For the past few days i was trying to focus on unlocking the assault class but i found it to be terrible chore.
I feel the same way about the support class. I suppose I'm just playing it wrong (as if I was an assault class). I drop packs in good locations, I lay down suppressive fire etc. It just seems a bit boring to me, and the guns are wildly innacurate compared to my favoured kit.
About 75% of my time is assault, and I've found it's suitable for every map as long as you are playing with a cohesive squad. With accelerated healing (medipacks) and significantly better guns you are the anti-infantry specialist, as well as negating ticket loss through revives, and keeping the front line from moving back to spawn areas.
When playing lone-wolf or with randoms you simply have to pick your locations. For example on Caspian Border, between Forest and Hill you have many ground pounders who are playing engineer. You'll have the advantage over any of these. Clearing out the antenna flag is much easier as assault. There are many bits of cover to hide and heal
quickly in firefights, while your opponents cannot do the same.
I've learned to pay attention to where the fixed AT emplacements are. It seems in BF3 these cannot be destroyed, and the damage they output is greater than an RPG. You can still fight tanks quite successfully as an assault class if you are in a flag defense role.
In BF2 my favourite kit/role was Anti Tank. I loved taking down armour and being unstoppable in CQB with the DAO shotgun. I think that maybe you just enjoy taking down vehicles more than you do taking down soldiers?
There are a couple of maps that I tend to go with the engineer class primarily, but I'll still break out the assault kit at times when the rest of my squad is together and on foot: Kharg Island and Operation Firestorm. It is typical that squads get split up on these maps, thanks to the multitude of vehicles. There are so many vehicles and so much time spent flag hopping that a more aggressive anti-armour role is required. On a full 64 player server though, there are still enough flags (on these larger maps) in CQB areas that you could just spend your time defending with a couple of engineers and a support.
). My point is i can not force myself to play assault for the unlocks because my team is not doing its job properly (i have to hide from the tanks and aircrafts all the time). If there are decent enemy pilots in enemy team i always seem to be the only equipping sa-18 igla. I rarely see other engies strategicly placing mines or trying to get better positioning against tanks (they just go "in your face stupid tank" and usually die or basicly do not change position after shot).
