What's the risk of trying to spawn into a mobile CRU?

Everyone should ask themselves this honestly. What is the risk? Because that's the downside of the decision.

Now, what's the benefit of spawning into a mobile CRU?

Ask yourself that honestly as well. Because that's the value that you can gain from that decision.

For me, I spawn on them as often as my calculation of the decision leans towards the benefits and away from the risk.

If the risk is a dead clone, lost dropsuit, etc. That risk = X isk and time for my team.
If the benefit is that I can get somewhere faster than the enemy expects - and maybe aid my team. I might give it a try.

Sometimes I don't take the risk. Sometimes I jump at it.


DUST is a lot like Poker. Poker is a lot like life.

Do a risk/benefit analysis of every decision you make, in combat and in life (and in poker)....and your chipstack will grow.

^Very legit.

I'd also add that there is a current issue with the code of the mCRU AFAIK causing it to only appear as a selectable spawn point for players who have exhausted their bleed out timers. Meaning that all of those players who try and instantly redeploy bypassing any chance of being revived are also players who will never(or rarely) spawn on mCRUs because they will not see them on the overhead map as options for spawn.

I've never had good experiences with DS spawning.

They usually hover over stupid locations far away from allies.

Or they try to get all the occupants killed.

Once i spawned in a DS and tried to jump only to have the imbecil land on one of those generator things to kill everyone that just spawned in.

Tanks are just more reliable,and they can't do the BS trolling DS are capable of.

This is so great. Do you know that, IRL, everyone I know that has to fly on helos sounds just like this. Every deployment I've ever been on - if there are helicopters involved everyone has great stories about bad stuff that have happened on them.

And I believe them! I'm scared to death of flying in helicopters. Won't do it if I don't have to.

But, in DUST, I love to fly dropships. And the changes to them since last year have made them a lot more operationally valuable.

We, as a community, are still limited by our history and culture and word of mouth to be dropship averse.

Dropship survivability is better now than ever before (well, maybe not ever - there were builds when DS were the Great White Orcas of DUST) but balance wise - they're much better.

I can fly a 60k isk gorgon around in pubs and have a real impact on the game (if people trust that I have a brain and know what to do).

It's the trust part that makes all the difference.

And isn't that the point!?

I assure you, with every confidence, if even a SINGLE competent squad spawns against you, that ship is going down, every time you call it in. It's not a matter of if, merely a matter of when. You lack the mobility to compliment your tank, so you're just a slow piniata for anyone with a bat.