Is there any way for the RCV (P)'s mast to be changed to its actual hight irl rather then the amount it goes up currently?
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Purposely limited, the developers briefly spoken about this issue, I can’t tell exactly but is something to do with way “too much advantages”. This also apply to a dozen of other vehicles purposely limited to a point that these features are rather situational.
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I mean yeah I get that but don’t
we now have vehicles like the SPYDER which’s optics are even higher than this?
It’s not allowed to extend this high for balance.
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Surely it wouldn’t make it that much better. Or are you talking about tipping over?
How is it an advantage even?
Higher RCS height scream out their own location though…
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It’s an advantage, if it wasn’t, it wouldn’t be limited to less than half the real height, thus the vehicle itself lacks good firepower, relying on the 30 mm Bushmaster II Mk.44, not a very good autocannon specially if you remove or don’t have any anti-tank dedicated secondary weapon, which is why the vehicle has this limitation, such small target could easily spot enemies at cover, and at this height, high explosive splash damage and overpressure won’t be efficient to take the vehicle out of action, it’s an small target at a point can’t be noticiable in some maps.
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Spotting enemies behind cover is already a thing now that UAVs can be used to scout. I don’t see the problem with fully implementing the optic mast when it has its own downsides when compared to the UAV that all light vehicles get.
Both are technically infinite use (repair optics or replenish drone by capture point), both can see behind cover, both are fairly sneaky but easily destroyed when detected (the mast probably more easily destroyed as it’s not as agile as the drone.)
At best you can argue that the optic mast gives an advantage in spotting distance… but the drone can also just fly closer to whatever they want to mark without too much issue.
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Scout Unamanned Air Vehicle has a nerf as in form of scouting delay and rewards, and is applied in the moment that you deploy the said UAV in the air, that’s why regardless if you spot someone using the Scout UAV or not it will count as Scout UAV deployed, meaning less reward and longer delay to spot again. In this case, full-sized mast would provide an advantage over the Scout UAV, which will exclude distance to spot, meaning it would be an advantage in long range maps and still be a small target, to note as well, the commander’s optic in the RCV (P) has decent zoom multipliers counting as well with the good quality thermal imager, and which if I’m not wrong, at rank VI, Scout UAV doesn’t have. As much as I wanted full accuracy, I have to acknowledge that this is indeed a advantage that could cause more issues to this already underpowered vehicle (reads, 30 mm Bushmaster II Mk.44) to, in the worst of the cases, higher battle rating.
The full sized mast is also easier to destroy than a scout drone by all ground assets. While a select few IFV/LTs and SPAA can effectively destroy a loitering drone.
The mast is also an obvious “light tank behind this object” indicator, something avoided by the scout UAV. They can be deployed anywhere and fly pretty much anywhere.
Optical zoom level on the drone is very high, similar to the RCV optic mast. If the only problem is the thermals and scout drone reward+cooldown nerf, they can just make the mast also give the drone cooldown nerf and up the rank from VI to VII.
This also doesn’t mention the last disadvantages of the mast in that it severely limits effective turret traverse and can be disabled by shooting the commander, unlike the drone.
For all the advantages a full sized optic mast gives, it’s not as if it has zero disadvantages when compared to the CTWV ICV (basically the same vehicle with -2 crew and no mast) just using the scout drone it is given.
I wouldn’t give much shit about firepower or armor when I can just earn tons of assists using the mast while moving place to place… also 9.7 is pretty much have campers too thanks to drones spotting tanks and other stuff like 2s38 indirect firing. That justification of such nerf is stupid for RCV (P)…
But I did deal with some RCV (P) folks in my T-55am-1 and caught them pretty easily thanks to their mast.
Light tanks can literally spawn drones…
Statements like this and the awful state of the game really shows you the devs dont even play their own game
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But also give it recon drone with thermal optics and add actual spotting to recon drones…
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