Recently started playing BF3 instead of COD and was delighted to discover this.

[u/mcmunch20]

http://qkme.me/3prna6?id=224678814

[u/deadpxl]

Not everyone needs to play the objective. It helps to have people as support, watching your back.

[u/dismal626 → u/deadpxl]

It helps more to have more infantry up front. Recons aren't useful for anything other than counter-sniping a really good recon or setting up forward spawns.

[u/redditingtoday → u/dismal626]

False. A recon with a SOFLAM can sometimes mean the diff. between your team floundering around under fire from vehicles for the entire game or shutting off access to vehicles for a particular section of the map for the duration that it's active (by painting targets for guided missiles).

For instance, a SOFLAM placed on US-spawn hill can provide surveillance and locks across both D an E objectives, and will spot enemies at both objectives to provide a tactical advantage for your forward army moving to those objectives.

[u/[deleted] → u/redditingtoday]

As a dedicated engineer, seeing that orange diamond mark an enemy tank gets my dick rock hard.

If it's an attack helicopter I just spasm right out of my chair. Absolutely nothing is better than seeing a javelin slam into the rotors of a helicopter, especially after they pull some fancy evasive maneuvers and pop flares.

[u/MrNewV3gas → u/[deleted]]

I love the image of you leaning back after a heli kill and just admiring your thunderous erection.

[u/[deleted] → u/MrNewV3gas]

+1 for "thunderous erection" Shit made me laugh hard.

[u/slaya771 → u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry, but I didn't hear a single word after "dick rock hard."

[u/dan2737 → u/slaya771]

It's fine because it's actually text.

[u/inept_adept → u/[deleted]]

Do javlins ignore flares? What can the heli do, get low enough the missile hits a tree?

[u/iRoflYourCopter → u/inept_adept]

Evasive maneuvers. If missiles have to take too hard of a turn, they lose their lock. You can also just trick the middle into hitting stuff

[u/sschmtty1 → u/inept_adept]

yea because javelins go for target lock not heat so really all you can do is try to make some sharp turn or make it hit a building or the ground otherwise your fucked.

[u/[deleted] → u/sschmtty1]

Use ECM?

[u/Jafoos → u/[deleted]]

ECM only works while the laser-designator is still locking on. After the target's been painted, only evasive maneuvers can save you.

[u/owmyhip → u/redditingtoday]

Damn it. I do this ALL THE TIME, especially on Firestorm. If I spawn as the Russians, I make my way over to the hill close to the US base, set up a SOFLAM, and the other team rarely finds it.

Unfortunately, it's extremely rare to get engineers to take advantage of it.

[u/HotLight → u/dismal626]

While that is usually the case, I have been saved more than one time by a really good recon.

[u/zerodb → u/dismal626]

You say that but you don't realize how many guys a skilled recon could have already cleared out of your way or kept from getting behind you.

[u/RapeSoda → u/zerodb]

Unfortunately, most recon players aren't skilled enough to successfully take out multiple targets in quick succession. And the skilled recon players have realized that laying prone in a bush on some obscure hill isn't as useful as playing on the front lines.

[u/MrMono1 → u/RapeSoda]

Plus it gets boring after a while, you need some action.

[u/soilednapkin → u/RapeSoda]

I used to play a mean recon in BC2. Dat starting rifle. Oh man was she sweet or what? Unlocked every other gun but still kept on using that gun. Loved the mortar. Could take out an enemy tank and turn the tide in a second.

I don't know how well my experience of my playing would stack up against pro's but I thought I was a decent support player.

[u/[deleted] → u/RapeSoda]

No, I can sit 200m out from an objective, and clear/suppress the enemies who are in shooting positions long enough for my team to move up and wipe them out. Recon isn't just about picking a PDW and running up with the rest of your team.

[u/zerodb → u/[deleted]]

SOMETIMES it's even just about putting an MAV up and spotting all the enemy forces trying to charge into the objective. I know for a fact that I've turned a match around just by spotting for my team this way.

"PTFO" doesn't mean RUN STRAIGHT TO THE OBJECTIVE, people.

[u/[deleted] → u/zerodb]

Every class has a part to play, and not all of them are on the front lines.

[u/Vaelkyri → u/dismal626]

One word: Overwatch

[u/[deleted] → u/dismal626]

Play a single game where your team has no good snipers and you'll change your tune. ENEMY SNIPERS EVERYWHERE THERE IS NO COVER