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2.19
Mission 18: Flying the flag
Difficulty: Very hard
Length: Medium
Main Objectives: + Plant demolitions in both silos
                 + Plant demolitions in the main bunker
                 + Laser designate Commander 31’s bunker

Here we are, the final mission. Here is the big story twist. Apparently, the 
war you were just fighting was all part of some terrorist’s plan. Commander 
31 really is a brilliant fellow. He managed to hoax the two world superpowers 
into fighting a deadly war against each other. Now the fag has taken two 
ballistic missiles and is prepared to fire them. All of the “propaganda” 
that was issued was not really propaganda. It was this terrorist group doing 
it. Stuff such as the suicide train and the killing of the negotiators. 
Anyway, this mission is pretty much the sameno matter which faction you 
played as just now, except that you will be playing as that faction. The 
objectives/goals remain the same.

- Objective 1: Plant demolitions in both silos
You start as a soldier paradropping from high in the sky. There will be many
soldiers paradropping under you. From your position in the sky, try to take
out as many enemy infantry as possible, especially the ones manning the 50 
cals. There will be a BK-1990 just moving about. Don’t try to destroy it, 
just get the infantry. Now in this stage of the mission, don’t try to just 
keep killing foe after foe. There are two reasons why. First is because they 
will never stop respawning. Second is that you have 5 mere minutes to do a lot 
of work. You face terrorists that resemble the terrorists from counter-strike. 
Man this can be really tough. When you land, go ahead and head toward the 
first objective marker. You can pick which one, but I would suggest the one 
closest to you, for time reasons. I wouldn’t even recommend trying to fight. 
Just let your allies try and do that, and make your way to the first missile 
silo. The only time that you would want to kill anyone here is if he gets in 
your way or is shooting at you from a good vantage position. Keep jumping and 
always moving to avoid getting torn in a hail of fire. When you see the silo, 
prepare yourself. There will be enemies around. Now you should ignore those 
enemies and head for the staircase leading into the silo. Now luckily you will 
get a small group of allied soldiers paradropped in to aid you. Your allies 
will start fighting the surrounding enemies. Now hotswap to an engineer 
(provided that there is one left) and head inside. You will find that there 
are several terrorist soldiers waiting for you inside. Go ahead and blast them 
with your shotgun. Don’t let the AI take over here because they tend to switch 
to pistols in here. With the shotgun just blast everything. If your guy dies, 
then it will hotswap to an allied soldier above. Go ahead and head back down 
then. If your allies win the battle, then they will all come down into the silo 
to help you. Anyway, you will travel around corners constantly, and you will 
be getting lower and lower. Keep anticipating more enemies and killing
them. When you reach the objective marker, go ahead and walk up to it and plant
a bomb. It is a launch panel. Anyway, clear the site after you place the charge
for it will blow up. When it has blown, go back up to the surface and head for
the next demo site. You will have to traverse across the whole map. Just stick
off of the path and travel in the same fashion as you did getting to the first
site. Don’t worry about your allies right now. When you reach the second silo,
allies will drop in as before. This part is almost identical to the other one.
Go ahead and repeat the aforesaid process for this silo. When it has blown, 
the objective will end. Remember about the timer. You should have done all of
this under 5 minutes.

- Objective 2: Plant demolitions in the main bunker
Ahh, you have destroyed the missile silos! Wait…no…there’s one more! There is
one more damn missile silo in the main bunker! Now you must head toward the
objective marker to the large bunker structure. You will 5 minutes again to
do this task. Luckily you will get a good sum of reinforcements to aid you
again, including tanks! Now this part can be really damn tough. You have to 
get into the structure that is sort of high rise by the complex network
of ramps and catwalks. Try to enter the structure from one of the ramps, but
make sure that it is somewhat clear before you head up. Just keep heading 
upward toward the main bunker (which kind of looks like an air control tower)
and keep fighting enemies. These guys respawn a lot, so you will have to 
watch for them coming from all sides. Also these enemies can shoot through the 
catwalks from above, making it nearly impossible to ascend. Anyway, just keep
heading up. Don’t try to take too many losses, but it doesn’t matter really
too much. Enemy copters will come at this segment somewhere in the start of
it, but they aren’t too much of a threat. Nevertheless, when you make it to
the top (the bunker) or close to it (nearing the time limit), you will get
the message “abort objective”. You see, this objective can’t really be
completed. Now you will get the next and last objective in this game.

- Objective 3: Laser designate Commander 31’s bunker
Now your forces get a mortar ready for a call in strike. The gist is to 
laser designate the bunker where you are now just like you have done before
by the sniper against vehicles. Now hotswap to one of the newly appearing
snipers on the building next to the bunker structure. Now this part seems
simple, all you do is designate. But there are a few complications. Two 
helos fly out to try to disrupt your designating. All they have to do is fly
in front of your laser and you will lose your lock and can then bombard you 
to death. This really isn’t about taking losses, but to do the objective
quickly under a minute. If you try to destroy a helo, another one comes in to 
replace it. This part can be REALLY difficult for the amount of time that you 
get. When the target is successfully blown, you will get a cinematic and then 
you will end this objective, this mission, and this game!

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        /|3.1 Xbox Live Basics|\
       
The Xbox Live portion of BF2: MC is a lot like its predecessor BF2. It 
supports up to 24 players in more than 10 maps. This part is just like
a combination of the SP campaign and BF2. There isn’t too much basics
involved. You can’t hotswap in multiplayer, and you don’t really use your 
dials. Anyway, there are two game modes, Capture the Flag and the famous 
Battlefield series Conquest game mode. There are four sides which are 
the US, China, MEC, and EU. Each map will be having two factions fighting
each other. Here is a short description of each of the gametypes:

- Capture the flag: The standard CTF game. Usually in this you get a small
scale version of whatever map you are playing on. Each team has a flag. You
must go and try to take their flag and bring it back to your base. When you
do, you will get points for a capture. Also, you must try to defend your
base from enemies trying to take your flag. This gametype has been used
in so many other games that you cant count. Keep in mind that you can still
fire while you hold the flag. Anyway, this mode isn’t as popular sadly.

- Conquest: This mode is the real Battlefield of this game. The rules are
simple. Try to capture as much control points in the game using your forces.
In every conquest map, there will be a certain number of control points. 
Each one will be represented as a flag. You must stand near a flag to fill
the bar to your side’s color (which is always blue). Both teams have an 
amount of tickets (both start the same at the beginning of a match). Your
goal is to reduce the enemies tickets to zero before he does the same to you.
To do this, hold the majority of the control points for the majority of the
match. Individuals gain points by getting kills and capturing flags. 

These are the gametypes available. Now all the ranking systems work the same
as the single-player. You get medals, but of a slightly different list. In
multiplayer though, you can get ribbons as well for doing certain things.
Here is a list of all the medals, ribbons, and ranks:

NOTE: PPH means points per hour

Medals:

The Service Cross:
Kill 5 enemies without dying using kit weapons only

The Bronze Star:
Kill 10 enemies without dying using land vehicle weapons

Air Force Cross:
Kill 10 enemies without dying using aerial weapons

The Silver Star:
Kill 20 enemies without dying using vehicle weapons

The Service Cross, First Class:
Kill 10 enemies without dying using kit weapons only

The Bronze Star, First Class:
Kill 15 enemies without dying using land vehicle weapons

Air Force Cross, First Class:
Kill 15 enemies without dying using aerial weapons

Expert Killing:
Kill 4 enemies without dying using one clip in an assault rifle

Expert Shooting:
Kill 4 enemies without dying using one clip in a sniper rifle

Expert Demolition:
Destroy 4 enemy vehicles with C4 without dying

Expert Repair:
Repair 4 friendly vehicles without dying. A third of their health must be 
restored

Expert Healer:
Heal 4 friendly players without dying. A third of their health must be 
restored

Navy Cross:
Kill 30 enemies without dying using kit weapons only

Legion of Merit:
Kill 15 enemies from a secondary position in a vehicle during one game round

Legion of Merit, First Class:
Kill 30 enemies from a secondary position in a vehicle during one game round

Ribbons: 

Participate in 50 game sessions
Participate in 250 game sessions
Participate in 500 game sessions
Complete 5 major victories
Complete 20 major victories
Complete 50 major victories
Finish top player in 5 game rounds
Finish top player in 20 game rounds

Ranks:

Private
Medals: 0 Score: 0 PPH: 0

Private 1st Class
Medals: 0 Score: 25 PPH: 10

Corporal
Medals: 1 Score: 50 PPH: 12 

Sergeant
Medals: 1 Score: 100 PPH: 15

Sergeant 1st Class
Medals: 2 Score: 150 PPH: 18

Master Sergeant
Medals: 2 Score: 225 PPH: 25

Sergeant Major
Medals: 3 Score: 360 PPH: 28

Command Sergeant Major
Medals: 3 Score: 550 PPH: 30

Warrant Officer 
Medals: 4 Score: 750 PPH: 32

Chief Warrant Officer
Medals: 4 Score: 1050 PPH: 35

2nd Lieutenant
Medals: 5 Score: 1500 PPH: 40

1st Lieutenant 
Medals: 5 Score: 2000 PPH: 42

Captain
Medals: 6 Score: 2800 PPH: 50

Major 
Medals: 6 Score: 4000 PPH: 55

Lieutenant Colonel
Medals: 7 Score: 5800 PPH: 60

Colonel
Medals: 8 Score: 8000 PPH: 65

Brigadier General 
Medals: 9 Score: 12000 PPH: 70

Major General
Medals: 10 Score: 16000 PPH: 80

Lieutenant General 
Medals: 11 Score: 22000 PPH: 90

5 Star General
Medals: 12 Score: 32000 PPH: 100


General Online Strategies:

Here are a few general strategies with each kit online. I will also include
some vehicle strategies as well:

Assault:
This kit has the potential to do most in multiplayer. You have firepower and
range now. Whenever you get into a firefight with any enemy soldier, keep
firing at the head and hold your aim steadily on them. Remember to strafe a
lot so it is harder for the enemies to kill you. Make sure you use zoom if
they are more that 5 meters away. If any vehicles come, use your grenade
launcher and grenades. A combination of the two is enough to destroy heavy
tanks. It takes skill and practice to do this though.

Special Ops:
In terms of firefights, the spec ops are exactly like the assault kit. Just
follow my tips on a firefight for them above. The thing that the spec ops
soldier has that is unique is their C4. It is especially useful online. Just
place a charge right next to a flag point in either CTF or conquest. Then 
hide behind a corner or something. When an enemy tries to capture the flag,
just press the button and boom! You will get a kill or two and defend your
flag successfully.

Engineer:
The engineer class in a little different online than in single player. Two 
major differences are there. First of all, the shotgun is slightly weaker.
You can no longer “Shotgun-snipe” in multiplayer. You will have to be very
close to an enemy as in other games to kill them. Secondly, the rocket in
this game is a little stronger. You can use it effectively against infantry
as well. For example, if you see a sniper far off that is killing allies,
whip out the rocket launcher and fire a rocket toward that position. 9 times
out of 10 you will kill the enemy. Also repairing is useful. Use the 
blowtorch a lot to repair allied tanks and other vehicles.

Sniper:
With the sniper, you can get easy kills in large maps. It all depends on
your skill with sniping. It is just like being a sniper in any other game.
The difference here is that you need not always aim for the head to kill.
A leg shot can kill as easily as a head shot. So don’t panic and try to
Always hit the head when fighting a moving opponent. Also look for the
best sniping spots. It is usually on high ground or on a hard to reach 
area. Sometimes you will have to have a helicopter drop you into a certain
spot. Anyway, if you encounter any enemy vehicle, use the laser designator.
If someone sneaks up right next to you, use the pistol.

Support:
With the support class, try to keep it on a sort of close quarters range.
The machine gun’s benefits are that you need not reload often because of
an extremely large clip. Watch for allies that may need healing, and
switch to the injector and go and heal them. Also you can initiate mortar
strikes on enemy positions. There isn’t much else that support has. They
are better used in my opinion in CTF games and smaller maps.


Artillery Strikes:
This was a signature aspect of BF2 for the PC. Now it returns in BF2: MC.
Artillery strikes are basically a rain of artillery shells on a chosen
location. In BF2: MC, since there is no commander thing, you will have to
go to the allied command computer. It will be located at your base. Just
walk up to it and press the B button to log on. Once you are logged on,
you see a map with a crosshair and the locations of allied and enemy forces.
Pan the map by moving the left thumbstick and zoom in/out by pressing
Up or down on the directional pad. Move the crosshair to your target by
Moving the left thumbstick, and then pull the right trigger to use the
artillery strike. Remember that artillery strikes are not always available.
They are only there at certain intervals. When one is available, a bomb
icon appears over the command computer location on your minimap. You will
be told when a strike is available, being used by allies, or by enemies.
A crosshair box will appear on your minimap on the area a strike is being
used on when it is about to happen. If an artillery strike is about to be
used in your area, try to get out of the radius or get inside a concealed
indoor area (a building).

Well that’s about it for multiplayer basics. There isn’t much else to know
about playing online. Now go ahead and play the second most popular and
most fun Xbox live game!

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        /|3.2 Map Strategies|\

Here I will give a good description and strategies for each map in the game.
I will include map intro, strategies, and description.

Map: Backstab
Sides: MEC vs. USA
Number of control points: 5

MEC forces have gathered to the south of a small village outpost to combat
the threat from a newly established US tank base to the north. Mi-24 
helicopters have been deployed in an attempt to counter the power of the 
US tank division. A battle between MEC air and US ground forces for control 
of this strategically important location is about to begin. Control of the 
village Mosque will be key for both sides.

Backstab is probably the most popular map of BF2: MC. It was released in the 
live only demo released before the release of the game. It was very popular
then and is still popular now. It consists of a middle eastern city with 
some camps outside it.

To be continued……