#Air Drone - Feedback

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mighty sierra
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Please keep it on topic, and civil, we want serious feedback

  • No gifs
  • No 'skill issue'
velvet beacon
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This gadget is useless for scouting purposes until a spotting mechanic is added to the game. Until then it'll be used as a suicide drone.

slow zephyr
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Suicide droning is a pretty fun mechanic with clear counterplay as infantry. Movement speed with C4 needs to be seriously nerfed though, barely have time to hear it in a tank/APC and slow turret rotation + low RoF guns makes it impossible to shoot it down even when it comes directly from the front.

fading flame
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Either turn it into a suicide drone with actual support for the mechanic or give it scouting capabilities because right now it's complete dogshit at reconnaissance which is laughable for a class literally called recon.

restive tusk
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Give the drone flir sights and the ability to do spot pings like the spotter seat in the tanks

fair arrow
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will say this

spotting needs some work to make this more useful but in group play it is rather nice as is

if used as a sucide drone(Which we all know) it depends on which explosive is used in my opinion (C4 tends to be more, annoying to say the least)

short oak
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Allow for pings from the drone to be seen by all team members within a certain range of the drone and give a 100-200 point spotting assist for kills.

fair arrow
civic thicket
short oak
hazy trail
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suicide bombing drones is quite fun but its really annoying trying to detonate the c4 on the drone

maybe if you could detonate it from the flight menu or theres an option to just make the drone drop when you swap out of it

burnt knoll
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suicide drone should be its own thing, with the recon drone being a separate thing entirely.

bright quarry
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should be able to spot infantry and if they get lit up after 15 seconds you spot them then you get a lil bit of xp, also maybe it should have a weak turret on it?

burnt knoll
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eh I think just have a suicide drone and a recon drone be seperate things would be fine.

spice vessel
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Make it reloadable

civic thicket
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It would need to be like a stun gun or something like in rainbow6

bright quarry
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Drones are hard to shoot at

civic thicket
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Stun gun would be cool and I’d actually use them

bright quarry
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What u mean by stun gun is like a taser?

civic thicket
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like that but on the flying one

bright quarry
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No

civic thicket
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Look up r6 siege shock drone

burnt knoll
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the shock drone doesn't even shock it just shoots for minimal amount of damage. I don't think it would be all that fun to use because of the wonky flight characteristics of the drone right now.

spice vessel
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Ucavs where

hazy trail
crisp bramble
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  1. Move Air Drone to primary gadgets.
  2. Add Suicide Drone variant.
  3. Remove C4 and Suicide C4 from primary gadgets.
restive tusk
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Drone skins please

spice vessel
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Ucavs where

restive tusk
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Air drone should be wifi 6 compatible

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Please put a sticker on the drone to signify this

junior venture
compact dome
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You could add a killer drone, like they did in bf4, and then all the arguments that drones in this game are bad would stop, but you could reduce their power.READ THIS!(I transmitted this message through an interpreter)

arctic sphinx
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Please allow the Drone to spot enemies with the new spotting mechanic in place.

cinder epoch
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the drone cannot spot enemies in the current patch, I thought the new spotting mechanic would make it somewhat viable, but upon using it I was dissapointed that it cannot spot people.

pliant wind
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Give drones spotting!

rancid plume
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what is the actual legitimate point of this thing if it cant even take advantage of 3d spotting? why is the*** drone*** of all things left out? dev's are treating recon so badly it seems so toxic and biased. so many specific conditions and penalties for one class compared to any other. recon should come with its own extensive tutorial at this point.

pliant wind
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Why is the drone issue being ignored? You have to find some niche for them, and in my opinion it's obvious that the drone should be RECON tool, as a reconnaissance device, observing enemy clusters in real time, and "crashing" large fronts. And if the team doesn't have a drone, then the team will lose average effectiveness. No one loses anything if the Recons become a strong pillar of any match.

pearl grove
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Add the ability to pick the drone up 🙏

rancid plume
pliant wind
cerulean ember
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I really like pivoting snipers to being more intelligence gatherers to help the team. That being said, I’m worried that 12 seconds of live ping will be too long— turning your squad into wall hackers. Maybe limit the number of live pings on drones to 2 or something. But we shall see.

cloud kraken
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New drone update is 🔥

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pliant wind
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First of all, I want to say thank you to the developers that they are trying to expand fun for all categories of players, and after six months, finally heard that someone actually wanted to play as a real field scout.

A real field scout is equipped with a magical drone, which no current conflict in 2023 is without. Drones are so prevalent in, say, the Ukrainian conflict that warfare has become trench warfare and vehicles are no longer an ultimatum power.

For a scout to be useful to a team, his information(marks) must be available to that very team. The current complaints from other players that Drones have become too strong and spotting needs to be reworked are very simplistic, and I will explain why.

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  1. Of course I agree that marks could not be placed behind smoke and vegetation. The design of almost all maps favors infantry enough to allow them to move out of sight of the air most of the way, so it creates some balance.
  2. I don't agree that tags need to add cd, or limit their range of use, because that's too lazy a way to solve the problem.
  3. What I suggest is to add anti-drone guns, which are actively being used in real conflicts right now. You should bring anti-drone intelligence and special forces into the game so that players decide the outcome of the fight themselves, rather than having the outcome of the fight decided for them by pointless nerfs. Drones are not invulnerable tanks that can't be destroyed, they are just as much a part of the battlefield, and accordingly, you need to address this tactical problem so that your team is not illuminated.
  4. And if we go this creative way, we need to make drones more vulnerable. For example, halve the radius of the signal so that the recon would be forced closer to the battlefield. Or make it appear to the player that he has been spotted by an enemy drone. Or add more interference to the screen initially to make long range tagging more difficult.
  5. I agree that if you are marked, you should know about it, and you should know about it right away.
serene token
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nerf air drone spots

Increase the range of drone spots.
Add a cooldown to drone spots.
Reduce the duration of drone spots to 3s

subtle basin
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Rename "Air Drone" to "Recon Drone" and make more drone types.

Like a drone that can drop supplies for allies "Supply Drone"

Or a dedicated suicide drone

subtle basin
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Both of these drones wouldn't be able to ping, but they could do other stuff

clever geode
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In no particular order but encompassing all these changes
Make the drones smaller (or not ?)
Make the drone faster horizontally (ornottheyreprettyfasttbh) but slow its vertical speed - Makes it easier to traverse map, while increasing how they're used strategically, ie you need to view a buildings third floor, this is going to become much harder and require you to maneuver way from the building to avoid getting shot.
Limit the height a drone can go (perhaps significantly) - Makes them easier targets, ie they're in the game and not just sitting at the top of the map marking everyone.
Disallow explosives to be placed on the drone. This is a cheap trick with virtually no downside that 9/10 will blindside you regardless of skill. The new update allowing pings should replace this feature completely.
Drone pings should be 3D Pings and player pings should be reverted back to the old system. Should require you to actively be looking at the people you've pinged, remove the autoping.
(Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, you can't see your player while viewing the drone. This limits the ability to support your squad and survivability of the drone user. If its not possible to fix this, a simple yellow ping would suffice, same on the map, should be able to see your drone on the map) Thnks for reading my essay 😎

subtle basin
burnt knoll
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whenever we get the leader back, he gets to call in Bo2 swarm

fair arrow
pliant wind
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90k for drone spotting, feels nice

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pliant wind
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Well, drones have become practically useless.....

rancid plume
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double spotting points for recon/leader.

obtuse mural
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let me pick my drone back up, see my drone on the map, and see my own player when in the drone please

burnt void
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Ok just saw 4 abrams lost leaving spawn to drones. Impossible to counter from within the tank. Judging by how tricky it normally is to take out armor (number of RPG,t ank shots or extremely risky c4 required) this is probably not intended. Just remove c4 ability to stick to drones

civic thicket
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Drones are bugged as spotting vehicles and helicopters using drone is 95% of time impossible. Only on some random angle it allows to do so. Also please add more drone types, for example bomber drone with granades, or droping shells like "baba Yaga drone". Thank you for reading.

craggy badge
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I would like it if the game would tell you the name of the person that killed your drone, the distance from the drone maybe the weapon they were using. I don't want to be given their location. There are times when there is some sus stuff going on like the drone getting randomly 1 shot while moving as fast as it can or getting shot down very quickly despite being in very different locations. It would be nice to know if the same person every time, or if its somone on the other side of the map 1km away somehow seeing it and hitting it.

soft wind
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Drones cant spot enemy vehicles for some reason, and i think that good idea would be to make a drone with c4 on it a d put it to lvl beteeen 60-90 and remove the option to put mines on the normal one

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And would be cool to see some bigger score reward for spoting, little anoying job and not so much points for this

slate raptor
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Air Drones should be set to 'No-Clip' and remove the ability to mount C4/Mines to them. At most, only a single C4 or Single Mine should beable to be placed with more than 1 causing the drone to be to overweight to move. Multiple would not only be extreme weight but is rather unbalanced. Having the ability to attach several explosives to the drone, further discourage the use of Tandem Rockets as well as AntiVehicle Grenades. These two should be the primary means to destroy heavy armor vehicles... Not a small drone that moves so quick and quiet that a heavy armor vehicle has no time to respond, and even with a small amount of time the drone is likely being dropped from straight above leaving most vehicles completely defenseless.

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They also are being used to destroy helicopters, which is further beyond what you should beable to use it for in my opionon.