We going to make things very nice for people who want to specialize in being a Pilot. Please watch FanFest next week.

If they don't include jets....dropships with pilot-manned turrets are the next best option. Good luck to snipers in the hills

If they don't include jets....dropships with pilot-manned turrets are the next best option. Good luck to snipers in the hills

My question is how effective those turrets will be. I think they'll be able to hit, but not enough to be a threat. They would just let pilots get more assists.

I'm excited to see more ships in the air!!! Something to make the gameplay feel different!!

Yea i know what you mean

Let's hope this doesn't end up how dropships were in the previous build...

Aerial Bumper Cars!!!!!!

Hahaha i just want pilots to get more rewards

Hahaha i just want pilots to get more rewards

Dragging the dropship across the ground crushing mercs isn't what I consider a rewarding experience.

Not a rewarding experience to say but pilots need to get way more War points then they do for how much Dropships cost and how easy they get shot down

http://www.reddit.com/r/dust514/comments/1ckz34/dust_514_developer_ama/c9immag

Can't wait- I've always loved flying, but it just isn't viable right now in dust.

I'd like to see a Deploy Kill bonus like they have in Planetside 2. Whenever I drop people from my Galaxy in that game, I get 5 XP for each kill they get for the first minute or so after they hit the dirt.

Let's hope this doesn't end up how dropships were in the previous build...

Aerial Bumper Cars!!!!!!

TBH, flying vehicles ruin infantry gameplay, since most of the maps in dust lack any serious cover from aerial fire. The fact that most lettered objectives in the game are out in the open and prone to being covered from the air means unless more people spec into AV, flying vehicles in pub matches are going to win 90% of the time.

So.. yeah. If they give flying vehicles better weapons, they better have less tank. A vehicle that can sit above an objective and rain hell down is a portable orbital, and should not exist.

pilots need to get way more War points then they do

TBH, flying vehicles ruin infantry gameplay, since most of the maps in dust lack any serious cover from aerial fire. The fact that most lettered objectives in the game are out in the open and prone to being covered from the air means unless more people spec into AV, flying vehicles in pub matches are going to win 90% of the time.

So.. yeah. If they give flying vehicles better weapons, they better have less tank. A vehicle that can sit above an objective and rain hell down is a portable orbital, and should not exist.

My question got answered

Proto DS here I come

TBH, flying vehicles ruin infantry gameplay, since most of the maps in dust lack any serious cover from aerial fire. The fact that most lettered objectives in the game are out in the open and prone to being covered from the air means unless more people spec into AV, flying vehicles in pub matches are going to win 90% of the time.

So.. yeah. If they give flying vehicles better weapons, they better have less tank. A vehicle that can sit above an objective and rain hell down is a portable orbital, and should not exist.

I have to ask you, have you ever flown a dropship? They have barely more Hp than a standard LAV, all you need to take down one is a barely decent forge gunner.

TBH, flying vehicles ruin infantry gameplay, since most of the maps in dust lack any serious cover from aerial fire. The fact that most lettered objectives in the game are out in the open and prone to being covered from the air means unless more people spec into AV, flying vehicles in pub matches are going to win 90% of the time.

So.. yeah. If they give flying vehicles better weapons, they better have less tank. A vehicle that can sit above an objective and rain hell down is a portable orbital, and should not exist.

Everything that is non-infantry ruins infantry gameplay. Tanks ruin infantry gameplay amd dropsjips are much more easier to take out than a tank.

The statement you just made

" flying vehicles in pub matches are going to win 90% of the time." shows something of a lack of information on the subject. I guarantee you anyone on this forum can attest to the fact that 90% of the time when they see someone call in a drop ship it lasts somewhere between 0 seconds to a minute.

I'm worry but the frequency by which you proclaim dropships are raining unstoppable death from the sky is clearly nonexistent. Dropships in any game are a rarity. Lasting longer than a minute makes them more so, and surviving an entire match makes them a unicorn. Now factor in the likely hood that they got any kills or even any warpoints and...

yeah.

Sorry but reality is the inverse of your statement. Flying vehicles in pub matches are going to wasted 90% of the tune by free AV which every blueberry in the world has access to. Any time you see otherwise is simply because they were too busy being shot by tanks or Proto suits to bother swapping out their fittings

PS by the same token the entirety of infantry has LOS on aerial vehicles 90% of the time.

It's ok this game would be more fun with less variety right guys?

guys?...

IDK, sub-machine guns are ruining my assault rifle play. They have the edge in ALL CQC! Really they shouldn't even be in game. I mean, where's the skill in that????

In all seriousness, aerial vehicles drop easily to competent AV players, and even only slightly competent ones with Militia Forge Guns due to the fact that aerial vehicles suffer from exactly what you say infantry suffer from: no cover. An HAV or LAV can drive behind a building, rock, or hill pretty rapidly. There's virtually no way for a Dropship hit once by AV to get away from the second shot before getting taken down.

And that's all it takes is 2-3 forge gun shots. Even militia lol