Seems like a good opportunity to discuss this idea. How would you feel about dropships filled with swarm launchers or mass drivers for example?

swarm launchers.... just refund my tank SP then and wel call it even

OK shoot......Cuz the only weapon I see as being op is the forge.....that could be mitigated by the force of the shot destabilizing the ds making multiple shots from one ds very hard.....yes they could pick off infantry but in all honesty I think this would be no more annoying than being killed by a redline tank.......at least the ds would have had to be in forge range to kill me.....yes it would make ds more powerful but we would see more ds vs ds combat....tanks would have to worry about them especially redline tanks(so yeah I guess it would make redline tanking and sniping not as appealing but is that a bad thing?)......


Lavs would become fun light assault vehicles if you added this feature.....with a passenger being able to fire forge shots you could be a tank hunter......or spray down enemies with an hmg.....mass drivers for explosive drivebys..

For all persons shooting out of vehicles from passenger seats I say no ads but make it their crouched hip fire spread instead

This could totally add more layers to this game.....infantry would take a hit but with vehicles able to do so much more I would say buff all av but forge guns

I don't feel too good about that but if the dropships health goes down to zero then all passengers should die. Or something. I would like the idea of providing cover fire in airborne vehicles but if swarm launchers come at the dropship and hit the side of the dropship than the passengers should die by the incoming attacks. I feel that with such powerful open kit firing position and weapon combinations those passengers should be equally exposed. It would be frustrating to deal with a full squaded dropship of mass drivers if you cannot hit them easily.

Perhaps the open kit firing position for dropships should only occur when the pilot opens the doors which exposes the passengers and allows them to fire their weapons freely (which currently can be done by hovering) . This way the tactics used by the dropships don't feel too cheap and was planned by the pilot and passengers while still giving the opposition chances to shoot down the dropship or the passengers inside.

Perhaps have an option for Dropship and Vehicles to add a module which give open kit firing or some other customization option. I don't know but throwing some idea's out there.

Seems like a good opportunity to discuss this idea. How would you feel about dropships filled with swarm launchers or mass drivers for example?

I would love it.
Dropships might need some sway to make aiming less easy, though.
I, for one, will definitely snipe from inside dropships, as well as snipe the people who are shooting from dropships.
That actually makes my role more useful.

Seems like a good opportunity to discuss this idea. How would you feel about dropships filled with swarm launchers or mass drivers for example?

This is probably the most unbalanced request on the forums.

Someone lock it and put it out of its misery.

We don't need 6 jerks with mass drivers and rail rifles shooting out of dropships.

This is probably the most unbalanced request on the forums.

Someone lock it and put it out of its misery.

We don't need 6 jerks with mass drivers and rail rifles shooting out of dropships.

All I see is a dropship full of assault forge guns. This would make dropships the best at everything besides cqc. Throw a logi in there with a rep tool and it'll be all but invincible.

Would do well in a PC where lag inducing tactics rein supreme. Just take to the sky and drop MD and FG rounds at anything that dares seek sunlight.

It'd take guys off of the objective and there'd only be 4 slots availible to shoot from unless you're using the turrets too

4 heavies with proto breach FGs. It would allow us to negate the immobility of the charge while firing 2100 damage, balls of fire from the sky. Forge gun tower sniping would be nothing compared to this.

I don't think you understand how hard it would be to fire a MD or forge gun from a dropship. Sure, forge gunning and MDing is easy now, but you are on solid ground with complete control over how you are moving.

In a dropship you are constantly moving and tilting and rocking in directions you have no way of predicting. I don't know your experience with turrets in a DS but if you've ever tried firing a missile turret from a DS you'd know it is a challenge. The ship is constantly shifting and maneuvering unexpectedly, some times in minuet ways and sometimes in extreme ways, and you have to try to compensate for all of it on the fly. Also, turrets are built into the dropship with a view mode that is made for this type of combat and you have a passive zoom mode that puts you right at the end of the turret and a very good zoom feature built right in that helps you even further.

Something else you may not know about shooting from a DS you cannot shoot anything directly in front, behind or below it. Your rounds hit the ship. And as most of us who've flown DS's for a living before know, ANYTHING that hits the DS no matter what it is has an impact on your flight path. Missile turrets jar you sideways, blaster rounds slowly careen you sideways, forge guns hit you so hard your whole craft rocks like a ship in a hurricane, swarms (enemy only for obvious reasons) throw you to the side, AR rounds make you drift off course, MD rounds try to tip you over.... I can go on to cover them all, but I really don't want to. Point is, you have severe blind spots you cannot fire at when in a DS, especially if you were to be actually IN the DS and not hanging out of it in the turret mount (get a close look the next time you see a gunner in a DS turret, he's not all the way inside the hull).

On another side of things, even though a normal weapon typically has zoom just like the turrets, have you seen a MD in ADS view? It's terrible, utterly useless to most people who pick one up. It has a low zoom fidelity and the markings on it are a mess to try to use when trying to line up shots. Not to mention that MD's have an ungodly low ammo carry capacity, so they may spam for a couple clips, but then they either have to sit there and fire off their sidearm ammo too or head to a supply depot and restock. Mass drivers in a DS that is constantly on the move aren't going to be able to do much more than spam random area denial rounds at large groups from a DS unless that DS is flying very low and very stable. And if it is, it is the subject of every gun in the vicinity, everything from AR's to flaylocks to MD's to AV gear because there are people in there that can be shot out who cannot move unless either the DS moves away or they jump out. There is no strafing in a DS to avoid bullets. If the pilot can keep you safe, wonderful. If not.... then you can either jump out or take a death.

Have you seen a Forge Gun in ADS view? No you haven't, because there isn't one. Forge gun sniping is moderately challenging from a distance when you are able to fully control your stance on solid ground because, as we all know, under normal circumstances solid ground tends to feel.... relatively solid. Now picture a forge gunner trying desperately to shots from a DS that is always adjusting it's pitch and yaw with no means of zooming whatsoever. Sure, the DS can hover. Which makes it a giant floating target in the sky that everyone can see and WILL shoot at with whatever they have on hand.

TL;DR: You.... really don't have any clue what you are talking about. Not to be offensive in any way, but you just really have no clue.

This is probably the most unbalanced request on the forums.

Someone lock it and put it out of its misery.

We don't need 6 jerks with mass drivers and rail rifles shooting out of dropships.

Seems like a good opportunity to discuss this idea. How would you feel about dropships filled with swarm launchers or mass drivers for example?