BF2S Forums Vet-Sniper Badge instead of Vet-Sniper Specialist Badge

No idea, SF is still really new so we have yet to figure out everything... I suppose it is possible that you need to have your normal kit combat badge before getting the equivalent specialist badge.

Why isn't the Specialist Badge simply a badge past Expert?

i.e. Basic - Veteran - Expert - Specialist

Would have just made more sense to add a tier to it instead of making it a badge that you could only get in SF.

Oh well.. *shrug*

kilroy0097 wrote:

Why isn't the Specialist Badge simply a badge past Expert?

i.e. Basic - Veteran - Expert - Specialist

Would have just made more sense to add a tier to it instead of making it a badge that you could only get in SF.

Oh well.. *shrug*

true.  what i think they shouldve done is made it so to get the specialist badges, you have to use the kit and not armor or a jet or helicopter or something.  so to get the sniper specialist badges, you have to kill people with your sniper rifle, pistol, claymores, nades, or knife...the same for the other ones.  then you can see who the truly good snipers/anti-tank/engineer/whatever really are.

ThomasMorgan wrote:

depends on the amount of time youve spent as a sniper.

i know that i wouldve gotten my veteran pistol combat badge earlier since i killed around 12-14 people in a round, but i hadnt yet reached a high enough global pistol kill number yet, so i got nothing.  (i already had my basic).

many of the badges/ribbons/medals arent very hard to get.  the hardest requirements are the time constraints.  i know if those didnt exist, id have my expert combat everything except for pistol, explosives, and possibly support.

Ah true~ I overlooked the issue of having to have spent enough time.

But the problem is still valid, and intriguing... Really, what happens if you score 38 kills IAR as a sniper in SF, and just hit the time requirement; say, perhaps, you've got the basic badges to start with. Do you get vet then, expert, or do you get vet, vet-spec, expert, expert-spec... or... vet, vet-specialist(first 15 kills goes to vet, subsequent 17 goes to vet-spec). Hahaha.

The answer is: he only has 16 hours and 20 minutes as a sniper, which means that the round he got the badge in wwas started before he became eligible for the specialist badge.

He can get it now though, so go get 17 kills IAR

Oh, and I got basic anti tank specialist and vet anti tank specialist in the same round, so you can get both.

Last edited by {DsM}SongofWar[BoC] (2005-11-28 07:47:58)

So it is;

Suppose if you didn't have a badge, say... assault, and you made the requirements for a basic assault badge in SF, you're first going to get the assault badge, then, the next time you satisfy the requirements for a basic assault - specialist badge, you will get the SF badge.

One has to first get the BF2 badge before getting the associated specialist badge.

Such subtleties might be overlooked just because most readers/contributors here have gotten most, if not all of their BF-vanilla badges before starting to collect the specialist badges.

to answer the question whats happens if you make basic and veteran badge in one round (and i think its the same if you make veteran and expert or any other badge in the same round):

I hit the 7 knife kills IAR limit when i already got over 50 knife kills, so i got them both at the same time - thus when getting 38kills without having any sniper badge before and meeting the time requirement you would get all badges up to the expert ones^^.

but by getting the basic and veteran knife at the same time, i later on had ONLY the veteran badge without having the basic knife combat badge. I discovered this when i was promoted to master seargent instead first seargent though i thought that i had all basic badges :-p. After writing a support to ea the basic badge mysteriously appeared without any concret answer^^.

Last edited by nalta (2005-12-03 18:00:06)