One Battlefield 2042 player has discovered that you can use your grappling hook to hook onto a drone.
The Battlefield 2042 open beta is currently ongoing and, as you'd expect, players are using it to figure out some cool tricks that will hopefully translate into the final release.
One such trick comes from YouTuber DooM49, who released a video titled, "What if you grapple hook to a drone in Battlefield 2042". The video shows exactly that, with DooM49 shouting in glee at the realisation that grapple hooks can actually hook onto a drone mid-flight.
The video starts by showing DooM49 hooking onto the drone from a very short height. Even when it's barely off the ground, DooM49 is able to hook onto it and use it as a very small slingshot. After this, the players try hooking onto the drone from much higher in the air, to which the grapple hook actually manages to hit it and launch the player pretty high into the sky. It's not quite enough to activate the parachute or cause any fall damage, but it's still pretty impressive.
Things get real after that second test, as DooM49 asks the player controlling the drone to fly once he's connected to it. This doesn't work quite as well as you'd hope, as the drone continues flying but the grapple hook stops at the point where the drone originally stood. It seems like the grapple hook won't carry on moving with whatever it's connected to.
Undeterred by the grapple hook failure, DooM49 and the rest of his squad continue messing around with the drone to see what it can do. The next trick involves putting a bunch of C5 on the drone and flying it next to some enemies. As you might expect, it causes an explosion that manages to kill an enemy.
The rest of the video features DooM49 and the rest of his squad messing around with the drone to see its capabilities, but it's arguably the grapple hook stuff that's the most interesting, as it's a brand new tool for Battlefield players. Here's hoping it gets its grappling hook reach extended.