you mean like a kamikaze? When its on fire do it and jump out the last minute

actually i was refering to the person being crushed have a self destruct module. So the person who crushes you wishes he hadn't hahaha

Ok you have this guy that just fly's around crushing people all match. I was thinking to adapt and improvise, CCP implements a self destruct module that detonates with with a large impact to your outter shell. In other words being crushed by dropships, ran over by a lav or crushed by a tank. Just a random thought that came across my mind. Any thoughts?

Ok you have this guy that just fly's around crushing people all match. I was thinking to adapt and improvise, CCP implements a self destruct module that detonates with with a large impact to your outter shell. In other words being crushed by dropships, ran over by a lav or crushed by a tank. Just a random thought that came across my mind. Any thoughts?

I've beat yeah too it in game though with what we already have.

Use remote explosives, if a dropship is really bothering you, lay a few down, and wait, maybe even shoot em with yer rifle to bug em to come over, then when they get near you Boom, either take yerself out or move a bit.

Same can be done with LAVs, but if a dropship is really buggin you, just swarm em, takes like 4 shots, and if they miss you crushin, they have to go back up and circle around, perfect time for a pew pew.

No I like this idea A LOT, its the best one I've heard so far, but I want to make it fully effective, any death results in a 3000 dmg explosion for the militia one within a 1m radius, up to 5000 for the next and 9000 for the prototype. This would create unpleasant surprises for tanks and add a whole new element of 'well ****' to when someone jumps on top of your tank and starts shooting you =D. You've now got a permanent parasite companion who you'd better hope lives and shoots you for the rest of the match, because as soon as he dies so do you =P.

Also when knife killing gets the Buff it so badly needs this will also serve as its counter easily, and dropships wont have a prayer. The low level militia ones wont kill a prototype dropship, but the advance or prototype ones will be enough of a deterrence that no one will even bother crushing ANY opponent for fear of him just happening to be the one with the module equipped =).

A HUGE +1

Step One: Get Remote Explosives.
Step Two: Look for enemy dropship trying to crush you.
Step Three: Lay RE on ground around you when it comes down at you.
Step Four: Wait for it to get close then BOOM!

Exactly what you're looking for, already in game.

Step One: Get Remote Explosives.
Step Two: Look for enemy dropship trying to crush you.
Step Three: Lay RE on ground around you when it comes down at you.
Step Four: Wait for it to get close then BOOM!

Exactly what you're looking for, already in game.

Step One: Get Remote Explosives.
Step Two: Look for enemy dropship trying to crush you.
Step Three: Lay RE on ground around you when it comes down at you.
Step Four: Wait for it to get close then BOOM!

Exactly what you're looking for, already in game.

That seems like its a little complicated to try and lay down a remote explosive and try to lure a dropship in and still be far enough away from the RE to detonate without exploding yourself. Thanks for the suggestion though.

As opposed to how you're planning to escape without exploding yourself BY EXPLODING YOURSELF?

I don't see the difference between suicide bombing with REs and suicide bombing with a "suicide bomber app" module.

And I still think it would be better to make collisions with the ground deal armour damage instead of having to strip shields first. It's not like shields are really going to do much to stop a planet when it hits you.

Also, this would be WAY to easy to exploit in other ways that are just as annoying as dropship squishing, if not moreso.

Just get a forge gun and watch these dropships run away in panic after they get reduced to 50% armour in one hit.

Even still if it done more damage what more can you do when you were killed by the squasher.

I've got an issue with this idea. Yea I want to stop drop ships from crushing people because it is totally kitten but I don't like the exploding suit mechanic from a story point of view. What would be the narrative that would lead to people putting explosives into their suits that only explode when a vehicle hits them? Its just too far fetched.

A more reasonable way to deal with this is to make the vehicle damage from crashing into/rolling your drop ship across the ground much higher. Actually just make vehicle impacts much more damaging in general. And make it damage all vehicles involved in the damage equally. I destoryed another drop ship by ramming it with mine and took only minimal damage. Silly.

Laugh when they're dead before you can respawn?

Or get better at avoiding derpships.

Keep in mind the lack of random spawns in the current build, and the fact that it's a bug, and will be fixed. They won't be able to just park themselves on the spot where you're going to spawn and bounce up and down for free kills.

I would like to think that I am somewhat good at avoiding them but as I mentioned before it's not every single time this happens that I see the pilots coming in. Yeah, it's kind of crappy that you have limited spawns and they are to easy for people to camp.