Princess_Frosty
Member
+0|7104
I just got the expert knife badge and i've never yelled and screamed so much in my damn life, i've been after this sucker for about a 2 weeks solid now!

I had been playing Devils Perch for Special forces, i came close getting 17 knife kills in one round one time and it seemed like the best map for it, lots of sneaking and truly commando like play.  My tactic was to spawn early as MEC and rush the only American flag (east one) and run around knifing unwitting spawners who didnt expect it coming, you can get about 7-8 doing that before they catch on and make it impossible, then was a case of hunting down people slowly but surely.

5 times i got 17 kills and a whole load more as 16 and 15

Anyhow just played ONE round of Karkand after not playing vanilla BF2 since i got SF at christmas, and i BEASTED IT, 22 knife kills and 9 deaths in about 2/3's of a round on a 64 player server.

Just waiting for my stats to update to make sure I really got it

Anyhow like everyone else I seriously recomend Karkand to get it, loads of cover and easy routes to sneak up on people over roof tops etc, and I was playing with some serious n00bs as well, if you knife and miss (like you do most of the time cos of the shabby knife hit code) in SF people would turn around and shoot so you had to only knife people when they stopped.

Anyhow just really pleased and really full fo energy, good luck for anyone else going for this badge, its worth it when you get it!
Sahasrahla
Code poet
+1|7165|Branson, MO, USA
Congrats! but this probably would have been better suited for the Awards! thread that's already been started...
Bogey2005
Member
+0|7124|Dallas, TX
Congrats! Got mine last week on a 64 player Sharqi map with 16 players...felt real good after trying for it so long.  Congrats again.
Sgt.Gh0st
Pump-Action Pimp
+16|7202|The Hague, Holland
Congratz man.
Sgt.Gh0st's useless fact of today :
I GOT MINE JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO
Landepaukku
Finnish bush-man
+23|7257|Finland
Frosty, you and me are EXACTLY alike. I tried hunting that badge like a week and a half, ended up multiple times with 16 and 17. Then took a little break, came back and on second attempt, 18 kills hells yea! Now i gotta hope i got it in my stats :S

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Princess_Frosty
Member
+0|7104
Also i'd been after vet (silver) explosive ordinance which is 23 kills in one round with any combo of c4, claymores or mines, i managed to get my bronze from sticking c4 to the front of quads and driving them into tanks on SF maps like ghost town, but 13 was a stretch.

Anyhow I got 51 kills today on Karkand (again lol) about 5 were bullet kills (when i ran out of c4) so i got my gold explosive ordinance badge, 36 kill sin one round i think.

I never thought i'd see the day when i got that, thought it was going to be one of the hardest.

Pistol gold next, need about 150 more pistol kills and getting the rest of my unit badges to vet.

The next large hurdle is the 40 command points for bronze command badge, no where does the rounds last long enough to get that kind of average score
polarbearz
Raiders of the Lost Bear
+-1,474|7208|Singapore

And I am NOWWHERE near getting my friggin VET badge. I can't even knife SEVEN idiots.

Hmph. I suck.

You're weird too frostly. 22 knife kills? Get your 18 and pull a gun out or something lol.
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|7126|67.222.138.85
Congrats for those who just got their expert knife! I just got mine too, but I don't think that counts cause i ended up getting it on the first try. Wouldn't say I'm that good at knifing, just found a great server for it at my first crack. As far as getting basic command, just get on just about any map that has 16/32 player limit but is played on a 64 player map. I've had at least 3 100+ round commander games with the 2x on those kind of servers. You typically get more teamwork on smaller servers too.
Mj.Blindfisch
Bulletdrop-Buddha
+338|7116|Germany
Hmm,I got my veteran knife badge today,I got it on Devil's Perch and it was a lot easier than I expected.

For my basic I tried my luck on Karkand but got killed myself a lot in the process.

Today it really has been a piece of cake,I already had 3 or 4 knifekills in the round,from single prone snipers in the dark.
Then I went up to a roof somewhere(looks like the houses in Mashtuur) and there were the Iraqi Beatles or something,4 guys lying on the roof and sniping away happily.
I got all 4 of them,I could even take the mandantory badge screenshot between kills which makes the game hang a lot and they didn't even notice me.
Ok,usually this works in broad daylight too,but then you mostly get seen by other enemies which are not on the roof...so...darkness really helps.

If you have problems with the basic knife badge,try a night map.

And expert knife,I guess that's a lot of experience with the knife hit code,the maps and also a bit of luck,but I think I'm gonna get it too...someday... ;-)

Last edited by Mj.Blindfisch (2006-01-12 18:02:14)

polarbearz
Raiders of the Lost Bear
+-1,474|7208|Singapore

How come the whole world and their mothers JUST got it when I'm not even bleeding close to getting my veteran.

God I suck.
washow
Get out of MY JET!!!
+23|7131
don't even have my BASIC

you're in good shape polarbearz.... lol
sparklet
Banned
+34|7167|stop corecting my grammer!!!!!
i gots ma knife bagde

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Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|7126|67.222.138.85
Don't know if this helps anybody, but I got all my knife badges on Karkand, on 64 player servers with just a few people on the map. Kills are few and far between, but the rounds last *forever*.

Polarbearz, isn't the IAR requirement the same for basic and veteran?
Princess_Frosty
Member
+0|7104
It gets easier once you know common movement patterns through maps, you can make sure to get up behind people unseen, then its a sinch.

I was going for more kills, i joined on a 300 ticket sever on 200 tickets and had 22 knife kills by the time we were down to 60 tickets, i could have kept on going but i was nattering with others who were trying to get it

Mate also got it in a similar fassion, start of the next round he tried and I went commander and watched him knifing away, had about 120 tickets left when he got it, so a 30+ score could have been possible had he chosen to carry on.

A lot of the badges simply cannot be earned in the SF maps, theres no way you'd get 36 c4/mine/clay kills in any of the SF maps on a normal server, its just too much to ask for, but maps like karkand seem so well suited for it.

Probably why theres no special SF badges only basic combat ones for each class and 1-2 others.
Princess_Frosty
Member
+0|7104

Flaming_Maniac wrote:

Don't know if this helps anybody, but I got all my knife badges on Karkand, on 64 player servers with just a few people on the map. Kills are few and far between, but the rounds last *forever*.

Polarbearz, isn't the IAR requirement the same for basic and veteran?
Yeah 7 each but you need 50 kills total with the knife to get vet, and 100 total with 18 IAR for expert, i found coming up behind large groups of people and getting the chance to take them all out was a large help, the server was full.

People who go prone in the allys are sitting ducks, sprint around the corner and jump over their heads, land behind them and its an easy kill.
Flaming_Maniac
prince of insufficient light
+2,490|7126|67.222.138.85
I knew about the 50 global kills in addition but I checked the stats of whoever is registered to his forum name on BF2, and they have 80 global kills. That persons favorite map is Operation Clean Sweep too, so I thought it was a reasonable assumption that they were one and the same.
0ktane
Negative Ping
+55|7186|Arizona
Was workin for mine for about a month and a half...finally got it on Monday.  Have a screenie, but dont know how to post it here...so, um, yeah...Expert Knife 4 teh winz0rz!!!

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