Rework 1st Person Mode: No one uses it for a reason.

1st person needs to reflect 1st person in many other games, even our LAVs have proper first person! Dropship camera needs to be replaced with a cockpit view and not-so tunnel vision. A wider viewing angle and hopefully the ability to rotate camera without rotating the dropship. It's the future, so I'm sure cameras are all over the dropships, so having TV Monitors withing the cockpit to televise a window would be appropriate (So when you look down, you will see the ground via a monitor just above your lap.

I'll be back with some more. This is minor but first thing off the top of my head. 1st person DS flying sucks.

Certain roles and fittings earn different amount of war points for example a sniper wont make that many war points because kills alone don't earn that much. However an assault will make a lot of war points because he is front line and ends up hacking a lot of objectives on top of scoring kills. Logis get a moderate amount of points for close range kills, repairs and revives, and objective hacks. Drop ships unfortunately don't have a good income of war points so I can understand why you are complaining but why do drop ships deserve more war points?It's a fact that a tank probably makes the most war points in a game over any thing else in the game but should it nerfed because of this? I believe drop ships hit points and usefulness should be increased but why do they deserve more war points snipers aren't getting any as well? If you wanna make a lot of war points get a tank blow up installations put a defend order on your tank and score RDV kills and vehicle kills.

v0.55


Feedback is always welcome! Thanks for the support, guys. I'm worried this thread will become redundant because the next major update to DUST might already include a new system that will make dropship pilots very happy (I have faith in CCP), but it was nevertheless very fun creating this thread and constantly expanding it.

I think that's the wrong link :P

v0.65
Added "Landing Skids" to features.
Added link to Hunter Junko's ENCDCU idea to countermeasures.
Added Squad-oriented WP System

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Whilst we have discussed numerous systems which provide incentive to pilots, we have forgotten the incentive to keep squad members thinking about where a dropship is, how long it takes to get them out, how soon it can provide covering fire, etc.

Teammates currently do not see the dropship as the rapid infantry transport it is. They see it as a flying brick which shoots, and they want to shoot from a flying brick because that's cool. This should not be the case. Therefore;

• Infiltration WP: If a squad member performs any action which is detrimental (hacking enemy installations, NULL cannons, kills, assists) to the enemy one minute after being deployed by a dropship, they gain an extra 25% WP.


• Infiltration Assist WP: Pilots gain half the amount (12.5%) of WP that is gained by Infiltration WP.


• Full Fury WP: If a full squad (bar the pilot) deploys from a dropship within 5 seconds of each other, all members gain 20WP.

Note: the squad must be deployed WITHIN 70M (inside AR range) of an enemy installation/letter/mercenary to gain Full Fury WP.

Full Fury WP has a cap of 100WP, which resets every minute.


• The Messenger: Pilots gained 75% of WP gained from Full Fury WP.

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Lol. I've been getting bored making up objective names; hence 'full fury' and 'the messenger'. I feel they're sufficiently appropriate.

Also, the Landing Skids feature hasn't really been developed by me much. If there's anything to add, post here and it'll be added.

I can't think of anything rightly.....so I'll tell the story of how my 6000HP+ DS was destroyed

I caved into Shouper of BHD, and deployed a DS in Manus Peak Ambush...never again.
They deployed a Tank and a forge gunner. Safest spot to rest was in the redzone. Never again...
Forge gun was biggest problem. He was on a roost, and we were trying to stay out of sight of the HAV. In the end the two of them caught me when I was doing mad loops around the map. Crashed down in redzone. Gbghg and Shoup bit down on cyanide pills while I ran out of the redzone to get slaughtered in a second by like four people.