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I think only once I have been on a server that was not full of copper/plane whores. Like, sometimes, it looks like chopper/plane red light district I have never got in the airplane and in helicopter I take gunner position on the side of blackhawk or in the back repairing the thing. I dont find it interesting enough to fly those damn things for which people are prepared to kill their own teammates. Those machines are evil and should be shot down with an AA of course.

Honestly, I prefer being in tank or HMV equivalent. Hate the buggy... kindda...

Maybe the guy thought you were enemy. Then you shot him out of frustration, then he retaliated.

Yeah, I was in SF Surge and got flamed by a HIND, seems like still everyone is helo whoring still, same person in next three maps got the Helo and even TK for it. They need to make the AA better or something to bring people to think twice about flying. I think twice before I fly because the side of the mountain kills me often than people shooting at me.

Wow.. it's not your vehicle..well yeah it is, out of 9hours you've accumulated 6hrs on armor. Nevermind, I'll shine it up for you.

Yes, my engineer account drives armor. That's what engineers do. Don't even try to insinuate that armor is inbalanced when there are so many good counters to it. When the enemy team isn't totally incompetant, the ground troops always have to lead because anti tanks and C4 are extremely effective.

it's a partnership between the tank and the team. Tank is there to cut down the people swarming around like ants, while the team is there to control the antitank population. If one or the other is lopsided, the tank/team is at the advantage (normally, just because with dao antitank doesn't have many weaknesses overall). But the toobers protect the tank and the tank the toobers, and through that that is how you gain new grounds. Tanks and apcs break what would otherwise be endless standoffs due to tons of people, medics healing/reviving, etc. Where tank whoring comes from is the inability for the enemy team to adapt and actually choose anti-armor. Instead, they want to stay noob toob forever, so they can try for the ever elusive 1:1 ratio.

Just some anti-tank tactics too - tanks and apcs take extra damage from shots thrown at them on their treads on the side, or up their tailpipe. Indeed, I've seen one of those stationary turrets kill a tank with one rocket up the butt. If you're MEC on karkand, you and a teammate can move up the mountain on the side and start shooting from the side/behind of the tank. There's even a stationary turret for you to grab if the tank isn't aware of you. You can also hide in the ridges and dips in the terrain so the tank can't retaliate you unless it goes barging up the hill (at which point it can't aim down at you, do fill it up with rockets)

It does take some coordination to take on tanks, but when it's there, the tanks are repressed so much as that they can only be of nominal use, if they aren't dead.

Maybe I'm lucky or something (or maybe its the time of day I play) but I dont run across those TK'ing whores much. Except the other day. Grabbed a plane off a carrier, and the guy at the other end had a problem with it, I guess. When I flew by to reload he got in the AA and shot me down ...to get the plane back. I should have shot him dead when I respawned, but I didnt for some reason. I just watched him fly off and wished I could have put C4 on it. LOL

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you don't need to thank EA if the game crashed to your desktop... its your computer that suffered the error, not the game. I've never had the game crash to my desktop, do you think thats because my software was somehow better than yours? yea, me neither.

I've watched BF2 in task manager (dual display) slowly increase in until its using all my physical memory, then start putting stuff into the swap, shortly after that is crashes. Even if I'm in a server that only uses one map, it will increase on every load of that map and during the game, it RARELY releases memory.

I'm pretty certain its not my computer. I thought it might have been because my video card was overheating but I've played Halflife two for three hours straight and it never got over 40*C nor did it crash, not did it use unreasonable amounts of memory. The only way I can play BF2 for any extended period of time is to reboot, and immediatly shut down any unnecessary programs and service so that my memory usage is so low it takes a little long for BF2 to leak it all.

I've gotten the crashes under control with a silly but necessary workaround... when I notice BF2 is about to use 1062mb of ram I close out and reboot. If I let bf2 use more than that it will start getting choppy, and then hang or crash.

Mind you this happened before AND after I have formated my computer. My computer right now is pretty much a virgin, it has firefox, bf2, trillian, x-fire, avast, zboard and openoffice.org installed, thats it.