God no...The MD's need to be nerfed already, people are seriously abusing the EXO and freedom as it is.

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

A great way to break the game even more.

Forge gun trails are very rarely seen.
Swarms can be invisible a significant portion of the time.
Any MD at elevation is difficult to take out now. Imagine them at 100m.

Now put all of them at a significant height above the battlefield. Most weapons will be unable to respond.

Not to mention that Drop Ships are invisible a portion of their flight path because of the recent Great Draw Path Optimization. But the grass is very pretty as it Freaking Grows while you walk by. So natural.

And, I agree that it should include a full SP refund not only for Tanks but for my Heavy as well.

Hey! Maybe this is the start of a continual CCP/Shanghai releases something ugly and everyone gets a full SP respec to avoid it cycle. That might work ... Not.

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

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 limit any high-damaging weapons from being able to fire out of DS's. Would cause too much grief.

Define high damaging, Forge guns? Mass driver? Snipers? Swarm launchers?

high damage = ARs

Haha I say forge gun is OP, it does more damage than a rail cannon on a tank

EDIT: I think forge guns are high damage :p

Haha I say forge gun is OP, it does more damage than a rail cannon on a tank

EDIT: I think forge guns are high damage :p

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

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

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

The only reason people are freaking out at hand held weapons is that turrets are currently pop guns that don't inspire fear.

The vehicle rebuild promises to buff damage output and add burst defense for brief hard hitting engagements. As such it's going to be buffing small turrets for dropships. That should make them better the hand held weapons which will then make personal weapons much less of an issue. One that can be balanced by vulnerability and the need to hold he ship rock steady because only the turrets shield their gunners and have stability augmentation.

Well I think any heavy weapons being shot from inside should seriously offbalance and shake the dropship. Swarms and massdriver would be pretty fine because they couldn't have a sustained presence in the air- They wont be able to use nanohives in the dropship and would quickly run out of ammo. Also as other people have said its got a big risk. One proper tank or AV guy could destroy an entire squad by killing one dropship.
I think all of this would only work when we have vehicle locks though, because we can just imagine how blueberries will camp inside your dropship for a whole game now that they could shoot out of it, or a full squad of blueberry forge gunners inside your dropship would flip it upside-down.

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

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

Create a new turret placement for infantry to use their own weapons. Only 2 players would be able to do it per dropship and the ship would be sacrificing its small turrets to do so. Most weapons would be useless because the height that dropships have to fly at in order to avoid being demolished would put them beyond reasonable range. Mass drivers would be great but you'd have to fly about 25m off the ground and keep it steady for them to actually hit anyone on the ground because the rounds expire after a few seconds.

The biggest issue would be forge guns and swarms taking out tanks from the sky - this could be averted by simply making the swarms and forge blast hit the dropship itself because you really shouldn't be firing something that powerful from a paper plane.