Hi
When I play Dirty Bomb, I often end up in a silly team like 4x medic or 4x field ops. But you can’t entirely blame inexperienced players for not knowing Sparks, Aura and Sawbonez are all medics. That Fletcher, Bushwacker and Proxy are all engineers. And when you bring up the score screen (or look at the fireteam display on the left edge of the screen), you can’t even see the names of the mercs ! How are newbies supposed to magically know a guy with a cigar is an objective specialist ? This is only going to get worse as more mercs are available.
So I propose simple and obnoxious class icon indicators overlaid on top of merc portraits. They would be enabled by default and you would have to go to menu to disable them. Sparks, Sawbonez, Aura, Phoenix would have a “+” in a corner of their portraits. Proxy, Bushwacker, Fletcher, Turtle would have a wrench. Kira, Stoker, Skyhammer, Arty would have three tiny bullets (III) to indicate fire support. Assault mercs (fragger, nader, rhino, thunder) would have a tiny gun icon because that’s all they do. Recon mercs would have sunglasses, because they’re all about being cool at the team’s expense.