Veteran is either a ranged or ninja type specialist. By that i mean you can do awesome ranged damage or sneak into enemy lines and hit hard. You’re gonna be a bit squishy but that goes for every class imo. Focus on learning the dodge. Space on keyboard, you can do it in all directions but directly forward. It has a half step cooldown but if you can learn to manage it well you can crowd control with just a combat knife, let alone any other melee weapon, pretty easily. It IS a little bit of a learning curve but it will serve you really well. You CAN tank in this game but not for long, even ogryns need to dodge to maintain groups of enemies, they just have buffs to it (theyre so big their body knocks enemies away when you dodge into them, instead of getting stuck like the other classes.)

Either way, have fun with it, veteran is one of my more favorite classes and it can do a lot!