BF2S Forums Commander spotting

I want the commander to only spot enemies that are at risk to squadleaders or at risk to people capturing/defending flags.

It's no help if the commander is spotting every enemy on the map at the same time, or spotting the same sniper 12 times in one second.

sensible spotting along with the uav is the best thing a commander can do.

Spot what helps is my take on it. "What helps" does not include inanimate objects, snipers swimming in the middle of the ocean, out-of-control planes 5 miles over the edge of the map, the 15 people at the J-10 spawn point, and the AFK guy repeatedly falling to his death at a parachute spawn.

Like Jamesey said, only spotting people near flags which are being taken. Spotting the other commander at Gatehouse while the team is taking Square is no help...

As commander, I only spot the enemies that are a threat to my players, and aren't covered by the uav. And also I'll spot the stray ones that are trying to be clever and make a move.

Sometimes a blind spot is called for, though, and I'll tell a squad at a flag I'm doing a blind spot just to make sure no one's around the flag they're going for.


But for the most part, the spam is extremely annoying and completely unnecessary.

Yes, cause any commander that has any competetion experience, was to learn how to spam spot.

k30dxedle wrote:

Spot what helps is my take on it. "What helps" does not include inanimate objects, snipers swimming in the middle of the ocean, out-of-control planes 5 miles over the edge of the map, the 15 people at the J-10 spawn point, and the AFK guy repeatedly falling to his death at a parachute spawn.

Yes spotting the swimming sniper may not help you but it certainly would help to the chopper crew. Its an easy kill. And whats easier then killing an AFK guy? Being AFK and dieing while parachuting can only happen in BF42.

Toilet Sex wrote:

Like Jamesey said, only spotting people near flags which are being taken. Spotting the other commander at Gatehouse while the team is taking Square is no help...

What about the flags that are being taken? Don't care about those do you?

Firstly, go into more detail, spotting etiquette changes if you're on IO or vehicle maps, vehicle maps require a lot more spotting and a lot more squads than infantry only.

inf karkand you're lucky to have one good squad that knows what they're doing, so less spotting is required.

If you're on a 64 man vehicle map with both teams capping/defending flags then you have to spam spot most of the map.

Be more specific

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

Toilet Sex wrote:

Like Jamesey said, only spotting people near flags which are being taken. Spotting the other commander at Gatehouse while the team is taking Square is no help...

That depends why you're doing it.

No, it doesn't. If I spot the commander at Gatehouse while none of my team are near Gatehouse, it is no use. Unless in these new wave of hack threads there has been a teleport hack I missed, I can't see the point and it's wasting time when you could be helping your team.

.Sup wrote:

What about the flags that are being taken? Don't care about those do you?

I thought anyone with a brain would work that a commander wants his team to win, but I guess not. Of course I'd spot them. If it's Karkand (or possibly Jalalabad) and no one on my team are near, I'd drop arty without spotting so my team doesn't run into it like mindless idiots trying to get a quick kill or two. If they survive, then I spot.

I'll spam the spotting button and you'll love it.

Toilet Sex wrote:

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

Toilet Sex wrote:

Like Jamesey said, only spotting people near flags which are being taken. Spotting the other commander at Gatehouse while the team is taking Square is no help...

That depends why you're doing it.

No, it doesn't. If I spot the commander at Gatehouse while none of my team are near Gatehouse, it is no use. Unless in these new wave of hack threads there has been a teleport hack I missed, I can't see the point and it's wasting time when you could be helping your team.

Yeah, but it doesn't take the whole team to cap the Square.


If you've got a friendly spec-ops lone-wolf running around, spotting the commander at the Gatehouse could be far more important than spotting any other player, anywhere, on the map.


As someone else implied - it all depends on context - do the right thing at the right time - even when that might appear to be 'spotted spamming' to everybody else.

Always spot enemy helicopters and jets. They should be priority on any vehicle server. On wake, as soon as the game starts on spotting the aircraft of the runway, with any luck our jet hasn't been repeatedly tk for the pilot seat and is in the air quickly.

If your going to spot for one squad, then give a UAV to another squad. Capture 2 flags at once.

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

Toilet Sex wrote:

Scorpion0x17 wrote:

That depends why you're doing it.

No, it doesn't. If I spot the commander at Gatehouse while none of my team are near Gatehouse, it is no use. Unless in these new wave of hack threads there has been a teleport hack I missed, I can't see the point and it's wasting time when you could be helping your team.

Yeah, but it doesn't take the whole team to cap the Square.


If you've got a friendly spec-ops lone-wolf running around, spotting the commander at the Gatehouse could be far more important than spotting any other player, anywhere, on the map.


As someone else implied - it all depends on context - do the right thing at the right time - even when that might appear to be 'spotted spamming' to everybody else.

No shit it doesn't take the whole team to cap it, but what I was saying is if no one is near the commander, no point in spotting him/her. Also, like I just said:

Toilet Sex wrote:

If I spot the commander at Gatehouse while none of my team are near Gatehouse, it is no use.

None of my team = no one. No lone spec-ops guy. Nothing. If someone is near there or on their way, yes, I'll spot the commander. But not when no one on my team is there.