![]() ![]() Overzealous teammates might try to push all the way into the opposing spawn. Don’t let your team get pinched between enemy fronts, and if try to keep a nice line back to the middle, where the bomb will respawn. You’ll scatter the enemy forces and give yourself a firm foothold near their bomb sites. Regardless of how you arrive at the initial bomb spawn, assuming you take control of it, your objective should be pushing as deep into enemy territory as is possible. Certainly, it’s an easy enough task take out a helicopter with a Stinger or a locked RPG, but even if the bomb carrier dies, the bomb ends up in an awkward location – usually to one side’s benefit. Oh there are plenty of rockets people can send your way, but equally as many ways of avoiding them.īy contrast, air support can move the bomb much quicker and more directly to the best bombsite, and it denies soldiers on the ground direct access to the bomb carrier regardless of what they do. First, you don’t have to parachute out of a land vehicle, nor are you under as severe a threat of missile lock on. ![]() Taking a car, APC, or tank won’t be the most direct route, but it is degrees safer than a helicopter. The choice between ground and air is an important one. As the bomb’s initial spawn is somewhat random – either atop the tower or somewhere directly between both sides – your first goal should be getting to the middle as fast as possible. The best way to swing momentum in your team’s favor is simple: get the bomb first, and get it into the enemy’s base. ![]() The difference between those two often comes down to which team gets going faster. The games, which have a 20 minute time limit, can either run the clock’s full course or end in a matter of moments. Much like the Rush game mode on which it’s based, Obliteration is all about momentum and momentum shifts. Granted again, there are more ways of bomb exfiltration and anti-air protection in this final release of Battlefield 4, but the advice stands. Main reason? All the new players who haven’t seen it come down will try their darnedest to take it down, and then the clusterfuck happens all over again. It’s a good idea, therefore, to avoid Obliteration on Siege for the first few weeks of the final game. By the beta’s end, with everyone having seen the thing collapse a million times, such an eventuality was not uncommon. Of course, the above is easily avoidable if no one takes down the skyscraper. Prepare to hear perpetual spam of “Bomb dropped” and “We have the bomb.” Fewer still are those chopper pilots willing to brave the firing line to give the poor bomb a lift out of the dust. Few are those players who think to spawn in a jetski and pick up their teammates. Moreover, the lure of free swimmer kills means getting the bomb off the debris is next to impossible. Anyone with eyes (or even just one) can easily see everything that goes on atop the dust mound, from the water to the ruined cinder blocks. The last and most important reason to leave the skyscraper in one piece is to avoid the clusterfuck the debris field becomes when/if the bomb ends up in it. Tasks accomplished, few players deign to stay at the highest point on the map when much of the work gets done ground level, and there’s only so much one can do from five hundred feet up. It can be a good place to catch a breather or repair a damaged chopper, plan a cool looking base jump, or recon the battlefield below. In Obliteration, then, the skyscraper acts as was intended, a staging area for assault on points below, not an objective in itself. Granted, one of the bomb’s spawn points is at the top of the tower, but the first person to grab it usually jumps off towards their objectives. Without a Conquest flag giving reason to stay on the roof, few people tend to congregate there. Contrary to the rest of my Conquest Large strategy (which is coming up in the near future), the skyscraper in this new mode is a stabilizing influence rather than campfest. The first, and most important facet of keeping Obliteration playable on Siege of Shanghai is to leave the skyscraper standing. There is a very specific set of tactics to use on the Siege of Shanghai map, though like the name “Obliteration” entails, sometimes you just gotta go crazy. ![]() As the Beta wound down, DICE gifted us with the new Obliteration game mode, possibly their most chaotic yet. ![]()
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