This might be considered OT, but I still haven't figured out how to use the metal detector properly.  Embarrassed Can anyone tell me?

In the likely event that you wanted a serious answer - if you point it at a mine it makes a high-pitched sound. So if you advance slowly, waving it back and forth as you go, you have a chance of picking up an enemy mine. Just listen for the beeping sound.

Try it on a local server by first laying a mine and then aiming your mine detector on it .

So just to make sure, we've all understood that no one, least of all the OP, intended for skis to be used on grass.

Right?

Good.

Right, the devs really believed colour wasn't invented in WWII. That is just so effing likely.

I agree the number of people posting just goes to show how many people would be pissed off if it was changed.

On the contrary, it actually doesn't mean anything, as people can quite easily hate an idea in theory and love it once it's implemented. When Empire Earth came out, I was astonished to find that all airplanes had limited fuel - they'd take off from airbases, fly as usual until out of fuel, and then automatically return to the airbase they'd been assigned. Once they'd landed, they'd instantly be fully refuelled and would then slowly repair their damage until fully repaired, in which case they'd be ready for take-off or just fly to their assigned rally point. I loved this feature, which was an eye-opener to me because I know that if this feature had been suggested to me before I saw it in action, I'd utterly hate it and fight it with all my might, as would very likely lots of other people. And just think back to the 1942 days - how would you feel if someone told you they wanted a system in which any player could, at will, declare himself a mobile spawn point? The first reply would be "OMG that idea sux youd have people enter the enemy base and have people spawn on them and theyd dominate the map!". Lots of ideas sound utterly horrible on paper and end up working great once implemented.

My take: if a feature is implemented and played for a good while, enough for users to understand it, and people still hate it, listen. But theoretical discussions? Sure, votes are still good for their purposes, but arguments count more, in my opinion.

The commander on duty spam can't be fixed, it's a BF2 thing that can not be fixed/tuned.

Can't you even remove the string from the strings.csv file?

A half-serious compromise I can think of for those fans of wacky kills...

A default, non-TK kill message is comprised of a string that roughly looks like this: "{person making kill} [{killmessage string of vehicle/weapon}] {person killed}". So for example, if the weapon is an MP-40 and Lobo kills Donutz, it reads "Lobo [MP-40] Donutz".

How about about changing the string so it reads "{killmessage string of vehicle/weapon}" only, then blank out the killmessage strings of the regular weapons and vehicles, while adding amusing ones for bicycles, smoke grenades and the like?

If the killmessage is all that's shown, and the killmessages say something like "Look to both sides before crossing the bicycle path!" or "Remember, kids: Smoking kills...", people will know when such funny kills have been made. You could, if you had to, also throw in player names, though I envision this'd make it harder to make diverse quotes.

This is only a half-serious suggestion, and I'm not sure if I want it in as it might encourage silly 'mocking about' too much, but I thought I'd throw it out there nonetheless.

What's the point in killing 8 guys in a row if you can not prove it?

You need to prove it now? Funny, most of the times I see someone post a cool war story on the forums or something to the likes of "wow, I just killed three people with a grenade" ingame, I rarely if ever see people asking for proof, except from those who go "screens or it didn't happen", and that's just an expression anyhow.

I agree with all of the Original Poster's points in this thread.

Show general type of weapon (tank, airplane, handheld, ...) you were killed with.

Awesome idea. This is really the only info you need - are you under fire from infantry, an AT gun, a tank, or artillery?

Fine as is, besides whats the point to killing infantry with the bayonet, the knife, Bare fists, the recon plane, the UVC, static objects, the ATR, the smoke grenade, etc etc. If you don't get confirmation of the kill, the guy you killed doesn't get confirmation of the kill, and the server doesn't get confirmation.

The point is that you get points for killing them, they die and have to wait to respawn, and you thereby help your team.

It's nonsensical in my eyes to not want a new feature because it'd mean that you wouldn't get glory when you make a strange kill. That's not what FH2 is all about at all.