themselves.
2. Support - The best reason a newbie should pick this class is that they can heal themselves. This is invaluable if you want to stay alive long enough to finish the fight. As an attacker, as you and your teammates die in battle, you lose “tickets” that allow you respawn. Run out of those tickets and you lose. Therefore, the Support class is invaluable to keeping your squad mates alive. That said, don’t rush head long into the think of a battle. While you carry a light machine gun, BF:BC has nerfed the LMG a bit and reduced its damage per bullet, as compared to other classes. Your best bet? Find a good vantage point near a crate and lay some first aid kits down around you. Pinpoint defenders for your squad mates, while letting them know where health is available, and fire at defenders at range.
*Support tip - Unlock the MG 36 as soon as possible. You may be tempted to unlock the Mortar Strike first, but the MG36 has a red dot scope attached to the LMG that makes the machine gun extremely accurate at long range. Perfect for counter sniping and laying down cover fire for teammates that are attempting to arm a charge on a crate. Just squeeze the trigger until the enemy is no longer moving…
General Attacker Tips on page 2.
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10 responses so far ↓
1 Dean // Jun 25, 2008 at 10:48 am
Some good noob tips there guys. good work
2 thefriendlyghost // Jun 25, 2008 at 11:20 am
Gamefly just emailed me i should have it by Friday so anyone having a gamer night.
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3 Infn3on // Jun 25, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Another tip in the same vein as indestructible ceilings, where there are ladders on walls, that section of the wall can’t be destroyed. Perfect for taking cover behind
4 Lono // Jun 25, 2008 at 12:56 pm
yeah totally… That’s more of an intermediate player’s guide thing though…
5 Infn3on // Jun 25, 2008 at 4:53 pm
And a slightly more intermediate tip. Support can drop a medkit and hold one for super fast self healing. So if you find yourself in a spot of bother, drop a medkit, pick it up and run away like a little girl. You should be back to full health quicker than you can let out a girlish scream
6 V3NOM // Jun 25, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Heh. I’m one of those “sneaky bastards” that finds a flanking position and snipes from it. I’ve gotten good at it from playing the demo, too…
7 Bearmilk // Jul 23, 2008 at 10:54 am
Yo, good guide man. I’m a diehard COD4 fan and have just moved to BFBC. Found your guide helpful to get me going. I think the game arrives tomorrow in the mail. Can’t wait!
8 FROSTY // Aug 29, 2008 at 5:34 am
Hey thanks, good guide dude. Being new to BFBC and having read, and re-read your guide I am slowly getting less sh*t at the game, but nowhere near as good as I was at the original BF (jihad jeep anyone??) Any chance of an intermediate guide update in the near future..? thanks
9 JaCkFrOsT // Sep 14, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Ha3 good guide, um i wa wondering if anyone knew why it takes so long to kill sum1, but they can kill me really quickly, im so fricking frustrated!!!!!!!!!!
10 IsaacLives // Sep 20, 2008 at 10:36 am
Okay, very nice noob guide. I, however, have a few corrections;
The knife is perfectly able to hurt crates. In fact, using the double knife glitch (you can knife twice very quickly as long as the first swing is “drawing” the knife) I have taken down many crates.
The recon class does not have tracer darts. Specialist does. Also, you can tag people just like vehicles (which usually results in them getting lit up like a christmas tree)
Also, artillery has some minor plash damage, even if it doesn’t actually hit you. Building’s ceilings may block the blasts, but you won’t be safe standing too close to a missing wall.
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