Surveillance Drone
Deploy an aerial camera drone that can remotely interact with Survey Beacon, Respawn Beacon, and ally Banner cards.
- Pressing the tactical button will launch the drone from Crypto ~25 m. Holding the tactical button will cause Crypto to go into drone view immediately.
- The drone can be deployed and flown up to 200 meters away from Crypto. If the drone is 240+ meters away from Crypto, it will automatically be recalled.
- Crypto can recall the drone at any time, EXCEPT when reviving a teammate who is down, as this will interrupt the revive on the downed teammate. The drone can, however, be recalled without interruption while shooting, healing, while knocked down, or executing other actions. The recall takes ~2 seconds.
- The drone has 50 health, which gets recovered when recalled.
- The drone can be used to open doors/Supply Bins/Care Packages, pick up squadmates' banner cards, and use both Survey Beacons and Respawn Beacons instantly. It must be within 7 meters to do these.
- The drone can ping items as long as they are within 12 meters. Enemies can be pinged up to 125 meters.
- Champion Banners seen through the drone's vision will show the number of enemy squads within a 200-meter radius of Crypto (not the drone).
- While in drone view, weapons automatically reload, starting with the currently equipped weapon. Reloads take the same amount of time as they would normally.
- The audio range from the drone is as follows:
- Since Season 31, the drone has a 25-second battery, after which it is recalled; recalling takes 6 seconds, and it can be redeployed with no cooldown.
- Since Season 31, pressing fire while piloting marks enemies in the drone's line of sight (4-second cooldown). Marked enemies stay tracked for 8 seconds, even if the drone is recalled or destroyed, and cannot be re-marked while marked.
- Since Season 31, the drone is faster and handles better, and entering it is quicker.
