Well, they're an anti-infantry weapon. They made them weak against armor for a reason. Their best use is probably to take out walls and the baddies behind them, but they're really easy to aim on the PC. You can get close range kills with them too, you just have to hit the enemy directly and get an impact kill. There's a timer that limits the detonation at close range. It's a safety feature. I've heard that M203's actually use something simular in real life, but I'm not sure. I watched a friend play the 360 version a little the other night, and I did notice that his games were far more overrun with medics than I'm used to seeing on the PC, so maybe that's why we seem to be experiencing something different.

Don't aim at the feet at close range. It's not supposed to work.Don't forget Carl! The Gustav + 8 rockets = domination.

There's another good youtube video out there explaining how hellfire missiles work on the attack helos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7h2VZKMxRY

People need to know this stuff.

The AN-94 does great damage. It's beastly with magnum ammo. The M-16 is nice too, but the AN-94 is the best burst fire weapon imo (and from what I've seen, on paper).Hellfire is far from impractical under the right circumstances. They do a ridiculous amount of damage to armor. The gunner's tracer takes a lot of skill to put it into practice, but it's ridiculously effective. Plus, your gunner doesn't need to paint targets, infantry can do it too. A painted target will go down in one pass every single time with a hellfire. I have to disagree. It makes the helo far more effective if it is put to proper use. Your gunner is already deadly effective against infantry, so you should only ever have to play clean up on infantry targets anyway.

It's sorta sad that there is only really one map where you can have some actual air battles, but I would only want to use the extended damage perk if I didn't have a good gunner, or if I didn't know I had infantry on the ground painting targets for me. The tracer dart pistol is wildly under used, but I can't say I really blame people. Having to give up your 1911 for it is pretty rough. I don't even use it as engineer, since it's easy enough to hit targets with the CG (or RPG-7) without it, and it's just as easy to shoot down helos as it is to hit them with tracer darts in the first place.

Shooting down attack helos with the CG is just a joy. It's maybe my favorite thing ever.

I'll agree with you 100% on the M416 though. That gun is awesome. The XM8 is pretty close, but I prefer the more stable M416. Plus it has the best iron sights of any assault rifle, which frees up great perks like 2x grenades (or lightweight, or whatever)!

There is no C4 option for engis, only assault and recon.

It's clearly not, but I'm sure you'll get some kind of change log soon. You're definitely getting a patch soon. As soon as Microsoft lets them patch it, at least.I'm a little hesitant to make any tweaks that are specific to server latency, since I tend to play on a variety of servers.

The Dr. Pepper stuff comes out on the 360 tomorrow, and there's a new map (layout) pack too. Squad DM and Squad Rush though, so don't get too excited! I'm still pretty happy about a new DM map though. I think Squad Deathmatch is a little underrated, it's actually a lot of fun when you're playing with other people. Nelson Bay should be a good addition to the game mode. Moar!

I have a platinum star and then some with the knife and still think it's pretty shady.Sooo much better. The M60 definitely feels a little different but it's still good, and the 1911 too, though I wish they would have just left it alone. Seems harder to hip-fire it at super long range targets. Overall I think everything feels pretty okay. There's a slight delay when I hit enter game now, but if they fix that I'll be pretty happy with how this shaped up so far.

I just spent some time with slugs and the 870. I take back everything I said about slugs. Holy shit are they fun.

I don't use 12x zoom. That would require me to snipe.

The patch is pretty nice, but there's some kind of weird spawn lag going on now when you click enter game. They really need to fix that.