BF2S Forums Ever Feel Like An Arty Magnet

Pubic wrote:

DeadboyUSMC wrote:

I've never felt like a magnet, only the feeling of being at the wrong place at the wrong time! As bad as some of you cats might think it is, at least the HE rounds in the game don't have the killing radius they do out in the Fleet.

(100-150m and EVERYTHING gets wasted!)

You should actually feel blessed that the King of Battle has stopped to noticed you!

But then in BF2 an entire city only spans a few hundred metres...

I realize for game balance that the actual killing radius of HE round was downsized. It wouldn't be very fun to get vaporized the whole map over every few minutes...

when i am commander i usually end up hitting the same people four or five times in a round...

guess why?

well i'll tell you...

there are a certain amount of players on every team.. you'll see them especially on larger servers... who bunch up around other players and play a retarded "defensive" style of play.. it's almost as if instead of going to get flags they're waiting to kill enemies coming to take their flags... or they're hanging behind one or two aggressive players - not quite advancing - sort of waiting for the aggressive player to stick their neck out and die or lead the way (mostly just getting in the way and being incompetent)... and guess what? these little formations of people who don't look at the minimap to see where the attractive artillery target is are the ones that consistently die by artillery.... if you look at the map periodically it's pretty easy to see where the artillery is gonna come...

Last edited by ComradeWho (2006-04-12 00:52:41)

If you're getting artied constantly there are a few explanations.

1. You pissed the enemy commander off too much. Better watch who you snipe.
2. The enemy commander is going for his Good Conduct Medal and wants to kill you instead of risking a TK.
3. A squad leader on the other team is following around and requesting artillery on your head for no reason.
4. The entire enemy team hates you and wants to kill you so much that you leave.

Mobius_One1021 wrote:

Always happens to me.  I was just playing Warlord as insurgent and we were held up at the top of the map.  I broke through and got to the base nearest to the SAS's base (can't remember the name).  my commender puts a UAV up and I tell him thanks.  There were 2 guys spawning there, so I took them out while I was taking the flag.  However, the commander felt it necessary to arty ME as I was taking the base.  The little arty symbol on my mini map was directly on me.  I ran away and took cover (the flag was neutral) and got back to the flag before any more guys showed up.  A second later the other commander gets me with arty and we lose the round by 1 point a minute later.

But I swear, I always either spawn in arty, get hit by what should be past the arty's radius of destruction, or am the only one killed by arty in a group of 4 or 5 people.

I hear you - it seems that i ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS am killed by THE last shell - i won't be damaged at all by the initial volley, but theres like a pause and WHAMMY, its SatanicCommander [Artillery] Me. i hate it bc its so weird to ALWAYS be killed by the last, stray shell

that's becaue you abonded your bunny ......keep him alive and ull stay alive lol (im talking about ur sig)

Last edited by blademaster (2006-04-14 22:29:27)