2 for sure.
I'm a little disappointed at the general BF community with all whining and boo-boo lipping the specialist system. It's like y'all refuse to allow for innovation and crap all over it every time it is tried with every release. These same players would have likely bemoaned not enough innovation if the core gameplay was kept 1:1 with BF4/V. I'm not 100% sold that the specialists are better than the old class system, but I'm not convinced they are worse either.
I want to see how Dice addresses the friend-foe-ID and hope that it is adequately robust enough to allow for a hardcore/no HUD mode to work. I saw the FFID panels on the character models and those seem like they could fit the bill. I do like the community idea posted to make the skins for OPFOR grey/cold tones versus the warmer/beige tones for friendly.
I say we give Dice the chance to try something new and give it a go. I feel the class system is too restrictive, stagnant, and plays like a 15-20 years ago mechanic. I didn't feel like the specialists messed up anything which couldn't be easily addressed in some balance passes. Although, I really didn't like the idea of following my two buddies support icons and asking them for ammo for my AT/AA only to discover they both didn't have ammobox equipped. Easily fixed with ammo dumps circa BFV.
If you want the vintage class systems so fervently, you have a mode for that in Portals.
