BF3 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Battlefield 3 will feature 4 classes (or kits), much like previous Battlefield games. The classes are varied and each can serve two or more purposes, for example, the assault class can be team oriented with a med kit and defibrillator, or more offensive with a grenade launcher. All classes have dedicated weapons which can be only used by that class, while there is also a wide selection of weapons available to all classes, weapons like SMGs.
Assault
The Assault class carries a primary weapon consisting of an assault rifle — like the M16 and AK-74 — and is now merged with the medic class — the Assault class can now heal and revive teammates. It can also function as a more offensive class with ability to swap out the revive kit for a grenade launcher.
The confirmed weapons for the Assault class so far are:
- M16A4 assault rifle for USMC, AK-74M for Russian side.
- M9 sidearm for USMC, MP-443 for Russian.
- Grenade launcher or defibrillator kit.
Support
The Support class returns to its role it had in Battlefield 2, with its main purpose to provide heavy fire from a Light Machine Gun (like an M249 SAW), and resupply teammates with ammunition. In Battlefield 3, the Support class is broadened with the ability top use lighter weapons and assault rifles like the M4, as well as C4 explosives.
The confirmed weapons of the Support class so far are:
- M249 SAW for USMC, RPK for Russian side.
- M9 sidearm for USMC, MP-443 for Russian.
- The ability to use lighter weapons with attachments like the M27.
- Ammo pack to resupply teammates.
- Ability to mount LMGs on surfaces for greater accuracy.
Engineer
The Engineer class in Battlefield 3 is very similar to the class in Bad Company 2: its primary role is to engage tanks and armored vehicles with an array of rocket launchers such as the RPG-7 and the SMAW, or use anti tank mines. The primary weapon is a carbine rifle, with a variety of unlocks available, ranging from shotguns to sub machine guns.
- Main heavy weapon includes the SMAW for USMC and RPG-7 for Russian side
- Primary weapon is a carbine (like an M4 or AK-74U).
- Rocket launchers can be swapped with anti tank mines.
- Repair tool for repairing friendly vehicles.
- M9 sidearm for USMC, MP-443 for Russian.
Recon
The Recon class carries a sniper rifle for long range engagement, but for Battlefield 3, the Recon class has a more active role as well. The Recon also has the ability to use a laser designator to mark targets.
Recon weapons:
- Semi automatic sniper rifle, MK11 for USMC, SVD for Russian side.
- Will have a wide variety of team-play oriented gadgets.
- M9 sidearm for USMC, MP-443 for Russian.
- Can set mobile squad spawn point and mobile motion sensor
Not sure How accurate Tomshardware is but they report ( 4 ) classes still
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Battlefield-3-DICE-Frostbyte-2-64-player-PC-gaming,12154.html
make it have no health regen and
BRING BACK THE AUTO INJECTOR!!!!!
there will be health regen…. stay tuned to bf3blog dude:D
you posted that on my birthday! lol
What class do you need to be in order to heal people and be a medic.
prob assault class, that’s how they did it in bf2142
dude nice name
It even says below Assault class that it will be merged with the Medic class
You will need an ASSAULT for MEDIC
SUPPORT to give AMMO.
other classes almost the same as BFBC2
Assault
asuult dumbboo read
My name is Dalton to
this is for Colt: but if u read its the Assault class and u can switch it out for noob toob if u want…go healer though dont be a doucher
Noob toob??! My friend we call it an underbarrel 40 millimeter grenade launcher.
How dare you make a COD reference to this beauty.
Or an M203 if “underbarrel 40mm grenade launcher” is too long for you.
or a 40 mike mike
technically it isnt an M203 its an M320. lol
Auto Injector?
wait so if im a russian i cant use an m16? and if im a USMC i cant use an AK?? can someone confirm this for me?
itll prob. be like the previous games in which you can pick up fallen enemies’ weapons and kits
Think T vs CT in Counterstrike.
after you unlock all the assault weapons, you can get the beginning weapons for each country. at least that’s what i have with the support, after getting the m60 i can now get the russian LMG for the american side..
you get a certain gun for the team your on but eventually you get to use the gun for both teams all of the time
accually u can unlock USMC weapons for the russian side and you can also unlock Russian weapons for the USMC side. If you want my gamertag on Xbox Live my gmertag is daltonbarday15 im always on battlefield 3 and i can answer any of your questions and help u as much as i can, Tht goes out for everyone
No thats a terrible idea
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WTF, what are you some COD fan? ENGINEER is ESSENTIAL. You go play bf3 without the engineer and see how easily you get fucked up by vehicles you damn noob!! If anything there should be more than 4 classes. Freaken hell go play some battlefield before you even think about excluding the engineer class you COD NAZI
support can have a option to either have health ammo or engineer kit
I disagree, four classes are needed. The Engineer needs to stay as is.
The way you just described support, Elitemane, would never work from any standpoint in relation to balance. Having to choose between three unique abilities is too much for one class.
Support class being able to offer up ammo makes the most sense. Those guys will going through ammo really quickly, so they should be able to support themselves with ammo when they need it.
Besides, Assault gets the heal ability, which I like personally. This will mean that more teammates will be revived as Assault will most likely be the most played class in the game.
I disagree with you on colors as well. people running around with different colors could be confusing, since this game relies so much on team work. I am for uniformity amongst teams.
Bud, you just made my day, im a full out engineer and i was about to tell off that COD noob myself
I’m an Engineer.. My squad’s tank/heli have been saved countless times by my repairing it, and I always lend a hand from the outside when there’s a tank vs. tank battle! The only thing I think should change is that the assult be carbines and the Engineers have mainly Assault rifles. If you don’t want Engineers, go play Call of Duty cause they don’t even have the coding ability to create vehicles. They just make some bad graphics, use the same engine, higher some story writers for 2 million dollars and TADA! You have your dream game.
Wow you sound like a nerd I have both games battle field and mw3 both are great why hate one game because it has deft gameplay.
ARE YOU INSANE, ENGERNEER IS F*CKING S*IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE IT SO MUCH I BET I HAVENT SPELT IT CORECT!
automatically spot? cannot be spotted? wow your such a noob. if you want to change color of vehicles go play something else. i dont think any cares about the color of their tank when their in the middle of a battle.
dude without the Enginer class your ass is grass and I am a lawnmower literaly you should go back to MW2!!!!! I dot!!!!!
i feel as if your proposed class setup is a little unbalanced. it seems your support/engineer class mixture could be the all mighty class everyone would play as.
They need to make the specialist class and give him the sub-machine guns and C4. It doesnt make any since to give c4 to the sniper, Snipers are usually to far away from anything to use it. Remember bad company 1 that class set up was perfect. or do it like it was in bf2142 give the recon class a secondary job and give him the submachine gun. Please fix this. I know alot of people who refused to play bad comany 2 simply because of the class set up
BF 2142 has a good class setup. And c4 should stay with RECON. Yes, u have to read the class name again: is not sniper, is RECON. And that class will have weapons for close combat. a recon, in this case could be in front of all other team players and not in the back. just stay hidden, lay some c4 traps, let the enemy pass, release c4 and trap them. works perfect in urban areas with close quarters.
4 classes are the optimal setup. and the setup for BF3 will be the best.
Nope, snipers can use c 4 to blow trees or obstacles in their line of sight to increase their effectiveness and field of view
Cant BF3 have at least 6 classes or something not 4 but Medal of Honor had 3 which was TERRIBLE!
Yeah 6 classes which are : Medic, Assault, Recon, Engineer, Anti-Tank, and Special Forces but i really wanna emphasize on the Anti Tank cuz tanks whores are huge problems
Actually Special Forces should be replaced with Support.
Ohhh… since when did the USMC obtain the special forces?
@ M2easy: I’m a former Marine, have you never heard of Recon and Force Recon Marines? We can go toe-to-toe with special forces anyday. We just don’t wear velcro patches lol.
Would u like to break cover to move up with the knowledge that it will take half ur team to suppress enough people for u not to die, there is a reason that every fire team has a machine gunner, and special forces? WTF seriously special forces are green berets and marines have force recon and those are some hard core motherfuckers, and seriously you can make any guy special forces, its called being good at the game u derp, i love my m60 and ive suppresed an entire team for extended periods of time, if they take away the support class, there goes the last game were MGs are actually very usefull and FUCKING SUPPRESS PEOPLE
my suggestion would be Assault, Medic, Support, Engineer, Recon.
seperating the engineer class is useless and annoying
also, spec ops is useless too
yeah i agree with 6 classes
I think 4 is fine.unless they add a major new feature then keep it at 4. If you split it too much then it becomes like a team game where you can’t go on a solo take out because you can only do one small job
do you not reallise that BF has always been about team play? I never go on BFBC2 without my mates!
no 6 classes/kits is to much,like when u are engineer and then u meet a tank. happens all the time when i played bf2
That is the beauty of BF2. It is based on the squad and teamplay of the diferent class of it’s 6 members! Each squad in order to reach the objective should have a medic for revives, a support for cover and ammo, an anti-tank, a special forces for using C4 on vehicles bridges UAVs etc, and the rest assault or snipers. The communication with the commander for orders, UAV, supplies, and vehicles dropping and of course Artillery support made this game the best ever. I pray for a BF2.1 where the game play remains the same and only the graphics are advanced….
I believe you are looking more for an operator than a spec ops for operating UAVs and remote controlled vehicles. An operator would best suit the 5th class in Battlefield3. I hope to see it in a future patch or the next Battlefield.
What about 5 classes like in 1942. Assault, Recon, Medic, Engineer and Anti-tank. because it’s not all engineers how can use a rocket.
I think 4 is enough just people need to learn proper team playing. Recon C4 and engineer with launchers is enough anti tank. In past bf games i find it ez with just 2 ground either recon or engineer to take a tank. What i want to see is people working better with the classes already made add me up if your on ps3 witchdoctor87
i dont mind 4 classes but i wish u could have 5 or 6 players in a squad
I too would like to see more players per squad than 4.
I think the reasoning behind that is that since BF3 is going to hopefully be a team oriented shooter, smaller squads means that no squad can have what they need all at the one time, preventing camping, stalemates, etc.
Smaller squads also means everybody has to contribute in order to make it as a team.
there is a way to have more then 4 players per squad but you’ll all have to leave your squad when your in game and go to not in squad there you go problem solved although u probably know that now since the game has been out for about 4months now
i think we should have like 5 on 5 or,,,and please make the health more realistic because the snipers bullet does a lot of damage but half the time that is still not a kill
hardcore bro, just play some hardcore, youll never go back
i think we should have like 5 on 5 or,,,and please make the health more realistic because the snipers bullet does a lot of damage but half the time that is still not a kill….
Um no to 5 on 5. 12 v 12. More people = More kills. And don’t snipe if u don’t like damage. Go for Headshots or play Hardcore.
I think that maybe they did continue with 6 classes was because they probably wanted more squad action and more players being the basic parts of a squad that more people would play.
MORE special forces classes along with the four you have made so far please, bc2 medic guns could of had the guns from bf2 as well as the heavy guns m36 etc , so maybe an idea to incorperate both in bf3
Its confirmed 4 classes is ”the sweet spot” says DICE
Indeed. This class system seems to be well thought out.
It’ll prevent camping, stalemates, lack of revivals, all that stuff.
i think 4 classes is perfect. spreading out the gadgets too much will be bad!
I agree 4 classes is good for me.
I LOVED BC2 BUT I JUST CANT WAIT FOR BF3!!!!!!!!!!!
They should just let you choose whatever gun you want and leave the gadgets in their own class AND make it so that you can customize each classes armour and skin so that thier is some sort of individuality. Also when you put in your Clan Tag it should show up as a tab on your uniform
That would be Awesome!!!
“Also when you put in your Clan Tag it should show up as a tab on your uniform That would be Awesome!!!” I mean *Patch*
Not patch but a nametape.
You are forgetting about the balance issues. Any Class that allows you to heal others AND have an assault weapon and unlimited ammo is unstoppable. Likewise, there is a reason that no FPS lets a Sniper carry a assault-class weapon. The sniper could defend and attack against short, medium and long range targets, making him unstoppable. Imagine an engineer that had unlimited ammo and the antitank weapon?
I agree and this game was made so had to work together wow did you not know that you COD painintheass
your grammar and lack of punctuation is the true “painintheass”. I feel like my level of intelligence has dropped after reading your post.
there should be a custom class where you can have any combination of weapons and skills.
Go play cod instead
you must be a little kid who thinks CoD is the “bestest” game ever.
and you probably say bestest too
COD N00B
6 classes. add spec ops and support
wow, so we should have a special ops kit, which is kinda like the recon but pickin a silenced SMG over a sniper rifle (as in BF2142), and a support kit, which is kinda like the….support kit?
there should be atatchments like in bfbc2 but more like scilencers and laser sights.
there should be atatchments like in bfbc2 but more fore the other guns like scilencers (for all guns not just engineer) and laser sights (for all guns too).
i think 4 classes is fine… assault for ammo and fighting support, medic for healing and reviving support, engineer for heavy armor support, and recon for sniper and air support. what else would you need?
Im looking for a group of people that are not only good but a good team player ill be playing on ps3. Witchdoctor87 any other people reading add me up im sick of all the run and gun people that think there on cod this is a teamgame.
no BF games have been on the PS3 except the spin off games. I think you should wait for BC3 friend.
what the f@@@ is bc3
I am a good team player send me a friend invite my name is AdmJDL
I feel the same as you, unfortunately, I play xbox…
Man I played a decent amount of BC2. I also play xbox me and my buddy both have the game pre ordered and if ur a team player add me on XBL man. DeRealOG333. That’s my gamer tag, see you on there!
I know what u mean.
i think running and gunning in certain gametypes is actually a way to be a team player. obviously in rush, if you’re defense it doesn’t matter how much you die, just run in, take out as many as you can, and when you die, you go back. on offense, it doesn’t work as well because in that case you just burn out your tickets and end up losing. but there’s also gonna be a lot more CoD players in bf3 than there were in the others, so in conquest, if you’re in one of their bases and you’re being an annoying shit that spawn-camps them, they’ll be trying to kill you instead of capturing objectives.
I’ll play with you. I’m definitely a team player. But I can still operate by myself. I’ll usually be support. That’s what I enjoy doing. I’m ok. I could use some improvement.
Why. WHY it is problem to have more classes, atleast same as in BF2??…
Bring back the old kits! or atleast take away the lmg from the medic! thats so stupid how a medic gets a lmg, you should create a support class with a lmg, and they give ammo out aswell. Im sick of seeing medics with that crap its not realistic.
Dude, they already did that, read the article, the support class is now lmg, with ammo packs, and the medic is with the assault rifles. Engineer and Recon are the same.
Assult: armed with assult rifles, secondary= grenade launcher & claymores
Medic: armed same as assult but with Med Packs & Defib’s
Recon: as BFBC2
Engineer: as BFBC2
Support: armed with light machine gun, secondary= ammo box and the ability to steady mount there machine guns any where…
Hmm, i thought 5 kits will suits the best, but it confirmed 4 kits which is cool =)
5 to 6 would be a good setup: Assault, Support, Sniper/Marksman/Recon, Medic, Engineer, and Spec Ops. alternatively, Assault and support could be combined into one class, so that way the people that want to be frontline soldiers have frontline, medium range weapons. Spec Ops and Snipers should get some suppressed pistols, and only Spec Ops should get suppressed primary weapons (rifles and/or smg’s). Engineer and Medic should get shotguns, carbines, and whatever smg’s there are. Engineer and/or Spec Ops should get anti-tank weapons.
Forgot to add, advanced anti-tank weapons that can’t be reloaded (such as the AT-4 and the Javelin) should be one or maybe 2 shot weapons to limit rocket spamming. Obviously things like the RPG-7 should be reloadable.
You know an AT4 is a one shot weapon right?
Sorry i can read hahaha i see what your saying now.
If they want it reallistic, they should give a look in actual US forces loadouts and squad structure.
A squad composed of two fireteams, made of:
Team-leader, Grenadier, Automatic Rifleman and Assistant Gunner, all with medical capabilities (at some degree), all with anti-tank capabilities (in fact, every squad is asked to carry at least two RPGs launchers in duty, some go as far as to ask every soldier to carry, by itself, two RPGs).
They carry much ammo, and water, a lot of water.
us dont use rpg’s, they use AT4s, and no they never asked our squad to carry 2 at4′s a peice.
The AT4 is an RPG….
Totally wrong. A squad is composed of 3 fireteams.
If you want a simulator go play ArmA 2. No offense.
I’m all for realism, but when things start to get really over powered or it slows down the gameplay and fun…. I’m all in for not going the realistic route
medic
assault
support
engineer
spec ops
comander
get it right
dont make a medic carry a lmg they need to be carrying assalt like in bf2
dice can you pls keep it simple and simuler to bf2 dont go changing so much stuff.bf2 was a great achevment and people still play it because it is simple and fun resupply must have the LMG
Can anyone tell me what class you need to be if you want to be a medic and heal people. plz
READ THE POST, NOT THE COMMENTS THEN.
Ok now I’m confused?
If you play as assault you can either choose defib for revives or grenade launcher for frontals or whatever.
The so called “medic” is the Assault
Get it right DICE, everyone have been asking for more classes, it would’t hurt if you add two or not. We could have support for LMG + ammo, Heavy RPG + C4. We take away the LMG for medic and the RPG for enginner instead we give riot shield to the medic and axe to the engineer for some epic melee combat
If you want a riot shield, go play MW2.
Give the people what they need, not what they want.
did no one get the hint of sarcasm
Ok ppl… You are stuck to BF2… You ask for the separation of engineer and anti tank, which I find STUPID. And medics DO have the LMGs in real life, at least most of the time. That’s why they did so in BC. Ok, you are right to say take the ammo from the assault and make a support class, but what gun will it carry? LMGs too? That’s overpowered. Maybe heavy ARs like the AUG, that’s the only thing I can think of. And Spec ops, again a useless class. Better force the C4 on those recons and give them the shotties too. But take the fucking ghillie, if they shotgun! And shotties only available for assault and recon, who needs a renaming, but anyway. You guys ask for a BC2 with a couple of new maps, better graphics and Destruction, eh? That’s not BF3. Get used to changes. And last, yeah, a kind of commander would be welcome, the
commander-only goodies were too much. Commander should be just a guy telling you where to attavk and stuff, but assets like the UAV should be available to everyone. Though with 32 teamates, yeah, you are right to say we need someone to drive us.
I really want to hear your opinions on rush, and whether it should return.
my best friend joined the army as a medic, and he assures me, theres no such thing as a medic with a lmg in reallife, theres a seperate MOS for that shit, where do you get at the fact medics carry m249s????????????
No armed forces give LMGs to the medics. Medics only carry a firearm for self protection, and therefor do not get any advanced optics or equipment bar their medical equipment, And carry the standard assault rifle. You’re ‘mate’ is talking shit.
I thinkt the proper term for the “medics” in this game is combat life savers, as we call them. They are basically infantry with advanced first aid training. And they do carry the FN Minimi, our version of the m249. A proper medic though does indeed carry but a gun and will also never be attached to an infantry assault grp.
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I think most of the stuff u said was unnecessary except the ghillie suits wit shotguns and the 5th class thing. But support with ammo seems perfect and assault with medic packs it better because when your running and gunning I’d like to heal myself and others and support is something to fall back to for cover fire and ammo. DICE is doing a perfect job.
if medic carry lmg, im pretty sure they would die first == my friend is in military n he literally laugh his ass off for whole day after reading your comment sir. No offence
Medics with MG and Assault with Ammo Packs … one Word …BULLSHIT
Ok. I think this idea COULD work… But it would take lots of teamwork. Every Squad has ONE class. So you’d have a team of 6 assault guys… A team of 6 Spec Ops guys… Then have your SQUAD leader talk to other tiers (sniper,Lmg,etc) to see what’s going on from their point of view… If you have one sniper one assault one Lmg and one smg guy… You think the sniper will be able to communicate well with the guy who’s behind enemy lines? The smg guy would be way far away to relate to what’s going on…
Stop ranting about stupid shit. The game is going to be amazing and your just making die hard fans angry by putting your childish nonsense on the blog…. be smart.
okay since when does a medic, or in this game it better be a corpsman, which is a USMC medic given to by the navy. cary a huge f**king machine gun?????? there had seriously better have a machine gunner class, and a grenedier class i dont always want to carry around an m16 with an M203. oh and in bc2, its an a4, not an a2.
they should let us create our own classes like Call of Duty. More freedom for gamers to play how they want and to keep the game more interesting, but keep the BF3 game style,better graphics, better style, better game.
dude battle 3 is going to be perfect cod is gay never sugguest that battlefield needs to be like cod
ok let me tell you this dont ever compare a gay ass cod game to battlefield . its the perfect example of disrespect
they do dip shit….. you can customize each class individually and it’s 100x better than Cod in that you can put three attachments on your gun and have three specializations like C4/Grenade Launcher and Extra Ammo or Sprint booster. Cod lets you only put 2 attachments on at a like a red dot and silencer but it takes away from other perks. Never compare a child’s game like Cod to the God of all games…. (only BF3 has this rank).
haha you guys are right,.. but theres no need to troll here..
Cod isn’t a child game, its just an arcade shooter, neither battlefield is perfect (flame war in 3,2,1..) they are both arcade shooters and stop arguing about it, you just go arround shooting everyone and get shot by everyone, there is no good communication in the game as the squad leader doesen’t give a fuck about their teammates, he just keep sprinting to nowhere, the support class never actually lays on the ground spraying bullets and the recon hasnt got a spotter or spotts anything for you
seriously iv been waiting like 10 minutes for a vehicle picking me up, they know i need transport but they just keep forward, everytime i try to command “my squad” they say: “dude shut the fuck up and let us play”
i know is a videogame but everyone says it’s tactical, and pwns cod and shit but, dude ArmA 2 or Opperation Flashpoint ArmA 2: Project reality, pwns this game so badly, you need a mic in order to play, you got 1 life, if you get shot on the leg you will lay on the ground asking for a corpman.
this game is so overrated, just because it got big maps and vehicles they think its “tactical”
(PLEASE READ THIS COMMENT OBJECTIVELY AND DON’T BE A ANNOYING FANBOY JUST BECAUSE I SAID THIS, SOMEONE HAS TO ANYWAY, ALSO ADMINS PLEASE READ THIS COMMENT AND APPROVE IT, YOU WILL SEE IM SAYING THE THRUTH HERE)
.. Are you playing Campaign or something? Every time I play, Assaults are laying down medic kits, Supports put their ammo down, Recons spot enemy soldiers and use Spawn Beacons, and Engineers are blowing things to pieces- All as it should be. And the reason no one gives you a ride or lets you command is probably because you’re playing on Consoles- No one gives a shit on consoles, because console players aren’t used to taking commands from someone they barely know.
Sage.
STFU!!!!