Should the UAV be Visible?

[triumph]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

Instead of a UAV that's flying so high that only the best GTA weapons systems could hit it you could have something for a commander or a squad leader where they launch a small visible drone that hovers/flys about 80-100 meters off flat ground so a commander could basicaly have a Spectators type view of the field to verbaly cordinate with the other inf/support around the user. Drones like what i just described are in actual testing but i'm not sure about use. I've had the chance to view some documents and programs on these and other drones. Basicaly the idea is to have a camera on a helicopter type drone that can fly around, now if the technology was right everyone could have a lil protective eye glass HUD and watch this streaming video to gain situational awareness but for this game just a lil kit toy for the commander would be nice or a squad leader and if you want a BIG UAV i think it's the preditor that carrys two or three hellfire missiles. Now picture that as a tactical commander tool instead of the raith of god like arty shells.

[megamanfre]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

I think in real life youd hear the hum (it sounds more or less like a remote controlled airplane does because thats pretty much what it is) but depending on the weather would depend on how high it flew, and whether or not it would be visible.

[Eddy01741]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

Instead of a UAV that's flying so high that only the best GTA weapons systems could hit it you could have something for a commander or a squad leader where they launch a small visible drone that hovers/flys about 80-100 meters off flat ground so a commander could basicaly have a Spectators type view of the field to verbaly cordinate with the other inf/support around the user. Drones like what i just described are in actual testing but i'm not sure about use. I've had the chance to view some documents and programs on these and other drones. Basicaly the idea is to have a camera on a helicopter type drone that can fly around, now if the technology was right everyone could have a lil protective eye glass HUD and watch this streaming video to gain situational awareness but for this game just a lil kit toy for the commander would be nice or a squad leader and if you want a BIG UAV i think it's the preditor that carrys two or three hellfire missiles. Now picture that as a tactical commander tool instead of the raith of god like arty shells.

U can already have a spectator view of the ground in cmdr mode, u do this, right click on the big map after u entered the cmdr screen, then click zoom, repeat, then u will be at a 3x zoom, u can see the ground and all, it's helpful for areas w/o UAV. I use it all the time for lonewolfs capping the flag in the corner, also, i do that when i send arty strikes, i love the image of enemy soldiers flying in the sky helpless.:evil: :drevil: :nod: :yay: :guns: :nerr: :rock:

[GhostSigs]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

nah...its a dumb idea sorry.But perhaps make the radius of the uav smaller.Its kinda dumb for people to bleep on a radar...its just not realistic.Or when the commander uav's over his team i think the team in that area should turn super god mode and all the bullets wil lfire better with no kick back..and speed is inhanced x10 ..yeah yeah...and u have super real time bunny hopping powers!!!

[Lt.Kris]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

Yeah It would be great if it was visible and shootable too.

[BurnTheWeed]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

I don't know if it should be shootable, it would kind of defeat the purpose because the second it would go up it would get shot down. But just have some kind of way for the the enemy to detect it so it because more of a tactical thing and not so much of a "how did they know I was there?"-thing.

[BurnTheWeed]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

Judging from THIS VIDEO, it looks like they took my idea (okay maybe not mine) and went with it. I really think this is going to add another level of tactics to the game.

SWEET!

[unlimitedmp]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

Haha cool.
I'll be seeing a lot of people shooting into the air and think "wtf?" and then realize "Ohhh UAV. Right."

[thehed]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

Judging from THIS VIDEO, it looks like they took my idea (okay maybe not mine) and went with it. I really think this is going to add another level of tactics to the game.

SWEET!

Another Video, UAV only: http://rapidshare.de/files/11147215/uavflying.wmv

[BigBadBob]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

please tell me the MEC and China and others don't use Predator UAVs. That would just be dumb.

[D|sso]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

please tell me the MEC and China and others don't use Predator UAVs. That would just be dumb.

Exactly! This addition opens up a few more things to be questioned.

Of course the MEC and chinese commanders can launch UAV scans, but see'ing an actual UAV flying on behalf of them would just be wrong.

Mabey the UAV thing should only be limited for the American side..

[Loud Howard]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

Errr, IMHO its much more retarded that the MEC/China team have an invisible UAV. For one thing it can't be shot down if you can't see so thats an unfair advantage, and its insulting our intelligence by proposing that by not being able to see it we'll suddenly think the game is more realistic - considering we can look at this map and see the radar sweep picking up individual people running around.

If you're really that freaked out about it, just use your imaginations...perhaps the MEC spec ops managed to steal the technology blueprints for the UAV from the US before the war or something.

[imported_Demon6]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

please tell me the MEC and China and others don't use Predator UAVs. That would just be dumb.

They do not use Predator UAV but almost every army in the world has UAVs in use. They surely have some other model, produced in China and in the Middle east.

Croatian army used UAVs in 1995 in operation Storm. They were produced in Croatia. Basic UAV is not that hight tech to produce, it depends what you want from it.

[imported_Demon6]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

But the UAV planes are really noisy. I had one fly over my house about 5 years ago in some flight path and it had a strange buzzing noise....
-Ben

They are not loud as a plane but can be heard when flying low. Thing is that in a battle UAV is going to be very very high and use it's optics to have a look at the battlefield. My opinion is that the sound added to UAV in game would be wrong.

[Grafisk]

Re: Should the UAV be Visible?

If they fix the actual collision damage (I saw some video when a CObra rammed it, it got destroyed and the Cobra lost 2 bars of damage) and add a uniqe explosion animation, 'cause it's currently the Blackhawks (oO?) I think it'll be pretty cool.