There is now a 3 second delay when switching back to the ground vehicle after the player’s Scout UAV gets destroyed. This is to give the player time to understand how they were destroyed.
Interface
A table with scouting awards in the message with the battle results now has an indication of whether the particular scouting was conducted when the Scout UAV was launched or not.
The description of the “Air Strike” modification now includes information on how a launched Scout UAV influences the rate at which the required spawn points for an aircraft are reduced.
Graphics
A bug that sometimes caused the textures of some airfields to be overlapped by the underlying landscape has been fixed. (Report).
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Planes can land on belly during emergencies, its not unrealistic. (theres videos of frogfoots, A10s and aardvarks landing on their belly without the pilot suffering a heart attack)
Stop huffing some of the leaded paint and think for a second.
They’re a pain. One of the reasons why I always keep a HE-VT vehicle in my higher tier lineups. Hopefully we get changes (aka nerfs not buffs) to them before Christmas.
I do not like this change. Scout drones are already pretty overpowered - first with how durable they are, second with the new scouting change and now as third this.
A OSA SAM missile is with 5kg of explosive mass. Considering that scout drones are made out moslty of plastic or some aluminum, hitting it directly often gives a “hit”. The sheer explosive wave should instantly destroy the drone and “J out” you out of it.
If a drone gets hit with something containing more explosive filler than the drone weighs it should be reduced to atoms, not be able to do one final look around