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...

+ BC2 starts you off with a very uneven playing field,  more experienced players have much better weapons, ammo and armor, making a start difficult. So play all your positions like you are a Sniper or Recon.  No matter if it Engineer, Assault or Medic play like a Recon. If you try to run and gun, like you would in COD or DFBHD, you will die and die allot. Medics by the way have great weapons. Work to get your red dot, your kills will go up. +Set yourself up in locations to give you the best advantage of surprise and cover that can stop bullets. Maximize use of cover. Set your Sprint key in a place that is easy to use with the W or Forward.  Always Sprint between cover locations. Read Posts on BC2 below this post for more ideas.

+ A few bugs have been fixed in the game which added to its playability. The other thing that helps playability is to play in Hard Core (HC) servers. It takes less hits to take down an opponent. In non-HC I have seen ridiculous stuff like a guy take two headshots with a .50cal sniper rifle, plus body shots then get up and run off??? +You cannot trust the server names or the game server menu when it comes to determining if a server is HC or not. The game labels it HC if that is checked by the server admin. However, if they have things like 3D spotting and mini-map turned on, it is not really a HC server. So look for those items in the Server Info under the black arrow on the server listing. A true HC will have those items off and will in fact have most of the items on the server info list turned off. +When you find a HC server, you will see a much better class of game being played. You will also be able to take down opponents with less than a clip of ammo. Beware! That works both wa...

+ It has been near 3 years since my last post here. Still playing Delta Force Black Hawk Down (DFBHD). Still the best First Person Shooter (FPS) game in the modern battlefield arena. A ton of screen shots are available at the link: l3ushwacker's Screen Shot Page + Far Cry 2 is one of the best single player games I have ever played. However, the multi-player game was over run with players who had no concept of team work. This is too bad because it had the potential to be a great platform with the spectacular open world design and support for user made maps, similar to the Delta Force series. + Just begun to play the Battlefield Bad Company 2 game. It purports to be open world but in reality it is a closely bounded map that inhibits the ability to flank the opponent. The thing that burns me the most is that the game gives uneven armor and weapon capabilities to players based on the amount of play. This will serve to limit the number of new players coming in and causes an uneven p...