Dropship Weapons

[edgy ether]

Not much to this idea. If you remember the Fighter swarm rockets then you may understand the concept well enough.

Give the Dropship those little swarm rockets. Effect should be similar to Railgun Tank missiles. Pepper an area with explosions, enough to ensure that no light units can survive.

Also, give the machine gun more ammo and more damage. Let the pilot focus fire a big target like a tank or scorp if necessary and punish it hard.

Do this and the Dropship will become more combat viable. Its still a sitting duck for any tank in the area but it has some teeth and can serve as infantry support either through focus firing a tougher target or clearing an area of infantry/lesser aliens.

Could also make the thrusters/side engines as weak points on the Dropship, which would make some sense.

[fallen comet]

i like this could also make a lil repair area for vehicals at the back when landed

[edgy ether]

eh, vehicle repair is a job for the engineer infantry class

[fallen comet]

yeah but dram didnt want a guy running around with a blow torch kinda repair

[edgy ether]

dont recall him saying that. Best I recall is that he didnt want that for buildings.

oh well, we'll see what he has in store

regardless, if repair is something that needs to be done by a vehicle then I would refit something like the Old Harvester into a mobile repair unit for combat vehicles

[fallen comet]

oh it was awhile ago like one pf the first streams but honestly would love the old harv to still be used in the game things sick

[tepid ruin]

I like this

This would be good for repair

[scarlet palm]

Would add heal for infantry over repair for vehicle.

[mighty roost]

Could be cool if the dropship had mini manned turrets for players to kite or cover, like a 3 manned vehicle.

Example

[edgy ether]

Its been discussed before and is on the table.

Right now Im more concerned with the vehicle as far as what the pilot can do

[mighty roost]

Mmm

[edgy ether]

what I would like to see is a high level of vehicle customization, almost as much as infantry customization

[mighty roost]

To be honest, is TBD the custom units, I don't think he actually will add that ingame.

[edgy ether]

So the old Fighter swarm rockets and Balterium cannon shoul remian on the Dropship as the default weapon, but you can sub them out for other options at your own personal expense

[mighty roost]

Maybe with silica 2

[edgy ether]

I think he would do it post 1.0, but right now the game needs to be functional. Add Centauri, multithreading, infantry rework, perma fix the tech bug, and get AI to be more functional

Oh, and tutorials

[mighty roost]

Maybe mods.