krazydave wrote:Can anyone tell me how you even use C4? Do you need to be a certain class or something?
Yes, gladly, it's my favorite.
C4 comes with the Special Forces KIT. You get around five C4 charges and a second power detonator. The trouble is that you can't switch between charges you plan to detonate. So once you've placed a charge, if you place a second, a third or all of them once you depress the trigger they all go off, no matter how far away you are from the C4 itself.
Some items take more than one charge. For instace, you can blow bridges, I thought it might require me to take our the pilons or superstructure but NO, just place them on the road, THREE mind you, and boom! Out goes the bridge.
I've experimented with C4 too. You can get bonus the damage by creating blast zones. Instead of packing one area spread them around in a killing zone so that the explosions overlap an area, then when you trigger the zone the whole area goes up, not just one flag or one vehicle, etc.
I've also discovered that the C4 will STICK TO ANYTHING. This includes planes and helos. It's possible to sneak into a base, attach some C4, and then wait for the craft to become airborne, THEN BOOM! This also works well with the Jeeps as I like to load all FIVE CHARGES into the Jeep and then drive it into an area or a tank, jumping out before it arrives, and then blowing the Jeep with my trigger from a distance.
But the most effective use for the C4 is on the UAV's, Artillery, and Radar devices the enemy commanders use. By sneaking into an enemy base all these installations can be destroyed, thus the enemy commander can't use artillery on you, a UAV, or radar until an engineer has repaired them, which they usually do. So I've been known to sneak into an enemy base, destroy these things, and then go hide. I request a supply drop, load up on C4 again or suicide and load up, and then wait for them to get fixed / AND OR destroy the equipment and REPLANT the C4 on the destroyed equipment, then wait from a distance for an enemy engineer to arrive.
Special Forces class is cool and I'd say it's my favorite. The Sniper is really good too, but the rifle is not powerful enough, so I've got to get another unlocked to increase the distance from target, right now it takes too many long shots, around three head shots to down a target. The high powered rifles that are locked could do this in one shot. That's when the sniper class would be useful....
(Other than that though - the game is AWESOME!!!)
