BuShWacKeR's Gaming

+ Tonight I received the last weapon upgrade in Bad Company 2, the M16A2. It is an excellent weapon that fires in 3 round bursts. Found it very useful for medium, even long range sniping with the ACOG scope. If you put the 3 round burst on a bad guy, down he goes for the count. It has a draw back though in close quarter battle(CQB). It lacks full auto fire. In Bad Company 2(BC2) games, with the hard core setting, there are no cross hairs to help you aim. In CQB encounters I come out best with full auto fire used while strafing left or right. That lays the fire across the bad guy and makes up for the lack of an aiming reticule. + Lets look at a comparison of M416 and M16A2 game behavior. + As you can see the M416 has a slightly higher damage rating. The M16A2 has slightly better accuracy and rate of fire. Though I would dispute the rate of fire since it is a three round burst, and not full auto fire. Usually, I will default for the better accuracy, but in practice I fi...

+Tried a new tactic in Bad Company 2. Used smoke grenades to surround the M-COM station we were attacking during Rush. Smoked not only the M-COM but, provided a smoke covered path to the M-COM from cover. This requires that you change your rifle grenade from 40MM High Explosive to 40MM SMK. To be effective you also need to drop an ammo supply kit before you start. It usually takes more than the default 2 grenades to do it right, so the ammo kit is important. Then start by hitting the M-COMM with smoke. Walk the smoke grenades back to cover. Then hit the M-COM again because it dissipates rapidly. Keep laying the smoke thick and fast until the M-COM is blown. +Also used the smoke grenade on defense. When a guy was on it I hit the M-COM with one rifle smoke grenade. Then rushed the M-COM and cut down the attacker before he knew I was coming. Worked like a charm. It also helps to protect you from the attacking team’s fire as you rush the M-COM. +As a medic, worked my way up to the MG3 ma...

Appears BC2 has had some updates since the last time I played it a couple of weeks ago. Three are annoyances that have been fixed and one is an valuable change to game play. First, the spawn timer used to require you wait until the timer counted down to near zero before it would take your click on the respawn button. Now you can click it anytime during the respawn wait and it will hold your click until the proper time. It used to drop it after a couple of seconds. The second annoyance was that in the server browser, the server did not remember the continent you selected. Each time you searched for games you would have to reset the continent or it would pull them from all over the world. Now it remembers the setting. The third bugaboo applies to friend requests. It used to only work, it seemed, if both of you were in BC2 at the time of the request. Not very useful. Now the request stays alive even if the requester has quit the game. The last change, and an important one for teamwork, is...