I'm getting so hooked to this game it's fucking unreal. I was completely AFK until Stretch came round and wanted a go on the PC, turns out that loads of the issues are fixxored (still loads active, but we're slowly approaching Beta status).
I have two modes of playing this game:
Absolutely fucking awful.
Mediocre ("God mode" in Diddums terms).
Yesterday I was playing all the DLC maps only, as an engineer (holy shit I love the new maps, except for the one with the cave thing in the middle, which is the most beautiful but whatevs). I was seriously tearing it up.
I was getting so much rage from repair bitches it was awesome. Silk Road, the usual scout chopper layin' down the law y0 with his repair bitches keeping him afloat, I was killing this dude over and over until they decided to come after me with a tank. A small tip, on the ledge close to the centre compound, there's a battle drop rocket launcher. This puppy shoots three rockets at once. In layman's terms, it will take out anything in one shot, provided they don't flare. use a regular rocket to force flares, grab that puppy, and blow the shit out of the repairbitches. Triple kill guaranteed.
On the mountain one (the one with the boats n shit, can't remember the name) I came across another trio of repairbitches so I tried stingering™ them over and over, but there's quite a bit of cover on this map so they simply fucked off and repaired. I tried about ten times to nab these fuckers but they kept pussying out.
I then grabbed my RPG and came up close whilst they had half our team cowering and shot them down in one shot. Good sports too, I got a "good shot!" from two of them, and the third said he loves seeing engis use RPGs instead of Stingers (I wasn't going to tell them I tried for like 20 mins prior to that to stinger them, if someone gives you a compliment, fuckin' rock that shit br0).
I also took out about 20 tanks and stuff over the course of the night, those SLAMs are a real killer.
Also, if you're engi and you enjoy shooting vehicles, make sure you grab the right perk upgrade thingy and join a full squad. If you get upgraded, you get double rockets. I also only join squads with an ammo guy who actually drops ammo boxes (seriously rest of BF4, how fucking hard is it?) and follow him like a scavenger picking up all his scraps.
I absolutely pwned last night, topping the leaderboards a few times.
Prior to this, I was just trying to hold flags and get kills, but last night I rocked the engineer for the first time properly and decided to ditch flags, and try being more tactical. I had SLAMs covering access points to flags we were holding, I was shooting down choppers left, right & center, and just generally trying to be the biggest pain in the enemy's ass I could be, which quite often made me the high value target.
Also, taking out Pussy Ass Recons with an RPG and watching their little fits of Pussy Assed Rage unfold is oh-so-satisfying.
Good times. Fuck working. Someone buy me a lottery ticket.