I'd like to see fighters.

Combat aircraft for combat role.

Dropships won't and shouldn't stand a chance against them as a Tansport ship should not kill a combat ship with better guns and meneuverability.


Dropships are meant for transport right? That's how that should be? If they get points for mcru spawns will they stop complaining? So many countless dropship needs fixes threads. It's a transport, it shouldn't be heavily armored like a tank.

If they were intended for a total gunship role I'd see the need for it. I see enough trying to use it that way anyway.

That said if these fighters are for light aircraft category they should be fast and highly maneuverable but low on Health bars but able to do enough damage for a hit and run flyby.

I can see them making two types of jets: Bombers and Fighters [y'know, just like in real life?]. Bombers would be more focused on dominating ground troops and destroying installations, while Fighters will be the ones to make dropships cry. I think one simple thing CCP could do to try and balance dropships against jets would be turret swarm launchers. Or at least vehicle lock-on for the current missile turret [I don't think there's a lock-on, but I don't have much experience with dropships]. So that way dropships have a way to defend themselves against other aerial vehicles.

Jets suck and always will!! come on who here thought that they are useful?!

They are garbage! Rex Ryan has crippled that team. and sanchez.. how is he still QB?!

*dude! he doesn't mean that kind of jet!*

........jets are cool. war hawk had awesome jets.

The jets have a frontal turret, and an under carriage turret.

2 occupants.

That's the Gallente one then. Unless it just has two turrets to allow two different angles to fire from:

Gallente Jet

Caldari Jet

Forge Gun > Anything

I forsee jets being the final nail in the coffin for dropships, unless something drastic changes before or when they gone out.

I cant see it now, tankers bitching about fighters being OP cause they cant pull there turrent that high enough to shoot them down.

yup, It's op :P

LOL +1. You earned it.

Sometimes I wish CCP would just nerf me out of the game. If anything I could stop visiting these forums thereby saving the last vestiges of my humanity.


PS Nguruthos your 25th like is from a Forge Gunner. I am now forever part of you.

[title] Everybody always says that jets are going to be useless unless dropships get fixed [/title]

Yes, jets will be useless unless dropships are fixed. How can a jet in Dust 514 be useful if CCP doesn't fix aerial vehicles first! How do you expect to fly anything else in dust until they actually master the physics, the balancing, and the limitations?Sure, lets throw in some more airplanes because obviously they fly and dropships don't....

They should make Dropships the Medium or Heavy armored aerial vehicles, and jets should be the light armored aerial vehicles. As it stands now dropships are too light.

That's the Gallente one then. Unless it just has two turrets to allow two different angles to fire from:

Gallente Jet

Caldari Jet

Dropships are medium.

Forge Gun > Jet.

that reminds me of an rpg hitting a jet. 1 in a million.

Warhawk had OP jets.

Starhawk did too, just not on the same level.

Jets suck and always will!! come on who here thought that they are useful?!

They are garbage! Rex Ryan has crippled that team. and sanchez.. how is he still QB?!

*dude! he doesn't mean that kind of jet!*

........jets are cool. war hawk had awesome jets.

They should make Dropships the Medium or Heavy armored aerial vehicles, and jets should be the light armored aerial vehicles. As it stands now dropships are too light.

Coulda fooled me.

LAVSs are now more survivable. By a factor or two or three

I'm hoping for a relase by tomorrow.

They couldnt be half as buggy broken and useless as dropships already are.
Just let us have them so I can quit wasting sp in a role ccp as shown they have no intention to support.

Buggy and useless? You just are a fail pilot.

Here you go:

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=78019&find=unread

You're a fail troll.

How many Forge Gun hits do you think the Jets will be able to eat before going down like a fireball?

Fail troll? I am a Drop Ship pilot and a pretty damn competent one. I make them work. I integrate them into my squads, and I ******* smash with them. I'll talk shop with you all day if you want - but I doubt you've truly flown anything above militia grade. How about you learn more about the craft and its mechanics before you say they are all 'useless'?

Also, people who disagree =/= troll, you mouthbreathing dumbass.

How many Forge Gun hits do you think the Jets will be able to eat before going down like a fireball?

Forge Gun > Jet.

But they're wrong. I know we don't know very much about them, but here are the conclusions we can draw based on current knowledge:

1. They can only be occupied by the pilot

2. They are fast

3. They are focused on combat, not transport, repair, or supporive fire

The combat-focused nature of the jet will remove the need for the dropship to be viable, as the jet won't have a reason to play support, and thus the main method of obtaining WP will be getting kills/destructions. This all depends on how strong they actually are, but we can assume that they will fill a fast, airborne anti-infantry/anti-vehicle role.

Actually, jets might be TOO powerful until dropships get fixed. Can you imagien trying to fight one of these off as a pilot?

Anyway, since CCP obviously has been working on them for a long time, let's hope for a release by October