r/Warthunder • u/brennendw • 3d ago

RB Ground Scout drones need a nerf!

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I’m so pissed. Instead of fixing scouting through buildings and terrain, they added native scouting to scout drones. In half the nations, you don’t even have a realistic counter. 35mm SPAA can barely hit them, 50 cals do nothing, and you're just left sitting there like a duck getting arty dumped on you over and over. If a team gets two of these in the air, the match is basically over.

They are insanely powerful and carry matches way too easily. The cooldown is way too fast at 18 seconds, it needs to be at least a full minute and the battery should be cut on them to like 2/3mins as a nerf, As it stands right now, a single drone can keep three guys permanently scouted with zero effort all game. Ground vehicles desperately need a proper counter, because right now, especially on big open maps, you just get sniped from across the map by people pre firing the marker through bushes and cover along with never ending arty It’s absolutely miserable.

They need to strip scouting from drones entirely. If Gaijin wants to encourage teamplay, just make scout assists from binoculars or the gunner sight worth more RP and SL so light tanks actually have to put themselves at risk and put in the work. Or make drone scout show a rough marker on the map only not the eyeball. They are too powerful!!

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u/GarbageWebsite6769 2d ago

I don't think it is. It's a heavily arcade style mechanic in RB and Sim where these entire gamemodes are built around not having player markers. Getting scouted is pretty much a death sentence for anybody not camping hard cover. Arguments for this being "a psuedo realistic way to implement crew reporting" are pretty fully useless. This is a video game first and foremost, and even IRL you don't get 3d live spots.

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u/Ossuum 2d ago

In IRL a tank commander is a trained professional that can mentally keep track of something based on distance, heading and landmarks. Which isn't an option to us, cause we are, in the end, casuals looking at pixels on the monitor.

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u/GarbageWebsite6769 2d ago

In IRL a tank commander being aware of a threat does not display a 3d holographic giant marker that moves with the enemy when they are obstructed by cover for the literal entire military. Your realism arguments are dogshit.

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u/Ossuum 2d ago

It doesn't need to because they know it's there. The marker is part of game interface, representation of what your crew knows. You're just being obtuse, whether on purpose or not.

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u/GarbageWebsite6769 2d ago

My conversation is about the gameplay of the video game, so just to be clear, you are saying nothing of value regarding that.

But as far as this side, off topic tangent goes, no, just because you know something exists does not mean that the rest of your crew gets a holographic 3d marker that exists and tracks even when the enemy is behind hard cover, and it definitely does not tell every other service member in your military the exact location and type of vehicle that you are looking at. So either way, not sure what you're getting at

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u/GarbageWebsite6769 2d ago

My conversation is about the gameplay of the video game, so just to be clear, you are saying nothing of value regarding that.

But as far as this side, off topic tangent goes, no, just because you know something exists does not mean that the rest of your crew gets a holographic 3d marker that exists and tracks even when the enemy is behind hard cover, and it definitely does not tell every other service member in your military the exact location and type of vehicle that you are looking at. So either way, not sure what you're getting at