BF2S Forums Advanced Ranks - Colonel - Brigadier General/Major General QUESTION !

you can't rank up until you get the badges so if you get the expert vehicle badges after the poins you can still rnak up, but you will geet major general as well because you alreaddy have the requirements

I posted this about a week ago.

Below are the requirements. Read below the reqs and youll see why its even more impossible.


RANK_18 - Brigadier General
180,000 Global Score
All Expert Vehicle Badges (Expert Armor Badge, Expert Transport Badge, Expert Helicopter Badge, Expert Aviator Badge, Expert Air Defense Badge, Expert Ground Defense Badge)

RANK_19 - Major General
180,000 Global Score
All Expert Combat Badges (Expert Knife Combat Badge, Expert Pistol Combat Badge, Expert Assault Combat Badge, Expert Anti-tank Combat Badge, Expert Sniper Combat Badge, Expert Spec Ops Combat Badge, Expert Support Combat Badge, Expert Engineer Combat Badge, Expert Medic Combat Badge)

RANK_20 - Lieutnant General
200,000 Global Score

RANK_21 - General
200,000 Global Score
Awarded monthly to the highest ranked player at the time

The requirements for Brig are 1400 hours in the vehicles. By the time you get the required hours, youll have way more than 200,000 points. Youll also have all of your Expert combat badges. There are guys with way less points who have all the Expert Combat badges. The Expert combat badges are way easier than the 1400 hours in vehicles. When I got my last Expert Combat badge, I think I had like 120,000.

With that said. The day comes that JoeSchmo gets 1400 hours in the vehicles....he gets promoted to Brig General, then since he has the requirements for Major General, after his next kill, he gets promoted again. Then since he has the requirements for Lieutnant general, after his next kill, he gets promoted again.

There doesnt seem any way to be a Brig General or Major General for more than 1 kill later. Does this make sense?

Time to start armor whoring

Yeah,the new requirements for the ranks definetely need some rethinking...

The only thing you can do if you want to get past colonel is sit in the corner of the map in a tank, etc. For 300 hours, looking at your stats. Yep, you're screwed. I'm afraid you're stuck as a colonel. All the 2nd lts from pre-patch are stuck as Colonel anyway, so I wouldnt worry.

So you guys think there should be a whole bunch of three stars running around? Remember, this game is made to mirror real life. In the military, you typically have only a hand full of general officers (one through four stars). In the US Air Force, out of 300,000 active duty, you have about 24 four star generals. Do I think these requirements are outrageous? Nope, because you had better do some amazing stuff to get any of the general officer ranks.

Here's something to think about. Typically, military bases are run by either a Col (O-6 equivalent) or one star depending on the size of the base. That may seem like a lot of Col's and one stars, but not when you realize how many lower enlisted and officers are on that base. It's sort of like the whole Jedis running around everywhere in Star Wars Galaxies. It just wouldn't make sense if everyone were an officer and no one was enlisted.