I've been noticing a very disturbing trend since the patch came out. Now this might be due to the heavy increase in Vanilla BF2 players after the patch invigorated the PR Mod. The disturbing trend I see involves the LAT/HAT/TOW/AA usage in the game.

More now than ever I am seeing infantry getting taken out by LATs. It's not like a Rifleman AT taking out some soldiers behind something or inside a building but more in the ways noob-tubers use the Grenadier kit. They run around with this thing out regardless if there are vehicles or anything nearby. They see infantry and they fire. Normally that's ok since LATs have only one fire in them but when you see it happen time and time again it starts to become a rocket launcher from Unreal instead of an anti-vehicle or asset weapon.

I have been seeing the same with HATs and TOWs. Just in the Qwai game this morning and Kashan earlier in the morning I witnessed HATs and TOWs being used against infantry. This is explicitly against the rules. No one fessed up to the crime of course but it did happen multiple times. How do I know it was a HAT? Well when you see the missile streak upward and then guide slightly down and right towards you, then it's pretty certain it's a HAT. As for the TOW, a TOW Humvee came right up on us and fired at us. Obviously both are against the rules.

AA emplacements are to be used against aircraft not land vehicles. Both on Kashan and again later on we had AA fire on us as both a Humvee and as infantry attempting to capture a CP. I don't know if it's listed under the rules as it's a new thing to have Stinger AA placed as a commander asset, but if it isn't is really should be added.

Lastly, it's the responsibility of those that wear the TG tag to obey the SOP and to report those that do not obey the SOP. Those of us who don't see what's going on because it's the other team doing it to us, can't report players who break the rules. It's up to the TG folk or other rule abiding players on the other team to do so. While I understand that there is some leeway due to influx of new Vanilla players, it's important that a message that TG will not tolerate blatant rules breakers and that you WILL get kicked and banned. So please people, stop thinking other people will do it. Man up and help keep the TG server clean.

Cheers.