The biggest key is learning the maps. I felt the same way as you did when I started - going around, in random squads, with crappy starter weapons, getting owned at every turn. It's why my stats are still in the toilet
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My tips are, stick with one set of gun for each class and unlock some things for it - scope, foregrip (vital to reduce recoil) and heavy barrel will give you a better firing platform. As you do this, you'll get more confidence and learn how to aim/ fire (which is really tricky to avoid getting killed even whilst gunning someone due to headshots).
Next, learn the maps hard! You'll find out where the choke points are, where to avoid and where to hide.
Next, don't run and gun. As gunny said, tag along with squad mates! Ride coat tails with a group of allies and if you find yourself alone on the map, use cover and don't try be Rambo.
Ahhhhh.......... Don't try to be Rambo...... That's where I go wrong....
Well Mr free-running-Bugatti, I agree with everything said here.
I'll add my thoughts too though.
The more I play these days, as I reach my own skill limit (I can only get so good; then I stick at a level just above sucky), the more I realise how hard it was when I started.
It's a strange way of doing things, but I suppose it is to weed out the men from the boys, but in Battlefield, you have to unlock your ability. Simple as that.
To begin with, the guns suck.
The add ons for the guns suck.
The tanx suck.
The helis suck. (apart from the AH1Z Viper)
The jets suck.
Why?
Because none of them kill anything, and yet, all the other people on the map, using the same things as you, they kill everyone, and especially you, all the time. Why?
Because they
unlocked everything already, and made their lives easier.
If you can have the time and patience to invest in Battlefield,
on the battlefield, it will reward you for that experience by giving you tools to do the jobs you like to try and do.
I couldn't have dreamt of getting up onto a warehouse roof, lying on my belly, and sniping people across the other side of Nosahahr when I started, because I didn't have the means to get up out of the way, so I got killed all day, trying to find places to hide and snipe from.
Then you get killed, re-spawn, are not sure where you are, look around for clues as to where you were last time, and get killed as you spend a few seconds/minutes working it all out, and you have to respawn and try to work it out all over again.
Couple that with the feeling that everyone hates you because you are a noob and you are not helping much, and that can lead to pressure, which can make you suck even more.
There is a bright side though.
Once you have invested that
time on the battlefield, and got some experience, and unlocked those weapons, and got IR flares for helis and got some heavier artillery on tanx, and got heat seekers on jets, and worked out which gun is the best for you, and got over a 500ft headshot with a sniper, and helped your team dominate at Kharg, and placed all those Anti-Tank mines which can help you level up some more, and been relied on by the team to live out your ROLE, then it all starts to make more sense, and you get the tools you need for your job, and every time you unlock something, or level up, you feel a little more special in the warzone, a little more needed, a little more purposeful.
Like I said ages ago, it is rewarding if you stick at it, and why is that?
Well my guess is; so that those who want to casually drop in and play, will have a pants time, but those who are serious about putting some hours in, will reap the benefits and ultimately, do better, and get better schtuff.
This sorts the weed from the chaff. Nothing wrong with that. 👍
Sorry to go on.
Sniping: across distance is tricky, but ultimately fun, as you aren't getting shot at so often.
Do you like a gun that gives you SEMIAUTO, so you can fire again straight away if you miss?
Do you like a gun that kills if you hit above the ribs, but has to be un-scoped, and re-scoped before you can fire again?
Both are there, the guns with semiauto are easier to use initially IMO.
You miss once, you can fire again.
The best early gun, is the MOD MK11 or whatever it's called.
I got sniped by one last night
After a while, you unlock the SV98, which is awesome, but is shoot, reload, shoot, reload, shoot.
Much harder to take someone down, if your accuracy is off.
However, use it long enough, and unlock the straight pull bolt attachment, and make the gun quicker, easier and more user-friendly.....see?
When you are trying to hit someone over distance, watch for the little white dot that appears just after you fired: it's your bullet!
If you can't see what I'm on about, fire into the air, and look!
You can actually see it drop over the distance, and hit the floor by the feet of the black shape you are trying to hit miles away.
Use your scope lines/gauge and raise your barrel, then see where your little white bullet goes.
Always go for the upper body.
After some more time, you unlock the QBU-88, which for me just worked.
Until I tried to use it at any of the newer, unlocked maps, where it glitches, and I use it for waving to the enemy, when I feel like dying, or alternatively, I gurn, instead of aiming down sight. LOL.
They'll fix this issue with a patch soon, I hope.
I would also consider not using a secondary gun with a Tact-light on it.
You aren't holding it most of the time, and that means it's pointless, but also, when you run around, you look like a jet plane moving across the floor: flash, dark, flash, dark, flash, kill me, dark, flash, kill me, dark......
Recently, I unlocked the SKS.
Despite unlocking the L98, which is the sniper rifle I get killed by most often, I find the SKS is the gun for me at the moment.
Why?
I can fire 11 times without a reload.
I can fire 70 odd times before I need to find someone carrying ammo for me.
I have the right scope on it, as default, for me.
It has the same stopping power as the QBU, but it worx on all the maps.
Bonus. 👍
I know, when I unlock all the bits, like a grip, and suppressor, or Bipod, the gun will become even better, and so will my K/D.
Finally, before everyone goes to sleep in here, I will add this:
If you are sniping,
SPOT.
This is your job after all.
You do not carry a
medi kit, you can't revive.
You do not carry
ammo, you cannot help people that way.
You do not carry
anti tank schtuff, you can't disable a tank.
DON'T EVEN TAKE ONE ON.
What you can do, is survey the battle.
You can actively watch and direct it.
OH yes.
You spot.
You spot to hell.
You help the team know where the heli is to shoot down.
You point out that tank that's coming to take the objective by flanking, and someone stops him before he gets there.
You help the jet pilot find the jet that's tailing him through the air, by making it bright orange on
his screen.
Most of all, you aid yourself, by making the little black dot running around miles away have a bright orange cheese wedge from the trivia section of trivial pursuit, stick to his head, so you can still fire at him and at least get a suppression bonus, even if you can't actually see him anymore.
I was at Wake Island yesterday.
I went to the bit of rox sticking out in the middle of the sea, and told everyone which objective to attack, by pressing the spot button (select on PS3) at each one, and they all ran around to where I said, and took out the tanx I had lit up orange, and the grunts running around in jeeps and buggies, who also got lit up orange, and then consequently owned by the team, and I got a 286m marxman bonus for headshotting one from miles away too.
They took the objectives, and we won the round.
That's how to
Recon.
I would also say, if sniping is your bag, then play Rush.
Conquest is good for giving you the time to hang out and avoid confrontation, but Rush mode feeds you the bad guys to aim at, and they just keep coming! They start in one place, they come down/across/towards you from that one place, so you set up, get cover, and take aim and hit those Russians! or Americans! Hit em!
I have started on CQ, and it's still what I play, but Rush feeds you more XP in a shorter time I think.
Bear in mind, both game modes utilise different parts of the same map.
So somewhere you may know in Conquest, will start off looking very different in Rush, which is awesome, confusing, different, adds flavour, and is awesome.
Did I mention it's awesome?
Especially Damavand peak.
If you haven't, then select that as your map, and choose Rush as your game type, then go in, and see if you are attack or defense.
If you are attack, then enjoy the base jump!
Take your time, and good luck.
And guys, sorry for writing a book.
Just trying to help.......
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