Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

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  • BeerStein

    #1

    Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

    Alright - before you bitch and moan about this thread - read it.

    I am the one that confirmed that you can get the Veteran Zip line - and that it is 3500 deployments, not 1000, or 3000, but 3500.

    I also confirmed that you do not have to ride all 3500 of those, you just need to deploy them.

    Now, along the same lines - I confirmed this is true for the Tactical Nades and Grappling Hook Basic Badges. You do not need to climb the grapple, you can just deploy it. For the tactical nades - I was able to get it throwing 10 flashbangs or 10 teargas, but I was not positive on the combination of the 2 of them would do it. I tested more and sometimes you could combine them, but most of the time you could not.

    So my going for 1000 combined nades was a waste of time. I resorted to going after 1000 teargas since I can do those easier than flashbangs in a shorter period of time. I decided I would keep a tally, and if I got it before 1000, it would have been because of all the ones I had done before. I had been keeping tabs on my totals of flashbangs and teargas together - did not make a distinction between the 2...unfortunately.

    Just in the last 2 nights I did well over 1000 teargas nades alone. Not including the over 600 combined that I had before I even kept a strict tally of what I did the last 2 nights.

    Still no badge.

    So I went after the grapple. I did well over 3500 in just the last 2 nights as well - kept a strict talley - and nothing. No badge. In total I have more than 4000 deployments with the grappling hook, and still no badge.

    So what is the deal - has anyone gotten the veteran Grappling Hook or tactical nade? I think the numbers are wrong on these 2 - but I have confirmed you can get the vet Zipline.
  • longgone

    #2
    Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

    I can confirm your summary BeerStein, I started methodical counting of the teargas nade uses as well, besides my previous efforts, last night I counted out 1150 teargas shots (and in addition I will bet real money I had over 2000 before last night), no badge here either.

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    • big_sammy_b

      #3
      Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

      why do you care though?

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      • longgone

        #4
        Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

        because they are supposed to be available in the game, something to work towards....why not? Lets think about this, everyone playing SF (well most) paid good money for a game, and in the beginning it looked like a good add-on, with a bunch of new badges and ribbons to work to obtain.....but then oops no aerial ribbon (duh no planes), it is a little disheartening to know that EA may have dropped the ball again (more likely there is a factor that BeerStein and I do not know about, but that is why he is asking). We are looking to the community to see if anyone else has had a different experience.

        edit...army ribbons are available

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        • imported_Brother Justice

          #5
          Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

          They obviously care, it dosnt matter why. The badges are part of the game that we paid for. Regardless if you think badges and ranks is BS its still part of what you paid for when you bought the game. It should be working, if not it is a breach of service and that is a concern to some people.

          For me, the stats and badges are awsome, i love getting new things and seeing my gaming acomplishments. the best is ranking up and getting new unlocks. As for EA/Dice i totally love the BF series and i have no serious complaints with what they are doing. the few bugs and stuff i can get over it and wait untill fix, because this sure beats pong and tank commander.

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          • Fielden

            #6
            Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

            :laugh: Interesting news guys, glad some players out there are actually doing these things to make sure that we not being screwed and apparently we are.

            They'll fix this for sure.

            In time...

            I'm sure? :|:

            Maybe not.. :laugh:

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            • longgone

              #7
              Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

              please note, I am not stating we are getting screwed, all I am stating is that the info on obtaining the award we have so far appears to be incorrect (ergo something is missing from what we are doing).....maybe it's actually effecting 1000 people with flash/teargas...it could be anything....nothing says the badge doesn't work, I just want to know if anyone has gotten it to work, and how?

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              • BeerStein

                #8
                Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                The reason I bothered with trying to figure this out is actually for these forums. I have been helped out so much in the past with vanilla BF2 - I knew this is something I could check out very easily with SF...so I put my time in to let people here know.

                Early on, that was one of the questions that came up every day - as to what it would take for the vet badges...so I figured, what the hell, I will lose a few hours of my life and figure it out for everyone so not everyone has to go through all the BS if it is some insane number....which is exactly what it appears to be.

                The awards and ribbons are there for us to achieve - it is a nice little bonus to work towards while playing....at least IMHO.

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                • Bravo721
                  Member
                  • Sep 2005
                  • 55

                  #9
                  Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                  Thanks for the effort.

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                  • Dirk001

                    #10
                    Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                    beerstein you are so right. if ea says you can get an award you should be able to get it. and isn't it true that everybody has a printed version of all the award besides there computer crossing out one every time they achieve it?? I know I do! It just looks cool to have every medal. And getting it in silver or gold makes it look even niccer.

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                    • spraykit

                      #11
                      Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                      Originally posted by BeerStein
                      Alright - before you bitch and moan about this thread - read it.

                      I am the one that confirmed that you can get the Veteran Zip line - and that it is 3500 deployments, not 1000, or 3000, but 3500.

                      I also confirmed that you do not have to ride all 3500 of those, you just need to deploy them.

                      Now, along the same lines - I confirmed this is true for the Tactical Nades and Grappling Hook Basic Badges. You do not need to climb the grapple, you can just deploy it. For the tactical nades - I was able to get it throwing 10 flashbangs or 10 teargas, but I was not positive on the combination of the 2 of them would do it. I tested more and sometimes you could combine them, but most of the time you could not.

                      So my going for 1000 combined nades was a waste of time. I resorted to going after 1000 teargas since I can do those easier than flashbangs in a shorter period of time. I decided I would keep a tally, and if I got it before 1000, it would have been because of all the ones I had done before. I had been keeping tabs on my totals of flashbangs and teargas together - did not make a distinction between the 2...unfortunately.

                      Just in the last 2 nights I did well over 1000 teargas nades alone. Not including the over 600 combined that I had before I even kept a strict tally of what I did the last 2 nights.

                      Still no badge.

                      So I went after the grapple. I did well over 3500 in just the last 2 nights as well - kept a strict talley - and nothing. No badge. In total I have more than 4000 deployments with the grappling hook, and still no badge.

                      So what is the deal - has anyone gotten the veteran Grappling Hook or tactical nade? I think the numbers are wrong on these 2 - but I have confirmed you can get the vet Zipline.
                      i think someone posted before he got the grappling hook for 3500 deploys

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                      • BeerStein

                        #12
                        Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                        Update:

                        I didn't go excessive last night - but added more to the counts of each...still nothing. I thought maybe the stat pages needed time to update, which has happened before to show an accurate count.

                        I just don't understand why the producers of this game cannot give a difinitive list of what is in it.....FFS.

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                        • Fielden

                          #13
                          Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                          It is likely that they don't know themselves... which is scary when you think about it.

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                          • pYura

                            #14
                            Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                            I saw someone at gameslave.co.ok with veteran flashbang, thats sure, donno how he get it.... but i have a tip: maybe its time rquiremant rather than uses. Maybe they said 3000 uses wich is equal with 2 hours or whatever.... waddayathink?

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                            • Valbonne

                              #15
                              Re: Tactical Nades and Grappling Vet badges - broken

                              Do any of the stat sites have a nade counter ? number of nades thrown, number of teargas nades fired...?

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