Any tips for playing recon guys?

Motion Balls for carbine play and PLD for sniping unless you have a range finder on your rifle. Second equipment is your choice. If you're using the motion ball setup, I'd suggest a suppresor. Use your balls to find out the enemy position (roughly) and flank them. With the PLD just snipe as usual. Run with the shorty with full choke and RDS as your secondary and use that when you're not sniping. Sums it up.

Take advantage of the fact that spawn beacons can sometimes parachute you. Use this to get onto buildings and place spawn zones for your team to spawn on.
You gotta live the tugs life if your sniping. Otherwise your going to get knifed by someone you had no clue was there or get c4 in you face.
Best perk is spec ops, screw the sniper perk, while using spec ops the first level is stealth so you can only be spotted by motion sensors while sprinting. Very very helpful for flanking.
Motion balls as cat said are your friends. But they are also your enieme. Motion balls produce this loud clank noise and its very easy to hear and people will know that theres some one infiltrating.
ALWAYS have and use the spawn beacon, especially on rush. One spawn beacon behind enimes lines or near the objective and a squad spawns on it can can mass cahos among the enimey team.
Do NOT snipe on top of skyscrapers. Unless you are very very good at long range snipers. Dont do this, the odds are that you will end up spending most your time missing or getting hitmarkers and someone (especially on op dawnbreaker) will snipe you from another building top. Also, your doing nothing for the team

Last advice, use this for all classes.
SPOT SPOT SPOT
Spot the crap out of people, if There at a range spot them, they will appear on the minimap for a while and have a doritios chip over there heads. Spot all vehicles, these are crucial if you have air vehicles. This way they can target the threat and airstrike them. This also tells engis where the tank is and go blow it up and tells everyone else stay away from that area.

When sniping from a high place go somewhere where you can only get to via aircraft, that way you can stay up in your spot longer and have less worries about people trying to kill you.

Depends on the map. Like flood zone rush, that rooftop on the huge building is great. Slap a spawn beacon up there and snipe from it during the 3rd set of mcoms. You get a whole view of the roof of the parking building where B is.
Im mostley against sniping from places via aircraft only since they just are not that great and its just a waste of time and your doing nothing to help the team.

I LOVE killing the snipers on those huge buildings on Flood Zone using the XM25. No-one really seems to like using the XM25 except for me and noobs who think it's a semi auto noob tube for some reason.

Xm25s make me rage, im under cover at a place where a m320 cant hit me, then here comes xm25 nades finding me behind the cover and blowing me up, its more aggrovating then snipers. I still perfer the m320 he over it. Now whats fun is if someones behind a building wall damaged and you oaunch a m320 and blow up the wall, that gets them raging.

I'm thankful that the XM25 is pretty underused.

Tried out China Rising today. I'm not a fan of conquest due to the amount of flags but rush is a party. Altai Range is my favorite rush map, followed by Silk Road. Guilin Peaks pisses me off. Haven't played much Dragon Pass. I've unlocked the MTAR and the RPK so far. I don't really like the MTAR. The RPK took some practice, but once I got the stubby on I loved it. You need to micro burst to be successful at med-long range with it though. Looking forward to unlocking the other guns.

the MTAR is the all kit assault rifle. Im not getting any content until i get a ps4

Its cheaper to get premium then buy all the map packs, Each map pack by themselves cost $20 each and all 5 will end up costing $100. Premium is $60 and gives you all map packs + extra content. Although the prices are probably different in other countries.

premium is crap as of now. only good thing you get out of it is map packs

also dat death animation.

I don't get why this thread gets no hate for not requiring skill but it's just about the same as CoD and it gets as much hate as possible. Seriously, what sets Battlefield apart from Call of Duty in terms of skill requirement?

battlefield takes strategy
team work
cooperation
helping others
awareness
PTFO
winning trumps any stats
thats skill in battlefield. In battlefield kills don't mean much, you get so many more points by doing other stuff such as reviving, spotting, vehicle destruction, healing teammates, reviving, providing cover fire, providing air, ground, naval, and infantry support, repairing vehicles, laser designating targets, transporting people to objectives, capturing objectives, and placing strategic spawn points to go behind enemy lines with a suppressed weapon and weaken enemy lines. Seriously, i can not tell you how many times I have been the MVP in games when i had 9+ less kills than the highest killer
in COD everything is kill based, if you want to provide your team air support you got to go on a kill streak, unlike in battlefield where you can get in any vehicle thats open and provide support.

there's so many variables at play in battlefield.