Recon Drone, How it looks and flies, what you want in it ?

[Davelantor]

Planetside 2 Test Server - Recon Drone Flight - YouTube

I am guessing it will just be a camera with Thermal, but some extra features or ability to swap to them wouldnt be bad.

Like 2 slots that implement already existing modules, and maybe more :D
Drone Slot 1:
ECM Unit : Jamms the enemy minimap withing 25 meter range
EMP Drive : Able to send out pulse to disrupt deployables withing 20 meter range
Composite Armor : Smallarms fire and explosions

Drone Slot 2:
Scout Radar: 50 Meters, All allies
Proximity Radar: 200 Meters, Self only
GSD (Why not :D)
Smoke Screen (HUGE)

Ofc with these i would guess it should also be costing resources to pull, so 250 Infantry resources to pull a recon drone perhaps ?

[Sirisian]

I was flying around in one on Nexus. Cool little toy. Should be fun for quickly finding Sunderers.

[Tamyrlin]

I see no reason to put this in the game. It's horrible in BF3 and will be worse here.

If somebody wants to find my sunderer, they should have to go look for it themselves.

[huller]

I hope it can mount a weapon of sorts

[Canaris]

I'm with Tamyrlin on this one, recon drones in PS2 is going to be awful.

[Sirisian]

I'm with Tamyrlin on this one, recon drones in PS2 is going to be awful.
It just needs to be slow with a sniper like zoom optic. Using it to get up high and scope the surrounding area. Would be nice to switch back and forth to it from your player. Especially in hossin you could land one in a tree or use it at a door as a second set of eyes.

That said having camera darts for the infiltrator's utillity gun would be far better. Fire a dart into a tree then right click to switch to it and look around 360 with thermal.

[PredatorFour]

I agree that this could be awful to put into PS 2. Just think how easy it is to find sundies now and with these added???

But from a selfish point of view i hope my infil can use these to kill:D If they come into the game they should be the same cost as a max 350 resources.

[Wargrim]

It will become the C4 delivering method of choice if they introduce it to life servers.

[CrimsonTemplar]

I see no reason to put this in the game. It's horrible in BF3 and will be worse here.

If somebody wants to find my sunderer, they should have to go look for it themselves.

Technically they are looking themselves are old chap. Just through the eyes or feed of a mechanical tool. Our outfit does something similar now with ESFs, the difference being the risk to the pilot.

I saw this on FNO once and again on PTS a couple weeks back. The devs said that they'll be adding a limited charge to the drone and/or range so if it reaches a certain point or runs out of power, it automatically shuts down. They're also going to be much slower than they are now and will be customizable, to what extent, I don't know.

It will become the C4 delivering method of choice if they introduce it to live servers. .

That is if they allow C4 to be placed on it. And really considering the limitations, they might put on it as I said above, it wouldn't be much use or worth it. What's more it would serve only to make the drone, more conspicuous and more likely to be shot down.

[Calista]

Oh I can see the day when there is a cash shop item 1000 SC good for one flight only where you can create a customizable banner to be trailed behind the drone. It could get a little vulgar if players had free reign so maybe perhaps a few canned slogans like "NC suck!" etc etc Might as well make it a mobile fireworks platform while we are at it. Could also make it a usefull psyops platform for dropping paper notes demanding surrender or configure it with a loud speaker flying over enemy lines doing a Tokyo Rose impersonation. Oh the money making possibilities abound...

[CrimsonTemplar]

Oh I can see the day when there is a cash shop item 1000 SC good for one flight only where you can create a customizable banner to be trailed behind the drone.

Nah disagree with you there. One limited flight with customizations, is worth at the least, 2500SC :rofl:.

Hopefully they didn't mean customisable in that sense. Though it would be pretty awesome to see Empire Banners, waving over...*ahem* what am I saying?! Anyway, I hope they mean in terms of loadouts and abilities, not disco-balls attached to the bottom, blaring out dubstep.

[Taramafor]

As long as it doesn't have weapons, then it should be fun to have it in the game. Weapons on drones are OP as fuck. So I'm saying it again, NO WEAPONS ON THE DRONE!

Sun detection isn't that big an issue really as what can a drone see that an aircraft can't? There might be little nooks and crannies but people will be looking on foot anyway and by the time you die looking for the sun, you already know it's likely in that general area. If suns do turn out to be something of an issue, have them have an upgrade to disguise themselves from drones.

It might get people to come out of the spawn room more often as they'll be able to do a quick scan of the outside area and make a plan before heading out instead of holing themselves up in there (unless the base is completely surrounded of course, in which case they shouldn't even be there to begin with).

Good for looking around corners/quickly looking inside buildings where people might be hiding in corners or behind gens or up/downstairs.

Now the question is, should this be a class only thing or all classes? I can see engineers using them, but it also might be something an infiltrator would use being the recon types that they are.

As for price, I say 2000 for the drone itself and then the stranded price upgrade stuff. But if this is SC only, that's going down the path of pay to win and will be a reason not to play on my end (though of course, SC to unlock faster is fine).

[Mastachief]

150m range.

standard optics with cert able 1.25 zoom

Usable only by the LA class, fits in the c4/medpack slot.

Nothing more

1000sc or 1500certs

450 resource cost.

[Obstruction]

and will be customizable, to what extent, I don't know.

oversized wheels

chrome fins

lumifiber

horn

burburry scarf

[KesTro]

I can see it now.. Teammates C4a drone, drone flies in to that group of MAX's or the sunderer.. I'm so ready for this...!

[Helwyr]

If somebody wants to find my sunderer, they should have to go look for it themselves.

Yes, exactly. SOE seems hell bent on making battlefield awareness effortless and omnipotent; they're constantly adding things to make it easier to know where the enemy is and hardly ever adding counters to help conceal your location from enemy players.

To add insult to injury this is added to the Infiltrator class. As a former player who primarily played as an Infiltrator this is the last thing I wanted for my class. In fact as already mentioned this is exactly the opposite of what I wanted. So, sorry but if this is what I can expect for the Infiltrator update don't expect me or others like me to be coming back.

[MrMak]

The drama in this thread is becoming almost palpable.....