Why choose light supply box on support?

[wooden carbon]

Giving support a small movement speed buff while using the light box would decrease explosive spam/create more build diversity with support. I'm curious what people think the pros and cons of this would be

[pure sparrow]

Mfw supports are getting even slower

[umbral kestrel]

^ it would just cancel each other out, and you have to remember assault has the small ammo kit too so giving bonus move speed for using it wouldn’t be ideal for some people. Giving supports more small boxes would probably be enough though, maybe then I could see someone playing a more aggressive support utilizing it

[native timber]

Agreed

Just more small boxes

3 big boxes for more supplies but in one spot

Say 6 small ones for less supplies but more spread out for your team

[vapid crystal]

dont supply boxes despawn when you die tho, so spreading out more boxes is useful only if you can also consistently stay alive for long periods, which could encourage even more people to just camp somewhere instead of playing the game.

[umbral kestrel]

Generally speaking, everything is supposed to despawn upon death, but imo small ammo crates are always supposed to be “throw and forget” vs something long term

With them only restocking ammo and bandages, that makes sense for aggressive play, something to just “keep you and your team in the fight”

The only other alternative I can think of would be faster deploy speed, but imo both are fast enough to where it wouldn’t make a difference

[native timber]

Other than mines, claymores, antinades and ropes for example, vast majority of gadgets despawn

[native timber]

Spreading out boxes also helps your team on larger fronts per say stay supplied

As opposed to herding them in one place

[umbral kestrel]

Most of which isnt supposed to despawn (barring trophy because of an oversight) but yeah

The stuff that despawns should

[native timber]

And i will remain of the opinion that the trophy shouldnt despawn (should be destroyable by other explosives tho)

[pastel finch]

C4 should be the only thing that despawns but fuckin unga bunga I guess

[wooden carbon]

I didn't mean give assault the buff as well for the light box. I just meant for support only. Like how the quick a on some guns only lowers recoil while on others it's also messes w recoil. It'd only give the buff to support for the trade off of not taking the s tier heavy kit. Cause right now there literally no reason to run light unless your assault. It'd probably also cut down on exo use given theres an avenue to use support more effectively without it. Though i do agree uping to 6 would be interesting and at least do something to offset the heavy.

[umbral kestrel]

Im saying giving the tool the buff for the intent of helping support will also indirectly buff assault. So you have to keep that in mind

Unless oki makes a whole new system just for support to benefit whilst assault does not (which is unlikely to happen, but truthfully would also work)

[native timber]

I mean if medic can have 20 bandages passively i dont think its far fetched to think that support could have a passive that just allows him to carry 6 small ammo boxes

Question is if oki is willing to do it

[wooden carbon]

Exactly like some sort of support exclusive passive that interacts w the small ammo kit.

Speaking of which does support have any passives currently?

[native timber]

Insta builds, can place hesco walls and barbed wire, builds and unbuilds faster

So yes he does

[pastel finch]

(No)

Wrong reply close enough

[wooden carbon]

Cant engineer build barbed wire? But duh I forgot about all the building passives. I didn't realize they're build/unbuild speed was faster outside of the instant building

[umbral kestrel]

Yes but it’s still a pain in the ass to setup without instant builds