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Andius Fidelitas
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.06.13 00:07:00 -
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I am curious as to what the Dust user thinks of this:
An assault dropship, instead of the traditional light weapon, is equipped with a swarm launcher instead. For me, it makes sense, I mean, in today's modern armed forces, a diverse array of aircraft sport smart weapons to destroy intended targets, especially targets of mobile nature.
And I think that it wouldn't be imbalanced in any way. Considering that this type of dropship, can be a dedicated anti-vehicle and anti-installation platform, and with such power and precision, it loses the ability for the pilot itself (I don't know if said Assault ship should keep it's side turrets with a weapon as effective as a swarm launcher, you tell me if they should) to personally kill infantry, so a forge gunner will have little to fear from return fire. Plus the pilot still needs to manuever in a such a way to get a lock on on the target (and for those of us who repair HAV's and LAV's from the sky, we get plenty of practice in that area already). It would make the dropship a viably and legit threat in terms of firepower, and vehicle denial capabilities (which could lead to interesting dogfights of course, be it dropships fighting to lock on each other, or shooting each other with dumb-fire weapons, heheh).
What do you all think? |
Andius Fidelitas
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.06.13 00:16:00 -
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Cosgar wrote:Tanks need to be buffed in a manner to defend themselves so things are relatively fair.
On this I actually agree. I mean, tanks are meant to be tough to kill in the first place.
Besides, I dropship with seeker missiles makes sense, given how a dedicated anti-air vehicle is going to be rolling out. I mean, hellooooo, a vehicle specifically designed to dispatch an element that is currently only usefull to take over the high ground of an installation, and is as threatening as a pillow? At least it will give the anti-air vehicle a proper purpose: dispatching a powerfull asset as an anti-vehicle/installation dropship. |
Andius Fidelitas
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
74
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Posted - 2013.06.13 00:18:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:CCP Blam did mention about giving missiles their function but not sure what the plan of execution is.
What do you mean, "Giving their function?". |
Andius Fidelitas
The Southern Legion
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.06.13 00:28:00 -
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Iron Wolf Saber wrote:[ Missiles all mention locking abilities. I urged blam that if they do lock on they need to seriously make them lock fire only and reduce their rate of fire significantly while leaving us with rocket turrets which fire unguided rockets.
Oh! I see. Well, I guess that does make sense. I do hope he sees it fit to also include said lock-on missiles into the front turret of a dropship in the future.
Or if there is a rapid fire seeker missiles variant, make it one with limited ammo, so that said dropship is forced to land and restock somehow, and thus limiting it's "Trigger happy" capacity for those who are into that sort of thing, and to insure that the fun won't "last long", hehehe.  |
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