LOL! Love that show.

My opinion on the stabilizer functionality is much the same: While it would lower the barrier for entry for the dropship, which I'm in favor of since popular things don't get messed with, I feel that a pilot dependent on it over a battlefield is only going to come to grief at the hands of a forge or rail gunner.

At low speeds and altitudes, which is when this would be most useful, a dropship stabilized as you describe is simply free WP for the opposing team. If you aren't jinking on the edge of control, you're a free meal.

That's Top Gear. The UK edition.

My primary concern about these ideas is that they will change the complaint from "These things are too hard to fly" into "These things are too easy to kill" Right now I think a well flown dropship is very survivable as long as you are not presenting yourself as a target for more than a few seconds at a time. I don't want a flying tank (although a hovering tank would be cool). The current balance makes air superiority a very tenuous thing, giving advantage to the brave and the bold without taking away from the ground battle.

So I'm in favour of auto-hover and stabilization, but against the next set of demands to buff the Dropship.

PS Why isn't the Assault dropship painted bright red like the LAV? Or shark's teeth or something? A named variant with pinup art on the nose? All I got was some chrome trim!

I don't see any balance issues. I do think both options will likely make the dropships more popular. I suppose that if I'm being honest with myself there is some ego involved with being a decent pilot, and giving dropships training wheels eats away at that.

What if we only gave those options to the militia variant? That sort of makes sense, and it gives the new Pilots a bit of a cushion while learning. And it reduces the chance of the assault dropships pilots losing a 650k base ship because he was standing still or flying in a straight line.

PS Why isn't the Assault dropship painted bright red like the LAV? Or shark's teeth or something? A named variant with pinup art on the nose? All I got was some chrome trim!

I want one that's sky blue on the bottom and a tan color on top. Camo FTW.

If you're going into battle, make a statement! If you're going to fight, clash!

Forget Camo. Active cloak FTW.

i would like the dropship to fly similar to the falcon vehicle on halo reach.

the dropship is designed to assist the infantry on the ground as everything else is pretty much designed to make the infantryman's job easier.

the drop ship is to much of a hassle to fly right now its extremely difficult NOT to crash its hard to to slow down and speed up and it practically blows up each to u very gently bumb into a building or a wall or some tower thing as its hard to fly.

its also next to impossible to land with out it taking massive damage.

as it takes lots of damage when trying to land.

i think the dropship should be alittle easier to fly so pilots can maneuver effectively in close quarters environments.

it should be possible to land quickly, pick up several team members, take off easily without having to worry about any buildings or towers nearby, and transport them out of the heavy firefight zone or drop them off into one or land the down at an enemy objective.

the pilots only worry should be enemy vehicles and av users.

not a giant building that could simply be avoided if the dropship had better maneuverability.

right now the name drop ship is quite accurate since they are ships and they do seem to drop out of the sky quite often.

How many of the people who are against this idea have actually flown an assault dropship? And out of those how many of you have killed with the front turret.