What you must know for boosting

[VirtualNight]

Hi, despite the multiple guides around they aren't updated after that the EA did something to the bfbc1 servers in 2017, or they don't underline or specificy some important things, this includes the crashing issue. Because of this it was a tough journey to find my way to boost this game and i broke the hopes of multiple people that were intended to do this.

 

First, the BFBC1 community is toxic; these people are mentally ill; the teamkill function (tk) is always activated and it is used by several players. usually you are tked just because you steal some kills or vehicles or you get high scores, there are constant tk battles on this game and i suggest to not be involved, better be tked few times rather than starting a tk battle and lose time.

Also, some people do only tks, to anyone, is theyr only purpose, ignore these scums.

Kills gotten in a crashed lobby before you left from it will NOT count, kills gotten in a lobby where you freeze WILL count.

All these info are important for the 10k kills.

 

But now let's talk about awards.

 

Lobby Crash

 

Lobby crash, basically you are in a lobby but after some min you are back to main menu getting a message about connection issue. This is caused by 1 known thing, which is the game that allows max 2 lobbies per time, so if you end in making a 3rd one it will crash. But that's not all. Even if there is a space for a 2nd lobby, it will crash eventually. This is simply because the servers are not stable, the one who searches for a mode and ends in an empty 2nd lobby eventually will crash in few minute, however this constant issue won't persist, seems you have a 10% chance to make this lobby stable, so is all about keep trying, my connection is good and is what i have experienced, but i think those with a superb connection have more chances. However i also saw randoms making instantly a stable lobby, i think that if you live in US (where i suppose the bfbc1 servers are located) and have a good connection you will definitely be able to make a constantly stable lobby. This is an advantage for some awards and a disadvantage for others (since if a lobby doesn't crash the randoms will join and stay in).

If the lobby crashes your progress won't count, but if you leave before this happens then they will count. you must do this after 1 or 2 awards before you crash, I will explain later how to boost some awards with this tactic.

 

Boost

Now, i wanna point out the boosting method, and why you won't be able to make a locked lobby with strangers.

Boosting v.1. There is a rumor around telling that is possible to have a 12 people lobby, this maybe was true years ago, but nowadays is no possible, any lobby made is for 24 people. So a lobby can have 24 people in. Now you may think to find 23 people and boost... no, is not so simple, first because a good part of the users on this site never replies, doesn't care of the appointments it takes, and so on. But even if you really find enough, there are some obstacles.

With 24 you wanna lock a lobby, but to do this it is required that one of your group takes a random's spot once he leaves, this requires attention and this can be hard with so many people. To have someone leaving you could teamkill him to make him mad, and then he would teamkill you, at 6 tk there is a kick so let yourself get tked by him, he is kicked and quickly one of your group joins. This process takes ALOT of time if done in the afternon or evening (time where usually people can play, but so can the randoms), since you should have something like 20 people get kicked.

If you really succeed then is not over. There is a kick for idle and i doubt after 2-3h of attempts to steal a lobby then all can still play alot, so each person would need a turbo pad to avoid being kicked,

Is much easier steal a lobby in the night or morning, but there is the problem: be 24 in such time, i tried and hadn't succedd as is an unusual time.

Last, i doubt that all 24 could stay up for dozens of hours, is not only the turbo pad required, but also that all can leave theyr ps3 running while doing other things.

 

So trying to get a lobby with 24 users in, where all have a turbo pad, are good and reliable boosters, and can leave theyr ps3 running for the night...seriously, how can you believe it is possible with strangers from psnp? forget it, unless you have a group where each has 5 or 6 ps3s & turbo pads or a group composed by your friends with the requirements above, forget this idea. and do the smaller but much harder version of boosting.

 

Boosting v2: this one is accessible to all who can play between night and morning. For morning i don't recommend begin over 11am GMT (winter). You need 5 other people at least. The idea is to find an empty lobby, join and quickly work towards hardest awards until there are too many randoms in both modes to continue. Is crucial that the leader is someone who can organize a group and guide it throw all the journey, you must be able to quickly change the plan if there are randoms disturbing you and be as much equal as possible; discord is a MUST, because is crucial to communicate with no lag. Use "r" as abbrevation to indicate a random incoming to your group, also report his position if you are dead so that your allies can avoid an ambush.

So, assuming you remember the crash issue let's begin.

 

First, everytime one does an award or 2 has to leave, the others shouldn't because you wanna see if the lobby crashes or not. If it doesn't, work for stuffs like 52 kills, 20 headshots, vehicles destroyed and so on. If it crashes, remake the lobby. You need that the Gold rush or Conquest mode are empty, if both are stable with randoms and are not going to die, you can't boost.

As long as no one is playing in that mode you can use the filters to play in the map you want. Cross Over (Conquest) is the best for chopper stuffs, Ascension is the best for turret, jeep and infantry kills/assist, End of The Line for boat.

You need at least 1 who can pilot a chopper well enough to not crash.

 

 

Awards Strategy

 

This is just for the trickiest, the others i think are quite easy to figure out.

 

Chopper Roadkills: the chopper roadkill function is completely broken, i saw some people trying to roadkill me but they were doing nothing to me and were just crashing. The boosting method is also broken, since even if your dummies jump toward the blades they may not die. We found that the best way is to place the chopper along a downhill, we did this on End of the line Gold Rush, there is a downhill street on the defenders' base and on top of it there is a rock. We placed the chopper close to this rock and the enemies were jumping toward the chopper's blades from the rock, and worked perfectly.

Note that roadkills do NOT count toward the chopper kills.

 

1on1 air: due to the bugged russian chopper, you will need this x2 IAR for the chopper patches.

 

Chopper patches: is still possible in a crashing lobby. We found out that the game does not allow to have only the choppers of 1 faction, if all bases with a chopper are captured from 1 faction the last one won't spawn.

Our strategy was to play Conquest in Cross Over. Immediately the USA team get theyr chopper and capture the NE base where RU team will quickly fly and wait; now you have 2 USA choppers. Do the first 1on1 air (possible as gunner), then wait the chopper destroyed to respawn and repeat. You should be able to make it in time.

 

52 kills IAR: if you have a stable lobby, mainly get killed by one booster. The booster's allies must protect him and keep busy randoms; if a random in the same team of the booster is going to capture flags or destroy crates, someone must stop to being killed and keep that random busy and the match balanced (equal flags captured in conquest).

Work as a team, help each other and 1 or 2 randoms shouldn't pose a problem, unless you found one of the few sniper masters still up; they do not joke, they never miss a sniper shot no matter what, you are screwed if you get one.

 

50 saviour trophies: seems that you need 3 saviour kills for 1 saviour trophy, no matter the class (like some guides say) or if you save a team mate or an ally, i can confirm that. If you are without randoms and are fast you can get 2 saviour trophies (so 6 kills) before a crash (supposing you kill 2 active players). Have one damaging your ally to less than 50% and then quickly knife him (the time for a saviour is stricted so be fast in killing), one should use a medic to heal the damaged ally who however must not stay above a medikit or he/she will recover health while getting damaged again. The damaged ally can also use the LIFE-2. One should use the sniper class to spam the sensor movement to spot possible randoms which must be tked with no mercy if they get close to you.

 

5 kills in 2 sec: possible with 6 total. You need a random match unbalanced where the first victims will join. Afterwards say who has to join to set the right teams, after some mins you should have 5 victims in one team and a booster in the other. Meet in a hidden place and kill with the C4 (it is bugged if used on top floors, and won't do any damage), then have the booster and who is next for the award leave, and set theyr joining order to switch spots, and repeat.

 

Vehicles destroyed: you can destroy 2 or 3 before a crash. So for the 5 IAR you need a stable lobby.

 

50 boat roadkills: best in Conquest End of The Line stable lobby. The best meeting points are north base or around the island, behind it. However you are definitely going to be spotted sometimes.

 

Squad wildcard: possible in crashed lobby but takes a lot of luck. The team composed by 2 players will go for it in a small map (ascension) vs 3 players (so 5 players total, you won't have enought time to do this with 4 before crashing, i can confirm this after some hours of attempts). For the order join, you can do this: host, when  you see the map loading tell the first person to join, wait 4-5 sec and tell to the other to join and so on so you won't waste time. The joining order seem to change over time, at times is USA-RU-RU-USA-USA other times is USA-RU-USA-RU-USA, luckily seems something that changes after some weeks, so once you find the right one you can begin.

The main reason why this must be boosted (still possible legit if you are lucky to be with just 1 random that knows how to play) is that since 2017 the team function has been broken, no matter if you set a team before matchmaking, the teams are ALWAYS RANDOM.

You need 5 assist and 10 kills for each, however the assist can be done while staying inside a vehicle, so all the kills will come through the jeep in Ascension with both people in

They quickly travel to the enemy base and start killing, one guy in the turret and the other as a driver, after 10 kills for one switch spots (betweend river and turret). I suggest when there are 4 kills elft to have one of the victims to leave, so if a random join he will be put into that team and won't mess the squad wildcard.

 

Chopper kills: someone who can pilot must bring the USA chopper in the enemy base then the killer will use the turret. If there are some randoms is impprtant that the booster's ally stay inside the chopper as pilot and fly in a circular pattern up and down to avoid possible shots from randoms.

 

Jeep kills: the booster's ally should stay a driver to avoid that a possible random spawns in and drives away.

 

 

Hope this will help you ?

 

Addictional tips.

 

With my Devil Dogs trophy: since the squads are completely random, you need 4 people and an empty conquest lobby. Invite your friend/second ps3 to your squad (if a friends, he or you have to switch to nat 1 for easy connecting), now have one of the booster search conquest ascension, and join him, if the joining order is USA-RU-RU this will work. Now the 4th person joins and immediately take all flags, the match will end and the trophy will pop.

If you can't do this, you have to try in a random match, you must keep leaving and rejoining until you and your partner are in the same team and same squad.

Some people report this trophy as bugged, i don't know what's the problem with it.

 

There is No I In Squad: like above, squads are random so trying this in a random lobby is hugely luck based. Boost instead in a stable empty lobby.

Edited December 3, 2018 by VirtualNight

[EdwardTheMartyr]

I got this platinum after starting in late July. I can answer questions about best strategies. End of The Line Gold Rush is the best map.

[blackshirt1bs]

No one must play with me 

 

I only want to help.... ?

 

 

Edited January 21, 2019 by blackshirt1bs

[EdwardTheMartyr]

I think I got every award and over 6,000 kills before I boosted with Blackshirt. I am decent at the game's multiplayer against randoms. I even got the Squad Wildcard with randoms.

I agree with the community being toxic and mentally ill. One of them sounded like a total basement dweller. They seem to be addicted to the game hopelessly. Really bizarre. I'd like to study these individuals if it were legal.

[Ivan-A145]

Very good person I recommend you contact him for game will save you allot of hours playning

 

[meterano7]

On 23.1.2019 at 4:00 PM, EdwardTheMartyr said:

I think I got every award and over 6,000 kills before I boosted with Blackshirt. I am decent at the game's multiplayer against randoms. I even got the Squad Wildcard with randoms.

I agree with the community being toxic and mentally ill. One of them sounded like a total basement dweller. They seem to be addicted to the game hopelessly. Really bizarre. I'd like to study these individuals if it were legal.

Tell me more lol

[DaivRules]

Use the boosting sessions, do not post here looking to boost. This thread will be locked if there are any more requests to boost posted here. 

[Formigao1998]

I did! "With my Devil dogs" is really Luck,

I did what @VirtualNight Said, but i have 2 Playstation 3 connected in the same internet... It helped me a Lot, you need to be in the same Team and squad as your 2nd console and the trophy should pop at the end of the round, even If you lose or Win.

 

Maybe If you Join at the very end of the round, should pop, (it's happened to me)

My 2nd console have only 5 friends, and this one, 90+

I have nat 2, and here in Brazil, It's almost impossible to get nat 1...

 

Good luck!

 

Edited June 22, 2019 by ZBrasilX

[Vasilij_Kozlov]

15 hours ago, ZBrasilX said:

I did! "With my Devil dogs" is really Luck,

I did what @VirtualNight Said, but i have 2 Playstation 3 connected in the same internet... It helped me a Lot, you need to be in the same Team and squad as your 2nd console and the trophy should pop at the end of the round, even If you lose or Win.

 

Maybe If you Join at the very end of the round, should pop, (it's happened to me)

My 2nd console have only 5 friends, and this one, 90+

I have nat 2, and here in Brazil, It's almost impossible to get nat 1...

 

Good luck!

 

 

Hello! How long it take?

[Formigao1998]

On 23/06/2019 at 9:48 AM, Vasilij_Kozlov said:

 

Hello! How long it take?

Hello! well, I can´t tell you how much time you´ll spend, cause is a luck based trophy, I spent more or less 3 hours for 3 days, doing the same thing, inviting the 2nd console, joining the game (conquest), seeing if my both consoles are in the same team and squad.

Edited June 24, 2019 by ZBrasilX

[Vasilij_Kozlov]

1 hour ago, ZBrasilX said:

Hello! well, I can´t tell you how much time you´ll spend, cause is a luck based trophy, I spent more or less 3 hours for 3 days, doing the same thing, inviting the 2nd console, joining the game (conquest), seeing if my both consoles are in the same team and squad.

Many thanks!

When (if) you consols broke in different squad do you reconnect?

[Formigao1998]

9 minutes ago, Vasilij_Kozlov said:

Many thanks!

When (if) you consols broke in different squad do you reconnect?

yes

[JeManquedHygiene]

As much as I like challenges and would love to complete the BF series, this brilliant post cemented my decision NEVER to start this game. Thanks a lot and congrats for showing so much dedication.

[Cyvnyde]

On 03/12/2018 at 2:18 PM, VirtualNight said:

 

 

 

 

On 03/12/2018 at 2:18 PM, VirtualNight said:

First, the BFBC1 community is toxic; these people are mentally ill.

This literally made me laugh out loud.

 

I personally wouldn't say toxic (at least compared to other games I've played), although I have come across a couple of players who act like self-entitled kids.

 

The game is now 90% lifers, which isn't to be expected in a game this old. I'm currently building up kills to get to 10,002 and am currently on around 3,200 (may lose interest before I get there -- if a game stops being enjoyable then I won't continue just for a trophy). In that time I have seen new people and never see them again after one or two matches after being dominated by the lifers. I can just about hold my own against them but why would you come back if you were them. The game has a decent multiplayer, even by today's standards, but it isn't anything special.  To play the game nearly every day for 10+ years is beyond me, but each to their own, I guess. My favourite game of the past 10 years is Bloodborne but if I played it every day then my passion for the game would fade away.

 

The same few select people left are ironically the same ones that will finish the online in the game off.

Edited January 12, 2020 by Cyvnyde

[VirtualNight]

58 minutes ago, Cyvnyde said:

This literally made me laugh out loud.

 

I personally wouldn't say toxic (at least compared to other games I've played), although I have come across a couple of players who act like self-entitled kids.

 

The game is now 90% lifers, which isn't to be expected in a game this old. I'm currently building up kills to get to 10,002 and am currently on around 3,200 (may lose interest before I get there -- if a game stops being enjoyable then I won't continue just for a trophy). In that time I have seen new people and never see them again after one or two matches after being dominated by the lifers. I can just about hold my own against them but why would you come back if you were them. The game has a decent multiplayer, even by today's standards, but it isn't anything special.  To play the game nearly every day for 10+ years is beyond me, but each to their own, I guess. My favourite game of the past 10 years is Bloodborne but if I played it every day then my passion for the game would fade away.

 

The same few select people left are ironically the same ones that will finish the online in the game off.

Well you got lucky then or you have ignored what happens in the MP: continous team kill battles and if you get some nice kills you may be messaged (a cun.t got triggered when I quick scoped him).

The community isn't as toxic as those communities you can find in some particular shit games, but I would definitely call it toxic.

Edited January 12, 2020 by VirtualNight

[Pendaemonium]

On 3.12.2018 at 3:18 PM, VirtualNight said:

Chopper Roadkills

Chopper Patches

52 kills IAR

50 saviour trophies

50 boat roadkills

Choppers Kills

Jeep Kills

 

thought about coming back to this to finally finish the multiplayer since i love battlefield and i just completed medal of honor, which is basically bfbc2.

but seeing how much stupid crap I'd have to do like roadkills, boat roadkills and even chopper (i mean wtf?) i feel like never touching it again. I'd rather start battlefield 5 lol 

these older mp games in 2020 are a pain in the ass

Edited January 18, 2020 by Pendaemonium

[BlackJudas]

Weak.  =D

 

It's indeed a chore, the insanity is real when you need 24 accounts to lock a lobby.  No idea how many hours others spent on doing stuff like that legit.  The early days of trophies were no joke.  Now it's just $4.99 per plat and 20 minutes of your time!

Edited January 15, 2020 by BlackJudas

[Pendaemonium]

On 15.1.2020 at 1:35 AM, BlackJudas said:

now it's just $4.99 per plat and 20 minutes of your time!

and it seems like that's more your thing judging from your platinums but whatever floats your nipples 

[BlackJudas]

15 hours ago, Pendaemonium said:

and it seems like that's more your thing judging from your platinums but whatever floats your nipples 

 

Oh indeed you fabulous bastard!

 

You caught me!  Hypocrisy is truly one of my favourite pastimes.  At least we can hold hands and be Mayo Jar buddies.

 

Oh my nipples... They're floating!

Edited January 19, 2020 by BlackJudas
Indignant idiocy and parmesan worship.

[chucuchus]

Ok... I'm going for all of them (trophies)

Yeah!!!!... I started last week...

[Alex_Gorbatschow]

1 hour ago, chucuchus said:

Ok... I'm going for all of them (trophies)

Yeah!!!!... I started last week...

 

have fun grinding 10k kills with those disgusting randoms, who are so poor that they have to play the same PS3 game for over 10 years. I only got like 1000 kills and I am already tired of that. But besides that, it´s an enjoyable game.... 

[melodicmizery]

the first post on this is very accurate. bfbc was the first ps3 game i bought, and actually the reason i got cable internet during dialup days. (i actually nerfed my ps3 at the time to use dialup a few times just to play this game online because i was poor at the time lol). my sister had cable internet so i would drive a hour to her house and spend the night in her basement until her family woke up for work and school and kicked me out, then i was back the next day lol. eventually she gave me a piece of paper with prices for cable internet which meant stop coming over.

a little info for those interested, this game use to have leaderboards. i was #1 in the world with 9a91 game. i was in the top 100 leaderboards. this game originally didnt have trophies they were patched in in 2008, so alot of people didnt get the platinum when they should have. dice actually autopopped the plat for a few people who were locked out. i wouldnt be surprised if some trophies still glitched on people. 

Servers and stats become a huge issue when BF3 came out. the fact was, alot of people didnt want to move on from bfbc1 or bfbc2. and bf3 wanted all the players as possible. bf3 spent a crapload of money trying to compete with cod and take their fanbase and although they were doing ok i dont think they were doing the numbers they had hoped for. what did they do? took down the original forums that all the regulars used, basically took down the website and leaderboards of all the detailed stats. and moved server space around. almost immediately when bf3 came out, bfbc1 became a unstable laggy frozen mess to play. before that there was certain levels that already froze like oasis if you played it to long it would freeze everyone. the game became a unenjoyable experience. some of my friends still stayed and dealt with the lag and rubber banding and frozen issues. i couldnt. dice really was trying to make that game as unplayable as possible in my opinion because they arent going to make money on it anymore.

some of us regulars who werent trophy hunters at the time because trophies had just came out, we found every single glitch in the game. one time they put 5 of us in a dead server and literally no one else joined. so we spent about 4 hours covering half the map in landmines. dont ask me how because i dont remember. when we detonated the landmines, it actually crashed the server, and im almost positive it crashed every other game connected to the main server that game was on because almost my entire friendlist went offline. so i started messaging my friends confirming it and they all said i dont know what happened my game just froze and was knocked offline. i wish i had a capture card back then. there was a "butt scoot" glitch which was extremely hard to do. i have a old vhs recording i made of it back then. you could seperate your body almost and glide around on your butt and go under water and all sorts of places. as long as it takes to do the glitch its not worth it. the match could be over or youll just die while trying.

if i didnt play that game so much i would of had 3 extra years of trophies lol. i played that game nonstop, before work, and then before i started doing concerts, after, i just played it nonstop. eventually what ruined the game (besides dice purposely ruining it) was most of the top players becoming bored and trying to find new ways of making the game interesting. everyone became a sniper and started quick scoping. this was the worse. there was no skill in accuracy. spamming sensors was always a thing and a 1 vs 1 knife fight was still a challenge. but eventually it just became all quick scopers and thats when i decided to just put the game away and never play again. i tried telling alot of the regulars that they were basically killing the game they loved. new players who joined were being killed so badly by quickscopers that they would immediately stop playing. so the ocmmunity kept getting smaller and smaller because of regulars demolishing them and making it a unfun experience. 

the hardest badge to get is savior. back then there was no boosters. so maybe now today boosting it perhaps might be easy. also boat kills were horrible to get because people would always kill you. i ended up getting those on conquest i think with 2 ps3s. its pretty much impossible to get unless you boost as there really is almost no boat fighting or really any reason to use a boat for more then 10 seconds.

if anyones interested you can look at my stats here http://bfbc.statsverse.com/stats/ps3/melodicmizery/

i put in 1,480 hours of my life into that game. with 105,000 kills. 

id say boosting 10k kills will take you forever. for me i enjoyed the game in its prime so much that 10k kills is laughable at that time. but now as a hunter i can see how people would say fck that.

If you look at the leaderboards, the guys in the top 20, or even top 100-300 you do not want to boost with them anywhere in your server. ive played with most of the guys who are still in the current top 20 and i assure you they know every single little tactic to make you unable to even move without being killed. it was a challenge for us to be better then each other back then and i can assure you they still have that same mentality that they WILL show you how good they are and not care about your trophies lol. especially astrofighter, a few times i did better then him but he is relentless and wont stop using crazy tactics to kill you lol. if those people were a beast nearly 10 years ago when i played with them, i cant even imagine how good they are now. 

[Slipknot_Fan007]

I’ve actually been thinking about picking up this game for the first time in literal years to try and get the platinum.. but is the platinum even worth it? Seems like a real pain in the ass from what I’m reading 

[lucky0ne16]

On 3/2/2020 at 4:39 AM, Slipknot_Fan007 said:

I’ve actually been thinking about picking up this game for the first time in literal years to try and get the platinum.. but is the platinum even worth it? Seems like a real pain in the ass from what I’m reading 

Not with a good group of people. If you message me on psn. I can add you to a group chat. We managed to kick all but 2 randoms out and boosted some of the hard awards

[Slipknot_Fan007]

On 3/3/2020 at 10:55 PM, lucky0ne16 said:

Not with a good group of people. If you message me on psn. I can add you to a group chat. We managed to kick all but 2 randoms out and boosted some of the hard awards

Okay, feel free to send me a message then, I’d be interested! My PSN is slipknot_fan007