Asno Masamang
Odd Shadows Inc
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Posted - 2012.07.09 15:52:00 -
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Greetings,
Khun-Al wrote:How can I shoot out of my dropship like in this trailer?
At present you cannot.
Quote:If you reduce the radius of the turrets and every in the ship could fire the dropships hadnt so much power too.
While I would love to be able to shoot my rifle from within the dropship, until they reduce the capabilities of the existing turrets, I would have to be against this. Dropships are already too powerful if they are fitted correctly, adding an extra two guns per side would be far too much overkill.
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Asno Masamang
Odd Shadows Inc
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Posted - 2012.07.09 17:12:00 -
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Hawk Von Draum wrote:perhaps it could be coded that if a turrets are not equipped onto a drop ship the passengers can shoot out instead.
That is one solution, but I don't really think that would be fair to the DS pilot... IMO a better solution would be to limit the DS to using blasters and beam lasers (when they are added) as they are both short range weaponry that would be more for LZ cleaning. At the same time though, if they go this route, I would recommend giving the pilot a spinal mount gun, which could be a rail or missile.
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Asno Masamang
Odd Shadows Inc
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Posted - 2012.07.09 19:15:00 -
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Traynor Youngs wrote:Please explain how DS's are OP?
Let's look closely at DS... It can fly only slightly slower than a swarm missile, has more shield and armor than LAV, has two light weapon turrets, moves in all three dimensions. Now right off the bat some would say 'so what it is paper thin', but they are either lying to you or worse lying to themselves. A properly handled DS is near impervious to HAVs and LAVs as well as most infantry and capable of killing with near impunity, and it is not meant to be an air superiority vehicle.
Because of it's speed, a decent DS pilot can pretty much avoid any Swarm missile that they are aware of. This is why I am all for giving them a lock-on warning, On top of that, because they fly just a bit slower than the Swarm missiles at present, once the afterburners are introduced they will be able to not only evade swarm missiles, they will actually fly faster too.
A properly fit DS has the same number of mid slots and more low slots than a LAV. In addition, they have more weapon slots than the LAV. Because of this, someone with a decent amount of DS skills will have more EHP than an LAV and more effective firepower to boot.
Due to the current issues with 'guided' and directed weaponry versus sighting distance, a properly handled DS can effectively shoot from beyond the effective range of any land based unit which means they can and do hunt HAVs / LAVs / Infantry with near impunity.
Quote:They are hard to shoot from unless you stand still.
Were this truly the case you would never see people acting as DS gunners. No, it is as easy to shoot from a moving DS as it is to shoot from a moving HAV
Quote:They have paper armor, even when you have millions of SP in them and are fitted correctly.
No, some of them are because the driver wants to add damage mods. If they fit it correctly, you have more EHP than an LAV...
Quote:So, if you could shoot light weapons and sidearms from inside them, then how would that be OP?
Your DS provides it's protection to all of their passengers outside of a narrow 30ish degree window. Now from a distance that 30 degree window is pretty narrow, but to those people inside that window it is not narrow at all.
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