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Irish Syn
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Posted - 2013.02.11 03:56:00 -
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They are working on maps that will only be traversable via aerial vehicles. Here is a few screens they showed us at fanfest last year.
http://i1125.photobucket.com/albums/l590/sevxsev/dust.png
Too bad that is extremely far off right now. Regardless I'm with the OP - I will continue to fly regardless of how much the game incentivizes me not to, but CCP really needs to make some changes.
Hellraiser Alpha wrote:I'd like to add something slightly unrelated, yet totally relevant. Have the possibility of inertia dampeners for high altitude drops, like from the MCC. It could be a special shock Dropsuit so you'd have to spec in it, but I think it'd make for some interesting game mechanics.
Not sure what you mean, we can already use inertia dampeners from high altitude drops. Heck, they don't even need to be that high - I can use inertia dampener when jumping off the ladder I just climbed up. This is another issue with dropships is people don't realize this. I was playing with a friend and told him to jump out and capture the base and he responded, "But won't I die?" And he's used the dampener before too when jumping out of the MCC, he just forgot it was always there. This needs to be made more clear. |
Irish Syn
Chernova Industries
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Posted - 2013.02.11 04:22:00 -
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Hellraiser Alpha wrote:Irish Syn wrote:
Not sure what you mean, we can already use inertia dampeners from high altitude drops. Heck, they don't even need to be that high - I can use inertia dampener when jumping off the ladder I just climbed up. This is another issue with dropships is people don't realize this. I was playing with a friend and told him to jump out and capture the base and he responded, "But won't I die?" And he's used the dampener before too when jumping out of the MCC, he just forgot it was always there. This needs to be made more clear.
Say what? Case in point.
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Irish Syn
Chernova Industries
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Posted - 2013.02.11 07:26:00 -
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For the passengers not wanting to eject, and not wanting to give an auto reject button to trolls, I propose an idea. Tagging onto Nummutz suggestion of a light that goes off telling everyone to get out, how about you award points if they actually do? Points for the dropship pilot and points for those who bailed. It would actually hit two birds with one stone because then dropship pilots could actually get points for, you know, dropping people.
As for swarm defenses, can't you shoot missiles down? I'm not entirely sure, but if so make it more obvious and better. The guns on your dropship would then really be more defensive than anything, but would require good teamwork between the pilot and the gunner. And you wouldn't even need a dedicated gunner, since the only time you'll be taking heat is when you are going to drop someone off. |
Irish Syn
Chernova Industries
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Posted - 2013.02.11 23:25:00 -
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Skihids wrote:I take pride in the fact that my fellow pilots are one of the most constructive groups on the forum.
I've been wondering about the doors. How can anyone drop out of the ship with them closed?
Wouldn't it make more sense to have to open them for a mid-air drop? If so, then the doors opening would be a pretty strong signal that the pilot wants you to jump. Marking the area between the ground redzone and ship redzone in yellow would let passengers know when not to jump. The only downside I can see is that it would trap passengers if the pilot never opened the doors which could be bad if it were going down in flames.
Allowing passengers to shoot would be balanced as opening the doors also makes them vulnerable to attack. If I'm running empty it might even be beneficial to run with the doors open so a FG shot has a possibility of flying through an open bay. But of course the pilots are the most constructive group of people on the forum. We don't get kills or points or ISK, so everyone who is still flying is doing it purely for fun.
I do like your idea of closing the doors to protect your passenger, too many times my guys get hit by a sniper bullet as I'm moving them across - and I'm not exactly going slow, there are some good snipers in this game. Perhaps as a way t go about fixing the "trapped" thing they could simply make a little tweak to the design and instead of players jumping out the side they actually fall through a drop-panel type door on the floor whenever they want?
Also this brings up something I've been getting complaints on from my passengers, whenever I fly over a base and they drop their inertia carries with them and they end up way off target. We counter this by simply slowing down to a hover - which is very risky. Perhaps add some sort of thrust technology that shoots them to the ground quickly and on target? Only a suggestion to make things more convenient, I can see the other side though that thinks it should require that slow down to drop off troops (or great vector calculations on their part).
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Irish Syn
Chernova Industries
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Posted - 2013.02.13 08:29:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:Irish Syn wrote:But of course the pilots are the most constructive group of people on the forum. We don't get kills or points or ISK, so everyone who is still flying is doing it purely for fun. No creep but... You sir are 2/3 wrong! Yes DS pilots don't get many if not any kills while piloting, but ISK and WP...I've made buttloads. Ever since Condor Squad started running some tight plans and squads, I've lost fewer DS and managed to get something in the range of 1500 WP a match. My gunners are getting around an average of 30 kills. And no I'm not talking about guys from the corp going for a good ol pub stomp, I'm talking just the guys over at Condor Squad. The ISK is only in good supply when the DS doesn't die. That's my mental rhyme to prevent me from going broke. Cool little story. But yes we are talking about pilots that don't have an organized squad to work with. At the moment if you are playing solo you get nothing for flying a dropship, so I am fully correct.
Meanwhile if you are alone and driving a tank? Yeah, you can still get a butt load of kills, points, and ISK. If you are just running in your spec'd out dropsuit? Yup. but with a dropship? Ugh, nope.
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