I’m actually talking about attack drones. UAVs are (at least from my point of view) fine. Though that can surely be a topic of discussed too
Just that, remove drones.
They don’t really add any valuable or skill based gameplay to the game. They don’t balance out any vehicle class, quite the opposite, as they don’t really have a counter. Furthermore, they also don’t add any ability to change the tide of the battlefield, as they only have two missiles. The way they are deployed isn’t really realistic (though that goes for higher BR CAS in general). I probably could go on, but everyone is aware of the issues and the only argument that is needed is, that they don’t add a beneficial experience to the game.
Overall, matches are more balanced and fun without them and since you don’t have to research them, they could easily be removed from the game (at least temporarily until a better way of integrating them is found).
i do not see a problem with the UAV drones, i actually find it quite helpful to spot enemy tanks, and especially flankers that you otherwise would’ve missed and suffered against. It adds a additional function to light tanks and adds a learning curve with a new gameplay strategy that i quite enjoy.
And in top tier, it gives the ability to Ground players only to be able to use a CAS vehicle (Strike UAV drone) without having to invest 1+ years into unlocking a strike aircraft
Also with very little counter. As they are difficult to spot and almost always out of range to hit. They are used as 2 free missile shots for the enemy and often kills ground vehicles with 1 missile. Basically a cheat code with no idea they are even way up there in the sky. Sure jets can get them but usually I don’t see that happening, they’re usually left open to strike. They need to go. The little scout drones for tanks are ok. Not the big ones up high with missiles. I killed one the other day with my ADATS only because it was probably being careless and just hovering close over the battlefield, that’s almost the thing that never happens.
Totally agree with you, it’s not a problem to remove their because nobody buy an attack drone, with the AA nerf they are really difficult to shot down, and you can’t kill their with 9.3/10.0 AA like Ozelot, VAB mistral, Lvrbv 701, etc. Attack drones are just implemented to give 2 revenges kill for new players who buy premium tank and only have one tanks and no skill, they really need to delete these strikes drones
Precisely my thinking. If you spawn in spaa at the start of the match, you basically sit AFK waiting for something to shoot at unless you are in one of the few spaa quite good at hunting tanks. If you had recon drones, then you could scout in the meantime. Would also fill the void on some trees missing high tier light tanks.
I dont care much for strike drones, they could be removed or kept for all i care they are pretty useless.
I actually want scout drones to be removed, the can be incredibly op and are just not fit for the game and at the same time they are boring and unrewarding to use if you are not in a squad. We have scouting already that can even be broken at times (where one or two coordinating scouting vehicles can get into a hidden position in a flank and scout a whole team and basically give their team wall hacks)
Adding the scout drones was just gaijin hopping on the popularity of certain videos from a certain conflict and not because they were needed at all.
i really hate them, They usally spawn really high and i find Hard to spot and kill, in addition the only reason they exist is to add content to the pile and give Wallet warrior a single spawn but they missed the part that they will not get the spawn points from them, They can just kill tanks from really far away and the tanks are sitting ducks for them.
drones are weakest form of cas, if i had to choose my enemy spawning a f16c loaded with paveways and amraams or a puny drone i would want him to pick the drone every time
if you died to a drone any other cas plane at that br would kill you even better