explosives badge - aaarrrggghhh !

[rumple9]

I have been trying for a month to get this and is impossible. I play on Karkand and use the hotspot at the hotel, playing as MEC.

I have tried laying mines as engineer, being a sniper and planting claymores or being special ops and throwing c4.

The best I have managed is 8 kills which is way off the 13 needed for the badge.

Help please before I go insane

[Holle]

Re: explosives badge - aaarrrggghhh !

I have been trying for a month to get this and is impossible. I play on Karkand and use the hotspot at the hotel, playing as MEC.

I have tried laying mines as engineer, being a sniper and planting claymores or being special ops and throwing c4.

The best I have managed is 8 kills which is way off the 13 needed for the badge.

Help please before I go insane

My spelling might be off, but be MEC on Sharqi. Spawn at the NW flag and drive down. Get behind the first spawn and run up to where they spawn and drop C4, run away and blast. I've done this and have gotten close to my expert, 33 c4 kills. But this is how I got the 20 something needed for Vet.

[G3_PT]

Re: explosives badge - aaarrrggghhh !

I have been trying for a month to get this and is impossible. I play on Karkand and use the hotspot at the hotel, playing as MEC.

I have tried laying mines as engineer, being a sniper and planting claymores or being special ops and throwing c4.

The best I have managed is 8 kills which is way off the 13 needed for the badge.

Help please before I go insane

same here , tried all of the above , got 10 kills a couple of times as sniper w/claymores in Karkand and 11 once on Shongua with AT Mines ....
it´s SO FRUSTRATING !!!!:wall: :wall: :wall:

[The_Misfit]

Re: explosives badge - aaarrrggghhh !

I got this with plenty of time to spare.

Couple of things - 1 for this badge, 1 for ANY BADGE that you may be trying to get.

#1. I got this badge as SO on Daging Oilfields. Yes, its a big map, however, there are TONS of vehicles on this map. There's also a fair amount of AA and air-to-air fighting to keep the bombers and helo pilots busy. I did the C4 buggy, drove around and blew up tanks/apc's/squads taking flags, etc....


#2. For any badge, here's a great trick. Apply your filter for "large maps" only. Now, look for servers that hold small amount of players - Example: 29/32. Even though its a 64 player map, they have the max players set at 32. The # of tickets is based off of the map size...maps like these sometimes take forever to finish, and give you all the opportunity in the world to get your badges/ribbons/etc....

[Narynan]

Re: explosives badge - aaarrrggghhh !

You might wanna try to get on a server with a smaller number of players (32 max) with 64 player maps, the larger ticket count will help drastically.

[JarEme]

Re: explosives badge - aaarrrggghhh !

Didn't they change the 32-players-on-a-64-player-map-thing in 1.03 so that it's now based off of the max player count instead of the map size?

[Teaves]

Re: explosives badge - aaarrrggghhh !

I recommend a different map to most people, any "Chain" type map where you tend to all move from flag to flag together, rather then splitting up on more "spread out" maps.

Operation Clean Sweep and Zatar Wetlands is ideal for this, Zatar the best IMHO as there are mostly 3 ways (2 different wooden bridges and 1 land bridge) to the next flag BUT all still in a "chain" type of thing.

You can either use a Jihad Jeep, speeding through the water and ramming the rear of the enemy trying to cross a bridge OR simply outflank on the quieter bridge to the next flag and run around dropping single C4's near spawns, in the sheds for people waiting for vehicles and and at the exits as most people will speed away without looking at thier own flags.

The tin fences around a lot of flags on Zatar also means you can throw the C4 over the top and detonate randomly, as you jump you can see over for basic timing, but after a few explosions, the enemy will tend to come rushing to you, allowing for a last ditch booby trap before each death

Another good tactic is to get an APC and plant just 1 C4 on side (dont waste them) use this to rush into the enemy base to get their attention, kill a few on the way in and bail somewhere close to cover when it is almost destroyed. Those base drives really annoy people that get run over and you can predict they will come for you when they respawn, not only will one *usually* jump into your APC for what he thinks is an easy kill, but sometimes more then one will get in by mistake if they are close togther and holding "enter vehicle" key, this is again an easy kill for the C4 trap, and will often take out infantry coming at you on foot as well (they have to be caught in the C4 explosion itself not in the vehicle explosion, so remember what side you used for your C4 booby trap)

The biggest tip is to use FULL 64 player server, the tickets may last longer with less players, but then you dont get such concentration of troops obviously making for easy kills, also dont try and stay alive even if you only take out a couple with each death, you will still have time on these 2 maps. FOrget callinf for supllies as well as its a lot quicker to use the last C4 and yourself as a suicide bomber for a 15 second respawn if there are none about as it will keep the enemy guessing and more importantly still in the same base looking for you, when you roll up again with full health and full ammo

Also dont be afraid to use C4 like big powerful grenades, drop them on the floor at your feet as you are running for cover, as soon as round a corner or other cover, blow the C$ to kill whoever is chasing you, works well if you "bluff" them into thinking you are out of ammo by firing off your pistol in firefights and running for cover. cant think of any more tips for now, but its easier then you think when you target infantry rather then armour/vehicles.