User blog comment:Charcoal121/Favorite Weapons: Engineer/@comment-1476628-20111223215352/@comment-1017446-20111226223558

I think what DICE was aiming for was to make recon a more defensive class than an offensive one. They're meant to provide what the name of the class means: surveillance and overwatch from a distance, not killing. So that pretty much means spotting for your teammates and killing off the guys that they can't kill.