Not really mate, just felt like something online FPSish and have been playing a bit.

Have indeed gone for detpacks ;)

Wow, Catpain Fish... that's a lot of points mate

Played a bit more last night, mainly as recon. I was trying to get the recon bronze (12 kills in a round)

I'm finding it very hard to be effective. I started off in titan mode, mainly defending silos. I think my aim with the main rifle has improved, but I still miss a hell of a lot. I got a few people with claymores, and a couple of vehicles after detpacking around the silo, but I'm scoring 10ish points a round at best...

Tried some titan attack. 2 and 4 were needed. Went and had myself painted on the walls in the entrance several times. Had a bit of a minigame with another, defending, recon who was leaving claymores in the drop-in entry point. Left some pointing the other way for him. Very entertaining.

Eventually someone splatted the defenders and we ran up. By the time I was halfway down the corridor he'd blown the terminal. A defender turned up and shot me while I was changing weapon.

A bit of assault on the reactor core. We never got in the door, but many grenades were thrown.

At one point earlier after a wave of vehicles turned up I spawned as engineer. I got more points in that life than in the rest of the map as recon.

OK I think, so titan mode isn't working for me, at least tonight. I'll try conquest. More heads to shoot surely?

After a map or two I gave up. I was dying very quickly, usually without getting a shot off. Most of my kills were with claymores, but there were very few of them.

I suspect I am doing many things wrong...

With recon play high player count games

If your going to snipe do it from along way away, pick a control point that gets alot of action. If I'm sniping with the Zeller I'll often be so far away that players are outside of the draw distance if your not scoped (thats on highest graphic settings.) Obviously this is map dependant, some are too busy for that long a line of site.

Don't try and shoot a moving target unless it is headon. If the movement is perpendicular you rarely hit. Be patient and wait for them to stop, go for the head shot. With the small mag and the gap between shots if you don't kill them with the first shot then they'll hide.

I quite like to start at the home base and load the front of a jeep up with det packs. Bomb around till you see an enemy vehicle drive straight at it and bail out. As the jeep rolls up close set it off. Will kill any vehicle.

If your passing an friendly control point drop some det packs round it and fuck off. If you can keep an eye on who has control as soon as it turns grey you know there are enemy there set off the packs. Similarly if you are sniping from a distance then dump your APM at control points, someone will turn up eventually.

Last time I played the vehicle mines weren't getting deployed much but you can set them off with the Zeller. This can turn enemy mines against them.

In general your not likely to get massive kill counts from sniping as you have to be patient and wait for the action to happen in your scope. You get your points from infiltrator pins and kill streaks. Then definately move up to the titans as you get the attacker defender bonus plus the bonus at 8? kills.

Hm. Nots sure about the error... maybe it was a max no. posts in a given time?

Thanks for the info mate. I'll have to try that out. As engineer I tend to play low to middling player games, which might be part of the problem. I tried high player conquest, but it was just silly...

Cheers Mr. Fish. Played a bit tonight, and stayed in for "one last round".

Up till then I'd get a few kills here and there, had 10-15 a couple of times, had some scores as low as 5.

Then, in the last round (Suez titan with 40+ people, team damage off... handy.) I managed to get a couple of dropships with three people at silos, a few more individuals here and there, and even one "oh shit oh shit oh shit" kill with the pistol. Shields were critical just as someone ran me over (handy) so I moved upstairs, sprinkling claymores and detpacks into corridor 1 (while I was spawning they rushed 2 and 4).

Got a few down there, but then six people were there grenade spamming. I reckoned they didn't need my services really so I assumed they would eventually fail and went upstairs to set up in 3. Unfortunately while there were plenty of people defending our titan and attacking theirs (got into the core but were repulsed by the look of it) we neglected the silos and were evenetually missiled to death.

That said, I got 15 kills, getting me the basic recon badge, explosives pin and bronze explosives badge. If that kill with the handgun had been another explosives I think I'd have explosives silver too... naturally as they are bronzre badges they're not worth much, but I feel like I can actually play recon as a class, not a chore. Sometimes. On titan maps. ;)

Must remember to turn my graphics fdown. 16x12 is fine if its quietlow players, but during grenade spamming its clunky. Not that waiting for someone to appear and pressing a button needs a great frame rate :D

Maybe it was more than one... compare with "one more turn" in Civ ;)

Nice Byrn, well done! :-) I have no idea about the Recon stuff cos I am Assault through and through.

I've never used the stabaliser so can't actually comment. I've been unwilling to give up the det packs and apm. Had very little experience with camo pants too.

I'm with Fish on the Carbine. It helped me get the Recon badge and makes you deadly on Titan defense. Pete guided me onto it.

2nd Lieutenant Silver. Good Conduct Ribbon did the trick there.

Even had a bit of teamplay with the Fish, which was much more fun than just playing. I was having loads of connection problems all day, though. I hope this is not a 1.4 problem.

What did you think of Highway Tampa?

I liked it, all the other maps seem really small after playing it. Tank battles on the other maps seem a little bit crushed in and you don't get to use the long range barrage of the tank so well - defying the point of the tank.

Just curious: why did you keep making me Squad Leader? Not that I don't like it but it seemed a funny thing to do!

Nice, good to hear you haveing a go again :D

I quite like Highway Tampa. Its a good land vehicle map, which makes Recon hard to play in a way... there are places that you can see two control points from, but not at elevation and a lot of people cap in vehicles.

This makes it an ideal engineer map IMO, until (obviously) the titan shields are down. At that point I either change class or carry on grabbing silos as engineer.

Its damn good in a tank. As Rob says, its rare to actually get to use the tank well, especially versus walkers. They're supposed to be an even match, with walker better close in and tank better at extreme range, but most maps that just means the walkers win...

Nice one mate. Titan or Assault lines?

Ah, Assault lines. Never really got on with it too well.

Sounds good mate, in a very real way the Engineer is an anti-vehicle recon. Some of the best kills (most satisfying) I ever got were a case of not taking the shot and waiting for the vulnrable side to become available...

Motion mines are great things. I tend to leave them in one clump of 3-5 near the entrance to a cp, or tucked under something near where transports are landing to cap. Very very effective.

I picked up about 5000 points this weekend getting to Lieutenant Colonel Gold.

Voice coms would be good but I only have a desktop usb mic which I'm not sure is practical. May need to buy one. Is there anything to recommend usb over headphone jack or vice versa?

The knife servers are bit weird, strangely quiet. Looks like you were picking up the massive normal score as well, I was getting about 160-170 before the big medals came in.

Did a pistol/knife server as well to grab the silver handgun. They are a good laugh, am tempted to play enough rounds for the gold.

I meant to add that I am working up the support right hand branch to get to the shotgun. I picked it up off your corpse when we were titan defending on the roof and it rocked. After that, it's time to get snipering for a bit, I think.

I have my new headphones with mic. Do you use teams speak or the built in coms? How does it all work, I've never used them before?