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Kamikazi car:- Here's a great trick against tanks. Pick
'Engineer' as your class and load the TNT charges into
the back seat of a jeep. Then drive the jeep at full
speed into an enemy tank and bail out right before you
hit it. The jeep will slam into the tank and the charges
will go off when the jeep blows up, resulting in the
tank being reduced to a flaming hulk.
Auto Run/Swim:- If you have to cover a lot of ground by
foot, try typing the command for 'chat' while
running/swimming. You will continue to run/swim without
having to hold down the keys.
Different screams:-
Grab a plane and fly it as high as you can (be careful
not to stall it). Once you get up pretty high, jump out.
Don't pull your parachute out immediately; instead, let
your guy fall for a little bit and listen to his
screams. The American will yell "Geromino!" and the
others will yell different things in their own
languages.
Airlift - This one takes
some teamwork and coordination, but you'll be cooler
than Maverick and Goose if you can pull it off. Have one
player snag a two-seater aircraft and take off flying
solo. Now position a friend high upon a hilltop or in a
wide clearing, and get ready to have him jump into your
aircraft for a quick evacuation! Here's how you do it:
the pilot needs to fly slow, steady, and directly at the
player on the ground -- be as close to his elevation as
possible without actually turning him into ground chuck
as you pass overhead. At the key moment that the
aircraft meets the player, the grounded solider can
quickly hit the "E" key to hop into the cockpit and be
whisked away into the clouds. Use this one to rescue a
wounded teammate in a hot zone, or deploy a comrade as a
paratrooper deep behind enemy lines. Just be sure to
practice this one before you try it out in a live match
-- a plane-to-player collision is quite an ugly sight
and really hurts the team score.
Explosive Jeeps - The Engineer's most powerful weapons
are the Explosive Packs, but it's tough getting them
close enough to the target to do any damage. Here's a
useful trick: use a jeep to deliver the payload. Grab a
jeep (the Axis jeeps work best, since they have a deep
back seat and tall sides) and throw a couple of expacks
in the back or passenger seat. If they're placed well,
they'll stay in as you drive towards the target. When
you see a target, "ghost-drive" the jeep close to it --
i.e., point it in the right direction, floor it, and
then hop out with the E button, so the jeep coasts close
to the target. If you time this right, you'll be out of
range of the explosives and the jeep will be right next
to the target. Then, hit the button and watch the
fireworks. This is a great way to take out tanks, APCs,
and closely-packed groups of enemies. Try coasting
exploding jeeps into the middle of enemy spawn bases to
do serious damage.
Grand Theft Naval - This one is pretty hard to pull off,
but pretty damn funny if you get the chance. There's a
couple of ways to get it done, but both are pretty hard
to pull off. The first involves you grabbing a plane and
flying out to the enemy destroyer or preferably the
aircraft carrier. Jump out of the plane, open your
parachute and land on the deck of either ship. If you
manage this, you'll be able to run on board and take
control of the thing. Then just take the sucker out for
a joy ride turning it to evil purposes. You could even
turn it out to sea and move it so far away from the
objectives that it becomes totally useless to anyone.
The other way I've seen the theft go down is someone
parking the battleship to close to shore leaving it
vulnerable to incursion. That's probably not going to
happen all that often, so you may only be able to
consider the first option as really viable unless you
can get hold of a landing vessel and pull off a pirate
type boarding.
Grenade Launch - Sure, it may sound a little suicidal
(okay, a lot suicidal) but if you're lucky or playing on
a friendly fire off server, you could be in for quite a
ride. Just drop a grenade on the ground, scream
"Grenade!" at the top of your lungs, and step right on
top of the thing. If you don't die a horrifying death,
you'll go launching high into the sky. Why in the hell
is this useful? Well, I suppose it's not that useful,
but it sure is fun and provides a couple of interesting
opportunities. First off, if you do it right, you can
fly up into the air, hit your parachute button, and
float down on top of a building for a nice vantage
point. Second off, wouldn't you be a little frightened
if an enemy came flying down from the sky to land on
your head.
Leave No One Behind - If you grab a jeep, landing boat,
or multi-person plane, don't leave on your own unless
you're fairly certain that no one else will be there
anytime soon. It's always better to have more than one
person fighting along side you when you reach your
destination. And it's certainly better to have someone
man the guns that are attached to many of these vehicles
to provide some extra support against ground forces. So
take a moment to check around your area to make sure
there aren't more friendlies to join you before you take
off. If you can't see anyone on screen, just look at
your map for the friendly arrows.
Start Your Engines - Ever find yourself alone with a
couple of friends on a Battlefield 1942 server? If so,
then this one comes highly recommended from the IGN
crew. The game's development studio, Digital Illusions,
happens to be the same company responsible for the
excellent RalliSport Challenge and Midtown Madness 3
driving simulations on the Xbox. Thus it should come as
no surprise that the vehicle physics in BF1942 are top
notch, making the various Jeeps, tanks, aircraft, and
boats more than just practical transports -- they're
finely tuned racing machines! Enlist up to three of your
online G.I. buddies to race against, and then pick a
vehicle type. A good starting selection is the fast and
responsive Jeep. Scour the map for Jeeps (make sure that
they're the same color and type) and meet at a central
starting point. Carefully line them all up and then
decide on a course. We recommend selecting another point
on the map and then making the race a round trip to that
point and back. For example, our favorite Wake Island
race consists of starting in the South base, heading
through the Airfield, speeding north all the way to the
northwest Village, driving around the flagpole, and then
cruising all the back to the South Base. The action can
get wild as you ram each other viciously into thickets
and over hilltops, so be careful.
The Healing Dead - If you're out in the field and
hurting for ammo or health with no hope of reaching one
of those handy dandy bunkers, just take a look around
you. If there was a firefight recently, chances are some
people recently died. And as you should know, players
leave their equipment behind on the ground when they
fade away. You should also be aware that you can pick up
any of these packs for yourself. So if you notice a
medic pack on the ground, switch out really quick and
use the health packs. After that it's up to you whether
you want to change back into your former gear. The same
goes for running low on ammo. There's nothing worse than
getting stuck with a pistol in the middle of a machine
gun fight. So if you're out, find a dead guy and steal
his stuff. If you're lucky, he'll have some ammo left on
him and you'll be back in business.
Sent in by Brent Man |
