Commander Guide Options

[MonkeyFiend]

Commander guide for BF2.

Once you are commander, pull up the commander screen by pressnig 'caps'

Firstly the commander screen:



In the commander screen you'll have buttons for scan/artillary/uav/supplies (medic box thing) - click a button and then click on the map to drop the selected item roughly in the place where you click. Artilillary is not available in infantry only.

Some of the text changes depending on your language setup e.g. some people may see 'Fabrik' instead of 'Factory'

If you right click on the map you can zoom in - you can usually also use the mouse wheel for this.

The other menu options on the right click menu can be used to send your teams to various points on the map to attack or defend etc., They can also be used as shortcuts for dropping supplies/UAV/scans etc.,

The buttons for squads/kits etc., allow you to send specific squads to areas of the map e.g. squad 1 to hotel, squad 2 to suburb or can be used for sending specific kit groups e.g. Engineers to the karkand bridge for demolitions.

Just below the main buttons for uav etc., there is a box that shows either a green V or a red X - this shows whether the squad leader has accepted or refused your command.

If you scan, enemy will show up as red dots on your map - your team will not see these. You will need to spot them (by right clicking and spot) - although be careful of spotting too many enemy as people complain about commander spotting spam. Don't spot people under a UAV (as these do show up to your team)

thats the basic of commander functions

MonkeyFiend

[FCUK_U_EA]

How does the scoring work when Commander.I know to get points from your team,but do u get points for kills,flags,ammo etc?

cheers

[m33amkii]

i believe the easy answer is total team points divided by number of team players (or equivalent). you get the equivalent of twice the number of points if your team wins the battle. it's not exactly so mathematically but quite close.

[MonkeyFiend]

yep - it is indeed the total average of your team (or 2x that if you're on the winning side)

It only averages time spent as commander so if you get 30 points soloing and then 10 minutes before the end become commander, you'll then finish with the 30 points + avg score of team averaged over the time you spent as commander e.g. whatever the team averaged over that 10 minutes.

You still see it occasionally when people try to mutiny a winning commander just before the end of the round, thinking that they can replace them and get 2x their score. This isn't the case

[FCUK_U_EA]

thanks guys,

so what about kills?if u kill while commander do u get points for it?

[MonkeyFiend]

nope - no points for kills either

Which is another thing many people who moan about fighting commander don't realise

The commander only does as well as their team does (although obviously they can help their team out by capping flags and killing other players, even if they don't get points for kills etc.,) - thats why the most common commander position is for flag defence as support/medic

(btw fcuk, I think Foxx was after you on Teamspeak!)

[FCUK_U_EA]

cool thanks for that.

havnt got round to installing TS yet will do it tonite.

What did foxx want with me??

Not in trouble already am i?

[Pieter]

thank mate, but do i need to be team leader or orderguy thing?

[Pieter]

btw.. how do i drop boms whit airplane?

[MACKNM1945]

default is that you pull the commander screen down with caps lock

[MonkeyFiend]

lol true - that'll teach me to edit my controls

[Pieter]

how do i do that whit move the team to that position or something?

[=R6= Raile]

one really important, and often over looked or possibly not even known, bit.......

you can spot enemies without scanning..

simply right click on the map, and hit spot. if an enemy is even anywhere near where you right clicked, it will spot them.



This is extremely useful. When I play commander I rarely ever scan. It's not needed. Simply use this technique on important areas/high traffic zones, to make sure noone is sneaking outside of the frontline, and use the T button while playing, to place uav's, and you can do fighting commander, while always having a UAV, while also not letting your team down by allowing enemies to get around your front line..
oh and if the scan commander asset is blown up, you don't have to wait for it to be fixed. Gawd I hate listening to commanders telling me they can't spot cuz it's blown up.................

VERY few commanders use this unfortunately

[MonkeyFiend]

also - you don't need to random spot, if you zoom in the maximum, you'll be able to see the enemy running around below like ants, then directly spot them

Particularily useful for bottlenecks like USMC uncap > Hotel