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It's not a bad idea but personally I think for class balance and identity more proficiencies should go to assault. I do think you could give the medic support path carbine proficiency as well as the spec ops recon class. I'd be fine even giving carbines to engineer but flavor wise I don't get engineers and dmrs. But it comes back to what is each classes identity. Recon may only have snipers but they get perks and gadgets that help them infiltrate, deceive, gather intelligence, and strike from long distance. Engineers may only get smgs, but they have all the launchers and anti-vehicle tools and perks to back up vehicle play (and destroying terrain safely from range). Support has tons of defensive gadgets and perks to heal and protect the team plus LMGs and mortars to lay down covering fire and suppress enemies. What is assault? They have no anti vehicle tools, no intelligence or perma-death killing power, they can't keep their team up or help defend them. Their job is to kill other infantry and take points. If assault is the anti-infantry, tip of the spear sort of class, then it should have proficiencies that help it kill infantry and to me screams for more more firearms proficiencies. Assault rifles are already in the middle of the pack range-wise so shotguns for close quarters builds (breaching) and DMRs for mid-long range skirmishing (frontliner) made the most sense to me.
For engineer the jump between SMGs and Carbines is rather small.
Going back to BF4 days, on the larger maps an engineer standing guard beside a tank while the driver and gunner did there thing was very strong.
The engineer can repair, pitch in with the odd RPG, mines to cover a flank and a DMR to deal with infantry, who will be at a range outside the effectiveness of your typical Carbine or SMG on a larger map, like the new Golmud.
In CQB maps that have vehicles, the other training path has SMGs as that's better suited at those ranges.
I guess my view is that engineers shouldn't get a of love with firearms because they have a wide selection of really powerful launchers than can do vehicle, player, and environmental damage at close, medium, and long range. If you want to cover your vehicles from infantry players, thats where the team play element comes in and having an assault supporting a push, a support defending a position, or a sniper providing overwatch should all be better picks. If engineers can serve as repairers, anti amor experts, and be the best at providing medium to long range cover to pick off enemy engineers, then I feel like that's a lot of power in one role. And from a flavor perspective, it makes sense that engineers would have the most compact weapons if they are in or around vehicles. If we want to share the launcher lover around then maybe that changes things.
Yes, which is why SMGs are the class weapon and why we also shouldn't have an open weapon system.
But since we do, we could go about balancing it out slightly.
The signature weapon buffs while a nudge in the right direction aren't all that impactful. Sniper rifles and LMGs being the two strongest, with SMGs, ARs being fairly meh.
Something along the lines of you select a class weapon you get the signature buff and 100 attachment points.
You select one of the open weapons, ( Shotguns, Carbines and DMRs ) you just get the 100 attachment points.
Using another classes class weapon you have only 80 attachment points at your disposal. So you can still use it, but it won't be as effective as it would be with it's proper class.
This is a nice middle ground between closed and open weapons.
