Recon binoculars

it's because very few people take anything other than the RPG, so it's a wasted gadget. I've taken it loads, used it on everything from aircraft to tanks and no one had used it to lock on, it also don't help by the way it works, it should be I aim a lock on launcher at it, and I should be auto locked, not having to lock on again.

Find some friends to play with, and then work as a squad. Very effective with a squad of just two, better with more since you can bring a support and an extra launcher.

Randoms are always bad, it's not an issue exclusive to this game, and unless you expect the devs to turn up all the bad player's houses and alter their brains, it's not going to change 

I really don’t get their logic: gadgets should be balanced so they are all attractive to use. DICE is going the other way around, making sure they’re all equally useless. With the claymore pretty much gone, the binocular nerfed into the ground, the drone made considerably less interesting, I’m at a stage where when I play recon, there simply aren’t 2 gadgets I’m interested in.

Nowadays, I pick the deacon despite not playing sniper for the most part, just because it’s funny and dumb to place them a bit everywhere. That’s what happens when nothing is useful. 

Yea, when you tag everything no one shoots anything, but when you don't have binocs they all cry nothing is tagged.  It's just life.

I do have to say, the change from a tag lasting 30 seconds to 7 seconds is ASTRONOMICALLY stupid.  That wasn't a piece of spaghetti at the wall, that was the entire blender out the window.  People not only rarely tagged before, but it rarely had any affect because air would just flare every 11 seconds, which is about the time it took for them to fly back into launcher range anyways.  Or you tag armor, which did nothing because people weren't, and still rarely, use jav.  I'm sure about 0% of the players know you can use AA launchers on tagged ground vehicles too, so pointless.  

So it was already never used because teamplay and then also rarely good because of gameplay.  Then they nerfed it through the floor.

RIP recon gadgets, the most hated in the game.

becaue youre a sitting duck for snipers when youre on one of them. Also most people in this game, and all online games give no cares about working as a team. And theres no incentive to do so. match making is a joke, teams are always lopsided one way or another.