play North Vietnamese and kill American invaders
dig the fucking squad tunnel
don't play on "megaserver"
hide in bush with RP-46 and rack up kills as GI does the John Travolta looking around meme
But really though:
- Place your traps
- Throw your grenades before you die
- If you have smoke grenades, throw them to cover attacks (they really do help a LOT)
- Camouflage matters, don't use the short sleeve/leg unlocks
- Full auto AK kinda sucks, prefer semi auto
-for the love of god throw smoke when attacking, most of the time the commander isn't using the radiomen so don't be afraid to pick radioman on offense for more smoke grenades
-kill feed is delayed by 5-10 seconds
-shots to head, heart, spine kill in 1 hit, turn headshot noise wayyyyyyyyyy down in settings
-artillery goes BEHIND the objective, you want to cut off enemy reinforcements while being able to push onto the obj.
-semi auto on rifles is king unless indoors / close range
-shoot into bushes across the front where the enemy is even if you don't directly see them. Shoot through walls and window ledges, AKs and (to a lesser extent) m16s blast though wood buildings and machine guns go through cement
-you can and should cook grenades. stick grenades start their fuse when you start holding the mouse button, just hold it down before throwing. US grenades have a keybind to start the fuse once you've pulled the pin by holding left click
-put compass always on in options, you'll see the general direction of spotted enemies
-as north if you're sitting still and not firing crouch or prone and don't shoot you'll be invisible from enemy recon plane, you'll see an overlay of leaves on your screen
-you can shoot down the recon plane and airstrikes
-you can set the team colors to be the same no matter which team you're on - meaning the communists will always be red and the losers will always be blue. check the color of your team chat if you're confused
-North sprints with their weapon in 1 hand, South sprints with weapon in 2 hands
-check all the ammo options in the drop down menu under the weapon selection, the m1 and m2 carbine get 30 round mags vs m16's 18 and the big belts for the machine guns are best even tho you get less total ammo
-all classes can give ammo to the machine gunners, do it whenever possible
-pick up and use smoke grenades if you see them
-shotguns are lethal even out past 100 meters, using slugs even further
-learn to aim down the barrel with the folding stock AK and SMGs, they work really well at close range and tunnels
-doing the objective is more important than k/d ratio, being on the obj is more useful to your team than hanging behind and getting a kill or two (except as south squad leader, stay alive at all costs)
-if you're playing North and the commander says "don't spawn", dont spawn, he's about to spawn every dead teammember at his location
-on defense if you stay alive after the obj is captured you can stay behind the front, it works really well by hiding in a bush on the side of a tree facing the new front (towards your spawn) and shooting people after they've run past you, the further the better and if you can steal an enemy weapon you can do it longer since it sounds like their team shooting
-on defense place your traps in front/towards the front of the obj, in trench enterences/exits/doorways work really well. Traps stay after you die
squad leaders your job is this: provide artillery marks behind objectives and ensure your squad can spawn near the objective
-North: build squad tunnel outside spawn closer to obj. then move up and build tunnel as close to obj as safely possible then fight. Flanking from the sides usually lets you place tunnels closer.
-South: only play rifleman since you won't be fighting as much, its better for roles with smoke to be able to spawn on you and use it again quickly. you're a mobile spawn point, stay alive. Push as close to or inside the obj and find a safe hidey spot so your squad can spawn on you, if you're prone your squad will spawn prone. you can be at the top of the scoreboard as South squad leader without getting kills by being a really good spawn point
-use more smoke when attacking
Just got it, I got no clue how to play it so if anyone wants to learn with me I'll be free on monday
"kill everything that moves" is now more of a guideline than an exaggeration
November* also I downloaded this game but haven't played yet. Is it good?
It's really good. It feels pretty damn realistic too. Not a sim, but closer to that. In moments it starts to look like war footage.
A lot of weapons are 1-2 shot kills, and limb wounds cause bleeding and crippling.
Ok but that just means I get to do guerrilla warfare against chuds while playing the selected works of Ho Chi Minh through the proximity chat
Come join me on Monday I'll be hopping on throughout the day to figure out the game
Unfortunately I have work but I'll probably be on either tonight or tomorrow. Monday I'll be on around 10pm EST
this is true and it really sucks, luckily if you mute people's voice chat they will stay muted if you ever run into them in the future on a different server
bullying chuds sometimes works in this game and ppl are often banned if you call out racism
Found it exceedingly fun to try and be an effective NLF squad leader: placing the right spawn point for reinforcements, placing arty markers where the enemy is properly massed together and their reinforcements will come, using your surplus American WW2 carbine to pick at the yanks/aussies/ARVN while having placed a pungee trap to hold your trench tunnels. Glorious.
Also the placable DSHK machine gun absolutely fucks through walls, use it to win that hard as shit Hanoi Embassy map
