BF2S Forums 400hr tank badge...

=WTE=MasteRMattY wrote:

Does any one kno if they are likely to reduce the 400hr time for the tank badge in 1.4?

Its a bit silly being 400hrs as you gotta be way too dedicated to either get it- why did they up it in 1.3 anyway?

too make firestorm feel special...

nah seriously?

Well if you think about tanks are in ever map! I mean euro and A fury had TONS of tanks Their are not jets or helis on ever map but ever map has tanks!... So if you go for it its not THAT hard..Sure its hard but its and expert right???

i think they should lower it to 320 hours caz 400 is crazy. and caz i want that badge.

why dident they reduce the veteran requirement for armor down to 50 hours with the rest of them? its the only keeping me from general

Its a bit unfair that you can be awarded exp heli & and exp avaitor at 150hrs and the tank award is 400hrs, i been playing fairly hardcore for a year and im not even halfway to it...  we likes a challenge but its crud. I also think it was to push sales of af as well.

I think everyone saying they should lower it fails to see that it's an EXPERT badge.  I know that just trying to earn my service ribbons and working towards my veteran that I've seen improvement, but I can't imagine that at 100 hours I would be worthy of being called an expert.

If you could get all the expert vehicle badges in only a couple hundred hours playing time, then the sense of acheivement would be shot to hell. 

I l ike that I can earn badges easier that requirements have been lowered a couple of times, but if they made it too easy I think it'd be worthless to get them.  They are  distinction from the new players, and the players working their way up the ranks... not something that should be given out like a prize in a cereal box.

if u have played 400 hours in a tank then 24 kills should be easy.
why not 250 hours and 50 kills?

I think raising the bar for the expert tank badge would be OK. 40 kills can be archived way to easy. If I stick to the tank for the whole round I get 40 on a regular basis. I had 50 just a couple of times and 60 just ones (and I have not seen many with 60 kills at all). So raising it to 60 would show skill - 400 hours just shows endurance and lot of playing time (which I do not have...). Besides you need to tank whore all the time.

But to cut it short - Expert goes for 250 and 40 + PLATIN goes to 60 kills (without time limit).

So lets make up the platin badges and put in 50-60 kills as the aim - we would have very few around having it.

Good Shooting

Last edited by viper139 (2006-08-15 05:31:16)

STFU u lazy bastichs, thats why is called EXPERT. With 400 hours played inside a tank you can consider yourself expert. You dont want to spend 400 hrs?, somebody else will. Go back to CSS.

drbrianfields wrote:

I think everyone saying they should lower it fails to see that it's an EXPERT badge.  I know that just trying to earn my service ribbons and working towards my veteran that I've seen improvement, but I can't imagine that at 100 hours I would be worthy of being called an expert.

I agree.  But, the point is that there are some "expert" badges that any unskilled player can get and some that are way out of reach for very experienced players ... it would be good to increase some requirements and lower others so that the level of difficulty is similar between the badges.

Frankly it is hard to really call these expert badges:

        Too Easy: Knife, Ground Defense (because of artillery), Air Defense (because of artillery).

some expert badges that are appropriately labeled "expert"

        About Right: The kit combat badges (because of time), Explosives, Command, Engineer, First Aide, Resupply, Aviator, Helicopter

and, there are some expert badges where I imagine the skill level stopped advancing WAY before the requirements are satisfied ... these are overkill:

        Too Much: Armor (200-250 hours would be sufficient), Pistol (250 kills?), Transport. (ugh)

Last edited by OrangeHound (2006-08-15 09:08:49)

yea its too long i only need 5 more expert badges then i have em all but i wont be getting the Armour i hate the shit

Last edited by Orgtheone (2006-08-15 09:16:09)