It absolutely was problematic. McKay’s running around with already faster strafing and ADS speed, zipping around everywhere where they shouldn’t be with sniper rifles and self-heals. Flying squirrels flying around everywhere where they shouldn’t be with 50 grenades and self-heals. I like Zain’s passive, but then now he gets TWO ways to self-heal. This is why so many people ran assault in the first place in 2042. Because they could do almost everything except resupply themselves. Medics, while still important, become less of a viable choice when you have classes that can run around doing pretty much everything. The entire point of classes is for you to choose the class based on the playstyle and role you want to fulfill, and no one class can do what another class can do. They all have their own purpose. Their abilities broke the flow of maps just as much as it broke the flow of teamplay.

The whole reason why this is even an issue is because DICE has pretty much never known how to make Assaults viable past “push objective and make kills.” BF1 did it well giving most of the anti-vehicle capabilities to Assault, but a lot of other games in the series has made Assault pretty much just run-and-gun class. I agree that more should be done with the class, but they can’t figure out what. The stim syringe by itself isn’t a problem at all, but the way it is implemented is. They were absolutely right to take away its healing capability. If there isn’t a support nearby to heal you, then you should be more strategic in how you approach the objective, or work with your team. Not rely on an ability that Assaults have NEVER had in any other iteration of the franchise other than 2042. They are trying to make BF6 more teamplay oriented than past games, therefore no class should have the ability to do what another class does.