Kits

Kits in Project Reality define your class, equipment and your role in the team. PR features a wide selection of kits that you can take. Generally speaking, there are 2 kinds of kits in Project Reality:

• Standard Kits, which are the standard infantry squad roles and can be selected directly from the spawn screen.
• Specialist Kits, which are more specialised roles and can only be obtained through a special request procedure.

Where to start

As a new player, you should always join an infantry squad and take the Rifleman kit. The Rifleman represents the basic infantry grunt and can be used without restrictions by as many people as desired in a squad/team. All other kits are associated to more specialised roles and have rigid restrictions regarding the number of them that can be simultaneously used in a squad/team.

Due to these restrictions, and in order to avoid negatively affecting your team performance by misusing a limited kit, it is strongly recommended that you start playing with the Rifleman kit. As you get more experienced and learn the basics of infantry gameplay, if you feel up to the task, you can ask your Squad Leader to assign you a different role. In any case, you should ALWAYS ask your Squad Leader before changing kits.

Standard Kits

The Standard Kits are the 7 kits shown in the spawn screen and they represent the roles that typically make an infantry squad. In the following table you can see an overview of the 7 standard kits as well as information regarding how many kits of this type can be in a single squad and how many people need to be in the squad in order to be able to spawn with them.

Having these limitations in mind, it can be said that the typical 8-man squad usually has the a composition of 1 of each of those kits but with 2 medics.

Note that each kit in the selection menu of the spawn screen has two buttons: "Standard" and "Alternative". This is because there are two variants of each kit. Depending on the faction, this typically affects the choice of optics (scope, reflex or none), although in some cases, particularly with unconventional forces the choice is not between an optic or iron sights but between completely different firearms instead.

Note as well that, for playability purposes, in addition to the squad limitations above, the Grenadier and the Light Anti-Tank kits are also limited to a maximum number of them per team, depending on the number of players:

Here is a more detailed explanation of each kit:

• Rifleman. Unlimited kit, representing the standard infantry grunt. Typically, it is equipped with an assault rifle, fragmentation and smoke grenades and a shovel. Lacking a specialized role, the rifleman is ideal for more aggressive positions and maneuvers. It is also the only class with an ammo bag, which allows him to resupply teammates.
• Officer. Limited to 1 per squad and only available to the Squad Leader. In addition of the standard fighting equipment, this kit comes with a side weapon, an officer radio and binoculars. He can have direct voice communication with the other officers in the team, place markers on the map, build emplacements and fortifications, and request support missions (artillery, mortar fire, armor or air support, etc.) You can find more detailed information about this crucial role in the Squad Leader section of this manual.
• Medic. Limited to 2 per squad. He is responisble of providing medical assitance in the battlefield, and therefore, it is one of the roles that affect squad performance the most. Battle-awareness and a survival instinct are essential for this role. In addition to an assault rifle, it comes equipped with several smoke grenades, a first-aid kit, epipens and field dressings. It is the only kit capable of dragging wounded teammates.
• Automatic Rifleman (AR). Limited to 1 per squad. Equipped with a light machine gun, the Automatic Rifleman, is a less mobile and less versatile (it has no frag grenades) rifleman who provides, on the other hand, superior firepower. His speciality is an accurate and deadly suppressive fire, which is also very effective to restrict the movement of enemies.
• Breacher. Limited to 1 per squad. He is a demolition specialist who also acts as pointman in the breaching of buildings. His equipment includes an assault rifle, a grappling hook to climb over obstacles, a shotgun and a few loads of C4 explosive for tactical demolitions.
• Light Anti-Tank (LAT). Limited to 1 per squad and to 8 per team. The LAT is a rifleman equipped with an assault rifle and a handheld light anti-tank weapon system. His main role is to act as an ultra-light anti-tank element, with capacity to deter and neutralize light vehicles and vehicles with light armor. It is however NOT effective against Heavy Armored Vehicles or Tanks.
• Grenadier. Limited to 1 per squad and to 8 per team. Usually equipped with an underbarrel grenade launcher attached to its assault rifle. His main job is to hostigate low visibility areas where enemy presence is suspected, as well as to harass light vehicles. It is specially useful for long distance engagements and to fight enemies holed up inside of buildings.

Specialist Kits

In addition to the above described Standard Kits, in PR there exists a wide selection of Specialist Kits capable of highly specialized tasks. Some of these kits include the Heavy Anti-Tank, the Combat Engineer, the Marksman, the Sniper or the Anti-Air Rifleman, among others.

It is not possible to directly spawn with one of these highly restricted, specialised kits. In order to get them, a player needs to request them from allied supply crates or vehicles following a procedure described below. Furthermore, depending on the number of players in the team, each one of these kits are limited to a specific number of them per team. In the following table, these restrictions are summarized:

Furthermore, your squad also requires a minimum amount of players before you can request these kits:

Due to the highly restricted nature of these kits, it is strongly recommended that new and unexperienced players DO NOT use them. If they do, they risk wasting and losing these crucial team assets, leaving the team in a notable disadvantage. Remember to ALWAYS ask your Squad Leader before taking any of these kits.

Here follows a more detailed description of each specialized kit:

• Machine Gunner (MG). Although a heavier and more cumbersome version of the Automatic Rifleman (AR), thanks to his greater firepower, the Machine Gunner is a lethal soldier cappable of pinning down entire squads and is unparalelled in long-distance engagements.
• Marksman. The Marksman excels providng his squad with low rate but high accuracy fire. He is a proficient shooter while engaging objectives or enemies beyond the rifleman range.
• Anti-Personnel Rifleman (AP). The AP Rifleman comes with powerful anti-personnel mines equipped with remote detonators. He is most useful preparing ambushes or using his explosives to defend tactical objectives.
• Sniper. The sniper shines while in reconnaissance missions and providing the team with intel regarding enemy movements and positions. Equipped with a high precision sniper rifle, he is also capable of engaging enemies from very long distances. Due to its limitation of 2 per team, in PR, taking the sniper kit for arcadish solo missions is highly frowned upon.
• Spotter. Issued with a grappling hook and binoculars, the Spotter is able to position himself in vantage points in order to gather key intel from the battlefield. He is also capable of using his laser designator to set targets for air strikes. His role typically involves supporting Armor and Close Air Support elements, as well as snipers.
• Combat Engineer. Specialist in explosives and demolitions. Equipped with Anti-Vehicle Landmines, he is the designated person to establish mine fields or to defuse them. Be mindful that mines are activated by both allies and enemy troops! He also comes with several explosives for demolitions and can repair light vehicles.
• Anti-Air Rifleman (AA). He comes equipped with a handheld Anti-Air weapon system, making him the person to deter and take down enemy air elements. His restriction to 2 per team makes him a highly critical asset. Do not waste this kit!
• Heavy Anti-Tank (HAT). The HAT is a highly effective threat against armor and can destroy vehicles with extreme prejudice even at long ranges. The high limitation of this kit (1 per team) makes this an absolutely critical kit. Losing or wasting it can change the course of a battle. For this reason, players without the required experience are emphatically asked to stay away from it.

Insurgency Kits

Unique to some of the irregular forces and/or the Insurgency game mode are a number of kits for use in asymmetric styles of warfare. Often less sophisticated than to military issued gear in terms of capability, the insurgent kits are often issued a varied mixture of firearms and an assortment of other improvised equipment to help mitigate the aforementioned capability gap. Particularly of note is the Iraqi Insurgency as their infantry small arms table is vastly different from all other factions and thus warrants a closer inspection:

Iraqi Insurgent Spawn Screen Kits

• Cell Leader. The Insurgent version of the Officer Kit.
• Insurgent. The Insurgent Rifleman class archetype. Not all of them feature Extra Ammunition, and utilize booby traps or anti-tank grenades instead. Their assortment of weapon system varies from Shotguns to SMGs to Assault or Battle Rifles.
• Sapper. Another support class. Sappers work as a combination of the Combat Engineer and Rifleman AP class. Their main purpose is to set up ambushes against enemy footsoldiers and vehicles, as well as area denial. They have limited access to firearms and have to stay away from combat as they do not pass for civilians and are legal targets. They do not have access to a wrench unlike a true Combat Engineer.
• Collaborator. This unique class features elements of the medic class with light personal arms, but can also opt to go unarmed into the conflict using the alternate kit loadout. Outside of reviving and healing friendlies or helping with their grappling hook, their main purpose is to feed hostile positions and other information to the team while remaining an unsuspecting bystander of the conflict. Killing a Collaborator under certain conditions constitutes a violation of the Rules of Engagement, penalizing the killer and his team. The coalition forces thus have to restrain themselves from shooting everyone on-sight. On the other hand, collaborators are valuable sources of intel points because their ability to defend themselves against an arrest is very limited at best and more often than not a game of cat and mouse among houses and rooftops. Only two of these are allowed in a squad at any time.

Insurgent Pick Up Kits

The Iraqi Insurgents cannot, for the most part, access some of their heavier weaponry from the spawn menu. They instead either pick up or request them from the main base vehicle repair station or an active cache. Caches of the Iraqi Insurgency spawn a number of machine guns otherwise not accessible to an insurgent squad. In their main bases usually limited numbers of Marksmen, Sniper, Engineer and RPG kits may be picked up as well.

The last class unique to the insurgent forces is the Civilian: When dropping a kit, the player is issued a dummy kit. Some irregular factions gain the civilian status effect when using it for 2 minutes or longer. The civilian kit, much like the collaborator mentioned above acts like a scout and a deterrent against military assaults, but has no means to help the team in terms of other support equipment.

A more in-depth explanation on the collaborator and civilians can be found in a separate section of the manual here.

Vehicle Kits

In addition to the kits already described, there are some special kits to access the larger military vehicles and aircraft; these are called the Crewman (Armored Vehicles) and the Pilot (Air Vehicles) kit. Without them, accessing key functionalities of these vehicles is impossible and only a black screen will be shown when entering driver, gunner, co-pilot and certain other seats of a vehicle.

They are one of the few kits which have no limitations on both how many people need to be in the squad to be requested and how many of them can be issued per squad in total. As specialised kits, they are very limited in their choice of weaponry, with only a small number of factions issuing rifles to their Crewmen, with Pilots receiving pistols only. As they are a type of Specialist Kit, it is not possible to directly spawn with them and must be requested as usual (see below). They have, however, no restriction about the number of them that can simultaneously be in a team and thus can also be considered unlimited kits.

• Pilot. The pilot is the only kit capable of operating helicopters and fixed-wing aircrafts. It comes equipped with a side arm, a parachute and a signal smoke grenade. Do not attempt to operate aircraft without proper experience.
• Crewman. It is the only kit capable of operating armored vehicles. The crewman is equipped with a compact weapon for self-defense and with binoculars to study the battlefield. Normally, both the driver and the gunner in an armored vehicle need the crewman kit.

Kit Request Procedure

Once spawned, and if certain conditions are met, it is possible to request a new kit (both Standard or Specialist) from an allied supply crate or armored vehicle. Usually, in order to request a kit, these 3 conditions need to be met:

• Permission. You have the Squad Leader's permission. He gets to decide who gets what.
• Location. You are in the right place to request a kit - next to an allied supply crate or armored vehicle.
• Required Numbers. You are part of a squad with the required minimum number of members.

The following actions can temporarily restrict your right to request kits:

To request a kit a specific key sequence needs to be followed:

If your request is denied, you will see a yellow text message explaining why:

If you requested the kit in the wrong location:

• “You need to be close to a friendly SUPPLY CRATE or APC to request this kit”, OR
• “You need to be close to a friendly SUPPLY CRATE or VEHICLE to request this kit”

If the squad that you are in fails the squad requirements:

• “Unavailable due to squad limitations”

If all allowed kits have already been granted to the team:

• “All of these kits have been issued”

Other possible reasons:

• “Unavailable for your forces”
• “You can't get another limited kit so soon after your last”
• “You are new to this squad, request again in a minute”

Kit drop procedure

In certain situations, you might want to drop your kit. Most typically:

• You intentionally or unintentionally picked an enemy kit (which will kill you after 30 seconds unless you drop it),
• You are a wounded medic and want to give your kit to someone else so that they can heal you,
• You wish to swap kits with someone more experienced or skillful than you,
• You want to become a Civilian while playing in Insurgency mode.

Simply follow this sequence:

Note that a kit on the ground will disappear after about 5 minutes so long as it has not been picked up in the interim. The eventually despawning kits with limited availability squad or team-wise become requestable from the squad‘s or team’s kit pool again when they disappear.

A dropped kit is visble on the ground looking like a bundle of military clothes with some extras, depending on faction, the items might eg. be in that faction’s camouflage pattern, etc. The kit can be picked up by other players (though only team mates are able to use it for extended periods of time) by going near the items and pressing (G) to swap the kit with their current kit. As long as your previously discarded kit has not despawned you can always go and pick it back up.