Whats the point of spawning them in? 850 SP and you’re just a sitting duck for enemy SPAA. You can’t even hit things untill you get within 8km of your target. Either add countermeasures or make them spawn closer to the map.
erm actually its 750 sp and yeah i dont know why
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Spawning it too close to the map can be way too easy to simply revenge kill (when it was added every drone was in range of attack when spawned),
UAV drones is just a flying piece of plastic with some weapons glued to it as duct tapes. It should be simple, and something to be discarted and few more tax payers to cover a loss. It shouldn’t be super armed with tons of guns sticked to it as most nations say it can.
And in-game is a very situational yet effective free weapon. Try playing a battle rating 10.3 or battle rating 11.3 match, you’ll be able to easily use it with no worries with SPAA or ARH missiles.
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They are okay at about 10.0 when they first become an option if you dont have a dedicated CAS aircraft. But past that, yeah, virtually DOA.
But they are already very small making them hard to hit with some MCLOS weapons and have virtually no IR signature making them nearly impossible to shoot down with an IR weapon. They dont really need much in the way of buffs
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SP sink for when your team won but you don’t feel like respawning in a tank.
They were introduced fairly poorly, and they aged just as well, and even the recent addition of more ordnance only makes it more obvious. The Wing Loong gets the privilege to pay 300SP more to match the performance of the Hellfire, the Orion gets cute TV guided bombs that are abysmal range wise since they’re carried by a glorified glider.
Also you’ll get a massive RP penalty on any low tier plane you might be researching when you’re reduced to whip out a drone for CAS. Not saying that they should get premium bonuses, but simply that they should have an effective research range from T1 to own T+1.
I miss the WT77 NCS-70.
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