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Hey everybody, how's it goin'? Headhunter here bringing you some "Caspian Border" action
with my buddy, billabong10, my partner in crime. The Battlefield gods have assigned
us to carry this team of noobs through the fight. The Army of Two has to stand up and
save the day. So yeah, by the way guys, speaking of noobs. Battlefield 3 has introduced alot
of new players to the series, who are having a tough time getting comfortable with the
game and it's basic mechanics, so, in this commentary, I would like to talk a bit about
some tips and tricks, which probably will seem obvious to some of the veterans out there,
but might, and hopefully will, help some of the new-comers out. Alright, first of all.
You need to work as a team in order to win. Use your kit to it's full potential. You play
as Assault? Alright drop Health Packs and revive people. You play Engineer? Alright,
destroy enemy vehicles and repair yours. You play Support? Drop Ammo Packs. You play Recon?
Drop your MAV near your enemies and spot people. This might be the obvious, but I have seen
numerous people, and I mean numerous people, never doing the things I just mentioned. You
are given the equipment you are given in order to use it, not for show-off. Next, down to
the left hand-side of your screen you can see your squadmates and their current status,
meaning if they are alive or if they're dead. If you see that you're the last man standing
in your squad, try to remain concealed until your teammates start spawning on you. When
you play Defense on "Rush" though, you will be unavailable as a spawn point if you overextend,
so try and stay relatively close to your base when you're defending.Oh, and another thing.
Next to your squadmate's name you can see what Squad Specialisation he is currently
using. When you see him having the same as you do, swap yours for a different one, so
you can get full advantage out of these Specialisations. Next, one of the most basic mechanics that
Battlefield has, is Spotting. For those who don't know, Spotting marks an enemy for a
few seconds with an orange icon, depending on what kind of enemy they are. If they are
infantry, they will get an orange triangle above their head and, if they are a Squad
Leader aswell, they will also receive an orange star above them, and, finnaly, if the threat
spotted is an enemy vehicle, it will receive a vehilce icon, depending on it's nature,
meaning that it will receive differen't icon if it is, let's say, a tank, a transport,
a jeep, a chopper, a boat or a jet. Spotting is so important because it allows your teammates
to be aware of the presence of the enemy you just spotted. So in a scenario, let's say
for example that you shot an enemy and he ducks behind cover, therefore you don't have
a line of sight on him anymore. If you got a teammate nearby that has a better line of
sight on him, he probably will be able to finish him off, since he knows where your
enemy is hiding. Spotting also marks your enemies on your Minimap, which leads me to
another thing that I have noticed. Not alot of people in Battlefield actually pay enough
attention to their Minimap, compared to other First-Person Shooters. Every few seconds,
or when you hear gunfire, try and check your Minimap. Squadmates are shown as green, teammates
are shown as blue whereas enemies that have shot an unsupressed weapon, have been spotter
or have taken damage are shown as orange. Keeping an eye on your Minimap will greatly
increase your situational awareness and help you understand the map and the positioning
of your enemies and your allies alltogether. Oh yeah. Also something that I forgot to mention.
Non-occupied vehicles are shown as white and when they get occupied by an enemy, they will
completely disappear from your Minimap, so when you're in an enemy base in "Rush", because
I don't think you can get into any enemy bases in "Conquest", and let's say you're running
towards a neutral vehicle that ou can see on your Minimap, but is out of your line of
sight, with the purpose of hijacking it of course, which is always good to do when you
can, I mean, you get an extra vehicle and your enemies are denied one, so how can this
be bad, you know. So yeah, anyways, keep an eye on your Minimap while you are doing this
so you will be aware when the vehicle is safe to move in and occupy it and when you need
to pull out your rockets and prepear for the encounter. Yet another HUD detail that many
people like ingornig is the little Health Bar that shows up, below somebody's name.
So yeah, what I mean by that is that everybody has noticed the Player Name Indicator that
pops up above friendly players and enemies that you aim at. What many people haven't
noticed though is that, when that player is close to you, their current Health is visible
on a little Health Bar below their name. Knowing your enemies' and your teammates' Health is
especially usefull because you will know when your allies need you to drop them a Med Kit,
if you play Assault, or when you're sniping and what I mean by that is that in order to
get a one-shot kill with a Sniper Rifle in Battlefield 3, you need to get a headshot,
so knowing that an enemy is currently wounded will put you in a position to be able to rush
a shot to the body and get a kill that you normally wouldn't, because you would be wasting
time lining-up for the head. Moving on to basic movement. Always move for a reason.
Don't just run around worthlessly. Your best bet is to manouveur from cover to cover in
order to keep yourself as safe and as concealed as possible. Also, don't sprint around corners.
Sprinting around corners usually get you killed, because most of the time there will be a guy
around that corner waiting for you and by the time you have from Sprint, usually you
are already dead, because it takes quite a few time to ready up your gun and be able
to fire after sprinting. And also, speaking of corners. Let's say, once again, that you
shot an enemy in the back and he ducks around a corner. Do NOT, i say again,do NOT ever
ever ever chase him around that corner, because 99% of the players, when they get shot in
the back, they immediately turn around to fire back. In this case the best idea to do
is to wait for him to come around the corner and finish him off while he is low on Health,
or find another way around and flank him as this is almost a guaranteed kill usually.
So that's the basics about movement. I wanted to talk a bit about vehicel usage, because
as most of you already know, Battlefield is all about vehicles. First of all, don't waste
your vehicles, unless it is absolutely necessary to do so. Especially in maps like "Caspian
Border", crashing your helicopter or your jet will not just take away a vehicle from
your team, but might also kill some of the teammates inside and take away many Tickets
aswell. Like that transport heli, that the Attackers are given on "Rush" on "Caspian
Border", in the first base. How many times have you seen that heli crash and the killfeed
would all be like: "TEAMKILL", "SUICIDE", "TEAMKILL", "SUICIDE", "TEAMKILL". I mean
it's rather funny but it looks quite stupid aswell. The only scenario I would see myself
crashing a helicopter would be on a last-ditch atempt to arm or disarm an M-COM Station,
when your team has nothing left to lose. Practising piloting and driving, well, especially piloting,
'cause driving is rather easy to do, is also very important in order to be more resourcefull
on the battlefield and, I'm gonna be honest, I didn't know how to properly pilot a helicopter
on BF3 until like a month ago. I used to be an ace pilot in Bad Company 2. I would roadkill
*** fer dayz son, with the Apache, but I don't know, in this game it took me quite
a while to get used to the controls, I don't know. They've probably changed. I think that's
the case, but that's that. I wanted to end this commentary talking about guns in general.
Each gun has it's own purpose. Assault Rifles are good at mid-range, Personal Defense Weapons
and Shotguns are good for CQC, LMGs good for pushing and providing cover and Snpers for
long range. Use every gun for the reason it is made for. Don't try and snipe people with
like a P90 or an 870 Combat. Using every gun for the proper purpose will grant you success
most of the time.. Now, alot of people, including more experienced players, sometimes won't
let go of the trigger at longer ranges. Burst-firing when needed will greatly increase your accuracy
and aslo you will consume alot less amunition. In retrospect, when somebody is really close,
don't even bother aiming, I mean, just hip-fire. It works just fine in CQC, or, even better,
start shooting while you're aiming so, you might hit a couple of shots before your enemy
does, you know. Well guys, this is pretty much the video. We ended up clutching it at
the very end and I remember, the exact next match was on "Seine Crossing", we won for
like 2 tickets and I got 40 kills and I think my buddy got like 35, something like that.
It was insane. I have to upload that very soon. So yeah. That is all. I hope you found
some of my tips and I also hope that you noticed my buddy failing at around 7 minutes and 45
seconds in the video. If you want me to keep making videos like this, please let me know.
This is Headhunter, with the weirdest intro on YouTube, signing out. Peace people.