Originally Posted by DeimosManifest

Scar, smoke grenades, radar grenade, accipiter is the BEST kit to suicide on Zoraster's dead body with. That way when he gets rezzed, he bursts into tears.

Evil. So...very...evil. I think I've picked up a kit like that and I did cry...then pistoled the nearest person and stole their kit.


Being able to spawn on the SL is something people are familar with from BF2. As long as you haven't dropped a beacon your squad can spawn on you which make the drones practical to use. Its also why the number one tip to playing a squad leader was "Find a dark corner, assume the fetal position, and hide". As long as the SL stayed alive the squad had a forward deployment area and so hiding and staying away from combat was an important SL tactic.

The spawn beacon, while it gets much hate, is a handy tool to be used from time to time. Dropping one on a rooftop or hard to reach position for a forward spawn point regardless of flag status is a very popular tactic. Best case senario you can do a squad combat drop from above and take the enemy by surprise. Worst case senario you force the enemy CO to burn their Orbital Strike to destroy your beacon. Be warned that once you deploy a beacon you trade your mobile SL spawning abilities for a stationary point that can be destroyed. Your squad mates will no longer be able to spawn on you until you are resupplied with another beacon.

The Otus is the TG community SL item of choice. It provides a 360 degree pulse similar to the support pulse detector and gives relative height and location of enemy contacts. A Support SL with an Otus and an IDS slapped on it provides a superior tactical advantage with the intelligence that can be gained from the combination.

Spanky (the gun drone) is rather weak in comparison. It floats above your head similar to the Otus so since it shoots straight ahead it will rarely, if ever, hit anyone on the ground level with you. Its best use would be first contact when going up stairs or ladders because it will come in contact with the enemy and be on line to open fire before you get up to their level. Another use for spanky would be pure fire superiority. A support SL with Spanky and a Sentry gun proned behind an IDS is a 'set and forget' setup. Since the SLer is prone the drone will float at around chest height allowing the SL to provide fire support from behind the full cover of the IDS as it floats above it. Its actually a handy combination to be used in titan corridors, but an EMP grenade will drop Spanky on your head and make it take a nap. In theory Spanky is similar to an Otus in that it scans the immediate area with a 360 degree pulse. However instead of relaying the intel to you and the squad, it picks the nearest 'diamond' and opens fire if its on level with it (which it almost never is). If you ever DO get killed by someone using Spanky and their drone gets the killing blow, just take the rest of the day off because you've just won the bad luck lottery and playing further may just humiliate yourself more.

The Squad priority deployment beacon is a TITAN ONLY kit item. Since it speeds up your death and redeployment timer its a ticket burner plain and simple on conquest or assault line play. On titan where you have no tickets to be lost the faster respawn allows for added pressure on defenders or attackers when your on a titan.