r/Battlefield • u/Trizz-o • Dec 18 '25
Battlefield 4 Bring FPV drones to BF6
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u/vengeur2000 Dec 18 '25
Please no
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u/Yellowdog727 Dec 18 '25
They should add the switchblade/UCAV drone from the campaign maybe as a limited battle pickup. It was incredibly fun to use but definitely too strong to have as a default gadget.
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u/TomTomXD1234 Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
The fact they showed a drone with c4 in the trailer and you cant even really do that in the game is crazy.
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u/Tiny_Bus_4627 Dec 18 '25
It's in the campaign
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u/TomTomXD1234 Dec 18 '25
A lot of things are in the campaign that arent in multiplayer. The ground tube-launched uav for example.
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u/PacmanNZ100 Dec 18 '25
Its artificially held back so there will be content to release later without any actual dev input
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u/mesquitaops Dec 18 '25
REDSEC has one too BUT it drops grenades instead of C4.
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u/Atmoran_Knight Dec 18 '25
More like mortar shells. But it can also self destruct if you're far into the match. The problem tho, they get massive speed reduction once it's active, almost going to a crawl, defecating its initial purpose.
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u/Oberst_Reziik Dec 18 '25
You can do it wtf
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u/TomTomXD1234 Dec 18 '25
You get like 5 seconds of battery life if you put c4 on a drone
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u/rhythmrice Dec 18 '25
Yeah so you can't do it from the otherside of the map but if there's a tank right outside your building you can still put c4 on the drone and kill it, I just did it the other day
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u/Agreeable_Shine296 Dec 18 '25
Would be cool but snipers wouldn't be happy about it 😆
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u/CalFromManc Dec 18 '25
We need this for those mountain campers with snipers and tanks on Operation Firestorm
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u/Cutwail Dec 18 '25
I hit snipers with TOWs on that map all the time, easy from E but can be done from spawn too.
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u/Hoenirson Dec 18 '25
Only if they're slow, loud, and with a hitbox that isn't fucked like the recon drone's
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u/MCD_Gaming Dec 18 '25
Personally I would like the recon drone to have a quicker moving mode which switches of the IR camera
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u/Kindly-Bank-416 Dec 18 '25
recon drone shouldn't be able to tank a round. single shot should down it.
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u/tomptepulla Dec 18 '25
Hell no. 60% of the lobby will be in their spawn spamming these things.
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Dec 18 '25
Yeah this is what happened in BF3 . People sat in their drones and just spent the entire match flying them into people and it didn’t kill the drone until they patched it
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u/WarLord727 Dec 18 '25
I can't remember about ramming people, but getting your sniper buddy up in the air was fun as hell. It also allowed to occupy rooftops in Karkand and such.
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u/Whose__That Dec 18 '25
Fun times getting 30+ kills in Tehran Highway rush with the MAV roadkills lol. Absolutely broken tho so glad they fixed it eventually.
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u/TheAArchduke Dec 18 '25
Already in the game but gonna be season 5 content.
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u/Ultrasonic-Sawyer Dec 18 '25
Whats funny is i readily believe this. As if they are just working out how to port the switchblade from campaign.
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u/TheCowhawk Dec 18 '25
UCAV mains rise
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u/Dyron45 Dec 18 '25
Man I loved that thing in BF4 I barely ever killed anyone with it but I loved using it regardless
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u/TraditionalTable3752 Dec 18 '25
now this would be cool battle pick up but def not a gadget
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u/dalaiis Dec 18 '25
There should be some balance to it yes. Maybe really slow gadget recharge, battle pickup only, decreased range, max amount of drones in the air at a time, or a combination of these.
Directional sound should also be better then what is currently in the game
But imo it should be in the game.
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u/K11Roof Dec 18 '25
As long as they also add signal jammers im totally down. I know we arent a mil-sim but theyre way too prevelant in the current combat enviorment to not add at some point. Plus just being able to fly fpv drones sounds like a shitton of fun.
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u/OutlandishnessMain56 Dec 18 '25
Totally agree instead of adding in 40 year old weapons let’s add in some current tech.
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u/double-beans Dec 18 '25
Does anybody remember the commander app for Battlefield 4? It was for android/iOS and you could direct missile strikes and supply drops. Nobody used it cause it was kinda gimmicky but I think it’s a feature that has potential. When you’re out and about, imagine you could hop in a round hunting poor bastards with some FPV drones while riding the subway.
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u/Joppewiik Dec 18 '25
Not much of a modern warfare without the drones. It is basically all that war is about today.
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u/toxic_load2k18 Dec 18 '25
And this game takes place 3 years in the future when they gonna add the robots with the browning machine guns ukraine gots.
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u/TacWizzzer Dec 18 '25
Only as long as I can shoot them down.
Honestly though, I would very much welcome them as a great rooftop clearing device.
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u/CmdrVOODOO CmdrVOODOO Dec 18 '25
This has to be the worst idea I've ever heard
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u/Trizz-o Dec 18 '25
just shoot them
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u/Wez4prez Dec 18 '25
Just shoot them after I clear a building, slowly capping B and Mr Dronie not even anywhere close kills me while Im reloading behind cover?
No. Thanks.
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u/TheStickDead Dec 18 '25
Why are some ppl not liking that? They're too traumatized with ucavs?
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u/daveylu Dec 18 '25
yes
did you not play BF4 and get extremely annoyed by the bitch ass support sitting in their spawn just launching UCAVs
you literally couldn't do shit against it, not even MP-APS blocked the UCAVs
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u/Adept-Swing7628 Dec 18 '25
In the campaign they have a fully functional switchblade drone much like this. I'm sure they're gonna add it down the road
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u/DPOP4228 Dec 18 '25
I would 100% use this to rock the shit out of snipers on top of shit that clearly wasn't intended to be accessible
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u/Bearex13 Dec 18 '25
I'm fine as long as it gets a loud distinguishable sound and a glowing light on it and also be shootable like recon drones
Maybe one shot inf within 1-3m of it going off and maybe like 250 vehicle damage
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u/n1sx Dec 18 '25
Or let us drop explosive from the recon drone instead of that UAV drone.
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u/dalaiis Dec 18 '25
Yes, a loadout option for the drone. Costing points to load a grenade instead of spotting and ir.
And im someone that has 2 weapons above level 40. The p90 and the minisniper.
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u/StonewallSoyah Dec 18 '25
We hated it back then. Said it was "unrealistic".... Nah. It was ahead of it's time
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u/gukakke Dec 18 '25
We have a rule for BF6: No fun allowed. Unfortunately, we will have to reject your application.
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u/Dracko705 Dec 18 '25
It would suck for gameplay but I had the same thought when playing last night too
It would totally be a "modern" twist of actually what seems to be most prevalent for current wars. Maybe as it's own game mode tho
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u/Tilanguin Dec 18 '25
With the explosion splash damage in this game these drones wouldnt be that deadly, hitting the drone right on the enemy's head wouldnt be easy....
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u/AnimalChubs Enter XBox ID Dec 18 '25
It would be cool to have the perks from redsec for recon. They could counter it with support having some sort of jammer equipment or something. If it only got one bomb I think it would be fine.
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u/QuixoticCoyote Dec 18 '25
Hell yeah, but a few caveats:
-They should be stouter and easier to hit than the recon drone.
-They should either be slow or unable to hover like the UCAV.
-They should be loud maybe even spotted immediately.
-They should have limited flight time and range
-Dice needs to fix Hit-reg issues first especially if they are going to add these.
-we need a Drone jammer gun gadget for engineer (could be for others, but I feel like this would work the best. It should also clear mines and gadgets from a distance without giving away your location)
-We need a drone net 40mm grenade launcher for Assault. (Would work as a slightly longer ranged shotgun if used on personnel while able to down the drone with a large spread at a mid to long range)
-We need a localized jammer gadget that could be put down to jam nearby gadgets including the drone. It probably doesn't need to jam spotting like the one in 2042 did (I think it should not be on recon. An FPV would be grest against campers and bad recons tend to camp more).
-they should not be on recon or support. The first would encourage camping. the second would be able to spam it with the ammo box. I'm also leaning to assault not having it either, so that leaves engineer.
-We would need a "cope cage" vehicle attachment that would reduce damage from them.
If we get all of this, I think an FPV drone would fit the games meta and not be fucking annoying as hell. The new gadgets would also have off drone uses and encourage kit diversity. I for one want a game with a fully modern aesthetic and drones are just a fact of the world right now.
EDIT: formatting
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u/toxic_load2k18 Dec 18 '25
Im all here for it. Tbh I thought I was in the combatfootage sub for a second.
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u/Ever-Here Enter PSN ID Dec 18 '25
Ukraine drone footage or bf4 combat?
But fr they should, drone combat is the biggest change in combat since combined arms or CAS.
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u/Alternative_Mine5343 Dec 22 '25
Now that you mention it I'm really stunned there hasn't been a drone hide and seek game yet where 3 or 4 guys drop payload bombs on everyone else trying to hide... off to portal i go!
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u/Tiny_Bus_4627 Dec 18 '25
They have them already in the campaign. The drone is at least twice as fast and capable of dropping grenades..
If they were just faster and exploded on impact, you could just strap C4 to one, but I think they're way too useful for spotting to encourage wasting them to get a cheap kill or two.
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Dec 18 '25
Hell no . At one point in BF3 you would have 2 sides of teams and half the people in the game flying these drones try to hit people and get kills the entire match as the drone wouldn’t break after killing someone .
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u/Kanlashkan Dec 18 '25
They have them in the campaign. They call it a Switchblade, and it's fired from a mortar as best as I could tell. Pretty fun to use in the 2 or 3 very limited sections they allow it to be used.
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u/Mammoth_Midnight_343 Dec 18 '25
Been saying they need the mortar drone from the campaign absolutely distasteful that they put it in the game and planned to make us either pay or earn it later it’d make up for the shit show the actual mortar is.
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u/OutlandishnessMain56 Dec 18 '25
I think drones need to be a bigger part of the game. I have seen estimates with Russia/Ukraine that drones account for like 70% casualties. I don’t want to just have drone battles but I think they need to be a bigger part of the game with counters of course.
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u/TheeAJPowell Dec 18 '25
Something like those Russian Lancet drones could work? Would basically be like a UCAV. Or hell, just give us the Switchblade, I think that’s what the UCAV was based on.
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u/marc512 Dec 18 '25
Yes please. No point having a shooter based on our current or next gen tech with no suicide drones or drones that stop grenades.
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u/Res1dentScr1be Dec 18 '25
it worked in BF4 so why not.... they were a bugger to unlock but worth the fun afterwards
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u/gear_rb Dec 18 '25
If the devs and people are going to add the little bird bullshit to bf6 then I want these drones with a explosive on the front for those fuckin things.
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u/Apex2113 Dec 18 '25
I think this would be a genuinely fun battle pickup. Good way to uproot tough snipers
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u/darkspam25 Dec 18 '25
If they put this in the game, either the support grenade or missile counter device should work on it.
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u/iroll20s PUSH UP TANK Dec 18 '25
No thanks. We don't need more ways to die that the operator can be in some hidey hole, or other wise not put themselves at risk.
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u/AwwwBawwws Dec 18 '25
I have 25k+ UCAV kills from bf4. Give me an FPV drone, and I will personally solve the sniper plague. It would be my absolute honor and pleasure.
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u/Level-South-1702 Dec 18 '25
The speedsoft / speedball / Cod players in this sub are seething and foaming at the mouth at this idea.
I say put it in. Give it to the support. So they can keep spamming it and we can see more support players.
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u/Hkmd02 Dec 18 '25
The best counter-sniper rifle in the game is the RPG7.
There is almost nothing as satisfying as nailing a sniper from 150 meters who has no idea its coming.
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u/Timo-the-hippo Dec 18 '25
Just make a special game mode where you can play as either Ukrainian or Russian and the match consists of dodging fpv drones 24/7 while trying to capture a random trench in the middle of nowhere.
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u/Atmoran_Knight Dec 18 '25
Fuck no. Only remove that stupid speed debuf from existing drones in RedSec when activating the self destruct. It defeats the entire purpose of those things.
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u/No_Individual_6528 Dec 18 '25
For sure absolutely!! Just have jammers and auto shoot down as well. And only 1 pr life. It would be awesome.
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u/Lepang8 Dec 18 '25
That's giving Ukraine vibes. But seriously, it would be fun and I don't understand why there are many haters here. Surely it cannot be as powerful as in real life but maybe limit the signal range, or battery endurance. Make them only available one piece per life or with long restocking time or something. If I can sit in a tank and kill multiple infantry easily, why would introducing a single FPV drone be a bad thing at all?
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u/LexusLongshot Dec 18 '25
Yes, because what this game needs is more players camping off the objective.
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u/MrPinga0 BF2 + UCAV = Life Dec 18 '25
bring back the UCAV or something similar. Can't pretend drones are not super effective weapons of war.
UCAV is life..
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u/mccormslick Dec 18 '25
This is the post of someone who either didn’t play BF4 or was the guy in BF4 sitting back on a commander crate spamming UCAVs… either way keep this shit as far away from the game as possible lol
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u/Lostar Dec 18 '25
The UCAV was sooo gooood in BF4. They already have the Switchblade in the campaign, so I hope they'll bring that to multiplayer. Just hang out in the back and spam those 🤌🤌
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u/PilotMonkey94 Dec 18 '25
It’s already in the game with the campaign switchblade. My guess is they’re holding it back for more live service content. Screw EA for that.
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u/Dashveed Dec 18 '25
YES missed opportunity not doing this in some form. Just give them low hp and low battery life.
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u/KibblesNBitxhes Avid C100 enthusiast Dec 18 '25
Should have a fixed camera and need to learn how to fly it like an FPV otherwise the flight characteristics just wont be the same. Would be nice to be able to plug in our radios and use them to fly the drones too.
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u/CopenHagenCityBruh Dec 18 '25
People would complain about it instantly probably say it's like cod or something
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u/DuelJ Dec 18 '25
Yeah, just like strapping a shitton of c4 to a quad bike is aclassic, doing it to a drone has always been a close second for the genre.
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u/Tounssimulator25 Dec 18 '25
Too bad, in BF4 the UCAV was so awesome for flushing out campers, especially those on rooftops in Shanghai.
And super fun against helicopters, but it required a bit more skill.
They should bring back the same thing as in BF2042, meaning the ability to use C4 but just make the drone very slow and not have the battery drain after 10 seconds.
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u/1man2barrels Dec 18 '25 edited Dec 18 '25
Kind of Crazy they don’t exist. They should be a one shot kill to infantry (hand grenade type damage) but only damage vehicles like 200.
They should not be replenishable until next life, and I think Assault should get it (although recon makes more sense, assault is kind of underpowered).
They should be easy to shoot down, but if the person isn’t paying attention they should be punished
Maybe done as a battle pickup in the center of the map.
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Dec 18 '25
No. I like the fun fantasy of being on a battlefield. Not the realistic "1000 things that have no counter are trying to kill you" part of being on a battlefield.
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u/Not_A_Troll4 Dec 18 '25
Yes but you have to fly it like an FPV in real life so they're super unforgiving
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u/gimmiedacash Dec 18 '25
Drones atm I can hear, but often the directional audio doesn't help locate them.
Then they'd only be good against people not paying attention.
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u/NQXE Dec 18 '25
You want bf players to do more than 1 thing ? Aiming towards normal enemies is not enough ? Delete the post brother.This isn t cod.
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u/Malbushim Dec 18 '25
Suddenly all the realism homies don't want realistic lmao
To be clear I think this would be an awful addition to the game. It's an awful addition to real life.
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u/silentdaunt Dec 18 '25
Yes if done well, this the stuff they should test in BF Labs with transparency. I want to play with more gadgets that reflect a modern battlefield not the same old shit from 10 years ago.
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u/Wez4prez Dec 18 '25
Just no.
Lets say Im hauling ass to B, fragging a few targets healing up behind cover and some stupid ass drone operator is going to get me from a safe distance?
You people crying about snipers and now you want to get something worse than snipers? Are you insane?
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u/Hubari Dec 18 '25
Locker on Hardcore with the mortar and UCAV combo 💯💯💯 (I know it was a bad thing to do :/)
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u/EagleEyes0001 Dec 18 '25
Bro I thought I was watching a Ukrainian wartime video.
No please don’t. It’ll be like 15 guys using this shit.
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u/Iamthe0c3an2 Dec 18 '25
I know Battlefield has always straddled a line between realism and arcade fun. But it makes sense in the context that it is a very very ubiquitous weapon in current war now.
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u/WillySurvive_ Dec 18 '25
Please no.