I saw someone suggested a decoy grenade, that seems like a good starting point.

A spawn beacon was by far the most useful gadget of the Recon class. You could easily say it's a class defining gadget, much like the availability of anti-vehicle/anti-air launchers on the Engineer class, or the supply bag on the Support class. The fact that the recon is expected to lose it at launch, means that it loses a significant aspect of its identity.The gadget that's supposed to replace it, shouldn't just be a random utility. It should redefine the Recon class as we know it. It's something that needs to benefit the team and it should be useful enough for you to pick the class, just for that gadget. A decoy grenade, as good of an idea that it may be, isn't a good replacement for the spawn beacon.Instead I'd suggest gadgets more along the lines of sabotage. Perhaps a gadget that'd allow you to find, jam or take control of the gadgets of the enemy. Perhaps a gadget that'd allow you to see electronical devices through walls, so you could more easily find the spawn beacons that the Assault class has hidden somewhere.

Adapting Blasco's beacon could be interesting. That said I think it would have to be an alternative to the TUGS so you dont get both passive spotting with blocking at the same time as that can lead to VERY overpowered feeling chokepoints in certain maps and with what we played in the beta that could potentially get somewhat oppressive.

Recon's value in 6 really is gonna seem to be in proper reconnaissance which was just relatively limited in the beta as was all the other classes. We know there's the drone, and no doubt the beloved soflam will return. Big thing's just gonna be down to waiting to see the full inventory of tools and how THOSE actually pan out.

Honestly, I think the removal of the spawn beacon (and moving it to assault) will give less value to the recon and needs to be made up. But on the bright side, it [hypothetically] means not having the only spawn beacon on your squad be up in the mountains or something somewhere if they are just going to be sniping from a distance.At least they have the TUGs and a spotter grenade [according to leaks] like in 2042.

The gadget that one of the recon specialists had in 2042 was a jammer that would pop up fake spots on your map and I believe break/disable other enemy spotting devices, that would work in this particular case.

Let's brainstorm some ideas to give recon more value

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do-wuh
Seasoned Newcomer
3 months ago
The Recon class's main squad tool is the Spawn Beacon; an invisibility shield is the only thing that even comes close to replacing its utility. The T-UGS seems pretty pointless, as it doesn't appear to detect crouched, prone, or walking players—only those who are standing and running. If that's the case, players might as well go full solo bush wookie camper, so why not give them a tool to reinforce that play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1UlEVXvTnY&t=156s
KripTed
Rising Traveler
2 months ago
You guys only liked the spawn beacon because you could just place it and spawn in the same camper spot over and over again lol. I'm glad they're removing it for Recon. They should give to Squad Leaders to make it more fair. However, giving it to assault makes sense as well. Since Assault doesn't just sit in one spot for 40 minutes. Recon is already overpowered in terms of weapons and distance and I don't think they should get an invisibility shield at all. I think what Twordy said about negating hostile spotting, or something to disrupt equipment but that's it. Just one of them. At least in my opinion.

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