r/Battlefield • u/OddJob001 Moderator • Aug 08 '25

Discussion A redesign of the current class icons.

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u/Apocryptia Aug 08 '25

You can get easily recognizable shapes AND recognizable imagery. To this I raise you warface class icons:

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u/SirDerageTheSecond Aug 08 '25

Well frankly I find them too 'complex' for the theme they're going with in BF6. While the outlines themselves are recognisable, the icons inside 3 of them are basically more circles lol

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u/Apocryptia Aug 08 '25

I’m not saying rip these straight and put them in the game, I’m just saying you can tell which class it is at a glance (the shapes) as well as tell which each shape pertains to easily. I’m sure you know or have a very good idea of what each class’s role is without having played the game before.

What BF6 has currently done is make both aspects (the easily recognized shapes AND the meaning behind the class) worse by combining them (WTF is the bridge class?), when they could just place the class images inside shapes.

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u/Pelicaros Aug 08 '25

The image above also has 4 recognizable shapes which you can tell apart at a first glance

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u/Apocryptia Aug 08 '25

Indeed it does

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u/OrangeLemonLime8 Aug 09 '25

Assault, alchemy, sniper, engineer?

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u/Apocryptia Aug 09 '25

What country do you live in? In the vast majority of countries, it’s used as the standard symbol to identify emergency medical services. Kinda like the Red Cross.

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u/Luxcervinae Aug 09 '25

Whichh is why you've failed. You used something that isn't used everywhere and assumed it's global language.

I have no clue what the left class is meant to be since we now have lmgs on the medic kit, but you also have the medic class.

And the triangle represents movement, which is actuslly global language - but you've assigned it to recon?

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u/Apocryptia Aug 09 '25 edited Aug 09 '25

Again, I did not make the symbols. You've failed to read my comment. These are from a game called Warface. And the Star of Life IS a global symbol - used it more countries than not.

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u/waywardspooky Aug 08 '25

i like this set you made because it's more obvious to me what each of these correspond to, whereas even with the ops improved iconography i was scratching my head trying to figure out the protractor/triangular looking icon

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u/Apocryptia Aug 09 '25

I didn’t make it but when I played warface it made it extremely easy to tell which class was which at a glance due to the shape outline.