Alotta people who've been worried about BF3 not being a genuine Battlefield game, have been saying they prefer 4 kits 
and that makes my stomach turn 
 
 
7 kits. 
 
 
Edit :  7 sounding crazy to you? let me quote myself from something i posted on the second page : 

You know what made Battlefield 2 so great ? 
 
you'd have 6 people in your squad (including you) =>  

• you and another guy are Anti Tank (one shoots down helos and the other, tanks) 
• a medic to give you health kits and revive you 
•   The Squad Leader (and your only mobile spawn point) is a support guy to give you ammo and help with his  machine gun firepower
• a sniper to stay a few meters behind the squad, on higher ground (as you advance to the next point) to clean up the next flag before you guys reach it 
• a Spec Ops guy to boobytrap birdges after you cross them, or rig your car with C4 so that you'd jump out and then he blows it up 

  
alternatives : an Assault for firepower and an Engineer to keep fixing your vehicles, throw land mines around a flag after you capture it and occasionally help with his one-shot-kill shotgun 
 
Battlefield 2 had individuality. you'd have 7 kinds of players all doing their different jobs... the most amazing team-based experience ever.

7 kits. Medic should not be carrying a RPD or a M60.

6 - 7.
 
Spec Ops, Soldier / Assault, Support, Medic, Engineer, Sniper, and maybe AT.

I was fine with the kits present in 2. That said, I would not mind seeing those expanded to include a couple of other classes.

More kits, more roles.  

Muscle-spasm'd, clicked D, meant B, but yeah, 6-7 rather than four or less.
 
It's like Crysis, a sweet radial menu, no problem to alternate between suit powers in combat in a single life, often used all of them before I died, and then Crysis 2 comes along and has two per suit tops? Was it a conscious design choice to shoehorn "class" gameplay into it in a really amateurish manner or did they go "oh the console gamers will have trouble counting numbers that high we better.."?
 
Hence worry about it. Be praying. BF3 PC will be the ultimate version. If DICE are given the time and money they need, the PS3 can receive the ultimate console version of BF3 with ease.

It'd be great to have the classics back (ie Spec ops, Recon, Assault, Engy, support, and medic) 
If the developers were really feeling nice they'd allow some slots for custom classes as well or changeable equipment like an engy who can resupply or a medic who can demo, this would be a fresh change from other battlefield games, allowing some lone wolves to be less dependent on other teammates

" @B0nd07: No love for AT? I'd admit that was a useless class and a AT could be stuck to a engineer. "

BF2 style, too lazy to count.

I think  BC2 was a little squished together, but BF2 was maybe one too many. So 5 to 6. 
 
I really miss my medic with a tubeless assault rifle.

" @B0nd07: No love for AT? I'd admit that was a useless class and a AT could be stuck to a engineer. "

" @Ahmad_Metallic: Didn't the AT have an auto shotgun unlock? Cause thats all i used as AT, other than the launcher of course. "

7 kits, at least 32v32, and maps more than 300 square meters or bust.

" @Ahmad_Metallic: I'm a PC game and I want 5. Why is this not a choice. "

" @rb_man said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic: I'm a PC game and I want 5. Why is this not a choice. "

you can joke about anything but dont mess with my BF2 kits.. say 5 kits again and i will bust a cap in someone's bitch ass! "

"  @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @rb_man said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic: I'm a PC game and I want 5. Why is this not a choice. "

you can joke about anything but dont mess with my BF2 kits.. say 5 kits again and i will bust a cap in someone's bitch ass! "

But I only think there need to be 5 the bad company ones and dude with c4 and a shotgun. "

I want to see 7. But then again 4 is good for me.

7 kits? damn, no thanks.
4 kits, pc gamer.
But I wouldn't mind more weapons choice for each kit.
 
We have to think about balancing issues here as well, 4 is easier then 7

I actually prefer 4 consolidated kits, but only the way 2142 did it, where you have a variety of equipment unlocks that give each kit a wider array of unique ways you can outfit it.
 
4 kits definitely wears thin with the way BC2 is set up.  Very little of the customization in the game actually meaningfully expands the capabilities of a given class.  Most of it is just preferential customization - selecting what guns you want to use most right then, and picking your boring, passive specializations that give you a slight edge in this way or that.  
 
BC2 does the first thing that 2142 did - consolidate the classes to fix the tricky issue BF2 has (IMO) of classes' unique capabilities being spread too thin sometimes.  The part BC2 forgot was expanding the range of each class to compensate for the lack of variety this consolidation causes.  It has plenty of customization, but like I said, it's all very generic stuff.  Aside from things like switching from C4 to mortars, RPG to land mines, AR/GL to shotgun/C4, etc., none of the customization in the game really changes your unique capabilities.
 
Of course, I can't say I'd be against having both 7 classes AND the kind of meaningful class equipment customization that 2142 has.  That'd probably be pretty hard to do, though.

Yeah, medic should have a standard AR, not an LMG.

" 7 kits? damn, no thanks. "

• you and another guy are Anti Tank (one shoots down helos and the other, tanks) 
• a medic to give you health kits and revive you 
• The Squad Leader (and your only mobile spawn point) is a support guy to give you ammo and help with his  machine gun firepower
• a sniper to stay a few meters behind the squad, on higher ground (as you advance to the next point) to clean up the next flag before you guys reach it 
• a Spec Ops guy to boobytrap birdges after you cross them, or rig your car with C4 so that you'd jump out and then he blows it up 

I like the idea of more precise and specific classes from BF2 but I would also like to see more weapons for each class and some "all-kits" weapons from Bad Company 2.

7 as per battlefield 2.  Also, medics shouldn't have both the best weapons in the game and the ability to heal themselves like in BC2.  Though I guess between the M16 and G36e in BF2, medics weren't doing so bad there either since in single shot mode, M16 was basically a scopeless sniper rifle. <3
 
Also, you could get 3 weapons (at least) in each kit that could be unlocked.

Also, you could get 3 weapons (at least) in each kit that could be unlocked. "

I'd like to have more kits to work with. A kit should have an identity, BC2 seemed to have lost some of that for some odd reason.

<- PC player
I don't like weapon restrictions on classes, so I'd rather they stick with the least amount of classes so there's more weapons available per class. 

I'd like to see the old leveling system from bf2142 or BF2 
I hate having to use a class  I don't like (read bad primary weapon) in order to make that class better 
It doesn't do any good to have a low tier sniper on your team trying to gain exp to unlock the next rifle, when he's a much better assault player

 
I would like more kits then the 4 in BC2; an spefic At class and support class sound cool to me!

Depends on the player count, but if the consoles could get a basic count of 32 players per game, i would say 6-7 for sure. If its 24 or so, it needs to be 4 or 5.

Whatever makes sense for the gameplay. 

" Whatever makes sense for the gameplay.  "

Jee I wish they had the option:I am a gamer and I would like 6-7.

None of the options. I don't care HOW many kits there are as long as they can be highly specialized. But more than 4 will probably start getting redundant.
 
@Ahmad: Buy 2142 you cheap ass motherfucker. You might actually wanna try a game that did 4 kits correctly instead of using Bad Company as your basis of why 4 is a bad idea.

" None of the options. I don't care HOW many kits there are as long as they can be highly specialized. But more than 4 will probably start getting redundant.  @Ahmad: Buy 2142 you cheap ass motherfucker. You might actually wanna try a game that did 4 kits correctly instead of using Bad Company as your basis of why 4 is a bad idea. "

I know nothing of Battlefield, but I really want to play it now. 
 
7 Kits. 
 
...because that seems to be a popular opinion.

" @MrKlorox said:

" None of the options. I don't care HOW many kits there are as long as they can be highly specialized. But more than 4 will probably start getting redundant.  @Ahmad: Buy 2142 you cheap ass motherfucker. You might actually wanna try a game that did 4 kits correctly instead of using Bad Company as your basis of why 4 is a bad idea. "

u know what ? I WILL FUCKING BUY IT is it still active online ? "

around 5 would be cool, 7 is a bit too much and unnecessary. theres alot of role overlap in the BF2 kits.
maybe make the kits more customizable with restrictions on what you can take. im not a game designer so i dont really know specifically how to do it, but customization is always cool but having too many roles is a bit unnecessary. 
 
make them specialized enough that all the classes are necessary to win but versatile enough to hold their own and be useful even if their specialization isn't required at that moment.  i'd prefer to be able to have some control over the weapon types i get, maybe allow two primary weapon categories per kit or something, i dunno. 7 seems like a bit too much and makes them too specialized.
 
i play both PC and console but i intend on getting this for PC if that matters.

The more I think about it, the more I think they should do what Project Reality did and just expand on that.