I just started really diving into medic this morning, and oh boy, what a beast. I'm going to stick to my original (and less informed at the time) assessment that the kit is a little overpowered, especially the with the M60. I have to say though, it's really fun to play. There's nothing not-fun about raping people with one hundred rounds in your beastly gun. It really is great in pretty much every scenario. I was getting 40-60 kills in games where I was pushing extremely hard on offense, playing basically the same role I play as assault.. and meds and defribs are a hell of a lot better than ammo. Well, sorta, my biggest problem with playing medic is all of the noob assault players who won't drop you ammo. I try the social button, I try yelling at them in text chat, and I even try dry-humping them and cutting them in the face. You really can't fix stupid.

There's no substitute for C4 though! It's the armor killer!

Oh, and I could be wrong but I believe the "most score by" field in game is usually more accurate than I thought. I think it's showing the stats for the duration you've been connected to that server, or maybe for the attack/defend... but yeah... I could be wrong. It sure seemed that way this morning but I usually don't pay a lot of attention to it because I thought it was broken.

I'm pretty sure medic is my best class now, but it might just be because it's the best class. I want to switch it up more, but I've mostly only been switching to assault to use my runner kit with C4 and the Saiga. Sometimes, I just need to kill some tanks. I had a few really funny jihad attempts the other day. I tend to use the tactic mostly on conquest and mostly in the one map that's dominated by armor. One time I was on said map, hunting for a tank and I saw two of my clanmates on the other team land their attack helo in the desert to repair and I got them both. Good times.

But yeah, I want my platinum star with the M16 still, so I'll be going back to that after I hit 1000 kills with the M60. That shouldn't take much longer.. a few rounds at most. I'm already up to 9 golds after two days with it.

I hate unlocks, but you have to play to unlock stuff in this game. As far as pins and medals go, I actually adore those. I'm sort of a stats geek when it comes to games. I love it when games give you loads of information about your performance, and rewarding you with virtual medals and badges for said actions is fun to me. And no, I'm not bragging, I mean, there are people who have much more impressive stats than I do on my friends list.. I was just sharing a personal battlefield moment and.. bragging about my progress. ;)

I'll start to mix it up more, especially after I finish unlocking all of the kits, but frankly, it's the games fault. I enjoy the M-16 and the AN-94 (slightly more, since in most cases damage > accuracy in BC2), but it's because the classes roles aren't very well defined that I'm getting away with kicking moderate amounts of ass with only two classes thus far. Sure, rockets and AT mines are great, but C4 is very efficient at taking down armor, making assault almost as good against vehicles as engi.. and well.. as satisfying as the M-16 may feel, the M-60 simply performs better in the same role. It's a killing machine.

Assault is my first love, but I'm leaning more and more on medic just because it's hard to deny the greatness. I want more ace pins!

So far as bragging goes.. I encourage people to post pics and talk about stats. I'm into that stuff. It encourages you to play the game better, too. People who track their KDR generally improve their performance over time, and despite what people seem to think, KDR is still pretty important in most modes in this game. I wish the stats website actually worked! That's like my favorite thing about Halo!That's what the Saiga is for. Recon's make great runners too! Just as good as assault, really.. motion mines are portable wall hacks.

Yeah, you guys aren't really understanding what I'm saying. I too play to win and I play the objectives. You can do both. The fact is, your KDR is still an effective measure of your performance in this game (or TF2, or any other objective oriented FPS). Combat matters. Your performance in combat matters. There's only one gametype and scenario where that's loosely not true in this game, and it's on defense in rush, and because your team has unlimited tickets. Even if you're playing medic, and you're bleeding tickets from your pool, you're still doing more harm to your team than good. Ultimately your score is only a reflection of how well you did certain things. They let you accumulate a ton of points for assists and support to encourage those actions, and probably to encourage people who don't kill many other players to play more anyway :)

I'm not saying that anyone should get hung up on it, but there's certainly something to be said for tracking your stats in the game. I think it makes you a better player frankly, because if you're mindful of your performance you basically automatically try to perform better. You can care about your KDR and still play the objectives.. and you're going to be rewarded for it!

You definitely shouldn't get too hung up on it.. I mean.. I know some people who have 0.5 KDR's or lower, and they're bold enough to stick with it because they're having fun anyway. But if you know you're not performing well, you can get better, and if you're just satisfied dying twice as many times as you kill, than you're always going to be a bit of a scrub. That's the difference between a noob and a scrub.

On topic: The stats page went live the other night, but it still doesn't really work properly. The M1 Garand also worked in my game briefly, but now I can't select it again. I noticed that the M1 is the only rifle that's effected by stance in terms of accuracy. Weird.Yeah, those people are just noobs (or worse). Hell, defense is all about killing the other team, and they're just doing it wrong. Their primary objective is what they want to do and they just don't know how to do it anyway. Those people don't actually care about their performance, they just want to run around and shoot people. If all you care about is running around aimlessly and shooting things, you're playing the wrong game all together.