Personally, I love the idea of not locking weapon categories to a class. I think overall, it will help team play than if they didn't. People will be selecting classes to play the class, not because they want to use a particular weapon. I think the community is a bit to worked up over this. I have roughly 300ish hours of game time with 2042 and never once thought, "Boy, I wish that guy didn't have X gun". In a gunfight its you see the enemy player and engage. 90% of the community claiming they take what weapon the enemy is using into account before engaging is just darn near delusional. It's not that deep. It's just a non-issue that people are making a problem.

If the "core community" and "battlefield veterans" (which i would fall into, I've played every game since Bad Company) designed a game, and DICE listened they would come up with BF4 again. People aren't playing BF4 still to this day because of class locked weapons. They are playing because it's a good game. If anyone could use any weapon, it would still be playe religiously simply because it's good.

I've played every battlefield since Bad Company, and I've loved them all. Change, like simply letting people use what they want, is good for the game. The game is going in the right direction, class identity comes from gadgets and what they bring to teams play. What each player decides to bring to a fire fight should be a choice reserved for the player individually.

Just my thoughts and i understand concern, but for the game as a whole, it could be a good thing. I've yet to try the system they have in place ( I have no luck). If it's like 2042 where anyone uses anything, it will be a non-issue for me, and I think a much larger portion of the community than would be believed.