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  • Older-OMO

    #1

    More Transport Road Kill Mystery

    I finally got the Veteran Transport badge after many unsuccessful attempts. It wasn't because I didn't know how to get the badge, i.e. just run people over. I am beginning to wonder if it was a map or server bug.

    I tried off and on over a period of a few weeks, but I only tried on 64 Player Karkand maps. Not only did I never get the badge, my stats weren't showing any road kills (didn't figure this out for a while). I had the hours, the driver points and only required the IAR kills. For instance, I drove in a Vodnik, snuck to the spawn area by the arty and mowed people down like an overgrown lawn. Eventually in the round I counted at least 10-15 victims. Since it wasn't giving me the badge, I switched to a Humvee that I stole from the US and proceeded to rack up another 5-10, but still no badge.

    Last night I tried again, same story. I decided I was only going to road kill for a round. With the US taking Hotel and Square, it was a perfect set up. I got the Vodnik and went road raging and had 10 kills before the magic run. This run consisted of timing a high speed drive just as a ton of people spawned near square. For those that know the map well, people spawn along the road across from the tall building in 3 places (2 on the road and 1 by the fenced area with the tree). In one run, I smacked 2-3 at the first spawn, 2-3 on the second spawn (where the transport spawns), and 3-4 in the fenced area. I didn't make the turn through the blown up fence, ran into the tree and got stuck. But, I had C4 attached, hopped out, detonated and got a couple more. In total, I had about 12 (10 road kills and 2 C4) in one sweep. All of the road kills listed Vodnik as the weapon. The enemy that watched it happen thought it was pretty funny to watch. The others tried to kick vote. Bottom line, no badge.

    I got ****ed and checked my stats. No transport road kills. Searched 3 different forums and all indicated I was doing the right thing. Decided to try to get it on Wake using the DPV. Didn't get it the first round, and decided to blow it off. I happened to get a couple at the beginning of the next round and ended up getting the badge by accident later in the round. I checked my stats and sure enough, it showed all of the road kills from Wake.


    Has anyone else had the same problem? Has anyone received the Veteran or Expert Transport on Karkand?
  • *Lost*Soldier*

    #2
    Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

    my Q is how did u get basic b/c i need 4000 more points 2 my next rang
    if i get it before 20000 im going up whit 2 rangs

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    • zhpkiller
      Member
      • Aug 2006
      • 169

      #3
      Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

      Originally posted by Older-OMO
      I finally got the Veteran Transport badge after many unsuccessful attempts. It wasn't because I didn't know how to get the badge, i.e. just run people over. I am beginning to wonder if it was a map or server bug.

      I tried off and on over a period of a few weeks, but I only tried on 64 Player Karkand maps. Not only did I never get the badge, my stats weren't showing any road kills (didn't figure this out for a while). I had the hours, the driver points and only required the IAR kills. For instance, I drove in a Vodnik, snuck to the spawn area by the arty and mowed people down like an overgrown lawn. Eventually in the round I counted at least 10-15 victims. Since it wasn't giving me the badge, I switched to a Humvee that I stole from the US and proceeded to rack up another 5-10, but still no badge.

      Last night I tried again, same story. I decided I was only going to road kill for a round. With the US taking Hotel and Square, it was a perfect set up. I got the Vodnik and went road raging and had 10 kills before the magic run. This run consisted of timing a high speed drive just as a ton of people spawned near square. For those that know the map well, people spawn along the road across from the tall building in 3 places (2 on the road and 1 by the fenced area with the tree). In one run, I smacked 2-3 at the first spawn, 2-3 on the second spawn (where the transport spawns), and 3-4 in the fenced area. I didn't make the turn through the blown up fence, ran into the tree and got stuck. But, I had C4 attached, hopped out, detonated and got a couple more. In total, I had about 12 (10 road kills and 2 C4) in one sweep. All of the road kills listed Vodnik as the weapon. The enemy that watched it happen thought it was pretty funny to watch. The others tried to kick vote. Bottom line, no badge.

      I got ****ed and checked my stats. No transport road kills. Searched 3 different forums and all indicated I was doing the right thing. Decided to try to get it on Wake using the DPV. Didn't get it the first round, and decided to blow it off. I happened to get a couple at the beginning of the next round and ended up getting the badge by accident later in the round. I checked my stats and sure enough, it showed all of the road kills from Wake.


      Has anyone else had the same problem? Has anyone received the Veteran or Expert Transport on Karkand?
      Sounds like a problem with server reporting stats to BFHQ. And I'm not sure if C4'ing a vodnick counts as real roadkills compared to bumper to ass method.

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      • Marveric
        Member
        • Mar 2006
        • 294

        #4
        Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

        I don't think road kills is running people over. Some of the top aviators have like 2000+ road kills in a plane...
        Now how do you "run over" 2000 people with a jet?

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        • Harmor

          #5
          Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

          Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but there are some non-ranked servers that show up ranked in the browser - this is so they get their servers populated and can run non-ranked settings.

          Some servers have FF off but are still ranked, or have different ticket ratios - these are against the ranked server default settings and thus aren't allowed to be considered ranked.

          Some server administrators can muck up the server con file and make their non-ranked server show up ranked, or totally disable the reporting system, so I've heard.

          Then again, like zhpkiller, said it just might be a glitch with your server you like to frequent. As you did, try changing servers and check your stats on http://www.bf2s.com or http://www.bf2player.com to verify that your stats are updating.

          Personally I don't trust the BFHQ inside the game...

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          • (4THIDUSA) SSG H.

            #6
            Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

            just seems to be the way it counts kills, sometimes you kill someone and it says you BLACKHAWK them, but I shot guy in a hummer, with a ground mounted MG

            and FF can be off in ranked servers, EA has said so

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            • stilla-killa
              CantGetRight
              • Aug 2005
              • 5905

              #7
              Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

              from what i have read u can shoot the people in a transport vehicle and still get the badge

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              • imported_RingMasTeR
                Member
                • Jun 2006
                • 353

                #8
                Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                Originally posted by Marveric
                I don't think road kills is running people over. Some of the top aviators have like 2000+ road kills in a plane...
                Now how do you "run over" 2000 people with a jet?
                I have a theory on this: someone verify/refute this if you know better... I believe that when a person is killed by their vehicle upon exiting, that it counts as a road kill.
                Example: Drop a bomb on a tank... it catches fire and the tank driver bails but gets killed in the explosion resulting in killmessage like:
                RingMasTeR [T-90] Victim

                Does that make sense?

                This is the only way I can explain the road kills I have as a pilot. (I have more road kills in a plane than deaths.) I certainly havn't run over near 900 players.

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                • X-Pharaon-X

                  #9
                  Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                  lmao, i hardly run people over, i like a fair fight

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                  • [FM]Master_Chief

                    #10
                    Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                    Originally posted by RingMasTeR
                    I have a theory on this: someone verify/refute this if you know better... I believe that when a person is killed by their vehicle upon exiting, that it counts as a road kill.
                    Example: Drop a bomb on a tank... it catches fire and the tank driver bails but gets killed in the explosion resulting in killmessage like:
                    RingMasTeR [T-90] Victim

                    Does that make sense?

                    This is the only way I can explain the road kills I have as a pilot. (I have more road kills in a plane than deaths.) I certainly havn't run over near 900 players.
                    Yes, you are correct.

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                    • signa
                      CS-Nation / TGN Staff
                      • Dec 2004
                      • 4191

                      #11
                      Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                      Originally posted by Stilla-Killa
                      from what i have read u can shoot the people in a transport vehicle and still get the badge
                      correct, you can either run them over or shoot them with the gun on the transport. got mine using the pickup truck on warlord - combination of running people over and gunning them.
                      "Crunch's First Officer"
                      twitter: @signaprime

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                      • sooty1977

                        #12
                        Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                        Got silver today myself but had to run 5 unlucky peeps over as shooting just wasent workin four me at all

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                        • Teaves

                          #13
                          Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                          Originally posted by RingMasTeR
                          I have a theory on this: someone verify/refute this if you know better... I believe that when a person is killed by their vehicle upon exiting, that it counts as a road kill.
                          Example: Drop a bomb on a tank... it catches fire and the tank driver bails but gets killed in the explosion resulting in killmessage like:
                          RingMasTeR [T-90] Victim
                          That is 100% correct

                          Originally posted by Stilla-Killa
                          from what i have read u can shoot the people in a transport vehicle and still get the badge
                          Sorry but thats not true, only if you shoot a vehicle (like another jeep) and people get caught in the explosion will it count as a "roadkill"

                          I speak from experience as i have got 6000 kills in jeeps and 3000 of them are roadkills (ranked 120ish in transport) i got veteran last November and am very close to the shiny golden expert transport badge now

                          The very best place to get roadkills is as USMC on wake island, as soon as you get a flag, grab a FAV and head up to the airfield as medic, i once got ~50 roadkills in one map on a 64 player server by mowing down all the lemmings standing on the helipad and runway

                          Originally posted by *Lost*Soldier*
                          my Q is how did u get basic b/c i need 4000 more points 2 my next rang
                          if i get it before 20000 im going up whit 2 rangs
                          The basic involves NO kills at all, simply spend 10 minutes in transport in one round (jeeps and/or boats) easy to do in normal play but if you must then next time you are commander on a map with the aircraft carrier then sit in a RIB while commanding under the carrier.

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                          • abtomat74

                            #14
                            Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                            Originally posted by RingMasTeR
                            I have a theory on this: someone verify/refute this if you know better... I believe that when a person is killed by their vehicle upon exiting, that it counts as a road kill.
                            Example: Drop a bomb on a tank... it catches fire and the tank driver bails but gets killed in the explosion resulting in killmessage like:
                            RingMasTeR [T-90] Victim

                            Does that make sense?
                            100% correct.

                            And yes, shooting people from Vodnik's/Hummers counts as road kills.
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                            For those having trouble recently getting any medal that requires long hours:

                            the problem is the Leaderboard not updating. You need to check the Leaderboard stats, not the BFHQ stats.

                            Example: BFHQ says you have 25120 points...but the Leaderboard position shows you having only 24863, because it hasn't been updated in a while due to various reasons.

                            So, your score showing 25k+ just happens to have 50.1 hours in the Transport recorded...but the not updated Leaderboard score of 24.8k hasn't reached 50 hours in a transport(if it updated, it would be).

                            Therefore the prereq for time hasn't been made official. What I'm saying is that the Leaderboard is how the medals/ranks get checked, not your BFHQ score since it is slightly ahead by hourse or even days sometimes.

                            I discovered this because every medal I went for requiring time, I attempted the very nite I got the time part done...and often found no medal awarded. Because BFHQ and the Leaderboard did not match up scorewise or by time played.

                            So what you do to prevent attempting medals/awards twice...make the attempt the next day, AFTER getting the required time.

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                            • Teaves

                              #15
                              Re: More Transport Road Kill Mystery

                              Originally posted by abtomat74
                              And yes, shooting people from Vodnik's/Hummers counts as road kills.
                              I am sorry m8 but it dosent count as a roadkill, trust me on this :) go into a server now and shoot one person with a transport vehicle then compare your stats when the next map loads. It is however easy to get roadkills by shooting other jeeps or heli's and killing with the explosions.

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