[exLupo]

I keep seeing this from a BF perspective.
1) Pick a role at spawn:
a) Heavy
- Armor option: Agile / Rexo (unlocked)
- Weapon: SA / MA (unlocked) + Mods (Unlocked) / HA (Unlocked) + Mods (Unlocked)
- Specialty Slot 1: Blah
- Specialty Slot 2: Blah
- Implants: A B C or D
b) Medic
- Armor option: Agile
- Weapon: SA / MA (unlocked) + Mods (Unlocked)
- Slot 1: Advanced Medic Tool
- Slot 2: Blah
- Implants: A B C or E
c) Infil
- Armor Option: Agile / Infil suit (unlocked)
- Weapon: SA / MA (unlocked) + Mods (Unlocked)
- Slot 1: Advanced REK
- Slot 2: Radar Cloak (tying it into the thread)
- Implants: B C D or F
D...) Sniper... and on like that.

The point being that you need to bring an infil for whatever kinky hacking stuff they'll have. Simply dumping infil for another role because it can't join the fight would be a failing in the design as a whole. Need those terms hacked? You'll probably need an infil. As such, infils will need to be able to join the party. However, if all non-heavy roles are limited to agile or specialist agile+ variants (see: ghillie thread) then an infil or medic with associated utility tools in agile will be the indoor standard for support roles.

Could you bring a cloaked infil? Sure, but then you'd lose out on a MA (SA?) shooter for a non-combatant who is also more vulnerable to stray and area fire. If Agile and MA are baseline trainable options for all roles, supports (medic, infil, sniper) included then relegating secondary abilities to utility slots is a natural evolution.

What I see in this thread is the automatic assumption that Infil Skill Tree = Cloak Only and I don't think that's exactly how the role system is going to be set up. Giving everyone an Agile+MA baseline goes a long way to making support skillsets viable in more situations. It allows infantry support roles the freedom to specialize and actually spawn as that support role. Ultimately, it preserves role diversity and I don't see any problems with that.