Re: Remove the drone like you did with the shield

by Straatford87
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Re: Remove the drone like you did with the shield

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@Psubond wrote:
@LlamaWithKatanai think i will c5 a couple tanks with drones tonight. so enjoyable. probably kill some "snipers" with it too

Full Metal Snipers?

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Re: Remove the drone like you did with the shield

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@UP_Hawxxeye I for myself don't like camping tanks but with current c5 drones I can't even blame them for not moving out from spawn.
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@LlamaWithKatana Even without the C5 drones, the heavy ground vehicles have too many reasons to feel really unsafe in the front lines.
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Re: Remove the drone like you did with the shield

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EA DICE Team

Hey folks,

 

We've added several changes into Update #1.1 which changes the behavior of C5 when attached to the OV-P Recon Drone. This should prevent instances where you are instantly being blown up without being aware of a nearby Drone (which then crashes into you) vs C5 being planted and detonated manually. 

 

In summary, you will be alerted earlier that you are in danger of a nearby Drone, and it's easier to spot or stop them. It will also be more difficult for a Drone equipped with C5 to reach and eliminate its target because it will be slower, can't travel as far and will need manual detonation.

 

If you want to see the full Update Notes, check here.

 

What's changing:

  • Increased the size of the OV-P Recon Drone by 1.75x
  • The OV-P Drone will now take two bullets to destroy to offset the size increase
  • The lights on the OV-P Recon Drone are now more visible over range and more intense
  • When inside of a vehicle the OV-P Recon Drone can now be heard more clearly as it approaches at distance - both in 1P & 3P view
  • The max range the OV-P Recon Drone can fly has been reduced from 300m to 200m
  • The max speed that the OV-P Recon Drone can traverse forwards has been reduced from 9m/s to 8.2m/s
  • The OV-P Recon Drone explosion will no longer cause the detonation of C5
  • The OV-P Recon Drone will traverse slower the more C5 that is attached to it
    • 1 C5 = 40% slower traversal speed
    • 2 C5 = 55% slower traversal speed
    • 3 C5 = 75% slower traversal speed
Separate to the Drone changes, we've also changed behavior of C5 when fired upon:
  • Shooting C5 with any weapon once will cause it to explode.

 

Thank you for your feedback on this topic. And please let us know how the Drone and C5 feel after this game update.

 

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Re: Remove the drone like you did with the shield

Or you could've... well... Just remove the ability to put C4 on the drone. This would've been a fix within minutes instead of this.

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@Straatford87 i think the reduction per C5 should be enough but why also reduce the range?

It was already complicated to emp a vehicle but now I don’t even need to try it, with the now reduced speed and the reduced range.

You are aware that Casper is defenceless during the control of the drone? Now you are forcing him more into close combat. That just doesn't make sense (maybe remove him from recon group? Is more an assault now)

The increase in size, the visibility and the noise are a good changes but the other changes in sum are too much. Imho you killing another gadget

It would better if speed and range would be set back to old settings and reduce this stats with every C5 package so the drone is still good for spotting and EMP but much less effective for C5 dive bomber…

what you have done is another demote in a specialist gadget.

Here to refresh the memories of the four nerfed specialist
-Dozer shield reflection is like non-existent (since release)
-Boris is only semi useful (with the hard nerf on his sentry)
-Casper now will get less XP reward when using drone and imho nearly useless with the nerf from today
-Sundance also get the second hit in smart nades
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@Straatford87thanks for taking the time to find the middle ground that will make the tanks feel less helpless but still not make it impossible.

 

I still wish that a drone without any c5 on it would not be affected though

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@Lvl_90_Mudkip I feel your pain just FYI wildcat AA missile can lock on and destroy Casper's drone. Switch to AA and scan around you to see drones you know that's what you've locked into when it looks like it's locking on to thin air 😁
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@Straatford87
ok so you destroyed one of the less options to kill vehicles.
Balancing is not your mainability from ea...
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Re: Remove the drone like you did with the shield

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DICE you had a design for how Casper is suppose to use his drone (recon and disruption), but you've compromised his main ability just so an exploit that was removed from previous BF titles ASAP can be used in this game.

 

Why do you think people like using the C5 drone? It is because it is a cheap exploit that one shot vehicles with no repercussion. 

 

Why go to all this trouble just to nerf a recon drone so that it doesn't work as well with c5? Why do you still want C5 recon drone to be a viable thing?

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