Drone Sector

Für den Preis macht es echt Spaß, erinnert einen an Gunshipbattle. Nur in besser

fun

Don't get it twisted you're not an FPV you're a Reaper/AC-130 gunship on steroids. Forget the soyboys Mavericks or the COD killstreak gunship complaining about too many sorties and desert DFAC food, your daddy is the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Enola GAY and your mommy is an unsinkable German battleship. Between your cold dead Palantir-manufactured robotic eyes you have up to four weapon hardpoints carrying ordnance that probably costs the taxpayers somewhere between "who cares" and "it's probably going to get warmer from here on out". The setting is somewhere in the near future where drones reign supreme and infantry exist only to die or be in absolute awe of your firepower. You're running a one-drone PMC probably out of some hangar in the back of Al Udeid siphoning JP-8 straight off of the taxiway; your ragtag crew had the exact energy of a start-up murder enthusiasts in the best way possible. The game is not particularly deep but that's alright it's not supposed to, the most skills and timing that involves here is how to lead trucks full of foreign child soldiers with your 30mm GAU-8 Avenger before following up with a rocket barrage on the runners; remember when you can't see them surrender from 3 kilometers above, it doesn't matter and the laws is on your side. It's one of those games where you are encouraged to sit back, relax, take control your PMC and commit 5 straight hours of recorded aerial war crimes. Control is very intuitive and you're not restricted to a cutscene speed or altitude, but you can change them at will to accommodate your objectives or to stare passive-aggressively at incoming flaks and missiles (well you actually have flares for that). Additionally you can also control a limited amount of groundpounders that act mostly to sweep up enemy infantry and take over objectives, while technically it is your job to "support" them. The infantry, again, basically exist only to move slowly and die quickly, even if they have capture bonus they are completely useless so just focus on bringing APCs and IFVs instead to missions. No M1 Abrams here but it makes sense, you're basically the two guys from War Dogs peddling second hand APCs but actual tanks are just a little out of your pre-revenue. Speaking of, I do like the mission designs here. You're not shoehorned into working harder for no reason, with some early unlocks you can have open intel on the map and choose where you deploy your troops, even right next to the extract if you'd like. So missions can sometimes last less than a minute as you lay waste to everything with rockets and airbursts and incendiaries ... And you can extract right out if you aren't interested in those extra objectives. It's a sound strategy when you're low on certain resources just to send the objectives to hell and then dip and cash in. Speaking of resources the management side is but barebone right now. Each missions earn you resources to keep researching new weapons and manufacturing ammo and ordnances. Again with that new start-up smell which I think is what makes the game great. 9/10 relaxing fun but not particularly deep, a steal for its current price.