Lately ive been wondering if a light soldier would be a good idea. In theory its brilliant but then i realize lights cant use assault rifles (which svcks) id like to hear what you guys think about this class and iff you would make it.

yea i'd give it a shot, speed, high mobility, a smg that can pack a decent punch, i'd try and flank the enemy to create chaos to help my team, or just run rampant moving into the battlefield guerillastyle

i wud give it a try coz it sounds great been the 1 class with the highest mobility but i dont think it will b the best 1

i think the trade offs are good idk if it would be my best class but i think the flanking and raining on them with grenades and soldier perks would be great

Soldiers are the "front lines" type of playstyle. I think they get increased health and bullet damage to stack up against other types.

Soldier will almost certainly be my first Light class. SMG's seem satisfactory in terms of power, and I would rather enjoy raining grenades down upon my hapless foes. Not to mention the Soldier's other battle-oriented skills, of which we currently know next to nothing. Also you can restock your allies ammo, and your own as well, making you a valuable delivery boy, especially since you can get up to where your other Light teammates are, instead of making them come down to you. Plus it's nice not having to worry about running out of ammo, considering you'll probably be sending quite a bit of it towards the other team. Fun on a bun. :disguise:

keep in mind xp has nothing to do with your affect on battle and higher bullet damage can be obtained by any class as a general skill. Depending on the variety of grenades light soldiers will be the fragger class, get in, blow up, move out, simple. I know my light soldier will have abilities for explosives damage, range, cooking, etc. I wont be using much gun ammo myself with that class.

My bad, meant to say health, didn't know what I was thinking.

I'm going to be a light engineer. Placing mines and turrets in spots to annoy the other side. Also to be able to boost the allies.

A light soldier was my main alternative concept to a light operative.

Especially for the named tactic of running in, throwing our all explosive power and vanish from the scene again.

Anyone thought about being a light soldier using smart to keep up with other lights and shield them?
Or throwing ammo to people, while racing across the map?
Rush to blow up an objective?

There are soo many things to do as light soldier or as anything else. Fact is, we don't know yet what the possibilities and the limits are. Light soldiers will be a must on the battlefield, just like all other bodytypes and classes.

don't forget lights have fewer ability pips please...
you will be forced to use bullets because spamming grenades is not possible.

ofc you could camp/hide until the pips get replenished, but i don't see that helping your team much..

I wont need to spam grenades if I hit you with the first nade, ability trumps disadvantages, its easier to throw a grenade to dodge one a.k.a. watch out :ninja:

"ofc you could camp/hide until the pips get replenished, but i don't see that helping your team much.."
Thats like saying hiding when you have low health to heal, or hiding to reload your gun doesnt help your team.
what makes you more effective helps your team, If your good with grenades the wait is worth it.

"raining grenades"


"raining grenades"


i can see everyone talking about spamming grenades, yet now you say it won't be needed?
*has a picture in his head seeing lights throw grenades when theres no-one there*

to be serious though, your all thinking about mainly throwing grenades, while it'll be suppressing fire and diverting enemy fire that will be your attributes.
grenades are for clearing cover and creating chaos, the kills they do are just a bonus.

if you think lights are all about throwing grenades and using only a few bullets, then i'll prefer you on the enemy team, not on mine

Not trying to be rude here, but I think you are overrating grenades. They will do significant damage/clear a zone, but I think a gun is still more efficient. It's like comparing melee with shooting. Melee/Grenades are powerfull tools, but not your main weapon.
Just throwing nades is also against the 'personal battle experience' that the devs want to create.

On the other side, I don't think throwing grenades reduces your pips. Resupplying yourself with nades (= ammo) on the other hand does require one or more pips.


Edit: Nikto said the same, but just faster

I think lights are built for the operative class. If I had to be a soilder i would pick a heavy bodytype, and if I had to be a light my last pick would be soldier. I was simply mulling over the aspects of a light soldier, I can fire bullets with any class but with the endless grenades of the soldier they're basically asking you to throw them. I never said I would "grenade spam" and not using bullets was an exageration, but really what else do I do. Soldier is the front lines class though lights are the least equipped for head to head combat, hence I use the only class specific weapon left to me, an endless variety of grenades and explosives (hopefully c4). And, trust me you wont want me on the other team because nothing is as frustrating as getting blown up by a grenade over and over again, but then again I will be playing light operative anyway......

If your a light soldier you would be able to get around suppling ammo to your team mates. A simple task, but an important one. Same with light medic reviving and healing.

What makes you think that soldiers have endless grenades? Buffs have a cooldown you know. So restocking over and over again probably won't be as easy as MW2's OMA.

Increased health and damage would allow for lights to be able to stack up against other builds. It would also be what separates them from the supports.

Grenades will be in a bigger supply as a soldier as they have more of them and I never said it would be easy just viable, and possible
2. Thats what I said but I also mentioned if my main focus was stacking up to builds on the respect of health I would go heavy, but since Im not a head on fighter I won't be compromising my movement anytime soon.

What you were saying is that they would be able to simply rain and unstoppable plethora of grenades, or at least that's how I interpreted it.

he was saying that, and it's untrue.

soldiers get more grenades, not unlimited, and i sincerely hope there will never be a soldier using all his pips to restock on grenades. there's more important stuff than chucking grenades all the time. like getting that engineer to the objective

Still throwing grenades is a great way to open an attack on unprepared enemies.




You can't use grenades all the time your gun is still the main weapon.



So very very true.

Well the advantages to being light are obvious and I don't need to repeat them. As for the nade issue they get more variety and get more powerful nades so spamming won't be necessary.

Well, to defend myself there, I was exaggerating a bit. Obviously I'm not going to just be tossing grenades about all willy nilly. I'll toss one out to soften up my enemies, then finish any stragglers off with a quick burst of gunfire. And I thought we all had infinite grenades with a 30 second recharge rate? I mean, I guess it could still take a pip to infuse said grenade with special properties, but if it takes more than 30 seconds for a pip to recharge then...well, then it'll be really annoying. :homestar:

Besides the explosives thing, I'll also be taking advantage of my ability to give myself ammo by giving my guns as fast of a fire rate as I possibly can. Who cares about ammo efficiency when you can just restock every once in a while? But of course, I also fully intend to be a team player, handing out ammo where needed and planting charges. It's not all about the killing, despite Soldiers having the least amount of non-killing things to do .

Soldier is still used to pass out more ammo and blow up objectives. Being light just means you can't be a conventional tank or minigun dude. We'll have to wait and see for details since no one knows what all the possible skills are. But supposedly the skills are what could make this unlikely combination still a valid choice.

i suppose the abilities for the soldier will open ways for being a heavy tank, a light speedsoldier or a medium whatever since he'd be able to choose one of both.

the later skills would be used to specialize in a certain way, and that's how i interpreted that