Specialists System vs Old School Classes (Poll)

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@Spartan_Praetor wrote:

Hey yall so something has to be done with the way specialists are being introduced. Dice actively looks here at the forum so lets get a good poll going to discuss the new system. 

Here is the question at hand: "Do we prefer the new Specialists system with no classes or do we prefer to do back to the old school class system that have specialist's in each class?"

Type "1" for keeping the current system or

Type "2" for reverting to the old system but keeping the specialists as a class specific character

Remember we can change this, going back to the old system is not impossible. Dice, I believe will listen to us. Lets go yall.   #2

2.

The old system is what makes battlefield so satisfying. Maybe in a BR or Hazard Zone the specialist system can be better though. 

For multi-player, stick to the class based system please!

2! Is my response. I'm sure things are very much in motion already with Specialists, but I will say if they can take what they were trying to do with weapons freedoms only, and integrate that with a proper class that incentivizes real teamwork and class roles as we've seen in previous battlefields (I'm looking at BC2, BF3, BF4), then that's a win for me! You can do this DICE, please!

If I were Dice right now this is how I would alter the Specialists to hopefully keep the community happy whilst maintaining their initial idea.

I actually enjoy the freedom of choosing any weapon on any class, don't get me wrong in previous games it has always been nice to know roughly what gun someone has based on their class. However, given the scale of maps I think opening that door to all specialists is a good one. In previous games games like BF4 you had the universal weapon types (carbines, shotguns and DMRs) available to all 4 classes. I don't think it would effect gameplay that much allowing players to pick any primary weapon.

Here is what I would change, I would give each Specialist a role or class. Mackay would be Assault, Falk Support, Boris Engineer and Casper Recon. Within those classes your second gadget slot would be only available in that class. Rather than give everyone the choice of any second gadget like in the beta (health, ammo, launcher, C5, ect) make it so each class only has access to specific gadgets. Assault Specialists could have under barrel launchers, HE launchers and maybe ammo. Support would have all health related gadgets and maybe smoke launchers. Engineer would have repair tool and all launchers, rockets and anti vehicle gadgets. Finally Recon would have all spotting gadgets, spawn beacon ect.

Doing this would mean you wouldn't know their primary weapon but then you could easily identify their locked special gadget and then roughly know their second gadget based on the Specialists class. Then obviously they have to do something like a colour change or outfit change to the different factions. I would even go further and have a Russian specialist that mirrors a US one with the same gadget and trait. Sorry for the essay and thanks for reading if you got this far 🙂

Let the Specialist system play out.  

It was interesting.  WE only saw a fraction of it.  IT's fresh new fun. 

None of the crying is anything but fear of the unknown.    

1

They're not that different. Specialist are just a class system that allows you to change weapons. People following this hype are easily manipulated by youtube or wherever they got their information from. Lets see how the full game plays out. Its in the game and there is no way they are going to revert it before launch. A more productive discussion would be how can we balance things, even that would be pretty useless since we only played a very small piece of the actual game.

The class system was designed to balance the game. It served its purpose, but I don't think it's really needed anymore. Still feels like a BF game to me and I've been playing hell of a long time.

I am willing to see where this is going and will wait for the full game to make a decision.  However, getting resupplied in the beta was almost nonexistent.  And I did not lie the COD feel of the whole layout.

2.

Classes gave me mini objectives and kept the in-between moments engaging.