Pwngamer.com: Bad Company 2 – To Gustav or not to Gustav?

Pwngamer.com says: That is the question. For those not familiar with the Carl Gustav M2, it is a recoilless anti-tank weapon and is used by the engineer class in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. It is quite the useful toy when taking out enemy vehicles and blowing up bunkered down enemy troops, but where we run into strife is that the weapon is often frowned upon by the Battlefield community.

[disturbing_flame]

It's clearly noobish with the extended explosives, you have 7 munitions to us with the GUSTAV, if in your team you have an assault player, you ve got unlimited suplies.

So ?

It's just in the context that we see if the player play easy or not.

Rush mode = spaming Gustav is an alternative, can be usefull to defend (tank) or attack (destroy houses).
Can be consider as random, but usefull

Conquest = maybe the game mode that can be oversaturated with use of Gustav.
Players always got a chance to avoid the spam because of the distance.
Happily the maps are ig in bfbc 2.

More than the p of the GUSTAV or launchers in general.
The worse spot in the game is basecamping.
Some maps are totally unplayable with the basecamp, circlestrafing hellis, there's more to do with that portion of the game than to nerf the GUSTAV.

[captain-obvious]

in my opinion is not to Gustav if you are going against tanks
and Gustav if you are going against air crafts

the RPG is more powerful but it has less speed
Gustav is less powerful is it has more speed

[ASSASSYN 36o]

You must have severe difficulties finding people and dodging gustavs. You sure whine a lot.

[disturbing_flame]

I'm playing only on extreme modes and i don't whine, i just feel it's cheap to play with the GUSTAV only, i can say it, i do it.

[Nightshadow]

I think its wrong when servers punish you for using the M2 on infantry. It's war, anything goes on the battlefield.

[xc7x]

just gimp the weapon like EA / Dice do with sniper weapons.problem solved

[xc7x]

person who disagreed obviously never used sniper rifles in the game

[scrubgamer]

As EA would say, "It's in the game" so just play with it.

[bozebo]

RPG is better anyway
and so is vietnam

[BeaArthur]

Land mines.

[Perjoss]

I like to use the Gustav for taking out snipers, you'd be surprised how many just sit there and don't move out of the way with a speeding rocket heading towards them.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Got that right! I am a counter sniper with a gustav!

[Stewie2k8]

yup my mate does that all the time. he would fire them at long range to snipers so he can watch it fall on their heads.

[xc7x]

yeah because just maybe a sniper is looking through a thing called a scope and they see so much of their surroundings doing that. so hard to hit a target that don't move,what skills they all have :-/

[Perjoss]

a good sniper is quite aware of what is going on around, dont spend too much time staring into the scope. Until then i will keep taking out the less experienced snipers out there :D

[Trunkz]

I hope no type of OP Gustav like weapon makes its way into BF3, I lose respect for people that run around with it as their primary.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Do you inform the people who use them that you have no respect for them. I am sure they value your opinion... In the video game.

[XI_-Minty-_IX]

After getting both the plat with the RPG-7 and Carl G, I think that they're both just as good, really. The splash damage zone isn't all that different between the two and they both killed infantry and vehicles pretty efficiently. Gotta say that the Carl G's speed really helps for choppers though, but nothing an RPG-7 + tracer dart can't match.

[DelbertGrady]

Tracer dart is key to taking out helicopters. Took me a while to figure out.

[Ducky]

You mean, nothing an AT4 can't match.