With the recent changes to scout drones they need some fixing. Having the ability to spot targets for your team is very powerful, particularly against immobile SPAA.
Currently drones can head directly into spawn and are very hard to target and kill with MG fire or ARH SPAA. They can they just sit over spawn and scout your entire team.
Russian teams seem to spam the drones because their lineups have so many light vics in them. The very popular 2S38 also 1 shots all drones, but not all nations have proxy autocannon shells.
Why is this an issue? Well paired with the ability to mark the map and indirect fire from both ground units and CAS it makes playing SPAA very frustrating. The maps don’t allow very much room to hide or even leave spawn with the giant multi system vehicles.
Additionally the scout drone damage model seems to need some fixing. Often hits with SPAA missiles will trigger their proxy fuse but end up doing no damage.
I play 12.0+ GRB and I have a full lineup including Heli/CAS for perspective.
well only thing what should be done is damage model.
I play lot of top tier and usually dont even bother on drone spawning.
But on topic, damage model on those are completely busted, the scout drone is modeled on Zala 421-08, so it’s wingspan is 0.8m and it weights 1.7Kg, now this thing can some miraculous way survive 4+ abrams multipurpose heats, 2-3 autocannon proxyfuses, pzhp2000 proxy HE, igla, stinger, pantsir heck i got even crit on BUK once in it.
For all fairness, any of those “big cannons” or missiles shot would be enough to decimate it from the sky even with blastwave , but gaijin has decided that it is made from adamantium and vibraniums combination and had stalinium 2k ceramic coating on top of it
They were technically nerfed after the update since the cooldown is much longer. Before, player can just scout the entire team with ease and barely any cooldown by just marking the target with the drone and scout right on that mark (u can still do this btw).
The fundamental issue is that there is no terrain detection for scouting, and adding such a system is pretty complicated, so Gaijin just chose an inbetween of letting the drone scout by itself, and we just have to deal with it.
Idk why u gotta bring Russian bias talk into this when every other nation got just as many light tank to spam drone themselves. Even JP got like 7 light at rank 6-7. But it is true that drone should be nerfed and should be able to be one shotted by even stuff like AHEAD rounds.
The UAV is fine but scouting needs to be completely removed from the game. It’s to broken and causes way to many issues. I’m fine with the UAV being used as part of your squad to convey information in a VC but scouting people through walls and at the beginning of a match is just ridiculous. Only option is to remove it scouting mechanic that is I don’t necessarily have a problem with the drone itself.
they kinda nerf them after adding this, before you could spot them though the map with the drone, with much lower cool down, the damage model does need to be fixed they resist way too much manpads often just “hit” them.
Nah sounds like you want to sit in spawn with your spaa and be safe while you use absolutely no skill attacking aircraft with FnF weapons.Scouting is fine as is