I went to battle and played like normal, got a few kills, assists, almost a base cap - then died. When I went back to the vehicle selector, I wasn’t sure what to choose, maybe T90A maybe my new T72B3… But at the end of the selection I saw something I completely forgot existed, Orion. That strike drone.
It’s been so long.
Pre 2026 - early 2025, Orion wasn’t good in any way. Rarely you’d get a kill. But SOMETIMES it would be useful. Then came the Elde 98, IRIS-T… Orion was almost completely useless. Though, not everyone had a OP SPAA. I stoped using it, to me it was useless. Id see maybe one in every hundred player use one - most of the time they’d just to feed the enemy team with a free kill. Most of the time.
Then came the addition of free SPAA. Now everyone could control the air. Orion is officially dead. So is every other strike drone. It now sits there, never to be used.
I want to use it again, I want it to be useful. Maybe lower the SP needed to the SAME as the free Spaas, launch it closer to the battlefield, reduce it’s radar signature, just something to make it useful at top tier.
It’ll also encourage one spawn leavers to use another vehicle, to help their team one more time.
But hey, that might just be me.