Support Vehicles

As you rack up kills, you will be notified of support abilities that you can use. These should be used whenever you get them, as they can help your team immensely. (But remember to save a UAV if you can for when there is no UAV online.) You can only have one support ability at a time, so be careful to use your ability before increasing your streak. If you die, you keep any support ability you had.

3-kill streak - UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle): Scans the map for 30 seconds, pinging the locations of all enemies who don't have the UAV Jammer perk. Everyone on your team can see the pings. Everytime a person uses a UAV, it resets the timer back to 30 seconds and does not stack. So if you can, it is best to save it and use it only when there is no UAV up or the current one is about to expire. (Thanks to nolimit1386 for this correction)

If no jet icons are on the radar map, you may call an airstrike. The map will appear and you can click where you want the bombs to fall. The area around your click will be bombarded with three strikes in quick succession. Try to hold your strike until your team's UAV is active, and don't bomb enemies under solid roofs (it won't do anything). This support can sometimes be more effective at taking out enemies than the helicopter, so make sure to use it before racking up a larger kill streak. Be extremely careful when using this on a friendly fire server! Also, consider saving it for critical offensives or saving efforts in Headquarters, Sabotage, Search and Destroy, and Domination.

If no helicopter icon is on the radar map, you can call an AI helicopter gunship to fly around the map shooting at any enemy it can find. The chopper has missiles and a minigun with considerable bullet penetration. Any kill the chopper makes goes towards your kill count. If you're dealing with an enemy chopper, shoot at it if your fire won't give your position away to the enemy. All bullets that can reach the chopper (i.e. not shotgun shells) will damage it, and every little bit helps. RPGs usually either kill choppers or reduce their HP to within a few bullets of damage, but LMGs also do considerable damage. Some servers have custom settings for the chopper's HP; I recall a server where the chopper spawned with only one HP! Don't count on something like that, though.

BakeR 01:33, 10 August 2009 (UTC)