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The designator was already just a way to aggro every vehicle on the map, and often lead to no real results.
Then they nerfed the bojangles out of it, but didn't remove the aggro red dot of aggro. So, you stop sniping to tag something, get shot by everything on the map, and then the tag dies out because it lasts 7 seconds for no reason whatsoever.
EA has no idea what they're doing with recon. The broke the DGMK so it's worthless now, the claymore is still broken, the designator is useless, the drone is still usable but without a support in the back lines you use it for about 3 seconds, it gets shot and you don't use it again for several minutes. Decoys are... acceptable, but they require to to put yourself in danger to get good placement on them, and half the time they don't even deploy, they just lose a charge and never show up. They also just... fall through the ground when placed on anything but terrain, even though you are allowed to place them on things other than terrain. The jammer is ok? It feels like it would be way more useful on assault who might actually be near the front like to jam things.
I'm certain they keep making the gadgets worse because recons always have an insane KDR. Remove the sweet spot mechanic? Nawp. Bring back classic suppression so snipers can't just shoot through a bullet storm with perfect accuracy? Nawp. Remove the rangefinder that you can soft exploit so you never have to learn your gun? Nawp.
The only thing they've done to nerf the class aside from ruining their gadgets is lowering bullet speed and increasing drop. Considering console bullets will always find your head no matter how far they miss, I don't see this as a real solution.
Yea with each new BF game that comes out recon have slowly becoming a 1 trick pony kinda class wich would be fine if the gadgets actualy fitted the playstyle like in Bac company 2 or BFV but rigth now they dont, witch is why i think the perks you choose in the class should dictate the gadgets and complement the playstyle so for exemple, i go spec ops perk for recon i can only equip tracer dart gun, motion sensor, jammer, C4 and depending on the gadget it should resuply on a cooldown like the drone UAV you use for spoting.
I dont know just trowing ideas cuz rigth now recon feels kinda meh, what do you think?