The importance of 'spotting'

[BoxiouS]

You run round a corner and see an enemy tank facing the other way and you're not AT. (most of us know that firing at it with your PKM is as much use as hitting it with your knife, and just gives away your position, but you still see it!) Do you spot it before you duck back round to weigh up your options, or do you leave it for a team mate to come flying round the corner in a jeep and get shelled?
I only ask because i found myself taking one for the team to spot an MEC tank and APC, i could've gotten out of the way but then noone would've known and ultimately the flag would've gone.(I was the only one near) As it was chopperguy heard and did what was needed, i respawned and sent the flag back to the top, happy days.

Now i don't agree with spamming the comms with the whereabouts of every troop on the map, it kinda takes the fun out of knowing there's someone near but not quite knowing where they are!(and it really ****es my girlfriend off with the constant foreign jargon all the time!) So i allways try and 'spot' the important stuff.
This is extra important for gunners in choppers, it's bad enough that most heli-pilots spend half there time trying to fight each other spinning round at about 500 feet (instead of doing their job and disposing of heavy armour) it's made even worse if the gunner doesn't spot the other chopper and i've watched noobish antics on a grand scale as two choppers dive round each other blindly whilst us ground troops get pwned by tank/apc spawn campers!
Just my opinion folks.

Oh and what really grips my sh*t (tonight anyway) is people destroying abandoned enemy apc's and tanks for no reason,if it's in the middle of nowhere leave it the f*ck alone, and if its got smoke coming out of it chances are that the bad guys aren't gonna jump back in and raise hell, (it's probably down on its ammo) and 20 seconds after you blow it up it RESPAWNS (Shiny and new and REARMED) at their base where there's probably some guy camped waiting for it and you've just 'gifted' the enemy some more points!

:hmm:Apologies for the gripe i'm just that way out.:hmm:

[Eternal-Souljah]

Re: The importance of 'spotting'

Too long to read, im tired, anyway, I blow up tanks/apc and humvees etc if im in the heli and at an enemy spawn, you will know what it is like when your in the heli and a tank fires one right into you.

[TheGhost]

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I'm too lazy to read and comprehend what you wrote, so watch as I take that good suggestion you made totally out of context and flame you for it. I blow up tanks/apc and humvees etc if im in the heli and at an enemy spawn, you will know what it is like when your in the heli and a tank fires one right into you. I know you clearly said vehicles that are in the middle of nowhere, but I have the reading comprehension level of a 5-year old.

Fixed that for you.

[Eternal-Souljah]

Re: The importance of 'spotting'

Fixed that for you.

Who you think you are the grammar police, get yo ass outta here fool.

[TheGhost]

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Who you think you are the grammar police, get yo ass outta here fool.

It wasn't your grammar I was correcting, but thanks for yet again illustrating that glaring lack of reading comprehension skills.

[BoxiouS]

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lol ghost

[imported_Rafterman]

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I agree. Spotting is critical. I'll often put myself in risk to spot the bad guys for my teamates. Now, if some of them would actually pay attention to something other than their crosshairs for a change.

[DrunkenPirate]

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Fixed that for you.

Please leave if you have nothing better to do than correct spelling.

[Eternal-Souljah]

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It wasn't your grammar I was correcting, but thanks for yet again illustrating that glaring lack of reading comprehension skills.

k, wise ass, are you trying to rage me because your not making a good job of it, fact is you came in this topic simply to create a flame war, also I wasn't flaming him I was giving him my oppinion and my input.

[W_Parmenter]

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k, wise ass, are you trying to rage me because your not making a good job of it, fact is you came in this topic simply to create a flame war, also I wasn't flaming him I was giving him my oppinion and my input.

*sigh*

[blizzard84]

Re: The importance of 'spotting'

I also agree that spotting is very important. In fact I do it all the time.. I have been playing as a sniper lately and that is probably one of the most important things a sniper can do, besides cover fire that is.

[Geiger]

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Please leave if you have nothing better to do than correct spelling.

he wasnt pointing out spelling errors, but rather that someone made a response that wasnt even on the same topic as the original post. the original post griped about vehicles in the middle of nowhere getting destroyed while smoking and thus they respawn back to the enemy base. then someone else said going into an enemy spawn they always blow up the vehicles. 2 clearly different topics yet there is flaming occuring because the responder failed to even read the original post.

[[3SA]D|Sgt.Colinloves]

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O, if your a sniper you have to go on about how you always spot things.

^^^^^^^^^^^ Heard that too many times. Who they think they are.

I spot all the time, not just for others, but myself also. Killed too many times spotting in armor rapers or just keep updating the local area of armor movements. Its all very important for spawner's.

On the flip side, spotting in can cause 'kill robs'. Maybe thats why spotting in ain't that common. People that have 2 team mates nearby, might not want to spot in the guy in his sights, even at the cost of a team mates death.

[PHPT]

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Damn, and I thought this was gonna be about how only about one commander out of a hundred knows they can spot stuff off the satellite...

[PrayingHands]

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I always spot stuff...sometimes when the tank is looking at me since i know im gonna die. I try to spot before he kills me. However, multiple spotting will not make the radar signature appear longer. You only need to do it once until it disappears, then spot again.