Why?People are farming XP like crazy just flying their Drones around and spotting people the whole game.How?Because you get 5 XP for every single enemy spotted + 50 XP for every spotted enemy that gets killed. The same amount of XP for a kill by just spotting them.So every 10 enemies spotted is 1 kill and if you're constantly spotting people all around you'll get like 1-2 kill assist every 10-15 spotted enemies.Also spotted enemies reset after a few seconds when you look away. So just fly in circles and spot the same group of enemies again every few seconds. At the end of a round you have anything in between 70 - 150 spotting assists or "kills" + the extra XP from spotting and ribbons.That way you can get guaranteed 15.000 - 35.000 XP each game for just flying around looking at people. Nothing more.It's getting annoying seeing more and more people doing it just laying prone around the map flying their drones instead of PTFO.SolutionNerf the spotting assist XP to 25 and either increase the re-spotting cooldown or lower spotting XP to 3.

@DonidonIn the beta the range was horrible, totally useless, now they are useful.People want to remain hidden all game so they can gank people uncontested, this leads to pure unfun chaos, an unorganised mess.Having the ability to spot people through drones or proxy balls creates battle lines, it organises the chaos into a playable and less frustrating state.And no I don't want to be stuck in a Bush operating my drone all game, I like to move with my team, I was combining proxy balls and my drone, by throwing proxy balls on the flag and then scanning the outer area of the flag for incoming hostiles, the enemy can do the same, this is modern warfare, intel is King.A fear is that reducing xp too much will deter this valuable team resource from been used.

@l8008l wrote:SolutionNerf the spotting assist XP to 25 and either increase the re-spotting cooldown or lower spotting XP to 3.Here is a better solution, let people go back to grinding to their hearts content in solo and this way only the people who just want to win will play multiplayer.the game already had a rather sad start, why do you want to make it even sadder

As someone that uses drones and sniping kits, I have to disagree with you. Why? Drones are vital to the battlefield, considering that we are lacking uavs. in past bf games, we had uavs and such to determine where people were camping and what was in the area. thats really not the case anymore, so nerfing drones isnt a solution. as for the xp issue that your talking about, its also not logical to nerf it based upon that. the sniper kit in its current state has a ton of problems. for example, the scopes on it are bugged, the 6x,8x and so on dont stay in those zoomed scopes. you have to switch between attachments in order to get the rifle to work normally again. thus making it difficult to even snipe or even stay alive. so its in current state, snipers wouldnt be able to gain any xp at all because of the scope bugs via in their kits.also, when your talking about gaining xp.. helis gain a butt load of xp while flying and killing targets. ive seen players fly around the entire game, without hardly ever dieing. they kill a ton of people that end up giving them x xp. so when we are looking at nerfing something, we should be focused on fixing prior issues before making classes nearly unplayable. oh and I dont get 15k xp every round, more or less 10k.

I shoot or hack every drone I can.

Wait, you guys don’t put c4 on your drone and attack people with it. You use it to spot… hmmm must try that out..

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19 Replies

ilosuppilo
4 years ago
I don't see the point of moving the whole spotting from everyone to these gadgets. These are basically always either useless or broken, there never seems to be any middle ground. At least before when everyone could spot stuff like TUGS or BC2 recon balls were okay gadgets that were situationally useful. Drone and spotting ball with 128 players seems counterproductive in the big picture.
Donidon
4 years ago
@l8008l
The operating range of the drones is simply far too high. If they can't fly as far, you can't take advantage of that.
l8008l
4 years ago
@Donidon That also sounds like another good plan of action. Right now it's about 250m range which is totally fine if you're just out of range of the point. Again I'm not against spotting itself just the XP gain you'll get from it right now. It's absolutely effortless and people abuse it every game. When I read team chat a lot of others complain about "afk" players.
R1ckyDaMan19
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@DonidonIn the beta the range was horrible, totally useless, now they are useful.

People want to remain hidden all game so they can gank people uncontested, this leads to pure unfun chaos, an unorganised mess.

Having the ability to spot people through drones or proxy balls creates battle lines, it organises the chaos into a playable and less frustrating state.
And no I don't want to be stuck in a Bush operating my drone all game, I like to move with my team, I was combining proxy balls and my drone, by throwing proxy balls on the flag and then scanning the outer area of the flag for incoming hostiles, the enemy can do the same, this is modern warfare, intel is King.
A fear is that reducing xp too much will deter this valuable team resource from been used.
JibmasterJ
4 years ago
I shoot or hack every drone I can.
R1ckyDaMan19
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@JibmasterJ Oh look a counter, seems everything is in order, /thread
l8008l
4 years ago
@JibmasterJ A true hero.
R1ckyDaMan19
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@l8008l Yes someone Pro active instead of begging for nerfs.
mrwhiteshark
4 years ago
Wait, you guys don’t put c4 on your drone and attack people with it. You use it to spot… hmmm must try that out..
Hudson009
4 years ago
@l8008l I don’t get it why you have to fly so
Low to use the emp on the drone and what’s the fire button for