BF2S Forums Heal and Repair points

Thanks for the info on stopping a revive.  Yeah... engie is a bitch...  I've tried several nights, and been unable to do it.

I did read on here a tactic about "BH whoring".  Get in the back of a transport hilo as an engie (preferably with several others gunning, so the thing can survive a little better, and repair it as it gets hit (and hopefully the pilot is dedicated, and not just using it to get somewhere himself...  bailing at the target).  With a good BH team, you might get the vet and exp repair points that way... especially if you've got VoIP, and can get the pilot to hover close enough to damaged tanks on the deck.

I got the Veteran Engineer badge this weekend, totally legitimately (surprisingly). It was quite a long round and one SpecOps spent the *entire* round just driving a jeep to our Comm assets, and I spent the entire round killing him and repairing the assets. I got exactly 10 repair points, and it was with no more than 5-10 tickets left in the round, and I felt like I had my wrench out cranking away on assets for over half the round. It took *forever* (or felt like it).

I don't believe anyone could possibly get 25 repairs in one round without help from clanmates or something, on a clan server (Supply crate and a friendly specops on the other team blowing up Art non-stop while you repair non-stop).

Same goes for 25 heals... 10 heals isn't all that easy anymore with the changes. I've actually been trying to get the 10 heals over the weekend for Vet medic badge and haven't succeeded so far. The main issue I find is that it isn't often that people survive an encouter and are wounded. 75% of the time people are either unhurt or dead. A revive brings 'em back to full health, so you can't heal them. I'll get it eventually, but it definitely isn't as easy as before.

Also, EA/Dice obviously screwed up the Expert Medic badge... 15 hours when the other support badges are 100 hours? Typo that made it through their 3 months of "QA", pfft.

Ravlen

Last edited by Ravlen (2005-10-11 06:00:09)

Zeus,
Ole Buddy, This is the Original Hawkeye. Hows it been?
And yes you are right, You need 40 points before the x2.

Look Forward To Play'n With Ya Again,
Hawkeye

could always shoot your teammates then heal them again if you need heal points?

i dont think u have to cheat for the expert health badge. getting the veteran on karkand was pretty easy. 25 points will be tough but quite possible

Haha... I accidently shot a teammate yesterday (team damage, no TK) and I felt so bad I threw a couple first aid packs at him when I realized what I had done. I wasn't even thinking of a heal point. I felt like a dumbass.

Kobrakai wrote:

could always shoot your teammates then heal them again if you need heal points?

Last edited by KtotheIMMY (2005-10-21 10:59:04)

i think that a good ide would be to joi a really long game with like 400 tickets then use spec ops to blow up ur own artilary and then reapare it
it would piss the comander of though

jax wrote:

i think that a good ide would be to joi a really long game with like 400 tickets then use spec ops to blow up ur own artilary and then reapare it

It'd work... but it's padding.

I got Veteran Engineering last night (10 repairs).  32/64 Karkand server, with close to the 32 player limit... I may have been #30 when I joined.  Took a full round, with maybe 15-20 tickets from the end of the round.

I was MEC, and the US team was winning.  Had all of the CPs on the East side of the water, and were holding the Garage in the MEC base, with other MEC base CPs changing hands off and on.

The 10 repairs came in two ways...

First, since they had the Garage spawn, Spec ops kept spawning and hitting artie and UAV.... which I kept repairing (and the commander was thankfully not using supplies to handle it).

Second, I was dying a lot... when I wasn't repairing, I was working on Pistol kills (2 more until I hit 50 and can go for Vet Pistol).  Every time I died, if commander assets weren't damaged, I checked the map for friendly vehicles...  if a squad leader was in one, I switched squads, and spawned on him.  If no SL's in vehicles, I just spawned as close as I could...  it was heavy firefighting, and most vehicles weren't lasting long...  so the other half of my repair points were from jumping out of APCs and tanks, trying to stay opposite the enemy fire, repairing them while they were taking hits.  I have to say, I had some greatful armor drivers that round.

It just so happens that I got my Crew Service Ribbon in that round too, just a few tickets before Vet Engie.  Riding in the APCs/tanks got me a lot of Driver Kill Assists, I had 5 kills from my pistol work and gunning, and I have the idea that "Driver Special Ability" points includes repairs/supplies/heals from within a vehicle... so likely when sitting in one armor, next to another damaged armor getting repair points, I was probably getting a driver special too...  I don't recall ever driving anything myself that round.... but I could be wrong.

Now... 25 repairs...  yeah, right.  Need like a 16/64 server, with no commander (no supply crates), and lots of enemy spec ops, with an unconquerable base flag.... then maybe I'd get 15, lol.

Guruz wrote:

I hate to say this, but I have the Expert First Aid Badge.

But respect for the people who have Expert Medic Combat, soon I have the hours needed but I recon that the 40 kills aren't so easy..

What did you whore with to get yours?

Jets.  I got 3 expert kit badges the day the patch came out since all the servers played was wake island.

i got my vet eng repair on wake island.  drove around in a jeep alongside and behind tanks and other vehicles.  when necessary i drove to repair the art/uav/satellite.  even repaired a ground to air post, with a temmate in it.  so repairing is not that bad.  and it is not padding.  just constanlty be looking for things to repair.  also.. i got some time in as transport, i think... when i drove next to the tanks.  If i needed to repair the jeep i got out and repaired it.  had a teammate in the gunners seat guarding the tank. 

many people focus on one badge at a time.  I try to focus on 2 or three.  If I am commander I will just get ona mounted gun or a vehicle that no one has taken and command from there.  I get time on the vehicle, gun, even the anti air on a ship.  And I command. 

Most people will get upset if your commander and take a vehicle so i recommend you get on a mounted gun.  On the ship take the anti-air gun on the island close to the uav trailer.  i play as an engieer and just repair those if they get attacked.  plus i am close if an enemy tries to blow it up. 

just a thought

i agree with randomfire1977. You realy should combine the requirements for earning  badges otherwise it would take alot of time.

For instance:

You want the command badge:
1) Choose the Kit you need time with
2) dont lie around, get into some unused stuff
3) see if you can use some classspecific items like flashbangs etc. while your waiting for your toys to refill.

You need 100h for exp supply class
1) While beeing supply, kill with your pistol/knife
2) Be aware if you need time as Squadmember/Leader for other badges/ribbons
3) Be aware if you need time in vehicles/mounted stuff
4) Be aware if you need time serving a certain army
5) Use ammo bags. alot. You will need them for the Meritorious Service Medal and the Resupply Badges

Short: Just think what you need and try to combine it.