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And... how much career points earn you a temporary unlock? And if that's the case, say if 2000 career points is a temporary unlock so that means i get a temporary unlock everytime i play if i have 2000 global points?

I dont know. The video i saw said that when earning career points, you earn the ability to preview a new unlock.

1. is prone/knife stab same delay time as bf2 is now.
2. how's the stab distance on knifing,is it shorter now he holds it downwards.
3. have they made players feel more like arthritic cripples on movement like extra prone/crouch delays & stuff.
4. how many bullets using the average rifles is it to take a player down,& how's the accuracy.

1. Going prone is about the same, standing up is quite a large delay.

2. Knifes now are much better, kill from about 50cm-1m, and are one hit kill.

3. They are less active than in BF2. Essentially, you crouch most of the time, and prone when defending or dont have to move quickly (e.g at an enemy flag). There a lot less of the "see another guy, go prone and shoot"

4. Bullet numbers seem higher in general, although this mya be the fact that all soliders can use body armour (for a sprint decrease) super accurate weapons like the G36E have dissapeared, you have to use single shot on assault rifles to get anything like it. Support weapons get more accurate as they fire.

And... how much career points earn you a temporary unlock? And if that's the case, say if 2000 career points is a temporary unlock so that means i get a temporary unlock everytime i play if i have 2000 global points?

Forget what eveyrone else has told you, firstly.

Temp unlocks: Officially called field upgrades. These are earned using squad points. Your squad gets squad points by killing enemies inside the radius of the order the squad leader sets. These dont count towards your main score, but if you get enough (dunno how many that is) you get a field upgrade. This allows you to choose one unlock in-game. It lasts as long as you remain on that server, whether you switch teams, leave the squad, etc. You can get an unlimited number of upgrades if you are in a good squad (with all the crashing in beta the most I got was 3). If you leave the server or get disconnected, you lose the upgrade.

Career points: Firstly you get them like normal, in BF2 (with slight differences). The second, and more lucrative way is to get awards. These are the same as the current badges/ribbons/medals, but each give you a certain number of points. The better the award, the more points you get (ranges from about 5 to 1000, I think). You can get these awards as many times as you want. Also included are pins, which give less points but are easier to get (e.g 5 kill streak, 10 kill streak, 8 titan defend points)

Just a real quick question. am i the only person who played the beta using multiple soldiers in order to try every unlock?

i would climb up one branch of a particular tree, then quit that soldier and start a new one. did anybody else do that?

Yes, this is the quickest way to get all the unlocks. Otherwise you need over 200k points.

Yeah, is the beta for everybody already out? or will there never be one...

Talon wrote:

1. Going prone is about the same, standing up is quite a large delay.

3. They are less active than in BF2. Essentially, you crouch most of the time, and prone when defending or dont have to move quickly (e.g at an enemy flag). There a lot less of the "see another guy, go prone and shoot"

4. Bullet numbers seem higher in general, although this mya be the fact that all soliders can use body armour (for a sprint decrease) super accurate weapons like the G36E have dissapeared, you have to use single shot on assault rifles to get anything like it. Support weapons get more accurate as they fire.

Less active? Even than 1.4? I still find it so annoying how slow they are to get up or prone. In reality, you can throw yourself down on the ground very quickly, same with getting up. Maybe have an accuracy penalty for a second or whatever, but not have it so that you can't escape a grenade or enemy fire while you're proned. And the weapons are less accurate, great. That combined with proning being too slow and having to crouch in most situations.. guh. Crouched accuracy is fucking appalling compared to proned accuracy, I hate having to use it.

Last edited by Delphy (2006-09-22 13:36:47)

What are the anti tanks guns like? Can you just fire like a shot off and hide around a corner? Instead of like guiding the rocket like in BF2?

so i take it the NDA is gone, i would only recommened the spawn beacon to be unlocked in the squad leader tree, and the tree 2 the Lambert Carbine is awesome C7-NetBat-Cammo-Lambert Carbine

Hey any 1 use the anti air gun and if so was it any good?

Last edited by First_and_Only (2006-09-22 16:02:16)

1. Faster, and work in vehicles.
2. no

The1_Knightmare wrote:

Got another question:
An interview said they removed parachutes and replaced with something else. But in a screenshot, i saw the controls and it said Space was Jump/Parachute.

You still have a parachute, but what sucks about it is that you can't control it, you just fall straight down. But if you bail out of a heli you usually come out in an escape pod.

gameaddict wrote:

was it just me in the open beta that noticed how weak the c7 packs where on the titan consoles,in a video i saw some DICE dude just stick 2 of em on a console and it blew up i have sticked so many times 5 on em and did barely nothing

That was a glitch. (That it took so much c7 to destroy the consoles & the core)

TheCanadianTerrorist wrote:

One quick question, will there be an infantry mode?

I don't see why they wouldn't include it, since they have it in BF2. But there were no signs of IO in the beta if that's what you're asking.

TheCanadianTerrorist wrote:

One quick question, will there be an infantry mode?

Unless its patched in at a later date, no.