Whats the lowest BR vehicle to get scout drone? 8.3?
Cant wait having to deal with vehicle launched micro scout drones in my 1950s tanks and SPAA.
Just screams immersion.
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So they start the match by not being a direct threat to the other team to have the possibility of maybe being a bigger threat later. I personally see that as a fair tradeoff. With the addition of the time and spawn cost nerf as well i think it will balance it out and if it doesn’t then Gaijin now has the tools to make changes again to balance it better, something they didn’t have before. Previously it could be spammed by just one or two players to the point of them getting CAS in like ~1 minute of the match. Now it will take longer and more players will likely do it and that results in the spawn point gain getting spread out over more players making it take even longer.
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I was thinking the same thing. I think drones are great, but only the highest levels of light tanks should have them.
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Sorry if im bit skeptical that game master is downplaying the rammifications of this mechanic.
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I have zero connection to development, i’m free to voice my opinions as long as i don’t break the rules, same as everyone else :)
I am (and have been) negative towards things that i think warrants it.
For example; i didn’t think about this part:
This is a valid point, they might want to limit the mechanics availability to the top two ranks perhaps. Or something similar. It makes sense for modern vehicles with datalink and high tech battlefield awareness tech to have access to this mechanic. They could even expand on this spotting mechanic further to have more diverse functions, spotting times, range of information sharing, etc based on the vehicle and BR. So modern vehicles share more data more accurately for longer times compared to older vehicles. (or something like that)
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will there be a way to recall your drone if a bunch of tanks appear within your own tanks line-of-sight so you can spot them faster or will you still be stuck with the drone unless it gets shot or you crash it?
I never implied you have connection to the development. But these game master badges arent exactly handed out for free on the corner ;)
Issue would still remain. Player, without ever leaving his spawn, can just spot on his scout drone, and hop into CAS.
Sure, it couldve been done previously to some capacity, but it was niche technique that still held risk of janky code not registering the scout and wasnt exactly advertised.
This new mechanic however, is hard baked into scout drones and were talking under a official devblog on official forum annoncing it.
All this on top of scout drones janky hitbox and flight model.
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I think this is less of a bug and more of a flaw in the core mechanic itself, you have always been able to scout ppls through terrain and the UAV just make it much easier, if they were to fix it they would have to redo the entire scouting system itself which ofc they don’t and just take the lazy way and let u scout from drone instead.
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That was a bug, not an intended feature in the game.
Exploiting bugs is against the rules but you surely know that.
Scouting from spawn will now be legal, what a time to be alive.
I believe that drones are already strong enough as utility without any scouting capabilites.
I would honestly just suggest scrapping the entire ‘scout via UAV’ concept and add a cooldown of ~15s for scouting targets each time a player returns from the UAV to their vehicle. (does not stack, just resets to 15s if the player re-enters and leaves the drone again within the 15s timeframe)
You can already provide your team and yourself with spotting through markers, be it squad-, teammarkers or even minimap pings. The former two can even be double-binded to set both simultaniously to avoid the longer team-marker cooldown.
I unfortunately expect this change to further encourage passive gameplay through the specific use of the scouting mechanic to earn SP and reduce CAS cost - be it with a lower relative effectiveness compared to the current system.
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i dont know what game you playing but ppl already abuse drone scout… and ppl also destroy drones in the air…
this change will only “formalize” scout through drones that ALREADY being abused, but now with a giga nerf… if anything it will only nerf something that is already widely using today anyways
I will just repeat myself.
Sure, it couldve been done previously to some capacity, but it was niche technique that still held risk of janky code not registering the scout and wasnt exactly advertised.
This new mechanic however, is hard baked into scout drones and were talking under a official devblog on official forum annoncing it.
All this on top of scout drones janky hitbox and flight model.
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You already can switch between your drone and your tank. The drone just keeps flying ahead or in a circle if you set it.
It just means that they think i have good manors, good judgement, won’t leak info and can act impartially against content that break the rules regardless of my personal opinion on that content. That’s basically it. Everyone is free to apply for any Moderator role when they open up requitements.
I don’t have much to comment on the rest of your post, but this:
Is a valid point. Scout drones should be easier to shoot down with missiles, the shockwave alone should be enough to take one out even if you miss by like 5m when the proxy fuse triggers.
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I don’t think abusing bugs is legal.
Gaijin couldn’t or didn’t want to fix that so now they found a workaround. Amazing work as always.
I just love when bugs become features, leads to amazing gameplay.
Yes, but even if you have the drone up, you still have to wait 18 seconds before you can spot again. What I’m saying is that you should be able to recall your drone that way you can spot every six seconds again
They are talking about the decreased scout time being active even when you leave the drone and go back to tank view. As long as the drone is active and flying the scout time and spawn cost decrease are affected by the amounts mentioned in the post.
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really? it was possible to scout at the own mark despite there is any line of sight to the enemy??
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The changes to unmanned aerial reconnaissance and CAS are beneficial to the ground forces. Then why not directly remove the aircraft in the ground combat mode and turn it into a true ground combat aircraft?
it wasnt a “niche technique”… in 8/10 games (number based on my experience, not official), someone was doing drone scouting in at least one team. me included did lots of times and was super easy with very low risky tbh (not for the drone that ppl destroyed it very early sometimes)