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Klivve Cussler
Ransoms Incorporated
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Posted - 2013.04.24 20:53:00 -
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In a quick skirmish match yesterday, I saw two dropships dogfighting. Both had a missile fit, and the gunners were actually hitting each other quite a bit. The pilots flew circles around each other, popping in and out of cover and trying to keep each other in range. Eventually, though, the pilots both tried for a close pass and collided. All the pilots and gunners ejected and the fight continued on the ground.
Very cool to watch. I hope to see more air-to-air combat in the future.
If you were in that encounter, my hat's off to you. |
Arron Rift
Commando Perkone
Caldari State
93
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Posted - 2013.04.24 21:54:00 -
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I agree, there's not nearly enough stuff going on in the air with this build, hopefully that will get fixed may 6th.
Here's hoping :D |
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ZionTCD
258
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Posted - 2013.04.24 21:54:00 -
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**** gets real when it fall from the sky |
Bojo The Mighty
Bojo's School of the Trades
968
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:02:00 -
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HAV Drivers are really missing out. Dropship Dogfights are pretty fun. Same with LAV car chases. |
Panoscape
BurgezzE.T.F
Orion Empire
128
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:23:00 -
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I miss free dropships, high ceilings and missiles that did something.... ahh... the good old days. |
gbghg
L.O.T.I.S.
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:26:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:HAV Drivers are really missing out. Dropship Dogfights are pretty fun. Same with LAV car chases.
agreed, so much fun. even if you don't have gunners if your smart you can stop another dropship from doing it's job
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Vaerana Myshtana
Bojo's School of the Trades
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:26:00 -
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That sounds so cool! I wish I'd seen it! |
Halador Osiris
Dead Six Initiative
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:28:00 -
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Bojo The Mighty wrote:HAV Drivers are really missing out. Dropship Dogfights are pretty fun. Same with LAV car chases. I prefer chasing LAV's with my dropship. That is fun. |
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ZionTCD
258
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:30:00 -
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I enjoy taking my gunners into the red line to melt red snipers. |
gbghg
L.O.T.I.S.
1227
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:31:00 -
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Halador Osiris wrote:Bojo The Mighty wrote:HAV Drivers are really missing out. Dropship Dogfights are pretty fun. Same with LAV car chases. I prefer chasing LAV's with my dropship. That is fun.
yeah, it's freaking awesome to just see your dropship going alongside a road at below lamppost height while your gunner unloads a blaster turret on a two LAV convoy, something so awesomely action film about it. |
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arimal lavaren
L.O.T.I.S.
200
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:35:00 -
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Dropship dog fights can be great fun on the odd chance you encounter them but there are far faster ways to dispatch a dropship than to get in the air with it. hopefully we'll see this shift some with the coming content. |
Sakari Wakuu
Kigurosaka Corporation
0
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Posted - 2013.04.24 22:50:00 -
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arimal lavaren wrote:Dropship dog fights can be great fun on the odd chance you encounter them but there are far faster ways to dispatch a dropship than to get in the air with it. hopefully we'll see this shift some with the coming content.
There have been visuals of high-speed fighter planes before, and they are still in the game so who knows? ;) |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
1296
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Posted - 2013.04.24 23:41:00 -
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In one battle, there was an enemy dropship shooting down every blue dropship this one guy called in.
Eventually, I decided to enter the dogfight with afterburners and no gunners.
I won. |
gbghg
L.O.T.I.S.
1234
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Posted - 2013.04.24 23:44:00 -
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Scheneighnay McBob wrote:In one battle, there was an enemy dropship shooting down every blue dropship this one guy called in.
Eventually, I decided to enter the dogfight with afterburners and no gunners.
I won.
suicide ram? |
ShwerShwerShwer
The Marching Mercs
General Tso's Alliance
60
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Posted - 2013.04.24 23:45:00 -
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Once was gunning In a friends drop ship and a militia viper kamikazed us. It went down, hit the ground and blew up. Our ship was plummeting but the match ended when we were five feet from the ground. My friend kept the drop ship  |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
1296
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Posted - 2013.04.24 23:48:00 -
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Oh yeah, then there was this actual dogfight back in closed beta, which was the most badass fight of my merc career.
I spawned on the dropship as a passenger, until one of the gunners either jumped out of got killed (idk) and I hopped on the turret. Eventually, we shot the other dropship down, and it drifted into us while it was falling. Most of the people in both dropships survived the fall and commenced fighting on the groind (keep in mind this was in the middle of nowhere in some corner of skim junction)
An HAV from each team eventually moved in like vultures to the crash site. In the end, I was the only survivor from the people in the dropships, entirely because I made it into the turret of the friendly HAV before the red one could completely murder the **** out of me. |
Void Echo
Internal Error.
Negative-Feedback
54
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Posted - 2013.04.24 23:57:00 -
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back in closed beta during the winter back when the umbrella project was in separate names and sections, I was in a squad with one of my other corp leaders and some of our friends.
we were in the old skirmish 3 objective map flying in a dropship, 2 missle turrets (before they were nerfed to uselessness) and a good pilot driver, I was on the right turret just annihilating all the ground troops I saw, then an enemy drop ship came out of nowhere and flew straight towards us, me and the other turret operator started shooting at it while it was shooting at us, we circled the map about 3 times before I got 3 good shots that took out all of its shields and sent it flying for cover to recharge its shields, we resumed destroying the ground forces we could see then the enemy dropship came after us again only this time it tried to do a head on collision, I took aim at the front of it and fired 2 shots that made a direct impact to it, it started smoking then caught fire then immediately nosed dived and crashed into the ground, that whole time the pilot told me that he was trying to evade enemy swarm missiles that were behind him, I had no idea lol, I was just shooting at the enemy dropship and destroyed it. we won the skirmish match and I ended up going 34-0.
dropship fights are fun, but it doesn't matter when there is a rail gun pointing at you from the ground |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
1297
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Posted - 2013.04.25 00:06:00 -
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Void Echo wrote:back in closed beta during the winter back when the umbrella project was in separate names and sections, I was in a squad with one of my other corp leaders and some of our friends.
we were in the old skirmish 3 objective map flying in a dropship, 2 missle turrets (before they were nerfed to uselessness) and a good pilot driver, I was on the right turret just annihilating all the ground troops I saw, then an enemy drop ship came out of nowhere and flew straight towards us, me and the other turret operator started shooting at it while it was shooting at us, we circled the map about 3 times before I got 3 good shots that took out all of its shields and sent it flying for cover to recharge its shields, we resumed destroying the ground forces we could see then the enemy dropship came after us again only this time it tried to do a head on collision, I took aim at the front of it and fired 2 shots that made a direct impact to it, it started smoking then caught fire then immediately nosed dived and crashed into the ground, that whole time the pilot told me that he was trying to evade enemy swarm missiles that were behind him, I had no idea lol, I was just shooting at the enemy dropship and destroyed it. we won the skirmish match and I ended up going 34-0.
dropship fights are fun, but it doesn't matter when there is a rail gun pointing at you from the ground
I have to admit- I love dropships, but codex was **** as far as how OP they were against infantry. |
Void Echo
Internal Error.
Negative-Feedback
55
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Posted - 2013.04.25 00:13:00 -
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Scheneighnay McBob wrote:Void Echo wrote:back in closed beta during the winter back when the umbrella project was in separate names and sections, I was in a squad with one of my other corp leaders and some of our friends.
we were in the old skirmish 3 objective map flying in a dropship, 2 missle turrets (before they were nerfed to uselessness) and a good pilot driver, I was on the right turret just annihilating all the ground troops I saw, then an enemy drop ship came out of nowhere and flew straight towards us, me and the other turret operator started shooting at it while it was shooting at us, we circled the map about 3 times before I got 3 good shots that took out all of its shields and sent it flying for cover to recharge its shields, we resumed destroying the ground forces we could see then the enemy dropship came after us again only this time it tried to do a head on collision, I took aim at the front of it and fired 2 shots that made a direct impact to it, it started smoking then caught fire then immediately nosed dived and crashed into the ground, that whole time the pilot told me that he was trying to evade enemy swarm missiles that were behind him, I had no idea lol, I was just shooting at the enemy dropship and destroyed it. we won the skirmish match and I ended up going 34-0.
dropship fights are fun, but it doesn't matter when there is a rail gun pointing at you from the ground I have to admit- I love dropships, but codex was **** as far as how OP they were against infantry.
yeah, now theve been nerfed to hell since the last build. |
Mac Dac
Wraith Shadow Guards
45
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Posted - 2013.04.25 01:48:00 -
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sounds cool but the only thing is forgers normally shot us down before the fun part |
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