Hello, my name is Mr. Reality Check. And I'm here to tell you that Assaults indeed have a role! It is very simply designed and it is to slay, my friend! I see that look on your face. You question that mockingly, but friend, any assault class on any FPS is pretty basic friendo. You just kill. Maybe its because you dont play the role? Can you give up the specialty roles the like of scouts and logis...oh and then sentinels and just play assault? Its quite fun, friend! There are slayers amongst you friend.

Make a list of all the roles in the game. Figure out ways that make sense to build a hybrid assault class with each of those roles.

For instance, you could make an assault hacker by adding a complex code breaker. Is it really that difficult?

Think of all of the different kinds of assaulting you can do:

Suppression - take a high position, lay down suppressive fire to prevent enemy movement. Damage mod tank a rail rifle variant, focusing on moving in and out of LOS as HP permits, drop a nanohive since you'll be spending a lot of ammo.

Battlefront line holder - armor tank and damage mod tank. Use a combat rifle variant focusing on hunkering down behind cover and using standard progressive movements across the battlefield. Focus on squad communications (use a mic).

Infiltration - Use precision enhancers and range amplifiers for added Intel to evaluate risk and infiltrate enemy territory at their weak points. Then proceed to massacre from within.

AV - armor tank to mitigate small arms damage while locking on and use a swarm to deter enemy vehicles from hanging around your teammates. Fit some packed AV grenades to finish off LAVs.

Heavy Assassination - Don't forget that assaults have an e-war advantage over heavies, so they make great assasins to remove fatties.

etc.

Do you know how broken and utterly wrong you sound? The only variable piece that adds "killer" potential is the inclusion of damage mods. Nothing more. Add to the fact that they are a high slot and eliminating them and replacing them with, say, a shield extender only adds more eHP. Even that still keeps it in this "killer" role, as you lovingly refer to it as.

Furthermore, the suit and how you fit it do NOT make you an instant slayer. They only lend to added diversity/survivability. A player's individual skill makes him a "killer", not his proto suit with mods. I guarantee you that a militia-only geared Sgt Kirk would utterly DESTROY a fully proto'd out FWA rookie, both 1v1 and on the leaderboards.

The saying " the man makes the suit; the suit does not make the man" applies here. Assaults have a primary role and it is to...get ready for it....ASSAULT. As mentioned above, you can make it what you want to. You just have to be creative.

We only need one role and that is to kill sh!t. Simple as that.

If you're good you can make an assault suit work.

I thought according to you, it was vehicles that have no place on the battlefield.

I know about your posting history. Why don't you tell the forums what you really mean.

Assaulting is a role, and it involves killing.

Look at combat roles in the armed forces:

Infantry shoots
Combat medic shoots and administers medical treatments
Combat engineer shoots and deploys/removes obstacles
Artillery shoots and shoots bigger stuff
Every combat MOS is trained to shoot, etc.

There is nothing wrong with assault having one function. Assault in Dust is analogous to infantry in the armed forces. It is okay. This organizational unit belongs just as it is.

We keep saying, you keep not listening.

Wow you are a slow individual. Like I asked that Summ Dude person, just how long you've been playing FPS games? The assault class in EVERY FPS title has been about slaying and/or suppression. The assault is the average soldier. Combat specialist is equal to assault. Smh

An ideal squad compliments each other. Sentinels take point. Logis keep squad alive. Scout recons and relays intel. Sniper also recons but most importantly its team demoralizes while assault mops clones in between all roles working congruent with each other.

What makes the shared opinion worth it is the simple fact it does not over complicate the situation. You could do progress of elimination and come up with the same results. Or you can look to their title as a clear cut, one word explanation. Or you can play with assaults who slay at killing.

The problem is not the assault. Its people uses classes intended for one role and doing another. Theres people using scouts to slay

In your squad, the assault doesn't compliment? And it has been said many times over in this thread. That Assaults don't offer "glitz and glamour" that other roles have, this is why you keep repeating "it only has one purpose while any other class offers up more option"

So you acknowledge their role, but say its not attractive. Just as someone has already said in this thread. Since only they slay and suppress and don't have various options as opposed to a scout or logi, you figure them to not have a role.

In the squads I work with, assaults compliments. All roles work in congruency when people are not being oblivious to the capabilities of a assault. There are maps that are assault centric and when that comes around, I change to adjust. The sentinel in my squad takes point, the logi keeps him going while supplying me, the scout disrupts and I mop those who try to run from my heavy and assault players with extreme prejudice on ground.

What you want is better bonuses for the motivation to realize the role of the Assault. That's what you're arguing about. Not about its role. Bonuses are not roles, they are bonuses.

And alot of us KNOW its because of the other suits because why in the hell people are complaining about scouts being frontline? About the brick tanking? What about slayer logis that people complained about? It's very obvious that people take other classes and use them in place of assault. Assault is one dimensional, while other roles provides two to three.

You're not listening to the truth of the matter. You don't even understand that you want a better bonus for assaults instead of clearer role defined. That has been repeated in several of your posts but even you, the owner of your own thoughts, don't understand that.

So this discussion is done in vain with you. You will just never get it. You want incentives to play assault. Just say so instead of rambling about nonsensical points of assaults not having a role.