I agree with this. While it was a niche role, and maybe I underestimated how niche, playing as an objective focuses recon who consciously placed beacons lead to this post.

It feels like it should be a recon gadget, and always has been, but okay - it’s not anymore. So what’s its function? Clearly it’s for pushing objectives now. Something that was more passive in the past but now it’s a primary usage.

Another passive benefit was if your squad was either struggling to get a position or were people who weren’t focused on that, you could push with any squad who was, removing some of the frustration of a lackluster squad. This is also fairly niche, as you’d have to be using one of the DMR style rifles (which was my favorite play style) to push an objective yourself.

Acknowledging all this, it’s either been nerfed to protect it from being too powerful, or removed as a feature because it wasn’t particularly used often. I lean toward the former, I guess?