Drones in Ground

I would like to see the stock drone that can carry Air to Ground missiles moved from being a vehicle that everyone gets in their Ground lineup at a certain BR and instead be an actual researchable vehicle maybe in the Helicopter tree since many of those trees a pretty sparse.

This would allow for the addition of many variants of drones as well.

Instead, within ground lineups, for everybody, i think it would be cool to see some of these Kamikaze drones used in modern combat. Their SP cost could even be a bit lower than the current drones.

At the upper tiers this would help mitigate SOME of the CAS issues and it would introduce a new element of gameplay since you would actually have to fly these Kamikaze drones into the tanks themselves to achieve a kill.

Just a thought.

EDIT: After much back and forth with many of you this whole idea may introduce way more problems then it’s worth.

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That’d just switch the complaint from being about planes, to drones…

You’d literally be making the threat like AB where you can just spawn a drone, and go hit something, and return to your vehicle.

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Kamikaze drones would ruin any br they are at.

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The current complaint is about drones.

Im not saying that they should be attached to a vehicle like the scout drone but a separate spawnable vehicle like drones are now only these are less powerful.

How are they worse than the current drones with hellfires? Or whatever the russians/chinese have?

Because the current drones are outranged by most advanced aa. Kamikaze drones would make it horrible to play aa because they can just come out of nowhere and kill you because of their smaller size.

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But they have to actually make it to you and are susceptible to gun fire.

I feel like itd be far better than the hellfire spam.

Hell no

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I’d say lets test it in an april fools or its own event. If it does well and is semi balanced. I’d be down for it. If it just makes playing ground more of a pain then nah.

The main argument against cas is the fact there’s no counterplay for any tank other than a few spaa’s.

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I’d agree completely.

The counterplay at least for some of these drones would just be the LMGs most tanks get and ofcourse missiles.

I just feel like itd be better than the mq-1’s and other drones where players just hide behind terrain and lob missiles into your spawn.

At least these kamikaze drones require effort.

A battery timer could even be given to them to prevent players from loitering for too long.

Drones have made tanks obsolete in Ukraine. Why would you want them in a tank game anyway?

Eh yes and no in Ukraine. There’s been a lot of adapting to them and they’re not nearly as effective as they were.

Drones are already in the game though and basically make MBTs obsolete as theyre currently implemented.

Just trying to make it better than it is now while still giving players with no air tree researched something.

Plus ECM is prolly coming soon which will give more of a counter to these things.

I would like to see more variants of drones, especially notable ones like Bayraktar or IAI Hermes/Heron but i don’t really see the point in making them researchable, just another wasteful RP dump

The current complaint is about anything that gets an unaware player to be honest…

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True. The current CAS spam is just ridiculous and the drones with hellfires for everyone didn’t help at all.

Idk how else you’d add multiple different types of drones in. They play very similar to the helicopters so i figured those trees made the most sense. The current heli trees are also pretty sparse for many nations so itd add some variety there as well.

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It’s easily worked against, however most people that complain are just so fixated on one thing, ‘fixing’ the issue the only way they can see being right, and that’s removal.

You wanting more drone stuff, would lead to more people not wanting drones in the game proclaiming they’d be unfair, or unfun, just because they got got.

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No

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Way to ruin ground battles even more by adding more flying shits that cannot be countered by ground vehicles, wanna turn the only ground battles into another air battle? some 10.3 SPAA can’t even lock on the drone

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all this whining about CAS when many drones only use GBU type weapons or stuff like AGM-114 or AGM-179.

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here is XQ-58 trailer launching’

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here is MQ-20 with some of its weapons options

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