Hey, somebody just made a good post on the forums with notes from Higby's twitch stream. http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/notes-from-higbys-stream-31-10-2012.39190/ Just wanted to share!
This is great news! Though i'm pretty bummed about the squad leader only being able to use the spawn beacon, i can see why they cahnged it. One thing NNG has been really great at is dropping spawn beacons when attacking a base. I think that's one of the reasons we dominate TR and NC so bad. So with this change we will have to make sure that SLs cert into spawn beacons after the reset.
Honestly if the squad is well organized, the beacon change isn't a big deal. You can always rotate who the SL is to get another beacon down, unless they're smart enough to attach the cooldown to the squad and not the player.
I'm glad they changed the repair tool. It's so frustrating trying to kill a tank as a Heavy when there is ONE Engineer repairing it FOREVERRRRR. And I only have 5 rockets, it was quite silly. Good change in my opinion!
This is awesome. One of the biggest derps about this game was that I could seemingly never spawn on/with my squad.