This may be silly, but I was thinking that since that a large portion of the TG community didn't purchase this game, or won't - those of us that did will probably be playing together alot.

Because of this, it actually might make some sense for us to specialize - at least in the beginning, before we all start getting most of the unlocks.

take a look here:

http://bf2142fever.com/content/Unlocks

As a squad, we are more effective the more diverse we are. I really noticed that with the netbat system. With a full squad, having a diverse netbat is almost cheating, I can see people behind walls, cloaked, know their health, etc. It's amazing. Once I got the recon SL unlock, I always had the heads up on approaching enemies.

I've decided to start off getting the non kit abilities. In one night of playing I unlocked grenades, sprint, squad leader beacon, and squad leader recon. I plan on continuing up this route to get the squad leader gun drone, the other sprint upgrade --> then moving on to kit specialization. I'll come back later for the ammo upgrade and extra grenade, as I don't really see those being critical or that useful.

This means I'm going to specialize in being an SL, first and foremost, as I like playign this role.

Since squads really do have an advantage over smaller or non squadded players - I think we should all specialize FIRST, so that when we play together we have access to the most powerful upgrades across a diversity of kits.

Sure there's more than 6 of us, but I'm guessing this thread might prevent 5 of us from all going up the support tree, or something similar. This also means when you are in a squad (or at least one that I am SLing), you are going to almost always be playing your 'specialized' kit. As we all grow in rank and unlocks, we can start to mix up what we play, but for now this seems the best route.

So there you have it.

BHack: Specializing in SL unlocks.