What's the purpose of picking up dog tags? : Crysis

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:35 am

I see that people are doing this, but what does it gain you by picking up other people's dog tags?

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 10:20 am

killstreaks...

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 1:16 pm

I thought you get kill streaks by the number of kills. So, you don't get the killstreak unless you kill the person, then pick up their tags???

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:37 am

So you can mail them back, smeared in blood, to the fallen soldier's mother...

If you collect enough (in one life) you can call in support bonuses (by pressing P). This varies from map to map, for instance on Skyline its:

3 = maximum radar
5 = orbital strike
7 = ceph gunship

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 11:36 pm

Correct, u can also save ur dogtags after u have died, idk their duratation various some vanish after 1 sec some last entire match lol..

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:07 am

So, you don't get the killstreak unless you kill the person, then pick up their tags???

You don't get the killstreak support bonuses unless you pick up the dogtags. There is also a power module that does this automatically, and if you level it up decreases the number of dog tags required by one.

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:44 pm

Having to pick up the dog tags after killing someone is to try and stop people camping by making them run out of cover each time.

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:21 pm

It's a good system. Gets people moving about and makes you think more, and means less Orbital Strikes getting spammed. 5 Killstreak is fairly easy to get. 5 Dogtags isn't.

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:11 pm

I recomend just using the "retriever" perk/module. You dont have to run across the map to pick up a keychain- looking thing just to get some dots to appear on your radar (and other killstreaks).
Plus, the upgrades are easy to get and the upgrades are worth the time.

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:28 am

so to to make it black + white for you

YOU the attacker kill your victium when they die they drop a dog tag you then have to run over to the tag and pick it up

you have to do this x ammount of times to get the x kill streek

x being a number of either
3 or 5 or so on seee

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 7:26 pm

Thanks everyone. I've been playing the game wrong!

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:39 pm

Dog Tags are the best system ever!

I mean, if your ally is killed, the person who kiled him will pick up the dogtag. Then you can kill him.

» Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:40 pm

i also like the fact that you dont have to pick them up straight away

you can can accumulate them and that way you dont lose your kill streak but its hard to do it that way as they dont last for ever and you have to make sure you know where they are