Battlefield: Bad Company Basics
New Player's Guide to Using Concealment
Battlefield: Bad Company’s multiplayer “Gold Rush” mode is an incredibly addictive and open-ended game. There are multiple ways for new players to both rack up impressive experience points and help their team at the same time. Utilizing concealment is an important tactic to know.
Cover Versus Concealment:
The excellent frostbite graphics engine in Battlefield: Bad Company enables players to use tactics that would have been impossible in previous games. Most people know about the value of cover, it stops bullets and conceals the player from prying enemy eyes, but it’s not the only way to keep hidden on the battlefield.
Concealment is similar to cover; it still obscures the enemy's view but offers no protection from their fire. It is far from worthless, though. When used intelligently, concealment can be just as useful as cover.
The use of concealment is especially effective when using the recon kit, as the ghillie suit enables players to blend in with vegetation.
Hiding behind or within foliage makes players very hard to spot as long as they remain motionless. This tactic has several useful applications while playing Bad Company.
Defensive Strategies:
One very effective defensive strategy is to select the recon kit, then head toward the enemy base and find some concealment within the laser designator's range. This tactic is extremely useful on Battlefield: Bad Company’s maps with Howtizer artillery, such as Oasis and Harvest Day, but the basic strategy applies on all maps.
Using the laser designator, repeatedly target the attackers’ Howitzer and destroy it with guided bombs. The Howitzer is almost always occupied, so destroying it will earn 20 experience points each time, ten for the gun and another ten for its occupant. Keeping the Howitzer out of commission by continually destroying is a fantastic way to help out the team and rack up decent experience points simultaneously.
While concealed, players are also free to take potshots with the sniper rifle at attackers as they leave the base.
Offensive Strategies:
A very effective offensive strategy for utilizing concealment utilizes the recon kit as well. Find a position on a rise overlooking the defender’s base with a clear view of one of the gold crates (the hill just northeast of the harbor on End of the Line is a good example).
Continually clear out any defenders near the crate and wait for a teammate to plant the bomb. Once it’s planted, watch for defenders attempting to disarm and take them out until the bomb detonates. Resist the temptation to take shots at defenders who aren’t attempting to disarm, the point is to support the offensive, not increase personal kill counts.
If the player is well concealed, the defenders should have no idea where the shots are coming from and they can be picked off one by one until the player runs out of ammo or the base is captured.
Other Concealment Strategies:
These are just a couple examples of how useful concealment can be. It’s not just for the recon class, however. Demolition users can hide in foliage and launch surprise anti-tank attacks, support players can hide behind a bush and call in mortar strikes, and specialists can lie in wait for vehicles to pass close by so they can plant C4. A creative player can find numerous innovative ways to utilize the game’s foliage. An understanding of the benefits of concealment is an important weapon in any Battlefield: Bad Company player’s arsenal.
Battlefield: Bad Company is available for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
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