Indeed! Do you have any ideas for its function however? How would it defend itself from Dropships and the upcoming Fighters? How much life will it have? Will it be able to take on an Orbital? How many people pilot it?

Ummm I'm going to say

1. Bomber or heavy air support....or even a mega troop transport
2.turrets on top, bottom, and sides (front sides as there are thrusters in the rear)
3. At least the same armour as a tank
4.ummmm probably not a full orbital
5. One pilot, one copilot (to operate the bombing etc)

EDIT: stupid iOS autocorrect

The Assault DS should be able to shoot it out of the sky. Think of it as a B-52 V a Fighter Jet.

really i dropship should have the same flight ceiling as a bomber or fighter dropships are trasport thats it and the bomber would have so sort of cloak to protect against fighters. its a flying tank basically

No no no. Everything must have a weakness. With bombers, it should be assault dropships.

th dropship makes no sense it should reach the height of the bomber. you dont see troop transport ex. blackhawks or huey helicopters flying and taking out bombers. simply cause the flight ceiling is way different. the only thing that would have the same flight ceiling is a fighter but even then you would have to have line of sight.

No with bombers it would be speed and maneuverability, slow, and turns like a drunk snail, that's how it should fly

The Assault DS should have absolute Air Superiority. The bomber should only have one seat. No turrets, devastating effects. The normal DS has more troop capacity than both of them, but it has little protection. This is how I believe it should be.

Well, the simply truth is that.....THAT SHOULD HAVE BOMBING CAPABILITIES! (ahem)

Although the bombing capabilities would have to be limited but converting it into a transport ship for the whole Team would be nice for PC battles and what not.

Ummm I'm going to say

1. Bomber or heavy air support....or even a mega troop transport
2.turrets on top, bottom, and sides (front sides as there are thrusters in the rear)
3. At least the same armour as a tank
4.ummmm probably not a full orbital
5. One pilot, one copilot (to operate the bombing etc)

EDIT: stupid iOS autocorrect

The assault dropship can't even destroy a tank (believe my it took my incubus, and 2 forge gunners to wreck a Madrugar)

fighting a bomber would be interesting



and pfft, I don't know what planet you fight on, But I eat tanks for breakfast :P

1: I agree

2: Also agree

3: Hell no. It ******* flys, and it'll be way easier for it to hit top speed than the DS's, and if it's around the same speed (which is 2500 km/hr), it'll never die.

4: It won't get hit by a OB, as it's going too fast.

5: Just the pilot is better.

That's actually what the light Caldari air vehicle will kinda look like.

Agreed, I think the pic is of the heavy Caldari aircraft

This artist actually does do work for CCP. It's likely they saw this piece in his portfolio and drew inspiration from it for the Caldari air vehicles.

Lol it was a hectic battle, I had swarms coming at me left right and centre.....I had to do lots of strafing runs to wreck that sucker

haha ever had that heart pounding moment where you have 3 rail tanks trying to shoot you down? XD

we should fly together sometime and wreck the skies with devastating air superiority haha

if they implement this...

i am going to call mine sexy star whale X1 .

can i put my emblem on it ?

that would be cool to just look up and see the emblem of SSW1 (sexy star whale X1 ) and just know who is about to rain merciless pain UPON THY HEATHEN BONES MWAHAHAHAHAHA ....

(oh god i blew my cover don't act amarr )

technology !

(perfect )

These are AMAZING IDEAS. Best implemented after larger teams I agree, the Assault Bomber( Collosus) should also come with a Mobile CRU so troops can just rain down.

Igor- So large it can actually hold multiple Dropships...

I love the ideas people are putting foreward, I hope ccp is reading these.

I really want to see it carry troops and a tank I side of it.

Yes we need the bigger maps and more people but just imagine....


You and your squad are defending an objective and the enemy just won't give up.....all of a sudden there is none.....no more raspberries show up. You wonder "what are they planning?"

Then.....you hear it...the hum of a dropship....only....it's a deeper hum...like its a monster dropship. You start looking at the sky trying to spot this monstrosity.

Then over the mountain comes a monstrous looking aircraft, it's got guns all over it. You tell the AV player in your squad to start taking it down....his attempts cannot deter the beast. The ship proceeds to hover right above the objective....then you see it....the back door opens and all of a sudden, troops start falling by the dozen....and then....you stand there frozen because of what your seeing.....

A blaster Madrugar dropped from the back of the ship. It starts tearing your squad apart and the other blueberries that so happen to be at the same objective. You start cursing and order all of your squad to retreat and regroup....your squadmates reply that they are either pinned down or dead.....10 seconds later.....the objective falls into red control.

,.... ok . lets point out that we need some kind of countermeasures . maybe a exposed weak spot when it drops people or vehicles off ?

I was thinking tanks and of course AA tanks when we get those turrets.....plus jets will fly circles around this thing, it's not fast so it can't outrun swarm launchers.....plus with al, the proto AV that people are using it would be lucky to fly for over a minute

Precisely :)

but then again i make it sound like it would be a miniature titan ship XD

why can't it be . make the biggest meanest most terrible model astronomically expensive so whole corps have to pool to buy one
and instead of killing it outright who ever brings it down gets a token for one .

make the deployment of this thing a event .

so when you hear the wuuuuuummmm of those massive engines . the first to emotions are fear and awe . and the next emotion is competitive drive to conquer it

sounds more a like mission against a faction rather than player. i personally dont think that is the best way todo it...but i do like what ur saying when imagine this in my head if that were the case of what u suggested it would be the size of an MCC. meaning we could be fighting this cause it got taken over by rougue drones :) ? but that might be far fetched

has anyone here played starwars battlefront. and if so do you remember the in space battles where you had the small fighters and bombers . but you could dock with the enemy ship and blow it up from the inside

I love that game mode!!!!!!!! Star Wars battlefront was my favourite game!!!!!!!!

I was looking through general discussion and found a thread that had a link to this artists creations.

After flipping through some of the artwork at the topi found this pic of what looks like a heavy aircraft bomber.

Please use this design!!!!!

Also, look through some other pieces of his, he's an amazing artist and has some cool looking stuff that would make Dust awesome!!!!!


EDIT: what do you guys think of this vehicle being able to carry tanks and other vehicles inside of it?

So it would fly around dropping tanks or jeeps etc on the battlefield.

Pretty sure this isn't related to Dust, but some heavier aircraft might be neat.

Doesn't have to be related to dust, I want them to base at least the Caldari design off of this thing, it looks epic!!!!

star wars battlefront is amazingly epix!

I would honestly spend millions on purchasing this awesome looking beast of the sky

I'm with ya brother, but imagine the sp that would go into this and how much room it would take in the map, I want more details.

aw great.... now this tread is making me want something that we don't even know is going to be in game.

i want this so bad... no other game will have anything like this. PLEASE CCP!!!

I promise we'll be good on the forums.