This is just me throwing out an idea here but i think having some kind of medic class in the game could benefit crews trying to do skull forts and such while also managing threats from other crews.
How it would work:
So this load out would be accessed through a special cabinet on your actual ship (maybe next to ammo and armory?) and would only be accessible to one of your crew members at a time. So instead of 2 weapons you would have a sword/gun and the bandages. Once someone has chosen this kit then nobody else would be able to use it until you return it to the station. This role is solely a selfless job as you cannot heal yourself but only other downed players. In addition you can only "bandage" players who are downed and have decided to wait to be picked up by you as opposed to going straight to the afterlife. Finding downed crew members could be further assisted by an icon above their head? I would like to also point out that you would only have the same amount of bandages as you would ammo in a gun so restocking would need to be done on the ship at the bandage station.
Medic/Corpsman Role
@strikerv3v
Roles go against the core of the game. You can already be a medic by carrying food and making food runsAs has been mentioned, Rare doesn't want to have classes or things like that, because they believe that if you want a role then you can make it yourself. This allows you to switch playstyles at any time rather than being limited to only one or just a few. You can carry a fruit crate around and gather them from the barrels across the stronghold, if you want to do that.
i think they should really juat add more weapon variety, i saw ideas for a grapple a dagger, a boarding axe along with my ideas which are outlandish as always(i want to carry an anchor to use as a war hammer and i want to be able to lift canons and hand fire them lol). @DaringClarky mentioned a makeshift parachute idea out of sail to board ships which would also be super cool. i think an equipable bandage you could use to heal your team mates when they run out of food would be a great idea.
