Originally Posted by Elude
My main fear is the ability for squad leaders to stay unnoticed
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With drop pods, this will not be possible. At best you'll have an infil squad leader sitting around doing nothing. While it's possible that they can keep hiding and spawning snipers. The counter is one heavy boot hanging around, killing the spawning squad as they fall, one by one, into his bullets. Infil still gets nothing done and the heavy pads his kill count.
Will people do this? I'm sure some will. Will it be effective? No.
I cannot tell you the number of times that I've dropped onto a continent as an infil, cloaked off from the pod and have a reaver spend 5 minutes in a circle pattern hunting until he found and killed me. If there's anything players in shooters love to do it's kill stealth units, no matter the cost.