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Talos Vagheitan wrote:

Hard to balance. And realistically why would someone be able to use an SMG and not an AR, just for example.

I'd rather see it be balanced somehow that any light weapon could be used (except maybe swarms)

Here's what I thought of a while ago:

- DS bay doors are manually controlled by the pilot
- While doors are open players can fire their light weapons
- Doors can be manually opened, but will automatically close when the pilot either climbs to a specific altitude (50 ft) or exceeds a certain speed.

This would make it so that passengers can shoot, but only if the DS is in a low hover, or moving slowly and flying low.

This would prevent the biggest problem I can foresee: flying around with swarm launchers in your ship blasting other DS's.

OR

Another potential solution would be to remove the above mentioned auto- door close when reaching altitude and speed, but make it so opening your doors slows your DS's speed and climb rate by 50%. This way, if you are in a dogfight and decide to open your doors to allow your swarms to fire, you slow down and become a sitting duck, with your doors open, exposing your passengers.

OR

Easy way out, anything but a swarm can be fired from a passenger.

I love this game but it makes me rage so much. Star wars battlefront 3 coming out, so excited!!


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Jason1 Black FACTION WARFARE ARMY FACTION WARFARE ALLIANCE 1	Posted - 2015.02.14 22:26:00 - [1] - Quote I'm expanding on my original thread. Like i said, We should only be able to use sidearms to keep it simple and because Light weapons would be OP. Imagine a dropship full of swarms laying waste to everyone elses vehicle.Or logis with reps continously repping the dropship from the inside. OP. It would also create a use for those useless "bay doors" dropships have. They just need to get fixed so that only the pilot can open/close them because as it is now they open/close by themselves. The passengers(not including gunners) would only be able to shoot when the doors are opened by the pilot, but they would be vulnerable. When the doors are closed, they are protected but cant shoot. To help balance things, i say passengers(not gunners) will only have a 20 degree shooting angle, this will require the dropship to get pretty low for the passengers to start shooting and will at the same time allow the infantry to fight back and shoot at them. Now a few more things for the dropships, the passengers will only be able to get out of the dropship IF the bay doors are open.(This includes the pilot, to prevent trolling) "well what if the dropship pilot is using militia and wants to troll?" Well if the Bay doors are closed in the moment the dropship explodes, then the pilot will have to pay for everyone who died in the dropship. BUT ONLY IF THE DOORS WERE CLOSED. IF THEY WERE OPEN ITS YOUR OWN THEM FAULT FOR STAYING INSIDE. So now the pilot is strongly discouraged from trolling the people in his dropship. So to all you dropship pilots, if your under fire and you might not make it, open the bay doors ahead of time so you arent stuck paying 300,000+ isk. Consider this, I'm open for suggestions.
Jason1 Black FACTION WARFARE ARMY FACTION WARFARE ALLIANCE 3	Posted - 2015.02.15 17:59:00 - [2] - Quote Talos Vagheitan wrote: Hard to balance. And realistically why would someone be able to use an SMG and not an AR, just for example. I'd rather see it be balanced somehow that any light weapon could be used (except maybe swarms) Here's what I thought of a while ago: - DS bay doors are manually controlled by the pilot - While doors are open players can fire their light weapons - Doors can be manually opened, but will automatically close when the pilot either climbs to a specific altitude (50 ft) or exceeds a certain speed. This would make it so that passengers can shoot, but only if the DS is in a low hover, or moving slowly and flying low. This would prevent the biggest problem I can foresee: flying around with swarm launchers in your ship blasting other DS's. OR Another potential solution would be to remove the above mentioned auto- door close when reaching altitude and speed, but make it so opening your doors slows your DS's speed and climb rate by 50%. This way, if you are in a dogfight and decide to open your doors to allow your swarms to fire, you slow down and become a sitting duck, with your doors open, exposing your passengers. OR Easy way out, anything but a swarm can be fired from a passenger. OK, i see your point about now being able to use light weapons. But like you said OR "Easy way out, anything but a swarm can be fired from a passenger." OR I just thought of this. OK Passengers can also use light weapons but, passengers(not the gunners) will have a 10 degree up or down radius to look so now the dropship has to get even lower for the passengers to shoot at infantry are even more exposed. You still cant use equipment, heavy weapons,grenades or any AV weapons. The pilot still controls the bay doors and everything else i said about the bay doors. I love this game but it makes me rage so much. Star wars battlefront 3 coming out, so excited!!