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Overview Battlefield 2 BF2:MC 2142 BC BF3
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"Heavy gunner equipped to suppress enemy and resupply team-mates."

— In game description.

The Support kit is featured in Battlefield 2. The kit's primary purpose is to resupply teammates with ammunition via his Ammo Bags on the battlefield as well as lay down suppressive fire on hostiles using the kit's light-machine guns. The Support, along with the Assault and Anti-Tank, has body armor equipped, meaning damage multipliers to the torso are decreased against the player, allowing player to survive a few more hits to the torso than those without armor. However, the armor reduces the Support's stamina, making sprinting significant distances and general mobility somewhat of a problem.

Combat Against Infantry[]

Support units are equipped with a belt fed light-machine guns that carries between 100-200 rounds, depending on the weapon at hand. Light-machine guns can lay down a heavy volume of fire in a short period of time, but tend to have much wilder spread values when not in the prone position.

After sustained fire for a certain amount of time (this is depending on the weapon at hand (example: The PKM will overheat after 40 bullets without breaks, while the Type 95 will stop after 77 bullets without a cease firing) an LMG will overheat and become unusable until it cools down. All LMGs share the same cooldown penalty of 1.2 seconds. The other major penalty associated with light-machine guns are their reload time—most LMGs have a reload time significantly longer than rifles and other standard firearms.

A pistol can complement the LMG in two ways—either as a more precise weapon when not laying prone, or as a backup weapon in the event of an ammo shortage or inconveniently-timed reload.

The Knife is a close range or last ditch attempt if both LMG and pistol are out of ammo. Though the knife has a very short effective range, it has the capability to instantly kill enemy infantry in a single knife thrust.

M67 Hand Grenades are lethal to infantry and light vehicles. However, while with most kits the grenades are fairly limited due to their scarceness, the Support kit is capable of mortaring with grenades as a result of their ammo box, which provides essentially infinite ammunition.

Tear Gas is available to the kit as a gadget in the Special Forces expansion, present in the equipment slot. The Tear Gas is fired from a grenade launcher, and the gas posses the ability to blind targets that enter the deployed gas cloud. The gas will make a player's screen blurry for a short time, and thus can be used to distract or to create confusion among enemies. It is important to note that a Gas Mask directly counters the effective of the gas, so it is recommended to equip it before entering the gas while attacking.

Combat Against Vehicles[]

The only vehicles that can be engaged directly are light and medium vehicles since they do not have adequate armor to fully resist small arms fire or grenades. Light Vehicles such as the DPV will be easy to destroy as their armor will not be able to withstand a significant amount of small arms fire and/or lots of hand grenades in a short period, areas the Support excels at. Slightly heavier vehicles such as the Vodnik will be much harder to destroy as their armor is much more resistant to grenades and small arms fire.

Heavier vehicles, such as APCs and MBTs, are nigh-invulnerable to any of the Support's weapons and equipment. While it is possible to inflict damage against them via grenades, such damage is trivial compared to what the Anti-Tank kit can bring to bear. As a result, these vehicles should be avoided if at all possible.

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Special Forces[]

Trivia[]

  • The gear for the MEC Support depicts an unusable Claymore, normally not part of the Support kit, and presumably an ammo box with the writing "PKM 7.62", while the PKM can only be obtained through unlocks. This may be inherited from a pre-release version of Battlefield 2, where the MEC are seen using the PKM as their default weapon. These errors have been carried forward to the Special Forces expansion, specifically to the Support gear of the MEC Special Forces, Russian Spetsnaz, Rebels and Insurgent Forces.
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