Feature Request: Optional Two-Step Drone Deployment (Instead of Instant Launch)

Hey Battlefield team,

Quick one: the Recon Drone needs a leash.

Right now, the second you tap the gadget button, the drone's already in the air. There's no "equip" step like there is for every other piece of kit in the game, no moment to catch yourself. Weapons give you that beat. Grenades give you that beat. The drone just goes.

And because gadget bindings shift from class to class, that one button doesn't always mean "drone." Muscle memory doesn't care what class you're playing, it just fires. So you're mid-firefight, thumb does what it's done a hundred times before, and suddenly you're staring at a drone camera instead of the guy flanking you. Not great.

The fix seems pretty obvious: give it two states.

Instant Launch: keep exactly what exists now, on by default. Nobody who likes it loses anything.

Two-Step Deployment: first press equips the drone, second press sends it up. Same rhythm as literally everything else you carry.

That's it. No balance changes, no nerfs, no new mechanics to learn, just a toggle that lets the drone behave like the rest of your loadout instead of like a hair trigger.

If you've ever eaten a bullet because your thumb remembered the wrong class, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Drop a comment, throw a kudo on this if you want it too. The more noise, the more likely it lands in front of someone who can actually flip the switch.

Cheers.