Drones

Which is your favorite? They all seem pretty well balenced to me, outside of the Rhino, but it is only suited for specific tasks. Anymore I enjoy the BUzzard the most, being able to fly makes for one hell of an annoying enemy. It also allows you to kill everyones most hated enemy. The Rooftop Camper!

Originally I thought the Wolverine was the most combat effective one. On average I can get 2-3 people with a wolverine, I have gotten a 4 star streak with one (forget how many kills) but pretty rare to go past 2. this thing is perfect for helping your team take an objective, adn it is deadly at close range.

The Buzzard I thought was terrible at first, but it has grown on me considerably since then though. It allows you to control a very important area of the field. The top. with the buzzard you prey on snipers and campers. other soldiers moving though the field are fair game, but it takes at least 2 bursts to take out anyone at full health. and you have low health so its best to keep moving.

The Parrot is the best drone with a supporting cast. It marks people with a red triangle, and gives you points for spots and assists, so it's easy to rack up some points. Only problem though is that this is all meaningless if your team can't kill the people you mark. because you can't do it, your flying the stupid drone! Overall it's devastating when used right.

The Rhino has started to fall out of my lineup. Very seldom do I get off enough rockets to take down a Chimera, and I feel like I'm better off just useing the Proxy launcher. I find this thing to be worthless against tanks for the most part. Simply because you have to have line of sight to lock on with those rockets, and if you ahve line of sight the tank does as well. I prefer the RPG if I can at all help it.

Based on the gameplay I saw, it looks like any of the flying drones would be really nasty against assholes who spend all day hiding on rooftops.

Wolverine is my favorite, when used with the perks "Penny Pincher" (reduces BP cost from 500 to 400), "Drone Be Gone" (increases movement speed), "My Buddy" (increases battery life) and "Crater-to-Order" (grenade-sized explosion on death). I'm fairly good with controlling it and when to use it, and it's downright useful as a scout and makeshift "anti-air-drone drone" (I use a M16+suppressor). The CtO perk insures I get at least 130 BP back from using the drone. My shotgun class is a dedicated drone class, with all the perks listed above. My AR class with the M16 only uses the "Drone Be Gone" and "Penny Pincher" perks, but that's good enough as a cheap scout.

The Parrot is my 2nd favorite with the same perks (Only costs 200 BP with PP perk). From my experience, it can be used quite effectively in 2 primary ways:when I'm following scouting or some team members, which helps the team a lot in TDM matches, and when I go into enemy spawns and spam their locations, leading to a nice rise in BP... and a subsequent Hellfire airstrike or sometimes even an Abrams tank. However, it tends to get shot down a lot in some matches before I can mark anyone, so that's why it's second.My other complaint with it is when I play BC TDM and manage to get to threat level 2 (which refills my battery), I spend an even longer time piloting it, which exposes my soldier body to enemies who conveniently spawn near me and kill me. I do get off the Parrot to move sometimes, but nearly all of the times I do, there's an enemy about to kill me.

I don't use the other drones as much, though....

Rhino- not as many people are getting helicopters these days, and I've yet to encounter an enemy team who drone-spam with any effectiveness.

Buzzard- while it's really cool and fun to pilot, I don't seem to be very combat effective with it. At 800 BP a pop, I don't even use it anymore when a Wolverine costs 300 BP less but gets me 2x as many kills.

parrot and rhino.

the parrot can turn a match around easily, its so good when your team are struggling or being sniped.

rhino's are just so good for AA. shoots down all air drones in one volley and takes out heli's the best. i have it on my anti vehicle class