madbassman39

Madbassman39

I don't like the new layout, but I could live with it. It's terrible but not enough to keep me from reading, but what is going to keep me from reading is Denton's attitude. He made it sound like it was our fault we couldn't understand the new layout, and this is after he said his most loyal viewers, us commenters, are keeping his sight in the ghetto. No thank you Denton, you deserved the hack 4 months ago, and you deserve the 60% drop in site visits. I hope someone else buys out Gawker Media and actually does something good with it now, but I don't think they will.

That's one of my main gripes with the game. It's not accessible. Not by a long shot. The game doesn't even teach you how to spot! My advice is to go to Youtube and do a search for the kit you're planning on using. For example, How to play as a Medic, etc. Best thing to do in game? Help your team out. You see that little Back/Select button? Spam it like crazy when you see enemies. They spot them for your teammates. That little triangle on their heads. If you're a medic, dole out med packs every time they cool down. Even if your teammates don't need them. It's a good move for when unexpected fire fights happen. Don't rambo revive. That means reviving someone even though you know someone's shooting at them. Use the LMGs in controlled bursts. The recoil does lessen the longer you hold it but only do it when you're sure to hit something. Engineer use your rpgs, anti tank mines on tanks. If you see a tank taking a flag, hit it to distract it. Always try and hit the sides or behind the tank. It does more damage. Your repair tool can also harm enemy vehicles. Don't forget that. If you're in a tank and you see an enemy tank incoming, use your guns to take out their engineer if they go out. If not, after your tank takes damage, step out repair it and fire off an rpg at the enemy tank before stepping back in. That should help loads. Also remember UAVs can be repaired. Assault just give ammo to your engineers. Give ammo to everybody. If you see a house that you suspect are housing enemies, noob tube the windows, walls, etc. to flush them out. Just give ammo out. A lot of Assault guys seem to forget this. Recon...Best advice is to not be a sniper 100 miles away from the objective and padding your K/D. If you do want to be a recon, spam your motion mines intelligently. Throw it near M-coms, flags. Take out tanks with yout C4. Use mortar strikes to take out M-Coms. Most of all, SPOT! SPOT tanks, choppers, etc. SPOT every thing! It will net you points/exp and you're helping the team out. That alone should make you a better BC2 player than 50 percent of the players out their right now. Thank you soo much for the Recon part. I play Recon strategically, moving in slowly, dropping motion mines, constantly moving, and sniping to give out locations to the assault front at my points. I hate K/D snipers, they do nothing for the team and in the end they have some of the worst scores, but their K/D is 4.00! Recon needs to move a lot, more so then everybody else, when you are not in a bush you are the easiest to spot person on the map with the naked eye. Sniping is so much fun when you spot another sniper far away and long distance head shot them and move to another location. Another piece of advice for medic, never go first. Let the assault or engineer go first, they can kill closer enemies quicker, and they need a medic to sweep out the remaining enemies and revive. I've moved on to hardcore mode because it relies so much more on communication to do well. Spots don't put on heads up, there is no mini map on heads up, so you have to move a lot slower, and when firing happens it is a lot more heart pumping. The problem with hardcore mode is the only way to succeed is to know your class and its strengths. I usually end up in the top 5 spots, and have had my fare share of Ace Pins.

My best advice, go into the game and just try out every multiplayer match for non hardcore. About three games in you'll learn the ropes real quick. Assault supplies ammo, medic supplies health and revives, engineer is anti-tank and repairs friendly tanks, and sniper is... well a sniper. When you get the hang of the way things go, you unlock more stuff and then you become better at the game. Also, its a thinking game, unlike Modern Warfare, you can't just run and try to get the most kills you can, you have to play with a squad move as a unit and think about a strategy. I just got off of a match where my squad mates and I had made a strategy and won the round very quickly because we pushed the entire team beyond any capture points (nelson bay map).

This is me when I went whale watching a few weeks ago. my thats a large photo

I will be the only one of my friends getting it on the PC, so that means I will probably get it for both the PC and 360... sadly. Some say its a waste of money, but really I want the PC version and my friends want to play it on the 360. I also don't have a gaming computer at the moment so the 360 might be the first version I buy.

I appreciate all the support guys. I agree with all of you to just let things happen. The ball is in his court and he needs to fix the friendship if he has any value in it now. I don't think things will be the same between us due to what he had said about me as a friend, some of which may not seem like a lot to some people, but I value my friends more then anything else. We have been friends for nearly 10 years, so it's going to be rough loosing him as a friend.

Hey everyone. So yesterday a friend went off on me, and basically said "we are not friends anymore." This guy has been a good friend of mine for some time, and I've always felt he suffered from depression (intense mood swings, drinks himself to sleep a lot). I've been a good friend to him, even though he will argue otherwise, and now I'm not just upset that he decided that I was a bad friend but I am actually hurt by the words he used. Two weeks ago I hung out with him, and we had a blast. I went away for a school function out of town over the last weekend, and my uncle from out of town has visited for 10 days and left yesterday. To make things more busy for me, I hadn't seen my girlfriend in almost 3 weeks, shes been working, going to visit friends 8 hours away. I also am a full time student and work 15 hours a week, needless to say I have had no time for anybody but myself, and even hardly that. On Wed I said via steam "Hey, when I get home you want to play some Battlefield Bad Company 2?" and he said "Yea sure." So as I leave, I get a call from my girlfriend. She tells me that her dog bit her and she didn't go to work so she wanted to know if I could have lunch. I agreed to have lunch and see my girlfriend for the first time in 3 weeks. Her dog bite wasn't that bad since they removed the dogs K-9s because of its bighting past, but I bought her lunch and we watched a movie at her place. I got home 3 hours later then expected, at 3 pm. I log onto steam and say "hey, want to play some Bad Company 2?" to which he replies "No, I'm gamed out." I knew from past experience he was pissed at me for not running home and turning on my Xbox or Playstation, and so I let it be. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't see why anybody would really get that mad if I become available at a reasonable hour. I mean, shit, his computer and his Xbox share a monitor, so he doesn't even have to leave his room, so its not like I stood him up anywhere. Non the less I apologize to him and get no response. I then continue my day and even play some bad company by myself. The next day I would mention stuff, and if he answered me it was only in short one word answers. He then tells me how hes writing a satirical paper about how cops shouldn't shoot people accidentally. I said "I really don't see why people get mad, if a cop thinks that you are going for a gun or you are holding a gun they are going to shoot, its common knowledge" (I do not want to debate this in this thread). He says I'm full of shit, and that I have no value for human life. I disagree and he then says "I'm not going to waste my time talking to you" and defriends me on steam. I got pissed, I pulled up my email and wrote "GO FUCK YOURSELF, YOUR OPINION IS NOT ANY BETTER THAN MINE!" I delete that email before sending it and instead send this "You know what dude? That is bullshit if you are going to block me because we have a different point of view. If you want to do so its in your own choice, but frankly I'm incredibly offended if a difference in opinion is enough for you to stop talking to me." He then replies saying that I've been a shitty friend for years, and that I am not someone he can rationalize being friends with and that being my friend is degrading. I am now really upset, but I still gather my exposure and tell him that I have been a great friend, I have helped him through his problems in the past, I have been there when he needed me most and have put up with him belittling me as a person and saying my opinion isn't valid or doesn't count. I've put up with his verbal abuse because I know that deep down he has had a rough time (all of his other friends have abandoned him), but as of now I cannot forgive him for calling me a shitty friend. I am beyond offended, I am hurt. About two hours later he emails me apologizing for calling me a shitty friend, but he continued to say that I have not been a good friend to him and that he doesn't know why I would think that I am there for him when he needs it. He said that I have disrespected him, and our friendship revolves around him making himself available for me (He is taking one writing class and has no job, unlike me who is taking 6 classes of engineering and working part time). He says that the only reason we are friends is because we play bad company 2 together and he has grown tired of that. He no longer wants to be my friend. I respond with just this "I'm sorry that you feel that and sorry that you have said that too. To be honest though, I am still very upset by what you have said so I hope you understand why I am keeping this email short." Today I went to donate blood, and forgot my Zune at home so I was just stewing in my thoughts, and became very angry purely on his one sentence "You have never been there for me when I need it, and I don't know why you would think that." I was irked. So irked that I couldn't finished donating blood because I needed something to keep my mind off of it. I left and drove around, ate and then watched this weeks episode of "Community". I then decided I needed to email him. I emailed him saying that I am not going to argue with him, but I will defend myself of his sentence about me not being there for him. I gave two examples about where I have been there for him when no one else would, when his friends abandoned him. I told him that I do not feel that we should patch things up for a few days, and just cool off before we speak. I made sure everything I said to him was controlled and thought out. I never dropped an insult at him, and I have only told him how what he has said to me has made me feel. I feel that if there is ever a reason for us to rehash things, I don't want something I said to be hanging over his friendship (even though he did ignore everything I have done for him in the past, and called me a shitty friend). I ended my email with this "You may not feel that I have been there for you, you may even say that those weren't the only times that you needed me as a friend, or say they weren't important enough, thats fine. I never hung out with you to be rewarded for anything, I may have flaked on you when you wanted someone to do something with, but I always made myself available when you made it clear you needed a friend." I sent it to which I have gotten no reply. I don't really know why I am posting this in here, but I need to get this off my chest. I told my girlfriend but she has only said "You will patch things up soon enough." She would have been right if he hadn't really offended me, but I'm not sure what I am going to do. I'm not really asking for validation, I'm not really asking for advice. Your input on both will be greatly appreciated, but really I just need to explain this to someone who doesn't know our past history. For those of you who took the time to read this thank you. If its a tl:dr I understand.

@excaliburps "Exactly! That should be the main reason of the star. It could be because you're a funny sod, or you always know the correct alignment of Jupiter in relation to gaming or whatnot. Now? I see people with stars who are either rude, or just plain dicks. Say what you will about stars being pointless, etc. But I chose whom to reply to as to not promote a comment that's just obviously looking for attention. That, and trying to help some people out." This always pissed me off. I have been a level headed commenter, leaving good comments, sometimes fighting the good fight, and I don't get a star. Meanwhile, I make an opinion comment on something and the people who come in to burst my bubble? Idiot star commenters.

I got banned once, about maybe two years ago? I don't remember. It was something about voting and the end of the article said "Non voting replies will be banned" and so I said "That cat is awesome! He's got my vote" to which I was banned. I thought that was a voting comment. This all happened right before you had to be promoted to get a commenting account, before the "expand to see replies" update (the best update to date. Sadly the new one ruined it). I got my account back like 2 months later and all was well.

Madbassman39 here. I go by this name on almost everything I do. I'm a 23 yr old "super senior plus" student studying Construction Engineering Management. I work part time at an auto repair shop, mainly surfing the internets. A little history on the name: I'm a bass guitar player and love Lewis Carrol's work and the old school Disney Alice movie. So I combined Madhatter with the instrument I play, the bass and got this name. 3 and 9 are my lucky numbers, sooo thats how I gots this name. Hobbies include Surfing, snowboarding, gaming (duh), and writing short stories.