DICE previously revealed plans to launch a Battlefield V update alongside the December 4, 2018 release of Tides of War: Chapter 1. At the time, the studio spoke little about what the update would consist of. In an exhaustive post on the game’s subreddit, DICE has now teased what the new patch will entail. Improvements to Revive Mechanics are in store, and there will be some rebalancing for weapons and the Medic Class.
On Reddit, DICE Global Community Manager Dan Mitre posted a “sneak peek” of the incoming changes. However, Mitre did explain that the details provided aren’t fully representative of everything the December 4th patch will include. Full patch notes will go live closer to the patch’s launch.
The changes DICE are ready to unveil now are as follows: Revive Mechanics 

With the update, we are providing improvements that will make the Revive experience better on both ends (for the ?reviver? and receiving ?revive?). We identified a few delays that prevented players to get full control after the animation was completed – this is now resolved and will virtually make the reviving experience ?faster?. We want to see if what we are addressing improves the quality of the experience enough. Increasing the revive speed is something we still keep in mind but aren?t implementing just yet.

Medic Class Balance

We will be introducing some weapon balance changes that will help most of the Medic weapons to perform better at-range, more specifi...