martlet is coming. its just a matter of twisting gaijins ear now. Stormer needs a useful missile
We can hope… But wouldnt be the first time Gaijin just straight up ignored us
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Yeah, I worked with a similar type of drones in civil area (actually same as military reconnaissance drones), they are fragile and can’t really do such insane maneuvers (though maybe military ones aren’t limited by automatic system that hard). We also had camera in the head, so it had more limited arc.
You could either give certain points to where it would fly (up to 406 iirc + 64 for return without connection) in automatic mode, certain figures (like circle, eight and etc), in semiautomatic mode you could change heading (by 10, 15 or 22.5°), height and engine power.
It would also automatically release parachute after 2 barrel rolls or, below certain height (250 m iirc), if roll achives 70° (in normal flight it’s limited by automatic system and should be within 30°).
Stall air speed was 55 km/h with 69 km/h cruise speed.
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Yeah, I was thinking that the drones in-game feel like they’ve been given made up performance stats, rather than modeled on anything realistic.
waypointing instead of direct control could be another interesting way to balance them, and make them easier to shoot down, essentially remove the ability for the pilot to perform any evasive maneuvers
Scout drone aka legal wallhack, literally turn grb into arcade 2.0 lol it’s even more effective near the end of a match where both teams has few players left, you sit at spawn with a light tank and ping every enemies you see and watch them die one by one. Unless they also spawn one else it’s a one-sided beating at this point.
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There could be also another feature added for SPAAGs maybe to activate something like EW, kinda like artillery strikes, creating interference in drone’s camera view and/or blocking controls for some time.
Yeah, that is definetly another option. You also have the equipment on the back of stuff like the Challenger 2 TES (not 100% familiar with what exactly it does, but probably can jam the communication signals as its designed to deal with IEDs). So other classes of vehicles could also gain the ability to temporarily disable enemy drones (and im sure as more time goes on IRL, that ability is going to become more common)
I also wonder if something like Iron Fist can shoot down drones.
As a long time player I fully support removing scout drones, they dont belong in the game. The maps are already tiny in RB thanks to gajins poor decision and making the map smaller and moving the spawn closer to the flags every single map update. They are the worst addition to the game and turn ground RB into nothing more then arcade 2.0.
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Only IR SAMS struggle. SACLOS ones like Rapier and Roland are 90% kills on drones in my experience.
Moste powerful anti-drone tool still is and remains the OTOMATIC…
Don’t think that’s a problem of drones. If you want vehicles with completely unrealistic, physically impossible maneuvers, look at helicopters: Not even a Bo-105 can fly as every single WT heli can…
You can play lower tiers without scout drones in battle or deploy light tanks and you have scout drones do.
And has a prox fuse*
Starstreaks for example are even worse than IR SAMs. Literally 0% chance to hit
yo what those aren’t that bad I mean they are indeed anyoying but they aren’t like that bad just gives location Intel a player should already have known pretty much they can be 50 cal because the player will have to leave the drone for a bit while it flys in circles it becoms much easier to hit
Hmm yes, let me stop here for a solid 30 seconds wasting ammo and giving away my position attempting to shoot down this drone :)
What about tanks without top MGs?
What if the drone it too far?
What if the drone is too high?
How will you even lead it correctly?
you don’t… maybe stopping in the middle of the battle field just to miss isn’t great advice but I did get a drone with imp. Chaparral stock which is trash you have to target the operating vehicle or the drone when the player isn’t Yorks proxy fuse Is great i don’t hink any other SPAA can get it without using half ammo so maybe nerf ig
Well that kinda what you suggested, just MG it, it isn’t that easy
AAs weren’t part of the convo, but yes, most proxy AA do great against drones, then the only issue is picking them up on radar or trying to find a single pixel in the sky to shoot at
You have to keep PC players in mind here, they don’t get to just spam A across the sky and pick up anything within 2km, they have to spot with the Mk 1 eyeball
we should get commander being able to use thermal binoculars
What does that have to do with this…
(There is a commander sight on some tanks with NVG/TVG)
that would allow everyone to see the little bug scout drone in the sky not only us console players who just spam A