Support

The Support is the largest, slowest, and most armored class in the game, being able to soak up tremendous amounts of punishment. While having no thermoptics and being slower than the two other classes, it sports the most lethal weaponry in the game from early on and has the heaviest armor in the game, making it the team's 'tank'.



Characteristics
The Support is the slowest class in the game, and requires some care to play efficiently. It also posesses heavy firepower options right from Private rank, being the only class able to wield the Murata Supa7 right off the bat. It's armor rating allows for extended periods of exposed fire, much more so than any other class, making it suitable for defensive roles. Offensivly, it can support or even spearhead a charge, being able to supress the initial fire and provide solid cover for other team mates. Strategies multiply on both defensive and offensive scenarios with addition of longer range, high powered rifles like the MX series become available, granting the Support a solid work tool, and culminating in the gargantuan Sanjuro PZ Light Machinegun for extended firefights and supressive duty. While it posesses no thermoptic capabilities, the Support can hold it's own through thermal vision, which apropriately makes people and warm objects light up. Conversely, and with a slightly better trained eye, he can spot cloaked enemies as well, as thermoptics cool down the outer layer of a player, resulting in a near black shade in thermal vision. It becomes further useful when coupled with the Smoke Grenades, the Support's 'explosives', which cover an area in thick smoke that no other class can see into or through except the Support's thermals. Overal, the Support is the heavy arms class of the game, capable of giving the rest of the team a reliable damage output bonus.

Arsenal
The Support starts with respectable options, ranging from the MPN-45, the SRM, the ZR68C assault rifle and the Supa7 shotgun, the later giving him/her a lethal edge in close quarters combat early into the game. As the game progresses, the Support gains both the MX-5 and MXS-5, granting long range capabilities and heavy, automatic damage output, with the option of giving up a slight portion of that damage for concealment and accuracy. Endgame sees the class carrying the PZ light machinegun, a monster of a weapon capable of long range fire, high rate of fire, and solid damage; more than enough to shread or supress anyone within range. The Support comes off as the hardest class in the game in terms of firepower and constitution, challenged only by the Assault's AA13 in close combat.

Summary
Final Loadout:
 * MPN-45S
 * SRM-7
 * ZR68C
 * Mosok 41
 * SUPA7
 * MX-5
 * MXS-5
 * PZ-252
 * Smoke Grenades

Thermoptics: Not Available

Vision: Thermal Vision

Armor: Heavily Armored

Auxiliar Power Use: No Auxiliar Power

Playstyle: Slow, heavy hitting class with an extremely high armor rating