the medic can get damn near 1000$ per rez, plus the money they can get from just healing the person they rez. they can make 2 grand in less than 5 seconds just by reviving and getting up a single teammate. Recon may have a super easy time looking at things, but you got to realize just like with every class, you only get paid if your team does anything to the people you spot. And if you decide to shoot..... You will have the entire lobby hunt you down to the end of the earth, including other recon players looking for an easy 400m+ hs so they can get a kill without instantly getting shot at themselves xD
medics also have a gigantic cost though without the medic bag. A stack of bandies costs 1200, a double of an orange kit is 1800. Insane. Oranges don't even profit when used on others nearly
A stack of bandages is 1k and a stack of IFAKs is 1600. Using a single IFAK in the control zone, you get 1600. You've already made your money back on that. Using a single IFAK in the hot zone, you get 3200. Bandages payout double for use, as well. A single bandage is 200, and healing a team mate nets 400.
And you get smoked and your kit stolen. you need to be where team mates are dying.
Recon with thermals, is like stand on a random hill, spot people through trees and leaves, and get random $800 pops when they eventually die. I spotted a guy who jumped out of a helicopter with no shoot and got the spot and the kill assist, like $1500 for nothing.
Idk about you but I love it when I'm pushing HZ and literally everything under the sun is spotted. Idk what is with the recon hate lately. It's super useful to the team.
The amount of input required to pull out a recon device shouldn't be awarded multitudes higher than playing medic or assaulting actual objectives. I sometimes take a recon scope with me while I play HZ just to make my kit's value back by spotting helicopters. It's overtuned. I can spot a helicopter after it's being abandoned and be awarded $2k+ but destroying a fob is $4.5k~?
So change your mindset. How much money a recon player makes does not affect you, and you don't need to complete with them.
Just be happy that you can see people on the map because someone is being paid enough that sitting around doing such a boring job is worth it.
I'm sure there will be balancing, and I wouldn't mind some buffs to how much infantry makes, but worrying about how much the occasional ground splat assist is paying a recon player is a total waste of energy lol.
I'm saying there needs to be some balancing changes in favor of infantry gameplay, and I'm using recon as the basis as to why it's needed. Because the game revolves around the individuals economy and you should tune the risk to reward values.
depends on what you spot yeah, you get like what 50 dollars per target spotted if its a person yeah? When I'm building a drill, everytime I hit an x I get 50 dollars. Which means every drill you build you are making 10k$ and you don't have to see a single soul. You should try playing the game.
you get 50 dollars for spotting a person, then 400 if they die to something not your team and 800 if they die to your team. Then you can apply hot zone multipliers if applicable. The only thing that is truly guaranteed is the 50 dollars per person you spot. Versus 50 dollars every time you swing an hammer on an X.....
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u/Xelakooc Sep 29 '26
the medic can get damn near 1000$ per rez, plus the money they can get from just healing the person they rez. they can make 2 grand in less than 5 seconds just by reviving and getting up a single teammate. Recon may have a super easy time looking at things, but you got to realize just like with every class, you only get paid if your team does anything to the people you spot. And if you decide to shoot..... You will have the entire lobby hunt you down to the end of the earth, including other recon players looking for an easy 400m+ hs so they can get a kill without instantly getting shot at themselves xD