So what is the problem with a heavy aircraft vehicle again?

The problem was Fixed Wing Heavy Aircraft.

Because high eHP and good mobility will equal invulnerability in this game. L-LAVs have pretty much proven that. The only counter then would be Stinger missiles and some variant of the Aegis Combat System.

Not to mention it would be a big middle finger to Dropships.

I don't foresee CCP putting out vehicles with the eHP of a HAV, speed of a LAV, and mobility of a Dropship.

Probably still stuck in the art department.

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I don't see the problem with a "Flying tank" Or heavily armored gunship.

The secret advantage of Tanks and LAV's right now over dropships (other than DS being paper) is the Fact that they are on the ground. Or rather, they are constantly LOS and have many obstacles to move around or behind in order to rep up or hide from Forge Guns and swarms.

In the air there is no cover.

Imagine a HAV as it is now, except flying in the air and fairly slow. The thing would almost be a joke, it'd be so easy to kill.

Any AV on the map could target it from anywhere and if it got close to the ground it might die from collision impacts or flip over. Or get stuck as it's landing gear glues it to one spot for being too too low. Such a tank would be demolished in moments.


So what is the problem with a heavy aircraft vehicle again?

Wait I'm so confused. Who was talking about fixed wing anything or fast "air tanks" ?

I don't think any person is suggesting there should be jets moving at jet speed that are tankier than a HAV (See also, current logi LAV's lol)

PS LAV's are so survivable not just because of their speed but because they are on the ground, able to go between buildings, under bridges, and around all sorts of things.

A heavy air vehicle would neither be that fast nor able to squeeze between and hide under such cover. I'm not sure what you're on about..

if you scroll up, you will see that i DO welcome new targets, more stuff to swat out of the sky means more WP/ISK/SP per match for me and others like me

It's completely my fault. Sorry Nguruthos. My sarcasm radar failed.

So dropships are medium expensive paper weight, still hasent been fixed.
SOON we Will have 'fighter' crafts (cheap assult dropships) wich Will be' nice
But as i recently discovered the 'bomber' that were getting is just an expensive paper weight with bombs
Where is our heavy aircraft?

Who knows?

Hell, we've even had a Dev make a post about MTACs, but not a single damn word about aircraft.

Kind of a downer for someone who got into this game wanting to be a pilot.

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hold ur horses buddy, they have yet to balance current vehicles. Dont talk to me bout jets n heavy aircraft

hold ur horses buddy, they have yet to balance current vehicles. Dont talk to me bout jets n heavy aircraft

Maybe we already have them, & they just get forge gunned out of the sky before anyone realises.

All this talk of proto tanks and heavy dropships...guess I better start skilling into proto swarms. Doesn't help that in the past 2 days I've had 2 dropships kill me by landing on top of me: one was crashing and burning, the other seemed like it bounced me on purpose. (New murder taxi?)

All this talk of proto tanks and heavy dropships...guess I better start skilling into proto swarms. Doesn't help that in the past 2 days I've had 2 dropships kill me by landing on top of me: one was crashing and burning, the other seemed like it bounced me on purpose. (New murder taxi?)