Medals, badges, awards

[=IMO=THJones]

Besides the teamwork aspect Part of what makes BF2 fun for me is setting goals to achieve receiving awards.
However i feel EA has encouraged stat padding by making many awards unobtainable to the average player who has a life as well as the game.
Better i think they would have made the requirements lower and then say a year after the game came out issue new awards to obtain, this would have been great to keep interest high.
Another idea i just had is to make the requirments for a tad lower but that you would have to earn rank for each differnt army you play, for example you could be a general for the USMC but in the Mec you may have only earned sgt ..

just my ramblings on a tuesday morning...

what do you think?

[WDA_Endless954]

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I like the way it is personally. For a long time to come I will have something to work for and look forward to. I think it was a great idea to set it up like they did.

Also I think the new ribbons/medals they add with each booster is a good idea.

[vets.Sarge]

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The only thing i disliked about all of the awards back in 1.12 was the rankings (20.000, 50.000, 200.000) Wich have now been improved on. Although i wouldn't mind if the 20-50.000 gap was made a little less large (1,500 points left and counting :p)

[WDA_Endless954]

Re: Medals, badges, awards

The only thing i disliked about all of the awards back in 1.12 was the rankings (20.000, 50.000, 200.000) Wich have now been improved on. Although i wouldn't mind if the 20-50.000 gap was made a little less large (1,500 points left and counting :p)

God yes! If you think 20k to 50k is a gap, imagine if you'd had to endure the 50k to 200k gap!!

Guess that's why I've been trying to get sergeant major so hard, I still see it as the ultimate acheivable rank, lol.

[ACE4U]

Re: Medals, badges, awards

The only thing i disliked about all of the awards back in 1.12 was the rankings (20.000, 50.000, 200.000) Wich have now been improved on. Although i wouldn't mind if the 20-50.000 gap was made a little less large (1,500 points left and counting :p)

Yes, that is a huge gap. From E-8 to E-9. I am slowly getting there

[Jaxx]

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=IMO=THJones as a 2LT you should know by now that BF2 is the way it is. They are not going to change much so play on.

As for the awards well if you play long enough one day you will have them!

[=IMO=THJones]

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=IMO=THJones as a 2LT you should know by now that BF2 is the way it is. They are not going to change much so play on.

As for the awards well if you play long enough one day you will have them!

Agreed Jax i know they won't change it, i was just stating how i woulda done it LoL..i guess cause i know some i may never get like the war college ribbon, you can't get it with out being strategic about what rounds you get into...me i like a variance of maps pubbing and playing people i don't know..no way in heck i will ever have a 3 to 1 ration win vs loss...sigh...

[Jaxx]

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Ya war college one is a lost cause for me. I will never try to even earn it, it is a ribbon you have to try to get from the very start of an account.

-But hey no matter what we all put time into this so we should at least be proud of the ones we do have. I know I am even though I don't play just for the awards. Kinda strange too cause my real life I earn medals too (US ARMY). But even there I never cared what i got. Medals don't make the man or soldier it's all about ones heart, HONOR MAN... HONOR!

[Kahoona]

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You should get special kit-specific things when getting veteran and expert for the kit medals. Like if you get veteran spec ops, you should get a silencer for your main gun, and for expert maybe get binoculars or something.

[tehpwnerofnoobs]

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You should get special kit-specific things when getting veteran and expert for the kit medals. Like if you get veteran spec ops, you should get a silencer for your main gun, and for expert maybe get binoculars or something.

I agree, Ghost Recon was cool like that. You do well as a sniper a lot, you get the badass rifle. Make for BF2 s you can get good cammies, adjustable scope, laser range finder...=p

[RocketChild]

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I agree, Ghost Recon was cool like that. You do well as a sniper a lot, you get the badass rifle. Make for BF2 s you can get good cammies, adjustable scope, laser range finder...=p

I recall when BF2 was on the drawing boards, news that came from DiCE suggested that you were going to be able to customize your kit way more than you can now. Might have been a technical challange they could not get around with time constraints.

I would love to see the introduction of more badges. Especially stuff that was squad related. Like if you were the squad leader of a the top squad for 3 rounds straight, you got a ribbon that got clusters/leafs the more you gained. I also think their should be accuracy and proficiancy awards. Like if you hit certain ratios after 10,000 pts, you get basic/vet/expert badges. For the accuracy, if your percentage is 20% it is basic, 25% vet, and 30% expert. Proficiancy would be how much you die versus kill (snipers/plane whores would get this one all the time).

And, I always thought it would be cool also if they had it so when you looked at the score screen ingame, you could look at a player's ribbons. Like if I saw a Captain, I could look at what he has earned. It was easier back in the day when you knew if someone had a knife badge because there was a two tier ranking system at 20,000pts. It would be cool to know that someone that is owning your ass is not just a Lt, but has earned certain things.

[SERIALBUTCHER]

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What would be special about being general, if every 1 was a general?

peace

[MooneyBravo]

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I'm on the gap between 8,000 and 20,000 right now. Not looking forward to the 20,000 to 50,000 one, because this one is taking forever.

[RocketChild]

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I'm on the gap between 8,000 and 20,000 right now. Not looking forward to the 20,000 to 50,000 one, because this one is taking forever.

Use medic, you will close the gap much quicker if you play the kit to the fullest.

[Kahoona]

Re: Medals, badges, awards

DICE should create a user request board that has distinguished members of the community to submit decent suggestions to make the game better...