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Quoted from Gubbins

As I understand it. As long as you don’t actively affect the game in the way you break the rules, if you don’t leave spawn or just leave then realise and run back in, there should be no problem. As long as no more than 1 medic 1 demo 1 heavy and 2 of each other class are active at any given time in the game, no rules are brokded

This was my understanding from years ago also.

Infact there was a point if the medic went down at midfight, Arx would switch to medic :D

Quoted from choiie

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I discussed this with admins 2-3 years ago and the conclusion back then was that it wasn’t allowed. However, the rules are more ambiguous now than back then, and since there’s no definition of what classlimits actually imply, I suppose the current rules would allow it.

I just see some problems with this; for example a “demo down!” call might lead to a rushed push for the final point, and allowing scouts to go demo in such a situation might turn the tides entirely of such a push.

It’s always been allowed as far as I’m aware, provided you adhere by the class limits in terms of the people you have alive. You can switch everybody to demo if you want, as long as you have only 1 demo alive at any given moment.

We do it a lot, if our demo goes down and won’t spawn to defend or soldier/scout etc etc as the case may be. It’s always been “allowed” in the threads that pop up on here so i can’t see it being an issue suddenly now unless they decide to change the ruling.

Quoted from Monkeh

Yeah but most meds play med because we can’t aim for shit..

+1

Honestly I think this is a really unexplored area within competitive, of course most teams are already organized on a mindset where each one plays their main class no matter what that’s why it’s not as used probably, but I think utilizing this strategy in some situations can be really smart and if done right can really save you some rounds.

The requirement of course is that you have good multiclassers among your team, let’s say, a medic spawns alone on snake last while one scout is pushing it, the medic stands little to no chance, but if the medic is a good solly or at least can fill the requirement he can jump on the point and actually gain some more time for the other spawns.

I can see this really messing up your opponents strategy as well, for example when medic dies on middle and they push thinking they have advantage when in fact one of the players that was alive changed to medic and replaced him

There’s also a high risk for breaking rules as if there’s not clear communication it can lead to the team breaking class limit rules, but I think if there’s a team that can incorporate that well into their strategy and organization it will definitly do them good