Banjo Robertson
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Posted - 2015.04.15 17:29:00 -
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Joseph Ridgeson wrote:While it is a cool idea, it opens up some potential problems.
Dropships with Mass Drivers making any open ground a killing field.
Dropships with Swarm Launchers denying any enemy vehicle.
Dropships with Forge Gunners acting like their own Warbarge Strike.
Drive by shooting with LAV's. Heavy-LAV combination got so much flak. Imagine the Sentinel never even getting out of the car to gun people down.
I don't think the current game is equipped to handle this idea as of right now. If the game were a lot bigger, something like Battlefield, I could see it working. While it may be something that should be looked into when/if this game ever transitions beyond what it currently is, I don't think it is a good idea for the game we currently have.
Honestly none of those seem like problems, they just seem like more ways to have fun! Besides, if a dropship does have 6 passengers raining down fire with all those MG or FG or whatever, then they become that much of a bigger target for the other teams AV.
Plus, when the dropship gets driven away by AV, there will be 7 less enemy players near the battlefield, giving a huge advantage to the other team. |
Banjo Robertson
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Posted - 2015.04.16 12:33:00 -
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Godin Thekiller wrote:Banjo Robertson wrote:Joseph Ridgeson wrote:While it is a cool idea, it opens up some potential problems.
Dropships with Mass Drivers making any open ground a killing field.
Dropships with Swarm Launchers denying any enemy vehicle.
Dropships with Forge Gunners acting like their own Warbarge Strike.
Drive by shooting with LAV's. Heavy-LAV combination got so much flak. Imagine the Sentinel never even getting out of the car to gun people down.
I don't think the current game is equipped to handle this idea as of right now. If the game were a lot bigger, something like Battlefield, I could see it working. While it may be something that should be looked into when/if this game ever transitions beyond what it currently is, I don't think it is a good idea for the game we currently have. Honestly none of those seem like problems, they just seem like more ways to have fun! Besides, if a dropship does have 6 passengers raining down fire with all those MG or FG or whatever, then they become that much of a bigger target for the other teams AV. Plus, when the dropship gets driven away by AV, there will be 7 less enemy players near the battlefield, giving a huge advantage to the other team. Fun for you and your squad. Not fun for anyone else. It would become hell. **** no. Heavy ordinance weapons (aka anything with splash or high enough alpha to damage vehicles) would simply be restricted. Anything else is fine.
My squad would likely be the one using AV weapons to get the 2-7 kills from all the people crammed into the dropship rather than being the squad crammed into the dropship.
Have you tried firing any of the 3 turrets from the dropship? The easiest weapon is the missile launcher and even that isnt very accurate, so yeah the best weapon from the dropship would probably be the mass driver, and maybe more people would skill into it if this was made a real thing.
A dropship packed with a mix of swarm launchers, mass drivers, and forge guns can do a little bit of everything, but it still needs to have 2 turrets otherwise it only has 4 passengers. Its still vounerable to railgun turrets, swarm launchers, forge guns, and even the random plasma cannon. If this much investment in player density needs to actually be effective in the battlefield, the dropship would need to stay close to its intended target, and be relatively stable to allow its passengers to hit their targets.
This level of stability would even allow snipers to snipe the passengers right out of the dropship. I feel like anyone against this idea hasnt ever gone against a packed dropship before, its the biggest sitting target in the game.
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