How will races be balanced?

[Nightspark43]

I'm on the fence about Cov players being anything other than elites. There's such a disparity in survivability that I'd only want players do it as a respawn thing (everyone starts as Elite... you die you only get to respawn as a grunt or jackal).

Personally, I'm very specifically looking to play as a Kig-Yar when it comes to it, but I do like the idea of the species respawn being skewed, like Grunts spawn almost immediately, Jackels take only a few seconds, Elites take around fifteen or so seconds, and Hunters take a few minutes.