I can't believe I've actually reached a 1000 TKs. I feel dirty now. Kind of like the 1000th soldier death in Iraq where the media anticipated for the day they could report it as if it were the stock market hitting 10,000 points for the first time. I, however, have been dreading this. Recently I noticed it was fast approaching. I actually tried my hardest to avoid this milestone, but to no avail. I earned my 100th TK while trying to get my expert knife badge. Yeah, I know,WTF.
I was on my 7th or 8th straight round on Karkand in my quest for the expert knife badge. I fell 1 or 2 short in each previous attempt, so it was mind numbing when I reached my final attempt. I found a sniper hiding behind the broken down armor, down the road from the hotel. "Easy as pie" I thought. I came around the west side of the fence, ran at full speed, and dived right on him, giving him the slice of his life. I just became the victim, yet again, of the glorious red tag bug.
I would venture to guess that out of 1000 TKs, a good portion of them were for ridiculously bad coding such as the red tag bug, maybe a third. Also included in that third are the infamous AA that seems to track friendly helicopters 800 meters away but can't shoot down an enemy chopper 80 meters away. Also would be the pre-1.03 1 Mph roadkill of a teammate hopping in your humvee and the C4 remote that seemed to want to drop another C4 pack near you and your teammates rather than detonate the first one. There's also the lovely lag that makes my jet an instant lawn dart. And then there's the code that loves to give me all the blackhawk TKs when I get shot out of the pilot's seat and the chopper crashes or is destroyed.
Then there's that one time when I TV missiled a friendly blackhawk when I was MEC because some of my teammates stole the enemy chopper, the friendly tag didn't show up until the last second, and the Havoc wouldn't let me redirect the missile after I fired it. It seems that the friendly tags don't want ot show up at a distance. That's great for weapons like the TV missile that move at about 1500 MPH.
I'd guarantee that AT LEAST another third of my TKs were from idiots and smacktards. Those never seem to grow less disparate. Let's see, there's the runway suicide who wants the jet more than me, the bird that thinks he can fly on top of the chopper rotors, the humvee driver that likes to play chicken with tanks, the Tiananmen square tank protestors, the chopper rammers, the Nascar engy mine collectors, and the pre-1.03 "arty is snowflakes and I wanna be commander" smacktards. We also have the support guy who badly wants to give that sniper some ammo who's surrounded by claymores and of course the medic who'll die by your claymore just to get a healing point.
And on to my fault, a third from my own negligence. Yeah, I screwed up and deserved every punish. Grenades in crowds, C4ing a tank when another spec ops is putting his on after me, shooting over someone's shoulder, laying claymores down in traffic areas, dropping bombs on a tank when a friendly wants to C4 it instead, itchy trigger finger, and of course the intentional ones when I'm waiting for a chopper or plane to spawn and someone else comes along wanting to play the 'E' spamming game with me. Yeah, I'm guilty of some intentional TKs, but only if I was there first and no one is sharing. There was also a couple of times I TKed a medic because they refused to heal me but I'm always nice enough to revive them and give them my crappy kit.
I really wish the stats would break down on TKs so we could see exactly what all of our TKs were from. Also it would be nice if the Tks would register in game the weapon used to Tk. If I were flying a BH over the Chinese airfield on Wake and was hit by the Essex I would know it was BS coding rather than a jet not paying attention.
Well, anyway, I've missed out on a lot of teamwork points. Now on to my next milestone of 2000 TKs. See you on the playing field and hopefully I'm not TKing you out there.
I was on my 7th or 8th straight round on Karkand in my quest for the expert knife badge. I fell 1 or 2 short in each previous attempt, so it was mind numbing when I reached my final attempt. I found a sniper hiding behind the broken down armor, down the road from the hotel. "Easy as pie" I thought. I came around the west side of the fence, ran at full speed, and dived right on him, giving him the slice of his life. I just became the victim, yet again, of the glorious red tag bug.
I would venture to guess that out of 1000 TKs, a good portion of them were for ridiculously bad coding such as the red tag bug, maybe a third. Also included in that third are the infamous AA that seems to track friendly helicopters 800 meters away but can't shoot down an enemy chopper 80 meters away. Also would be the pre-1.03 1 Mph roadkill of a teammate hopping in your humvee and the C4 remote that seemed to want to drop another C4 pack near you and your teammates rather than detonate the first one. There's also the lovely lag that makes my jet an instant lawn dart. And then there's the code that loves to give me all the blackhawk TKs when I get shot out of the pilot's seat and the chopper crashes or is destroyed.
Then there's that one time when I TV missiled a friendly blackhawk when I was MEC because some of my teammates stole the enemy chopper, the friendly tag didn't show up until the last second, and the Havoc wouldn't let me redirect the missile after I fired it. It seems that the friendly tags don't want ot show up at a distance. That's great for weapons like the TV missile that move at about 1500 MPH.
I'd guarantee that AT LEAST another third of my TKs were from idiots and smacktards. Those never seem to grow less disparate. Let's see, there's the runway suicide who wants the jet more than me, the bird that thinks he can fly on top of the chopper rotors, the humvee driver that likes to play chicken with tanks, the Tiananmen square tank protestors, the chopper rammers, the Nascar engy mine collectors, and the pre-1.03 "arty is snowflakes and I wanna be commander" smacktards. We also have the support guy who badly wants to give that sniper some ammo who's surrounded by claymores and of course the medic who'll die by your claymore just to get a healing point.
And on to my fault, a third from my own negligence. Yeah, I screwed up and deserved every punish. Grenades in crowds, C4ing a tank when another spec ops is putting his on after me, shooting over someone's shoulder, laying claymores down in traffic areas, dropping bombs on a tank when a friendly wants to C4 it instead, itchy trigger finger, and of course the intentional ones when I'm waiting for a chopper or plane to spawn and someone else comes along wanting to play the 'E' spamming game with me. Yeah, I'm guilty of some intentional TKs, but only if I was there first and no one is sharing. There was also a couple of times I TKed a medic because they refused to heal me but I'm always nice enough to revive them and give them my crappy kit.
I really wish the stats would break down on TKs so we could see exactly what all of our TKs were from. Also it would be nice if the Tks would register in game the weapon used to Tk. If I were flying a BH over the Chinese airfield on Wake and was hit by the Essex I would know it was BS coding rather than a jet not paying attention.
Well, anyway, I've missed out on a lot of teamwork points. Now on to my next milestone of 2000 TKs. See you on the playing field and hopefully I'm not TKing you out there.