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Pvt Numnutz
Ikomari-Onu Enforcement
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.09.09 15:27:00 -
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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? |
Pvt Numnutz
Ikomari-Onu Enforcement
Caldari State
220
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Posted - 2013.09.09 15:40:00 -
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well I was hoping for a little more than "no." why not? you scared bro? |
Pvt Numnutz
Ikomari-Onu Enforcement
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.09.09 15:50:00 -
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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 |
Pvt Numnutz
Ikomari-Onu Enforcement
Caldari State
221
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Posted - 2013.09.09 15:54:00 -
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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. |
Pvt Numnutz
Ikomari-Onu Enforcement
Caldari State
222
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Posted - 2013.09.09 16:26:00 -
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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 |
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