And while we are at it GÇö Everything in this game is offensive to my former profession as a Marine infantry rifleman. People don't know how to operate as tactically as military, people jump around way too much, sniping is ruined and totally bass akwards, there are no real battle lines or solid direction of enemy approach, no real camo, no prone positions and emphasis on careful movement, neverending supplies from hives, no comms discipline, no 3D depth of field, peripheral vision or sound to better I.D. targets, no tactile feel of a rifle, only a stupid game controller to try and aim with, latency with hit and visual detection.

This is why I think this game silly and quickly lost interest in trying to treat it more as I would like to. I get drunk and run around like it's a frat party. Because that is exactly all it is, a stupid, updated version of the engine it is based on GÇö Unreal Tournament.

But look me up. I'd like nothing better than to runwith military ppl. Sodium Amytal channel is supposedly that. I usually don't play in squads or with others though due to when and where I play. Also, I'm too jaded.

The way I see roles working in Dust is as an abstract concept.
You can adapt change and pick how you want to perform. Many people have trouble with this because they prefer definitive roles with concrete ideas. This is why we see so many threads asking what the purpose of X is all the time, or threads about X players are doing it wrong. It's people trying to define a role, or questioning why others don't play the role the way they see it. We have the ability to play how we want, and I see this as a huge factor in my enjoyment of this game.

I would love more content that opened up more options for how we define our roles in this game.
A target painter, yeah I would love that.
Deployable shields for triage pickups, bring em on
Active modules for EWAR
Deployable turrets
Webbifiers
Closable doors and breaching equipment
The list could go on

If I appeared hostile then I'm sorry
I'm only saying that he should try the role before he's to quick to judge
No harm intended

LOL! So, you were in the U.S. Army! Big Whooped Dee Fluxing Doo! Well, this is not the U.S. Army! This is a damn video game! Get it through your head grunt! You want to go play, "Army" take your ass back to the Army! What the FLUX is up with these crybabies now a days? "You can't do that....You can't do this....You should do that".....SHUT THE FLUX UP ALREADY!!

The laser tagging sounds like a great idea, having someone point out a target that is stopping the team moving forward so I can come and blow it to hell with my dropship would be great... But unfortunately only the squad leader has that ability and they're usually busy marking to defend a squadmate so everyone gets more points for shooting random infantry.