Scout drones are broken

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The ability for scout drones to actually scout targets for the rest of the team was one of the worst ideas the devs ever came up with. Every match, there is someone who sits in their spawn and uses the drone out of the gate, making it impossible to flank or find a spot to ambush from, unless it is one of the two massive maps. Having the ability to fly the drone is fine, but they need to remove the scouting mechanic from it.

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Well the scouting cooldown and afaik also scouting rewards on the drone are quite a bit worse than just regular acouting.

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You can shoot the scout drone down and you don’t need spaa for that. Any verhicle with automatic target tracking for air targets can shoot it down the scout drone.

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Shouldn’t have really been added in the first place, should have only been added as the loitering type at high altitude that can scout for team.

Easy to counter those drones though.

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I don’t care about the rewards; it’s the fact that, unlike regular scouting, you can do it from across the map without the risk of getting shot

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Not like you can scout through buildings, rocks, and hills…

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Ok, so the Abrams should be moved down to 3.3 because a Pz4 F2 can pen its side and one-shot it right?

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You still have to be within “line of sight,” you can’t scout across the map through buildings

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for russian team is easy all time is 4 2s38 in their team instant shoot down drones… but for ther nationsm in scks

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Oh, you absolutely can, but that doesnt make drone scouting any less stupid (especially with the marker following everything that is scouted for 30 seconds across the map and markers being visible for planes in third person). An organized squad of 3-4 players can basically make their team play arcade with all enemies on flanks permanently scouted and everthing around them pointed out by scouts or squad markers. I kinda struggle to understand why that needs to be a thing in tanks at brs where most vehicles are from the 60s and 70s

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Scout drones are also extremely hard to shoot down for some reason.

  1. I only managed to shoot only one with the roof .50cal
  2. I once wasted 40 HE-VT shots from my bagel panzer because they would explode near it without getting any hit.
  3. Using the AIM-120C from the CLAWS is a waste, it never hits. Even AIM9X sometimes misses.
  4. 2S6 consistently needs more than one missile to take it down. Hitting with guns is very hard and borderline impossible if the player actively dodges.

This has been my experience. I think it’s worth mentioning that one time i got a nuke because of a scout drone. I was last in my team and needed 40 more sp and that helped me. So i guess there’s that.

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