User blog comment:Charcoal121/Favorite Weapons: Engineer/@comment-1476628-20111223215352/@comment-1017446-20111226223244

They're not bad it's just DICE tried too hard to weaken the recon class since it was probably the best class in BFBC2. The PDW's overall weren't meant to be that powerful. Otherwise they would just be assault rifles or carbines, weapons carried by the assault/medic and engineer classes respectively.