Battlefield Tri-hard

[Cortexian]

The thing you're not realizing is that "Recon" is not a "Sniper" class.

I've seen Recon's be top of the team with over 5,000 points and less than 10 kills.

[Warsaw]

The thing you're not realizing is that "Recon" is not a "Sniper" class.

I've seen Recon's be top of the team with over 5,000 points and less than 10 kills.

Precisely. Recon is about scouting out enemy positions, helping engineers target vehicles for take-down and, formerly, undermining enemy effort via sabotage.

Most Recons don't do that. They instead make the game a miserable experience for everybody else including their own team. Anybody attempting to have fun at somebody else's expense is a troll and can get out of my game.

I don't mind dying. I don't mind losing. I do mind having my own entertainment handicapped because people want to be assholes. This includes snipers not contributing, consistent team-killing, and people camping for kills rather than accomplishing objectives. I don't care what team it is. I don't enjoy watching the enemy team fuck itself over with team kills, because it reduces the fun for both sides. What's the point for my team if there is no opposition?

Basically, a game is supposed to be about giving everybody as much fun as possible. Battlefield has a knack for not being able to deliver fun uniformly in any capacity, and that's not exclusive to Battlefield 3. The same applies to BC2, BC1, and to a more limited extent, BF2.