The Battlefield 5 Support class can easily be seen as the heavy-hitter of your squad; they carry the largest automatic firearms, after all. However, with the addition of new features like Fortifications and Attrition, the Support actually plays a much more versatile and vital role in your squad. Learning how to best utilise their skill-set is thus important to helping your squad excel on the battlefield.
How You Can Best Play the Battlefield 5 Support Class
While the Assault class is best-suited to frontline combat, the Support can nonetheless be a powerful combatant. They carry the largest firearms in the game. Their two primary weapon categories are, after all, the Light Machine Guns and Medium Machine Guns categories. However, these guns are just as valuable for suppression as they are for scoring kills. Be sure to provide your squad-mates with covering fire.
While your weapons are certainly powerful, don’t forget that your primary role on the battlefield is that of an engineer. The new Battlefield 5 Fortifications system allows all soldiers to use a special build tool to construct a wide variety of things; sandbag walls, boards to cover windows, tank traps, razor wire, and more. Not only is the Support better at building Fortifications, but there are some which only Support soldiers can build, including machine gun emplacements.
The final core role of the Battlefield 5 Support class is keeping your squad-mates supplied with ammunition. Your Ammo Pouch gadget allows you to dispense extra ammunition to your allies. Additionally, your skill with Fortifications allows you to construct Ammo Refill Stations more effectively; vital for keeping your side in control of key locations. If your team doesn’t often find itself lacking for ammo, then your alternate gadget is an Anti-Tank Mine, helping you to deal with enemy vehicles.
The Battlefield 5 Support Class Combat Roles
There are two Battlefield 5 Combat Roles available at launch. Engineer is available by default, while Machine Gunner can be unlocked through progression. The Engineer Combat Role gives you the Vehicle Fixer ability, which speeds up the time it takes to repair Vehicles and build Fortifications, and Heavy Weapons Expect, which lets you fire static and mounted weapons for longer without overheating. Alternately, the Machine Gunner combat role allows you to perform better when suppressing enemies. It grants you Bullet Storm, which improves your suppression, and Focused Fire, which causes any enemies you fully suppress to become spotted automatically.