Arma 3
Arma 3 Apex: Old Man (Beta)
Keir Jan 19, 2020 @ 7:43am
CSAT AR-2 drone: drone detector feature or artifact?
Has anyone messed with CSAT long enough to have the AR-2 drones spawn? I was attacking a checkpoint and I heard drone sounds. I initially thought that I cleared the CSAT check point and there was some bug with the check point's AR-6 drone causing the sound but then I noticed the AR-2 drones with red lines from the drone to the ground. These lines are similar to what you see in editor when you're placing objects in the air but they were moving with the 50-100 meter high drones, indicating their corresponding position at ground level. The drones do attack you somehow, perhaps with a red laser.

I don't recall if I had the drone detector in my inventory. I'll have to test it. Has anyone replicated this? My question is, is the red line a feature of the drone detector or is the an artifact? I don't see any corresponding screen for the drone detector, like the mine detector.

I haven't progressed to the CSAT weapon's lab, yet. Does anyone have experience with the drone detector?

Edit 03-Mar-2020: I was playing around with CSAT in Luganville and managed to get two AR-2 Sentry Drones to spawn. The drone detector indicates via beeps when in very close proximity to a sentry drone. When you ID the drone (using the 'T' key, it identifies it as a moving antipersonnel mine and will detonate when in range. When using the mine detector, you will have a visual reference to where the drone is in relation to you. The red 'laser' from the drone is a visual effect and appears to have no other role in game play.
Last edited by Keir; Mar 3, 2020 @ 10:55am