SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

[SQUiB]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

Rate of fire...

.....is identical.

That was sort of covered in the only 2 differences bit.

[Thirdeyez]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

Yes, PKM, by far the best..trust me. I have 3+ days played time as support.
On city maps, PKM is the champ...well, nade laucher is the champ, but Im talking with bullets. My trick is judging the deviation, its in your face so watch it and adjust accordingly, but, mostly its an up and down motion, so just adjust up or down.
Or do the circle, spray an area while moving the crosshairs in a small tight circle.
I can take out 2-3 down an alley. Learn the overheat, youll get a feel for whats too much. Look at the PKM dmg, now add in its 100 round clip....
My theory, put it in the air and it will eventually hit. I see a dude runnin from a place to place and he's at a distance...start lauching 10-20 round burst on him..hit once with PKM dmg will hurt him...if he doesnt have armor..you might just kill him.
And support has armor, so my opinion..if in a squad be in the front lay down fire, clear the alleys. I let a squad call for ammo, no reason to spam bags..spam bags at meet ups with other squads or lonewolves.

So, PKM (DMG, it has "Balls" when it fires..and looks cooler then the ugly othions...and the SF one is, kinda ghey.) Support has armor and unlimited grenades...all that will eat you up is nade lauchers since you have to go prone to shoot ALWAYS..dont ever shoot that LMG standing up unless its for some kill you need from a wierd angle..youll miss and get angry, unless you wanna spray..and pray.

you will egt owned by guys with nade lauchers more then half to time if you encounter them. your always at a disadvantage being prone with them around. Since you have armor on sometimes youll live a 5ft nade hop, if so reposition and chase or spray as they relaod there toob...if there hopping theyll be reloading, if they run there reloading..if they have balls they'll usually hop once as they switch to bullets and go pone back or stand and fire, thats your chance.

[x0pht]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

jump, prone, shoot.

[FearPoint]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

Support class will only rack up the points if you are constantly around large groups of friendly troops. You pass out ammo and lay down fire while the real killers rush and do their thing. Face it support isn't the best class to kill **** with its more of a "support" class. Drop the ammo to your team and try to shoot people but just remember that support will never get as many kills as assualt or spec-ops. You will get a lot of assis kills and in SF being able to be the only class to play with the gas makes up for support classes short commings when it comes to k/d ratio.

[Digital-Boy]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

.....is identical.

That was sort of covered in the only 2 differences bit.

PKM RoF: 450RPM
RPK-74 RoF: 600RPM

[Thirdeyez]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

"Face it support isn't the best class to kill **** with its more of a "support" class. Drop the ammo to your team and try to shoot people but just remember that support will never get as many kills as assualt or spec-ops."

large maps..no, your get crushed by one of 3, tank whore, plane whore, heli whore...city maps, youll be in the top 3 for score, from kills/assist and team points. I can do 40-50 kills easy on karkland and still drop bags.

[Devil_Dog-9]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

First Tear gas sucks...does little to nothing...

Unlock the PKM...Find a Nice tree or building top...Look at the preaty birds and think about life...because it is at that place...on that day that you will die. Dig in and don't retreat for sh|t...just hold the trigger and kill as many SOB's as you can.

[shafik]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

Just be careful when firing from a "quiet" rooftop. That PKM makes a VERY distinguishable firing sound. Anyone hearing it will be gunning for you. Or maybe you'll just hear that familiar whiz and get hit in the face with an AT rocket.

And my tip: Say your squad is assaulting a flag. While they come in from the north, you sneak around from the south, find a secure spot and lob grenades in the flag zone. Needless to say you have many. :) Just stop throwing when theyre actually assaulting and on the flag.

[Bob_the_Insane]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

i would just use them for suppressing fire, fire at a known enemy location and they will be scared to move let you team take them out.

Only problem with this is that other player realise how inaccurate the LMGs can be and at a distance the noise and rate of fire simple makes you first priority target for those with more accurate weapons. Worth remembering...

[Thirdeyez]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

Hate to say it but tear gas isnt worthless.
Its a million times better then smoke nades assualt gets for many reasons.
It makes a bigger cloud, effects enemies and lastly you get more then 1.
Try this, about to rush a flag, shoot 3 smokers at it, throw on your mask and you have an advantage, unless the enemy applies there mask then your both runnin aroudn in the smoke.

Downside, worthless on night maps, most of the time youll end up gasing your mates.

[Digital-Boy]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

It's funny that tear gas makes for a better smoke screen than the smoke grenade does. -_-

[SQUiB]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

PKM RoF: 450RPM
RPK-74 RoF: 600RPM

http://wiki.bf2s.com/weapons/light-machine-guns

Unless you have some sort of evidence of your RoF figures I would think this is accurate info.

[iflabs]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

Always prone and let everything out. Bursting does not improve accuracy nor help in any way. The LMGs weren't meant to go full auto.

[TheSquelcher]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

Only problem with this is that other player realise how inaccurate the LMGs can be and at a distance the noise and rate of fire simple makes you first priority target for those with more accurate weapons. Worth remembering...

i agree however a lot of people arent quick enough to realize what kind of gun there under fire from, and especially with the support guns hundreds of rounds blasting into their cover they might just think about trying to live.
But the people that realize you are support will be able to kill you.

[Eddy01741]

Re: SUPPORT Class: Anyone got any good advice pls?

http://wiki.bf2s.com/weapons/light-machine-guns

Unless you have some sort of evidence of your RoF figures I would think this is accurate info.

Dude same site this is right, i've already ACTUALLY checked the INI files (yawn): http://wiki.bf2s.com/weapons/comparison
Ok, good enough, anyways, if u want, i can post the whole INI file of the PKM (copy and paste). Plus, if u use the PKM, u can really just hear the difference, the PKM really is a slow shooting gun, it sounds that way and it is. If u really want to, creat ur own server, and time the number of bullets for 10 seconds with the RPK and the PKM, you'll see very different results.