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 |
