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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I'm not sure what weird lobbies people are playing in that this is only happening to them once a day. This is an every match, frequently multiple match occurrence for me. Like @GosBiker said, this is completely broken because there is no risk to the drone user, and replacing their C5 is as simple as running in and out of a couple ammo boxes or redeploying, which gives no one any points for their death.
Arguments for "they still have to be in range for it to be useful" are completely invalid. The range is more than ample for them to be safe without any fear. The drone range is 250m. This isnt short range by any means in terms of the typical BF2042 engagement range. If DICE added the Javelin back into the game and it could hit any armored target within 250m with a slow traveling missile that required no SOFLAM lock that would instantly kill its target, people would lose their minds and call it busted. C5 drones are definitely busted. Let people stick C5 to cars if they want and suicide bomb, at least then they have some risk; the C5 drone has zero risk.
This C5 drone issue was uncommon, but still around, in the early access. Now that more and more people are figuring out about it and posting videos about it, its becoming very popular very quickly.
Adding to this, making the drone more detectable is also unsatisfactory. Every soldier gets the option to deploy with sensor grenades, which go fairly unnoticed. If they make the drone more noticeable, either by an icon or a sound or a larger model, the drones will just get destroyed instantly.
Sure, this fixes the C5 drone issue, but now Casper's unique utility is also gone.
The one thing I have noticed is that the C5 drone only seems to do maximum, instant kill, damage when running into a vehicle. If this could be fixed, then fine, let people put C5 on drones still; until then, the best fix is to disable drone C5 placement.
@PaizuriFlurry wrote:Adding to this, making the drone more detectable is also unsatisfactory. Every soldier gets the option to deploy with sensor grenades, which go fairly unnoticed. If they make the drone more noticeable, either by an icon or a sound or a larger model, the drones will just get destroyed instantly.
Sure, this fixes the C5 drone issue, but now Casper's unique utility is also gone.
Actually the drone needed that fix anyway, especially the way it gets its EMP buffed.
Being EMPed every 4-5 seconds on my tank from a certain drone that I could see but not hit even from the gunner seat before getting EMPed once again felt even worse than getting outright destroyed during the beta.
I prefer the idea of a versatile drone that is easier to hit than a more restricted one that is hard to hit if it is moving at all
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jokes aside, whilst we have you here, do you have an opinion on this? It would be good to hear what someone at EA thinks of this particular topic.
