Arty is annyoing.

[Evil_Snowman40]

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and yes, arty is really getting OLD at this stage, im sick of it ruining epic gun fights.... you know the ones...

theres one squad taking cover on one area and an enemy squad at anothter and its just a really good gun fight but NOOOOOOOOOO commander has to kill everyone including his teammates

I agree 100% with you on this. Would be nice if they made arty on/limited/off as a server option. Arty spam can ruin good games.

[zoidberg]

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I Guess surviving an atry barrage is mostly luck
but now i think the arty is a bit bugged

i always snipe in the bunkers at the tip of the wake island
But i never knew that the usmc artilery can acctually penetrate the bunker and kill me

[Sadistic_1]

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You aren't the only one who feels like the arty only finds yourself. I've been in a group of 5 or 6, had arty land all around, watch the scrolling score screen and only my name ends up on it.

As for the hearing arty from anywhere. It's the hardware accelerated option in your sound settings. I'm using one of the XFI sound cards, and I can hear it from anywhere and I have no other sound glitches. It's a nice little warning when your taking a flag.

[troybob]

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so as a result I play with "software" selected which fixes the problem and i get normal sound.

glitch? i think not. thanks allcor

[Boojie]

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I seem to always get killed by artillary but all my team somehow survives. Do you guys have any tips on how to dodge or aviod arty? I try to get under cover but it still manages to kill me. Especially when capping flags like airstrip on Wake is a big one considering Im probably by myself it takes forever!.

Unless it ruins your fun, try going as the SF class. If they're not moving, they are invisible on a commander's Scan function. That gets old though; sometimes I like to try different classes.

Basically...what everyone else has been saying.

[<}US{>BlackHawkPilot73]

Re: Arty is annyoing.

the best tool is your ears gotta listen well.

[ARC|Noodles]

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My profile is like an artillery magnet, I can be 50 metres away from the barrage, and suddenly a "stray shell" sends me flying hundreds of feet into the stratosphere.

I think it would be better if the commander could coordinate airstrikes with the pilots and earn points doing that instead of arty, what do you think?

[baggygreen]

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Dont hang around a flag as you've taken it, i always tell my squad to skedaddle as soon as the flag changes. if we're going to hold it, we'll scatter all around for a lil then return to hold the flag if theres enemies nearby. Otherwise, we simply wont stick around to see if the enemy commander is on the ball, we'll race off asap!

[Maxor127]

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I can hear artillery anywhere too. At first it was annoying but now I'm used to it. The thing I hate about artillery is that ever since 1.2, it seems to kill me in buildings. And not just MEC-base on Karkand-32 kind of buildings, but being on the second floor of the TV station and getting killed by artillery. That has happened to me at least 4 times.

[O2zi3]

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Hearing arty anywhere depends on your soundcard. i use a X-Fi and apparently that has something like 4000 odd channels (this is supported by BF2) therefore sounds aren't culled (in theory u shud be able to hear 4000 odd sounds simultaneosly). Previous generation soundcards have way fewer channels ( i think the audigy series is somethimng like 96...but dont quote me on that) therefore the 97 sound and above is culled. Hence, if there are 96 closer sounds than the arty you wont hear it. Lesser expensive soundcards would prob support even fewer channels