[Badly Browned]

For those with a digital copy of BC2, here's a scan of the manual.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/27754924/B...h-Manual-BFBC2


Someone asked a few days ago how to ask for ammo, medics, and what not, and I think I figured it out. Your communication button (default Q I think) is context based depending on what you are aiming at. So instead of a command rose like in BF2, you aim at a person or object and depending on what you are aiming out you radio out different things. For example, if you are injured and aim at a medic and press Q, you will ask for healing, or if you are a medic and aim at someone who is wounded, you will tell them to hold still.

[Custer]

Good info. I already new if you aimed at the objectives and pressed Q it would show your squad which objective to hit but I did not know you could point at other things and get results.

[Da_Kid]

BIG THANKS!!!! - I couldn't figure that out.

[YRUSLOW]

nice thanks

[Da_Kid]

All,

Reading info at an EA site on another issue I found this - I thought it was helpful and relevant to this post so I decided to add it here:

Mikael, is there a place online that explain the squad leader system and order system for the noobs?

i give out orders and nobody follows them because they don't know any better. i figured out most of it but others have not and that makes the game frustrating.
There is no squad leader by default, anyone can give out orders and when an order is given the tactical point symbol changes to let you know where your squad leader wants you.

i think people need to know how much more fun the game is when following orders. also, reviving is not being done enough. i don't think people realize that usually the top guy, the guy getting promoted fastest is the one repairing, reviving, healing and supplying, or that the game gives more points when you do that for your squad members.

Just saying, DICE made a fundamental change to the play mechanics and nowhere does it talk about all this. should be a training mode or an obligatory movie out there or at least a site that breaks this down and is promoted in game.

Hopefully you will find it helpful also.

-Kid

[Da_Kid]

Here is another helpful hint from EA/DICE:

TIP - Faster Server Browsing
To help speed up your server browsing these tips can help you get results quicker.

* Use Favourites/History when possible

If you use the server browser then

Use the server browser
When it starts to search click CANCEL

Select the options:

* Ranked
* Not Full
* Not Empty
* No Password
* Leave Punkbuster checked
* Hit Refresh

You can use your friends list in game to connect on them without accessing the server browser.

[Da_Kid]

More helpful info:

Currently the PC version of BFBC2 will only play Russian voices for the Russian team, instead of localized voice (English with Russian accent in my case).

This is because the in game menu always has "original" in the voices section.
Even if you change it from "original" to "Localized", the game always puts it back on "original" and will only play Russian for the squad chatter/commands etc.. ( On PS3 this works fine )

I found that editing the games Gamesettings.ini file will help solve this issue

Update: This is done by changing the line to show
"OriginalVOForEnemyTeam=0"

However the majority of people who are playing this game do not know that you can get your chatter in your language other then Russian!
Many people just assume that Russian is all they can get.
And many people do not know or care enough to modify config files.

What this means is that the majority of non-Russian speaking players (English in my case), have no idea when team mates call out Russian commands like "I need ammo", "I need health", "give me a ride" etc..

I would ask that, when the next patch comes out, that the game be made default "Localized". This way everyone hears it in the language they understand. Make is so that people have to change it to "original" if they want to hear Russian.

Its bad enough that Voip does not work in this game, now half the time when your on the Russian team, most your team mates wont know what your asking them since they don't understand Russian.

[Da_Kid]

All,

Woo Hoo - more helpful info:

Toggle Crouch/Aim:

You can accomplish that by following this guide(http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/batt ... st12550213).
Or the easier way posted by xfgexo
Simply use VAC - Voice Activated Command Software, assign a phrase to your crouch key and in VAC select toggle. Now when ever you say the desired phrase, it will hit your crouch key and hold it for you. Then say the phrase again and you will un-crouch.

The EA Post:
Or just use GlovePie. Google it, download it, load it with this script:

// hold z when lctrl is toggled
var.z = z
if (!var.last_crouch) and (lctrl) {
var.z = !var.z
}
var.last_crouch = lctrl
if (lshift) {
var.z = False
}
z = var.z

// toggle x when right mouse is held
if (x) {
x = False
}
if (Mouse.RightButton || var.count > 5) {
if (!lshift) and (var.last_right != Mouse.RightButton) {
x = True
}
}
var.last_right = Mouse.RightButton

if (Mouse.RightButton) {
var.count++
} else {
var.count = 0
}

and run the program. Now go into your settings in BC2 and change aim /zoom to x and crouch to z. Now there is crouch toggle and aim hold. Remove aim hold if not needed.

I tweaked the script a bit (since I was already using the z key) and it works just fine - GO CROUCH TOGGLE GO!!!!

-Kid

[KungFooChef]

Good stuff!

Of course, now playing for a few weeks, my hands are retrained to hold shift/ctrl... but I imagine if I go back to MW2 I'll be totally broken


Hopefully with the update last night things become a bit more stable. It seemed the server browser functionality had changed a bit, not immediately loading the "All server" - so you could hit the "Favorites" tab without cancelling the All Server loading. And my favorites seemed to load much faster as well.