Today I found out that I love the 1.3 patch commander mode.
That isn't to say I haven't played a commander before this patch, but I always felt commander pre 1.3 lacked functionality. As such I've always been a pretty straight forward meat and potatoes BF2 player, playing a medic and grabbing a tank/APC/plane when possible. Though today I decided to give commander mode another chance.
Pre 1.3 commander was straight forward, you'd drop artillery on the largest chunk of enemies, drop a UAV in the area most heavily infested by enemy, drop the occasional supply crate for a tank or APC, and toss around a few orders. Pre 1.3 commander certainly lacked something, and that something was the vehicle drop.
I cannot stress how much I love that commander vehicle drop. Extremely fast recycle time, and is like the sniper rifle version of artillery. In my last game I lost count of the number of annoying rooftop snipers I crushed. I also found the vehicle drop works extremely well for smushing (pun intended) a one man ninja flag capture attempt. Oh, and don't forget to drop a vehicle on those annoying Vodnik/HMMV gunners, as it takes them out quite nicely and they always tend to die in a hilarious fashion after their vehicle tips over on impact.
To summarize:
1.3 commander mode gets my thumbs up, and if you haven't given it a try lately you should.
Now if those damn players would just stop outranking me.
That is all.
Pre 1.3 commander was straight forward, you'd drop artillery on the largest chunk of enemies, drop a UAV in the area most heavily infested by enemy, drop the occasional supply crate for a tank or APC, and toss around a few orders. Pre 1.3 commander certainly lacked something, and that something was the vehicle drop.
I cannot stress how much I love that commander vehicle drop. Extremely fast recycle time, and is like the sniper rifle version of artillery. In my last game I lost count of the number of annoying rooftop snipers I crushed. I also found the vehicle drop works extremely well for smushing (pun intended) a one man ninja flag capture attempt. Oh, and don't forget to drop a vehicle on those annoying Vodnik/HMMV gunners, as it takes them out quite nicely and they always tend to die in a hilarious fashion after their vehicle tips over on impact.
To summarize:
1.3 commander mode gets my thumbs up, and if you haven't given it a try lately you should.
Now if those damn players would just stop outranking me.
That is all.
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