Right, back to talking tactics again. For some reason, every game I played earlier we all ended up getting split up when we jumped from the plane, which wasn’t great at all. Shame we didn’t employ the all jump to x location or peel off to y location if the primary destination had a shit ton of vultures descending upon it. Anyway, that’s not what I want to talk about…
What I actually wanted to talk about was a buddy system of sorts. I really don’t agree with this let’s all split up & loot individual houses/building system unless you are sure no one is nearby. I really think if you are playing as a duo that you should stick close enough together that you can still revive / cover each other, but far apart enough that you make the enemies have to target one of you rather than both being right next to each other like sitting ducks. As for squad mode, if there’s 4 of you then you should pick a buddy & stick with them all the time while looting buildings & traveling around; unless you know for sure there are no other enemies are nearby. If you are a 3 man squad or one of your team mates die, then you should all just stick close-ish together. It seems to be a common occurrence while everyone is spread out doing their own thing with no one to watch their backs that at least 1 squad mate always ends up dead, downed or having to try to high-tail it from a conflict. I believe Jackfrags plays somewhat like I mentioned by having is squad close but slightly spread out & covering different directions – it’s a nice tactic.
Also something I’ve noticed is that whenever we play & are using Discord we all seem to have this strange tendency to chew the fat the entire match & talk over one another (I am also guilty of this), which leads to it being hard to listen out for & pinpoint the direction of footsteps, vehicles, weapon shots & explosions. One thing I’ve found for curbing this is push to talk. I use push to speak when I play FridayNightBattlefield & join the teamspeak. I bought a cheap usb footpedal (they are about €10 on amazon/ebay) which you can program a keybinding for that you can use for push to speak or weapon reloading or whatever you want – very useful. Highly recommend getting one. Anyway, what I’m saying is that when you use push to speak you tend to be chewing the fat less & only talk when you really have to as it requires a little concentration telling your foot or finger to push the pedal/button when you want to say something. I swear half the time I say something people don’t hear me or just choose to ignore me – whatever. Reee!
Final tip for this post, which is in regards to the blue circle. If you check the map you can see where the blue circle lies in comparison to where the white circle is. Take note that if the white circle is not in the center of the blue circle that the blue circle comes in much slower on the side where it is closer to the white circle, which means if you run sort of diagonal to the thinnest point that you should hopefully move slightly faster than the circle or at least prevent the circle from overtaking you as fast which means less health drained by the time you get into the white circle.
Also, just because you have the perfect shot on someone doesn’t mean you should take it. Earlier we was up top of a mountain & another squad flipped their UAV (jeep) over backwards onto its roof while trying to drive up it & all ended up scrambling out of the jeep. If I hadn’t stupidly decide to shoot at them, they wouldn’t have known where we were. As it turned out one of them had a Kar98 with a decent scope so I ended up giving away my position & being headshot about 5 seconds later. That’s me not listening/sticking to the tips & tactics I’ve shared on here. It’s very hard to resist the urge to shoot an easy target though. 🙁
