BF2S Forums Taking out UAV; Bad Form?

Well, basically on Jalalabad I do nothing else but rushing back with some teammates, destroying scan and UAV. The G36C is a damn reliable weapon in combat also, so on such maps, enemies shouldn't take this as an offensive.

On maps with fixed spawnpoints like Karkand, however I usually don't travel all the way back, since the efforts are not worth the outcome as long as the enemy commander actually cares for his team and his assets.
Nevertheless, one time I went back as a squad leader into the enemy base and destroyed scan and UAV, knifed the commander, picked up the medic kit, made some evil base raper kills until the tank spawned, my squad member spawned in the tank, jumped out and took the APC. As we approached the USMC lines at the other spawnpoints, without any intention to kill them off the spawn but let them run against an armoured wall of cavalry, we were kicked for "stealing vehicles".
Well, inability of enemy commanders and tactical warfare isn't always appreciated, it seems.

the vast majority of bf2 players are pretty much point & stat zombies that just wants as many points as possible and don't give a shit about the team, therefore you'll get bitched at for things like these

for some reason just general bitching is very common, you can be a jet/tank/g36e/ak101/c4/revive/medic/supply/grenade/claymore/baserape/launcher/artillery/heli-whore, the list goes on and on, heck i've even been accused of being a knife whore.

bottom line; have fun, play fair and don't give a shit about what others think

Last edited by [RFW]Xenomorph (2006-11-26 05:09:53)

I will almost always try to blow arty first since I seem to have an arty magnet attached to my backside.  Also, of all the commander's assets, arty is the only one that can directly kill you or your teammates.  After that goes UAV since enemy troops can see that, and then the scan trailer.  You get two "team work" points for each asset you blow up.  Be careful on how much base raping you do while in the enemy main.  If it's an uncappable base than you are only allowed in as Spec Ops, and only with the intension to blow up assets and get out.  Most servers will kick for base raping if you just hang out and kill enemies as they spawn in.

Pretty much anything someone says to you in-game is worthless.  Play how you want just don't be a total dumb ass.  Don't tk (team kill) for vehicles, if someone else gets a jet you want, don't block the runway, don't punish someone for accidental team kills (like when you walk in front of a car that you didn't see coming.)  Fairly simple (usually unwritten) rules to follow to ensure everyone has a good time.

One other thing...we don't call it "WoBF2" like someone else suggested.

Definitions (these can be found uppercase and lower case
QFT - Quote for Truth
ATM - At the Moment
BTW - By the Way
BRB - Be right Back
NP - No problem
TTYL - Talk to you later
IMO - In My Opinion
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
Noob/N00b/Newb - Some one unexperienced...new to the scene...dumb
WTF - What the Fuck
FTW - For the Win
STFU - Shut the Fuck Up
LOL - Laugh out Loud
LMAO - Laugh My Ass Off
LMFAO - Laugh My Fucking Ass Off
ROFL - Rolling on the Floor Laughing
ROFLMFAO - Rolling on the Floor Laughing my Fucking Ass Off (this is usually reserved for something found to be extremely funny)

Hope this has been a helpful experience. 

MastersMom wrote:

don't punish someone for accidental team kills (like when you walk in front of a car that you didn't see coming.)

I have no idea how many times I've been punished for stupid sh*t that wasn't my fault. Like while turning around in a buggy some guy comes screaming over a hill, hits me in the side. Punished! I've only punished once iirc, and that was some stupid guy who looked straight at me and shot me right between the eyes. I wasn't even waiting for a vehicle or anything. All the other cases has been me scaring the crap out of someone as I come running around a corner or me jumping on some nade some guy threw way ahead of both of us. My bad....but please revive me though

Definitions (these can be found uppercase and lower case...snippety snip...

Thanks. I knew most of the latter ones from my time at IRC, but the top ones were new. Appreciate the effort to write them all down

ur team + assets = good
their team + assets = not good



and what the hell do they make those trailers out of to withstand tank rounds?

2freefly wrote:

VicktorVauhn wrote:

Yeah guys I think he means assets, not the UAV itself..

Affirm. I eventually figured out that the UAV itself is staying up there, no matter how much I shoot at it

Only ever seen it shot down when its over your carrier and using the essex

When people on the other team start bitching about stuff your doing, that usually means your doing a good job. It's not bad form to attack the UAV. Just like any other online game there are a lot of assholes out there, you just happened to find one from BF2

Last edited by Greenspan (2006-11-29 00:51:25)

nothing wrong with blowing up assets. gets you points and slows the other team down a bit.

magiktrik: he's just bitter you killed him with a blackhawk, it's not out of line. i get run over by its counterpart in 2142 occasionally too. nothing worse that that.
come to think of it, i roadkilled someone on a hill once with a blackhawk, in wake. he was running, didn't see me coming, so i figured, 'Why not?'. i proceeded to hit him from the side and bounce him into the water. funniest thing i've seen in awhile, and i couldn't believe i connected with him without hitting the hill.

another good thing about doin this, on maps where the assets lie in an uncap area, some commanders hide out like lil bitches here, usually stuffed in a corner lyin on their stomach, engrossed in their commander options menu.  this=ez knife kill for an extrememly pissed commander w/o assets.

big thing about it is that most players that spawn back there will be engineers, 80% of which wont have the MP7, so they'll be very close range with a shotgun, ez to fend off....especially if ya stole their tank or had the foresight of using the supply drops added C4 to booby trap their armor.

Last edited by Hitokiri_Battousi (2006-11-29 15:48:36)

Hitokiri_Battousi wrote:

another good thing about doin this, on maps where the assets lie in an uncap area, some commanders hide out like lil bitches here, usually stuffed in a corner lyin on their stomach, engrossed in their commander options menu.  this=ez knife kill for an extrememly pissed commander w/o assets.

big thing about it is that most players that spawn back there will be engineers, 80% of which wont have the MP7, so they'll be very close range with a shotgun, ez to fend off....especially if ya stole their tank or had the foresight of using the supply drops added C4 to booby trap their armor.

Pump Shotty FTW! I'll use my pistol at range as an engie rather than give up my 12 gauge for the peashooter. I might use it as MEC but I <3 the pump. Also if you find a cmdr with no scan up sitting in the commander menu he's either afk or you caught him in the 2 secs it takes to drop supplies.

Fuck the UAV

Always blow the UAV first.

Not bad form.  Not noobish.  Blowing enemy assets = teh win.

Enemy team probably full of whining snipers, can't kill anything without advance warning of who is coming over the hill at them.  As others suggested, you could probably stay there for a while, waiting for enemy CO to drop a supply box.  Get five new C4, lay them, get five more...blow it all.  Hide out, wait for another box.  If you're on Karkand, next move is to blow the bridge (only takes 3 if you do it right), and pretty soon you will have capped the Gatehouse and blown all enemy assets by yourself.

I do this all the time, I obviously don't give a rats ass about spm.  We used to do it when blowing UAV got no points too.  It's not bad form to neutralize the enemy CO.