What is the skill system?
The skill system is our way of granting the player abilities. Your abilities are not tied to your weapon choices, either; you can choose your abilities independent of what weapons you have on you. In other words, you can be a medic machinegunner, a sharpshooting CQB expert, a squad leader with a grenade launcher, or whatever other combinations you can think of. Most games tie your abilities to your weapon choices, resulting in a restrictive cookie-cutter way of defining roles. In Firearms, YOU determine what abilities you will have, not your weapons!