Battlefield: Bad Company 2 or BFBC2 for short is upon us. The sequel offers more game modes, maps, weapons, vehicles and terrain types than ever before. The question is: How will you survive and thrive online?

I have ten helpful tips to keep you alive and leveling up.

10. In any gametype, stay close to the medic. Not only will they keep you on the battlefield, but they’ll get mad points for resuscitating you as well.

9. If your heliocopter gets blasted out of the sky, you can still jump out before it crashes into the ground and survive by pressing A (360) or X (PS3) to deploy your parachute while in the air.

8. In Rush and Conquest hitting the select button to designate a target location gives added xp to the attackers or defenders of that point. There are also bonuses and Achievements attached to taking a selected target.

7. In Rush, you don’t have to blow up the M-Com, you can also destroy the structure it is in. Sometimes its easier to blow up the whole building.

6. Play any class you want, because as you level up, you’ll get a pool of guns that you can use with any class. Want a shotgun and a ghille suit? You can do that!

5. Turn your aiming sensitivity up about two notches.  The default sensitivity is way too slow.

4. When you see an enemy, press the select button. Not only will it put a big orange arrow pointing out the target, but your squad will see it as well. Great for counter sniping and you get 20 points for a spotting bonus if a squadmate kills that guy.

3. Stick with your squad. Keeping each other alive is priority. Revive them, spawn on them, spot for them. Do these three things to max your score and bet the best squad bonus every round.

2. Do not leave an area with a vehicle without picking up other teammates.  All vehicles benefit from additional passengers and you don’t want to be “that guy.”

1. All ammo types fire on an arc. Tank shots, missles, bullets will gradually lose speed and hit the ground at some point. You fight a lot at distance, so compensate for that when shooting from distance.

Got any more tips? Be sure to sound off below!