DUST Search - Bringing the fear of air power to dust mercs

Pvt Numnutz wrote:

So a friend and I were discussing dropships and came up with an interesting idea. In world war two the Luftwaffe used screaming air breaks on their dive bombers to put the fear of air power into their enemies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOBCGwMpeo
(skip to 1:05 best example I can find, good movie tho)

I think it would be really cool if the vehicle team (don't know their name) made a custom slot for the dropship. Pilots could then buy 'screaming dive engines' for X amount of ISK. The effects? When going fast enough to have the fast speed effect (blue lightning stuff or wind i guess) the engines make a horrifying screaming noise. Yes that is all it does.

For me the psychological effect would help greatly in routing enemies and forcing them into cover, not to mention being a feared presence on the battlefield would be great for keeping enemies behind cover, instead of advancing on points. I suppose the downside to this is having the enemy know where you are or that you are coming, but I'm all about psych ops Lol

anyway I thought this would be a fun topic to put up for discussion, thoughts? Ideas? Comments?

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Pvt Numnutz Ikomari-Onu Enforcement Caldari State 220	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:27:00 - [1] - Quote So a friend and I were discussing dropships and came up with an interesting idea. In world war two the Luftwaffe used screaming air breaks on their dive bombers to put the fear of air power into their enemies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOBCGwMpeo (skip to 1:05 best example I can find, good movie tho) I think it would be really cool if the vehicle team (don't know their name) made a custom slot for the dropship. Pilots could then buy 'screaming dive engines' for X amount of ISK. The effects? When going fast enough to have the fast speed effect (blue lightning stuff or wind i guess) the engines make a horrifying screaming noise. Yes that is all it does. For me the psychological effect would help greatly in routing enemies and forcing them into cover, not to mention being a feared presence on the battlefield would be great for keeping enemies behind cover, instead of advancing on points. I suppose the downside to this is having the enemy know where you are or that you are coming, but I'm all about psych ops anyway I thought this would be a fun topic to put up for discussion, thoughts? Ideas? Comments?
JL3Eleven PFB Pink Fluffy Bunnies 784	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:38:00 - [2] - Quote No.
Pvt Numnutz Ikomari-Onu Enforcement Caldari State 220	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:40:00 - [3] - Quote well I was hoping for a little more than "no." why not? you scared bro?
The Attorney General ZionTCD 868	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:40:00 - [4] - Quote I always wanted to put a dive siren on my A-10 in BF3.
Surt gods end Demon Ronin 1005	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:47:00 - [5] - Quote My Tekkaman AV suit: Proto SL with complex mods. will face towards that siren. I say yes, let them get it.
JL3Eleven PFB Pink Fluffy Bunnies 785	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:49:00 - [6] - Quote Pvt Numnutz wrote: well I was hoping for a little more than "no." why not? you scared bro? You have no idea how bad a sound will make me mess my pantaloons. I say no because it sounds like a SP sink. Why would you alert your enemy and yet have no weapon to kill them with?
Pvt Numnutz Ikomari-Onu Enforcement Caldari State 221	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:50:00 - [7] - Quote Surt gods end wrote: My Tekkaman AV suit: Proto SL with complex mods. will face towards that siren. I say yes, let them get it. scares the hell out of infantry, but also lets AV know where we are coming from. I think it would be a fun little add on
JL3Eleven PFB Pink Fluffy Bunnies 785	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:51:00 - [8] - Quote Surt gods end wrote: My Tekkaman AV suit: Proto SL with complex mods. will face towards that siren. I say yes, let them get it. Come on now the game is easy enough .
The Attorney General ZionTCD 870	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:51:00 - [9] - Quote JL3Eleven wrote: Pvt Numnutz wrote: well I was hoping for a little more than "no." why not? you scared bro? You have no idea how bad a sound will make me mess my pantaloons. I say no because it sounds like a SP sink. Why would you alert your enemy and yet have no weapon to kill them with? Because a real man lets his enemy know that he is about to drop in and unleash hell upon them. Like. A. Boss.
Pvt Numnutz Ikomari-Onu Enforcement Caldari State 221	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:54:00 - [10] - Quote JL3Eleven wrote: Pvt Numnutz wrote: well I was hoping for a little more than "no." why not? you scared bro? You have no idea how bad a sound will make me mess my pantaloons. I say no because it sounds like a SP sink. Why would you alert your enemy and yet have no weapon to kill them with? HA! almost made me spit up my drink! As far as SP and ISK invested it would low, this isn't a modual that affects much. I fly assault dropships so I do have a weapon Would also be cool to change the white color on my dropship to a nice dark red with this same custom slot for a little isk. Though that is for another thread entirely.

JL3Eleven PFB Pink Fluffy Bunnies 785	Posted - 2013.09.09 15:59:00 - [11] - Quote The Attorney General wrote: JL3Eleven wrote: Pvt Numnutz wrote: well I was hoping for a little more than "no." why not? you scared bro? You have no idea how bad a sound will make me mess my pantaloons. I say no because it sounds like a SP sink. Why would you alert your enemy and yet have no weapon to kill them with? Because a real man lets his enemy know that he is about to drop in and unleash hell upon them. Like. A. Boss. Well when you become a man let your whistles blow grasshopper.
JL3Eleven PFB Pink Fluffy Bunnies 785	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:00:00 - [12] - Quote Pvt Numnutz wrote: JL3Eleven wrote: Pvt Numnutz wrote: well I was hoping for a little more than "no." why not? you scared bro? You have no idea how bad a sound will make me mess my pantaloons. I say no because it sounds like a SP sink. Why would you alert your enemy and yet have no weapon to kill them with? HA! almost made me spit up my drink! As far as SP and ISK invested it would low, this isn't a modual that affects much. I fly assault dropships so I do have a weapon Would also be cool to change the white color on my dropship to a nice dark red with this same custom slot for a little isk. Though that is for another thread entirely. Make it brown. Call yourself The Brown Streak.
howard sanchez Sanchez Cartage llc 722	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:02:00 - [13] - Quote Pvt Numnutz wrote: Surt gods end wrote: My Tekkaman AV suit: Proto SL with complex mods. will face towards that siren. I say yes, let them get it. scares the hell out of infantry, but also lets AV know where we are coming from. I think it would be a fun little add on The difference between WWII bombers and DUST air raids is that clones in DUST can carry forge guns and others things that kill DS. This screaming air brake idea would be cool against newbies and for a YouTube clip or two, but the whole,"what's that sound? Oh, look up! It tells me exactly which way to point this forge gun!". Neat idea on paper...I think heavies will vote Yes
Viktor Skirov Heag Enterprises 33	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:06:00 - [14] - Quote That could actually be, a pretty good idea. I don't know if it fits with the lore, (We're military grade clones... At least our bodies, but what i mean is, isn't both our bodies and minds, heavily prepared for anything to come?)... But our ''minds'' are actually players... And i imagine that a lot would be frightened for hearing such screaming machine without noticing it before it ''Blows'' ... So i believe it could actually work, so yeah. +1 to you, buddy.
Operative 1171 Aajli Bragian Order Amarr Empire 294	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:15:00 - [15] - Quote Pvt Numnutz wrote: So a friend and I were discussing dropships and came up with an interesting idea. In world war two the Luftwaffe used screaming air breaks on their dive bombers to put the fear of air power into their enemies. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yOBCGwMpeo (skip to 1:05 best example I can find, good movie tho) I think it would be really cool if the vehicle team (don't know their name) made a custom slot for the dropship. Pilots could then buy 'screaming dive engines' for X amount of ISK. The effects? When going fast enough to have the fast speed effect (blue lightning stuff or wind i guess) the engines make a horrifying screaming noise. Yes that is all it does. For me the psychological effect would help greatly in routing enemies and forcing them into cover, not to mention being a feared presence on the battlefield would be great for keeping enemies behind cover, instead of advancing on points. I suppose the downside to this is having the enemy know where you are or that you are coming, but I'm all about psych ops anyway I thought this would be a fun topic to put up for discussion, thoughts? Ideas? Comments? That wouldn't scare me. That would make me happy to know where your dropship is and take it into account while fighting. No, dropship must be ninja!
Pvt Numnutz Ikomari-Onu Enforcement Caldari State 222	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:26:00 - [16] - Quote howard sanchez wrote: Pvt Numnutz wrote: Surt gods end wrote: My Tekkaman AV suit: Proto SL with complex mods. will face towards that siren. I say yes, let them get it. scares the hell out of infantry, but also lets AV know where we are coming from. I think it would be a fun little add on The difference between WWII bombers and DUST air raids is that clones in DUST can carry forge guns and others things that kill DS. This screaming air brake idea would be cool against newbies and for a YouTube clip or two, but the whole,"what's that sound? Oh, look up! It tells me exactly which way to point this forge gun!". Neat idea on paper...I think heavies will vote Yes I was thinking it would be a noise that would not give you a sense of direction so yes you would know to look up, but no you wouldn't be able to guage exactly where I was coming from. I could see it working both ways, yeah they are lloking for the dropship, and not the troops that deployed during the dive. All eyes on me, just ignore these 4 guys on your point :D
DUST Fiend OSG Planetary Operations Covert Intervention 6149	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:28:00 - [17] - Quote Dropships already make the whole map sound like MCCs mating as soon as they turn on their engines
Aisha Ctarl Tal-Romon Legion Amarr Empire 1249	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:28:00 - [18] - Quote No because Banshees belong in Halo.
JL3Eleven PFB Pink Fluffy Bunnies 785	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:32:00 - [19] - Quote Pvt Numnutz wrote: howard sanchez wrote: Pvt Numnutz wrote: Surt gods end wrote: My Tekkaman AV suit: Proto SL with complex mods. will face towards that siren. I say yes, let them get it. scares the hell out of infantry, but also lets AV know where we are coming from. I think it would be a fun little add on The difference between WWII bombers and DUST air raids is that clones in DUST can carry forge guns and others things that kill DS. This screaming air brake idea would be cool against newbies and for a YouTube clip or two, but the whole,"what's that sound? Oh, look up! It tells me exactly which way to point this forge gun!". Neat idea on paper...I think heavies will vote Yes I was thinking it would be a noise that would not give you a sense of direction so yes you would know to look up, but no you wouldn't be able to guage exactly where I was coming from. I could see it working both ways, yeah they are lloking for the dropship, and not the troops that deployed during the dive. All eyes on me, just ignore these 4 guys on your point :D Assuming people would actually jump out.
gbghg L.O.T.I.S. 3408	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:37:00 - [20] - Quote as dust fiend says, the whole map knows as soon as we take off, why should we let them know from which direction we come?

Provolonee Undefined Risk DARKSTAR ARMY 167	Posted - 2013.09.09 16:51:00 - [21] - Quote What if drop ships were actually scary! Wouldn't that make there current noise strike fear in mercs?
DUST Fiend OSG Planetary Operations Covert Intervention 6151	Posted - 2013.09.09 17:15:00 - [22] - Quote Provolonee wrote: What if drop ships were actually scary! Wouldn't that make there current noise strike fear in mercs? HERESY!!!


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