I finished the Made in China, From Russia with Lead, and American Classics Assignments over the last week/weekend. Before the Fall Patch, I found DMRs were lacking in comparison to pretty much everything, except for at a specific range at which most of the automatic weapons have to really tap fire to put rounds on targets. At that point, DMRs were not awful, but severely lacked in versatility. It was the reason I put off finishing those assignments. I did not have the patience to deal with a weapon class that was so lacking.
Now, with the removal of visual recoil and most weapons receiving a slight damage decrease, the DMRs are not as lacking. The DMRs area still outgunned in close ranges, but much more usable at all other ranges, especially with the combination of a 3.4x/4x sight and canted iron sights.
Being able to actually use magnification now is amazing. I had always had a suspicion that without the exaggerated recoil, the mid power magnification (3.4x or 4x) scopes would be very useful and they now are. Unless I am playing ultra aggressively, which I do not do as often as I should (M1014 FTW), I prefer to play just behind the front line guys; my reflexes are just not consistently fast enough to do consistently well in close quarters with anything that is not a M1014. A magnified optic makes that much easier to do successfully.
The Fall Patch has been awesome. More weapons are effectively usable. More attachments are usable. Classic Mode is amazing. DICE did a solid good one with this patch.
