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So you've bought battlefield? Don't know how to play? Well you've come to the right place, I'll be writing a few articles on how to play BFBC2 and some tricks. You can also find out more by talking to us on our teamspeak 3 server! This first article will help you get your settings right and get you playing!

bfbc2-howto

Settings

 

The first thing you need to do once you've installed the game and created an account is set up your controls properly. The default settings are rather out of the ordinary compared to other games so I'll go over the ones I advise you to change:
 


  • Throw Grenade: I'd put this on G like in call of duty since that's a commonly used key.
  • Melee Attack: Once again I based my choice on Modern Warefare 2 and put this on E.
  • Enter / Exit vehicle: This button is also used for arming and disarming bombs, I binded it to F on my keyboard and if you have extra keys on your mouse then I strongly advise you do bind it to one of those too, I'll explain why later.
  • Change Camera: This is used to change your view when driving vehicles, the use isn't immediately apparent, but remember what you set it on as we will use it in a later article. I've binded it to H.
  • Issue Order / Communicate / Spot: This is an extremely important button when you are working together with you squad, I will explain why later, If you're using a qwerty keyboard bind it to Q, on azerty bind it to A.
  • Map: With this button you get an overlay of they map, which is quite handy in hardcore mode, I've binded it to M.
  • Chat All: Chat to all players, bind to T.
  • Chat Team: Chat to team only, bind to Y.
  • Chat Squad: Chat to squad only, bind to U (like fireteam chat in ET)


Once your controls are set up nicely you can try out the game! If you further wish to tweak your mouse or graphical settings you can do this on the main Settings tab. The only Tip here is how to enable the advanced settings, do this by going to Settings - Video - Overall Quality - Advanced. The advanced settings will show up on the right hand side.



How to Play
 
In this portion I will be talking about the multiplayer, the singleplayer is up to you to explore. The first thing I can warn you about is when you first start playing the game you are going to suck! The game needs some getting used to and some basic items need unlocking.
 
Anyway when you join a server the first thing you see is a kind of limbo menu. You can also acess this menu by pressing Enter. Here you can select your squad, class, which weapons you spawn with and where you are going to spawn.

A. The minimap with you teams location, the objectives and the spotted enemies locations.
B. The squad menu where you can create, join or leave a squad
C. The spawn menu, click one of the tabs to spawn there, you can also spawn on your squad members.
D. Select you class
E. The weapons menu, where you can choose your layout, in the beginning you won't have any extra weapons or gadgets.

So first select a class, select a spawn and then click Enter Battle. The 'annoying' thing about this spawn system is that you often have to keep reclicking where you want to spawn. When you're ready to spawn click the Enter battle button and it will turn greyish, you can also do this during the count down, then you will spawn asap, unless the spawn you picked becomes unavailible (for example : a player you want to spawn next to died).
 


The first class I'd suggest playing is the engineer, this is a good class to get a feel for the game, but also helping your team at the same time. The engineers primary job is dealing with vehicles. More specifically repairing teammates vehicles and blowing up the enemies vehicles!
 


Hope you have fun! More Articles to follow....

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