As of now the beta only has 2 aerial vehicles and only one of them being pilot-able. And I have noticed that in the Trailer "Inmortal" while the group of heavies are over looking the battle a couple of fast moving fighter jets flew past them. But not only this was seen on the video. I remember seeing a 'jet like' air craft being called down on the alpha version of the game. And I was thinking that it would be nice to have dogfights going on above you.

Now i don't know if CCP has confirmed or not that there will be jet fighters in the complete version of Dust 514.

If anyone knows anything related to this I would be most grateful to hear about it.

Thanks you for your time

fighters ARE confirmed at some point but gunships are still a rumor, there has yet to be any official word on them. All we know is that eventually there will be a heavy air unit, larger than a dropship.

Right now the piloting skill unlocks flying vehicles, but only the dropships, which it unlocks on level 1. So in order for that to actually be a viable skill, yes, there will need to be many, many other forms of flying vehicles.

I want Aircraft to cost a hell of a lot of ISK. I'm talking 3-5 mil.

I want Aircraft to cost a hell of a lot of ISK. I'm talking 3-5 mil.

Agreed. Aircraft should always be an expensive but effective role. good luck "balancing" that one CCP...

I completly disigree, intill we know if its fast enough to out run rockets from a Swarm luancher (wich will most likely destroy it in 1-2 shots, we know its the strength of the LAV) and the cost of an Instalation wich will tear it apart like a LAV EXCAPT for the fact that the fighter has less cover (but might be faster and more easy to turn/dodge) AND the missle hybrid/large turret showed us that it had a lcok on feature like the sawrm luancher (chances are missles will be anti air guns inless it says dumb missle) ONCE we know more we could start talking balance.

Yep. I would bet fighters will be extremely squishy, but with very high maneuverability. Since they're only a huge threat to other aircraft, I doubt they'll need too much as far as balancing.

whats your reasoning of that? you only know that they are in the full game, nothing else (correct) and 1-2 RPG shots should take down a standard (there shouldn`t be a militia fighter... should there?) we don`t even know if they use small missle/ blaster/ railgun turrets (1 per wing) we can easily assume they will, aswell as use propulsion, sensors, sheild boosters ETC but you shouldn`t be calling out costs for something that is geniraly unknown.

Personally I think the Fighters should run a large turret with a damage multiplier but faster overheating. Fighters move so fast that you need to be able to deal a large amount of damage in the short amount of time you can aim at them. The fast overheating means that they deal less damage in total, but they put out that damage in a much shorter time period. I'm mostly thinking about blaster turrets here, but railgun fighters would be interesting. I have no idea how missiles would be balanced, maybe only a damage bonus for weapons that overheat.

agreed except I`m guessing they are good tank destroyers/ HAV destroyers.... atleast 1 aircraft has to fill that role and dropship doesn`t seem like it does.

I'm thinking gunships would fill the HAV destroying role and be the most expensive to buy and the highest skill required to fly.

- Launching in a fighter will also make you the target of every swarm launcher on the map. I think they'll be deathtraps, so they shouldn't be terribly expensive. Gunships kill ground troops and vehicles, dropships carry troops into battle, and fighters try to stop both of those from wreaking havok.

Previous mentions of Fighters by the Devs have stated that they're far too fast for our current maps, and that they'd be "hitting the redline constantly". I don't think Swarm Launchers are going to be much of a threat.

oh, I was expecting that I would have to learn a dodging technuiqu, I`ve been practicing in my dropship (with succsess). well hopefully they have slown them down, otherwise I`m not going to be a fighter pilot oftenly

Oh hell no, hopefully they just open the whole map up to us.
Actually, I had a thread a little while back that suggested that all forms of fixed-wing aircraft have access to the entire district, and be able to provide support in all battle-zones of the district, since as you can see in EVE, even the fullest extent of our current maps barely accounts for a fraction of a district.

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Actually, I had a thread a little while back that suggested that all forms of fixed-wing aircraft have access to the entire district, and be able to provide support in all battle-zones of the district, since as you can see in EVE, even the fullest extent of our current maps barely accounts for a fraction of a district.

EVE ships > Dust fighters > Dust ground pounders

Bitchin idea. Not sure how it would work though. Fighters would have to quit one match and enter another repeatedly and smoothly. How would that work if one match is full?

a bump is needed.

Ca 5:38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED-YF-v7WCw