If you pilots could have it, would you want an "eject" button for passengers and why? Besides getting the bad gunner out of your ship that is...

Serious question.

If you pilots could have it, would you want an "eject" button for passengers and why? Besides getting the bad gunner out of your ship that is...

Serious question.

If you pilots could have it, would you want an "eject" button for passengers and why? Besides getting the bad gunner out of your ship that is...

Serious question.

I honestly see that being open to some heavy griefing, considering there's an extended safe zone for aerial vehicles, people can be dumped easily into a red zone for the lulz.

I'm sure that it could be made so that you couldn't eject them in extended zones.

When Gunships come into play Dropships are just going to be a rare species xD

If you pilots could have it, would you want an "eject" button for passengers and why? Besides getting the bad gunner out of your ship that is...

Serious question.

Still, though, B on Manus Peak, you could easily hurl people out into the red zone via momentum.

I honestly see that being open to some heavy griefing, considering there's an extended safe zone for aerial vehicles, people can be dumped easily into a red zone for the lulz.

Maken I am not talking about E3 flight controls. Which you are clearly have in mind.

I am talking about Precursor. These where some of the hardest flight controls in the game. But with there difficulty came rewards.

Once you mastered them you could pull off maneuvers and a master at controls could control there dropship far better in Precursor then this build. I could actually avoid forge shots to a extent because I was not forced to fly in predictable flight patterns. Currently I feel these codex build flight mechanics limit the great pilots at the expense of letting everyone feel they can fly a dropship. You should not do that with air vehicles. These should be hard to master but rewarding to those that do.

And in Precursor there was a actually a difference between armor and shield tanking AKA shield you where faster but little more rocky aka making it harder to gun where armor you where slower but alot more stable and easier to gun from.

You mean the build when people spawning on your DS or hitting it with your own SM would flip it over into a death plunge? Yeah, that was so great and "rewarding". I hate this bullshit about how much more demanding it was -- it was just borked to the point of being unusable and everybody who tried it knew that it will not last. "You got hit by anything and somebody spawned on board at the same time? You're now belly up and this pain is the planet breaking your back." That flight model made me play infantry until end of the build.



Currently I have built a lovely Myron and added some nanofiber chasis mods -- I would dig that difference again if there was anything that I could use a flying speedcar for. Current WP system combined with map size gives me exactly 0 motivation to take my baby out for a ride.

I second the ability to eject gunners that repeatedly hit the edge of the DS.

I could see it working like squad orders, hold down R2 and click R3 brings up a wheel with seven eject options to select, 6 for each seat and one for an "all eject".

Regarding redline ejection griefing, have it done once to you, shame on the pilot, have it done twice to you in the same ship, shame on you. You'll soon learn which pilot's are a kitten and which one means to win the battle.

It will be nice to have the higher ceiling and to get rewards for transporting but the problem is, when you transport blueberry's to attack an objective, they all stay in. I'd vote for the controls back, but would like to vote for a deploy all passengers button too.

I wonder how CCP will combat reward farmers who just get a full load in their ship and fly around in safe battle zones... we all know where those zones are...

Maken I am not talking about E3 flight controls. Which you are clearly have in mind.

I am talking about Precursor. These where some of the hardest flight controls in the game. But with there difficulty came rewards.

Once you mastered them you could pull off maneuvers and a master at controls could control there dropship far better in Precursor then this build. I could actually avoid forge shots to a extent because I was not forced to fly in predictable flight patterns. Currently I feel these codex build flight mechanics limit the great pilots at the expense of letting everyone feel they can fly a dropship. You should not do that with air vehicles. These should be hard to master but rewarding to those that do.

And in Precursor there was a actually a difference between armor and shield tanking AKA shield you where faster but little more rocky aka making it harder to gun where armor you where slower but alot more stable and easier to gun from.

Maken I am not talking about E3 flight controls. Which you are clearly have in mind.

I am talking about Precursor. These where some of the hardest flight controls in the game. But with there difficulty came rewards.

Once you mastered them you could pull off maneuvers and a master at controls could control there dropship far better in Precursor then this build. I could actually avoid forge shots to a extent because I was not forced to fly in predictable flight patterns. Currently I feel these codex build flight mechanics limit the great pilots at the expense of letting everyone feel they can fly a dropship. You should not do that with air vehicles. These should be hard to master but rewarding to those that do.

And in Precursor there was a actually a difference between armor and shield tanking AKA shield you where faster but little more rocky aka making it harder to gun where armor you where slower but alot more stable and easier to gun from.

You mean the build when people spawning on your DS or hitting it with your own SM would flip it over into a death plunge? Yeah, that was so great and "rewarding". I hate this bullshit about how much more demanding it was -- it was just borked to the point of being unusable and everybody who tried it knew that it will not last. "You got hit by anything and somebody spawned on board at the same time? You're now belly up and this pain is the planet breaking your back." That flight model made me play infantry until end of the build.

You mean the build when people spawning on your DS or hitting it with your own SM would flip it over into a death plunge? Yeah, that was so great and "rewarding". I hate this bullshit about how much more demanding it was -- it was just borked to the point of being unusable and everybody who tried it knew that it will not last. "You got hit by anything and somebody spawned on board at the same time? You're now belly up and this pain is the planet breaking your back." That flight model made me play infantry until end of the build.



Currently I have built a lovely Myron and added some nanofiber chasis mods -- I would dig that difference again if there was anything that I could use a flying speedcar for. Current WP system combined with map size gives me exactly 0 motivation to take my baby out for a ride.

Mix the nimbleness of the Precursor controls with the lower fragility of Codex and throw in reduced knockback from swarms and it will be perfect.

If you love dropships so much, why don't you just marry one?

Cause The damn dropship said no to me.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=418304#post418304

Well looks like there is a chance for some dropship love in the future. :)

Now just to reinstate precursor controls/mechanics back to dropships for flying them and I will be one happy pilot.

Well pilots I say lets spam for precursor controls now and see if we can gain back some more love. It could be a bright future for us.

gunners shouldn't be able to shoot their own ship , its over looked coding that really needs to be fixed. I believe that helicopter guns are mounted on gyroscopes stands that are configured to stop movement if the angle will hurt the craft and dust is in the future.

Also the universal sign of get out in a transport ship is the vehicle stops Im sure if drop ship pilots didn't try to use the ship like a halo jumping spawn point and peeled into a objective point low and fast and hovered people would jump out like a Vietnam huey.

Right now drop ship pilots get no love is because instead of using the ship like a transport they are flying in circles like a c130 gunship pelting one area like artillery and getting mad because people want you to transport them instead.

Mix the nimbleness of the Precursor controls with the lower fragility of Codex and throw in reduced knockback from swarms and it will be perfect.

Now for nano fibers they are useless this build. They suck this build. If you used them last build you would know why. I have tested them this build and they do so little it is not worth it.

But the new controls are awesome. actual skill required.

As a non pilot I cant speak from the flight controls , but almost every time ive been in a drop ship its usually a disaster.

gunners shouldn't be able to shoot their own ship , its over looked coding that really needs to be fixed. I believe that helicopter guns are mounted on gyroscopes stands that are configured to stop movement if the angle will hurt the craft and dust is in the future.

Ive probable rode on a drop ship longer than I should of for the fact that every time ive jump out timing a jump ive went flying into the red zone or 100`s of feet away from where I should of. Also the universal sign of get out in a transport ship is the vehicle stops Im sure if drop ship pilots didn't try to use the ship like a halo jumping spawn point and peeled into a objective point low and fast and hovered people would jump out like a Vietnam huey.

Right now drop ship pilots get no love is because instead of using the ship like a transport they are flying in circles like a c130 gunship pelting one area like artillery and getting mad because people want you to transport them instead.

instead of a light or a auto kick function , maybe when the drop ship is safe enough to be jumped out of the doors open or if that coding is to complex for processing power a blue shield is active when not safe and disappears when safe to jump.

One of the things demoed during yesterday was improved lag compensation which allowed better placement of missiles' launch point. Now there's much less deviation.

And do Dropships themselves get any love? I highly doubt it.

They've got a whole freaking game to make, you can't expect them to focus on the troop transports when a lot of the core game mechanics are still missing.

I'm keepin' the faith. CCP will deliver.

For those that think the whole "randoms don't get out" is because of flying I've repeatedly LANDED next to objectives and watched as people just sit in the dropship.

It's part of the reason you'll rarely see me use a dropship anymore unless I'm in a squad. Without the ability to kick people out a dropship with a CRU (in a random match) is more likely to harm the team by taking half of it out of play.

The only time I've ever seen people actually use the dropship as a spawnpoint that they got out of was when a swarm had caused me to end up crashed upside down in the middle of a base. And even then some people would try to use the guns before they bailed out.

It's a massive problem, I end up flying them into the redzone.
I mean, you can land on an Objective, you can hover above it, you can do flybys but none of them want to get out. It's like they think we're invincible.

I think the dropships are still top heavy and needs to be more center heavy.

I like the current controls now though its learning.