Ideas for Drone/UCAV call-ins
Given the setting it would seem logical that UCAV's would be featured in 2042. Here's some ideas I had for Infantry call-in abilities: Strike Drone Summon a strike drone against either an armored ...
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Right now all we know is that one specialist is using a "drone" / "auto-turret" .
It shouldn't be a "call-in" at all, more a gadget, then I would like your Idea.
As a gadget, a drone can't be a big UAV at all, but a smaller one, so it would be like the older "Star Wars Battlefront / Star Wars Battlefront 2 / Frontlines Fuel of War" Recon drones alike. You can use them in a specific radius, they do some damage but they are not an overpowered gadget that you can call in for your points. Because your squad, your team is playing the points, so they should all benefit from it and not only the "Squad-leader" which implifies your Idea for me at the moment.
For a call in, some sort of big UAV would be nice, which you can control similiar to the good old Gunship like the one from BF4.
@CloudMcRip Not sure how you figure that only the squad leader would benefit. All of these would potentially benefit the entire team. These would not be gadgets like the MAV. These would be similar to the commander drones in BF4. Obviously the fighter and strike variants would be a new concept of course.
@rainkloudNot at all, because I understand it like the Squad make points, the squad leader make the call in and it will be handled how it is in Battlefield V right now when you call for Artillery Support or a V1 Rocket (it may helps the team in general but still all hard earned points will only benefit the squad leader, so the squad itself doesn't benefit from their hard earned points at all). I still think drones would be better, or how @DingoKillr mentioned as "Team tools" so a "Commander" should be needed to make the call in.
I just don't want an "auto-scan" how it is in Call of Duty Modern Warfare with there UAV drones, where every soldier can make a call based on their point/kill streak. As a gadget these drones would need a "pilot" othwise it will become like the release of the CoD MW Ground War Mode with the UAV spamming.
If it would be a gadget, you would have some sort of "briefcase" where you can control a drone directly but also because you are flying the drone (or may programm an auto flying route?) you are unable to fight for this time.
@CloudMcRip wrote:@rainkloudNot at all, because I understand it like the Squad make points, the squad leader make the call in and it will be handled how it is in Battlefield V right now when you call for Artillery Support or a V1 Rocket (it may helps the team in general but still all hard earned points will only benefit the squad leader, so the squad itself doesn't benefit from their hard earned points at all). I still think drones would be better, or how @DingoKillr mentioned as "Team tools" so a "Commander" should be needed to make the call in.
I just don't want an "auto-scan" how it is in Call of Duty Modern Warfare with there UAV drones, where every soldier can make a call based on their point/kill streak. As a gadget these drones would need a "pilot" othwise it will become like the release of the CoD MW Ground War Mode with the UAV spamming.
If it would be a gadget, you would have some sort of "briefcase" where you can control a drone directly but also because you are flying the drone (or may programm an auto flying route?) you are unable to fight for this time.
I mean we're acting like the dev toolboxes don't exist to control this. You can put hardcaps per round, you can have progressive cooldown times so that each time one is called in the cooldown time doubles. You can have simultaneous instance hardcaps so the map doesn't get saturated. Any type of complaint you can come with regarding spam can be dealt with easily with caps.Points for any spot assists, damage or kills will go to the squad so everyone gets credit.
