DICE TeamNone of this is even remotely useful. Sure, from the Beta people have been screaming their heads off about the Specialists - only to buy the game anyway, just so they could scream some more and threaten with refunds or, in some extreme cases, even a freaking class action against DICE - but those people will not come back to the game just because you've half-assed a Class system that's not on par with that found in any other Battlefield. On the other hands, those of us that have stuck with you from the very beginning will just see more of what's already happening:
- Assaults: using the most powerful guns in the game, while most of the time camping in the worst places imaginable, will just continue to do that, just with more ammo at their disposal;
- Engineers: already, people playing with LMGs spend most of their time prone in this or that bush, so you're just encouraging them to do it MORE; the only good thing about this is that Irish will not be a Support anymore, but it's marginal: players with Irish will still create forts with shields and the trophy system to then proceed to camp;
- Supports: way to give Support players the worst passive you could've think of; on a theoretical basis, you're saying that an icon above their heads will make them even more of a target than they already are... so what do you do? Oh, yes. Give them a useless passive. And yes, I am aware that most support players only choose the class to have heals and ammo at their disposal at any moment, just like in BFV they would choose the medic to use the Type 2A - so much so, that they had to introduce the mechanic by which you could take heals (and ammo from supports) for yourself just by going near a medic and clickling the relative prompt button. People that thinks that these problems have only arose because BF 2042 and its Specialists are kidding themselves.
- Recons: already, the Snipers camping *everywhere* are countless; now you're just making it more easy for them to get kills. Faboulous.
TL;DR: this changes will only make the experience more annoying for the players that have stuck with the game from the start, all in the hopes of buffing the playerbase - something that will not happen, because the complainers have stopped playing the game because of the Specialists... and they're still there. If you want your players back, you need to remove the Specialists and bring a proper class system to the table. But it's not possible, and I understand that. I, for one, did not mind the Specialists at all. I also understand why the majority of people would... too bad they're also the same people griping about COD players "only wanting to play the same thing over and over again", because guess what? They're doing the exact same thing.
