Basically, What do you think about drone’s that can fly/drive/swim along with players once we hit the final vehicles?
Here’s some examples for each type.
Things like the kratos UTAP-22, Sukhoi S-70, and Feihong FH-97A for air.
The Sea Baby, JARI USV, and Copperhead for naval
And the Nexter OPTIO-X20, Roboteam Probot, and TUGV for Ground.
As for how their implemented into the game modes.
Maybe for air it could act as a bomber escort for 12.0+ bombers. (Sense many bombers lose their gunners)
Naval would be…naval
And for ground, probably a kill streak type for 7 kills or SP equivalent to get one to drive from spawn to you?
No CoD stuff please.
And gimme my WALL.E
Looks like a screenshot from something like GTA San Andreas lol…
The S-70 just looks so good… shaped similar to the B-1 spirit and F117!
No :D
Fair, if they were added though, how would you do it?
The only place I can think of where this might be needed is in Naval, and not necessarily drones, but ai aircraft that fly with you. Attacking a naval target is near impossible alone, but if you were in say a Swordfish and had 4 or 5 AI Swordfish flying with you, then you might stand a chance of getting a torp off. If nothing else, it would look awesome
Thats hard to say.
Seeing as recon UAVs are part of the light tank kit, obviously drones should follow the same suit of being either deployable or like “companion” you spawn with.
Larger drones could theoretically be used as standalone vehicles i guess.
Issue would be, as usual, the balance of things.
Being able to deploy some smaller UGV with single RPG stapped to it would make most urban maps unplayable with how things currently are (no EW, no infantry), while UGVs without any sort of anti-armor weapon would be nearly useless.
Theres also a question about their survivability since they have no crew etc.
All and all i think its still too early to even consider such drones. Naval is still mostly WW2 with some odd cold war ship here and there, ground wouldnt probably be balanced at all either way and for planes we have yet to reach the technological level of planes neccesary to have those “loyal wingman” drones (but were getting there).
naval BR is weird. I believe that destroyers and battlships should be able to play in the same match, like WOW matchmaking. Right now, naval BR is basically early cold war in air and ground while naval is still interwar and ww2 battleships
Should also be removed
Id be fine with them IF they were limited to the very top tier where there are many vehicles that can deal with them.
I dont play naval but just looking over at TTs, imagine being in your WW1 drednaught (or whatever they are called) and getting domed by suicide drone from 21st century.
Honestly for ground addition it is not that much needed, for naval it will be the same for a long time, but for air (at least air only) it could be useful with the addition of new gamemode or depending if the loyal wingman can help locate and/or destroy ennemy planes but anyway it will not come until things like f35 are in game and even then as far as i get the earliest loyal wingman would be like 2032 for f35 and 2035 for rafale irl.
B-1 Spirit 🥀
Su-22 Felon ahh
But M5 Ripsaw
And XQ-58 may also be able to come pretty soon, before 2032 I think
No
Have enough things flying around in ground battles but if I have no problem in air or naval modes as I don’t play them yet.
Then again I might reconsider if gaijin can effectively balance CAS or there were some actual viable counter measures like jamming, hijacking them and or shooting them down. CAS is op as it is imo so I really don’t want to have something else spawning in behind my spawn and killing me before I’m even aware it’s there.
