Remove the drone like you did with the shield
Just remove the from the game like you did the shield until you fix the ability to put C5 on it. It's not a "fun battlefield mechanic" it's an exploit and a bug and will only get worse as it gets m...
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@GosBiker meeh. Disagree. People loaded up drones in BC2 just about every match. Don't really see this to be an issue in 2042.
This is just a random video I found on YouTube. You can see how overpowered this is.
- You can just sneak the drone from high ground and tanks won't even be able to aim at it
- Its a spotting drone, so it makes it even easier to even spot tanks and infantry from far away
- When the drone gets shot, nothing happens to the player. But if he gets the kill, then he gets rewarded with xp, multi-kills and vehicle destroyed
- There is no real counter to this from a vehicle driver perspective when this drone is sneaked behind or above you
- Bunch of 5 to 6 defenders (which every single Breakthrough game has) can defend an entire point with this alone
This has to be patched or removed. Its an exploit.
EA admin how do I report an exploit? I would want to report this exploit. Or can this thread be moved to bugs/exploit section of the forum for consideration?
I don't think it can be classed as an exploit.
It's a valid mechanic, allbeit and annoying one.
What about allowing a drone with one C4 on it?
That way at least a drone pilot would have to time a well executed attack on a tank with low health.
Legit questions (as I haven't played 2042 yet)
Are Drone-killing Lockables like IGLA etc. still available in this Game?
Do Players still hunt down Users of like-UCAV / RAWR / SOFLAM etc.?
Can Tank Gunners still utilize those BF4ish IR Locks to paint town-and-sky?
If the answers to these are yes , then . . .
Their work is mostly done , our work has barely begun .
. . . or not 😛
One thing seems for sure though .
Not only can I be in a good old fashioned shoot-em-up in 2042 but ,
I can also be a 'Droner' OR (maybe even AND) a Drone 'shooter-downer' .
Last question :
Is someone who hasn't played a Game yet allowed to try to coin a term in it?
:D
- @tempo_rarity No not lockable but can be shot with gun with few shots but as so small this is quite hard to do.
Several days later, being C5ed with a drone when I am in a tank is still an extremely rare occurence.
Being spamed by multiple sources of Recoiless launcher rockets and Sundance Magical Grenades on the other hand is happening constantly. The Soflam is also making the recoiles work like a javelin for more efficint tank hunting. The anti matterial rifles will also start becoming more common, if someone lands a shot with their ultra high power ammo variant, it hurts as much as a rocket.
Really people do not bother with the hasle of preparing a drone with C5 unless they are realy desperate to take out a tank because they are the the only inteligent (inteligent as in knowing to use anti tank measures against tanks) player in their team.
It's not an exploit. No need to remove it.
If you argue you can't do anything against it then shooting in the back has to be removed too.
@Reaktionslos
In its current state, this OP-V-C5 issue is a massively and gamebreaking EXPLOIT as described already. And it does not even happen on a hardcore server.Just putting the word exploit in all caps doesn’t mean anything, you know. A video game exploit is defined as the use of bugs, glitches, or systems to gain an unfair advantage in a manner not intended by the development team.
I, alongside many others I’m sure, have never once had an issue taking out a drone. Furthermore now that the latest update has increased their visibility and hitbox size you should be having even less trouble. So there goes the ‘unfair’ part of the argument.
Furthermore did you ever play battlefield 4 and get mauled by a SUAV? Or blown up by a C4 jeep? Or a MAV targeting some C4 that a friendly had placed in on your vehicle because they were pally with someone on the enemy team? All of these things are not intended use but they all happened and they were all mainstays for better or worse. Most of them were even arguably harder to deal with than Casper’s drone. To state that, after all the shenanigans that used to occur in previous titles, using a recon drone to ferry C4 was ‘unintended by the developers’ is insane.
Battlefield lives and dies on its playerbase’s out-of-the-box thinking, if people didn’t experiment with the sandbox we wouldn’t have C4 launches or rende-zooks. If you want to play a Battlefield where player expression is considered exploitative and should be reigned-in, then you do you, but that is never what Battlefield has been about, it has always been about creativity.
It’s what makes the game so great.
