Drop Ships

[Zambiemann]

I am loving this game, and the most noticeable thing so far is the drop ship run. its very fun to run TO the drop ship, but once you are there all the other players just mill about shooting bugs, the timer eventually runs to zero and you extract. i believe that a drop ship health bar and/or stationary guns would fix this problem. Their could be ten seats on each drop ship that correspond to mounted guns, rockets, snipe-lazes, drones of some kind, and artillery. each player that finds their seat and activates it gets to enter a mounted weapon and help their comrades get to the ship, still kill bugs, and extract in a more civilized (and fun) manner. i believe it would be an intensive to the players to "lock in and blast off."

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

Well we either need to give up on the idea of escaping quickly or do the opposite and penalize those who farm at the end. EVERY game I play there is 1 or more persons yelling "get in the ship" and 100% of the time, that doesn't happen until time almost runs out.

[aiSca]

There must be give more exp for a faster Escape....Problem solved.

[Stewie]

U dont always have to get to the ship every time stay behind and fight them when it gets to 30 seconds dash to ship or just not go and just stay and fight easily farm exp

[Roop]

Or you could just remove the ammo boxes from the DS

[♂TheBlasterMaster™✞]

Originally posted by ETF Roop:

Or you could just remove the ammo boxes from the DS

Yea, kinda promotes farming.

[Roop]

Originally posted by ♂TheBlasterMaster™✞:

Originally posted by ETF Roop:

Or you could just remove the ammo boxes from the DS

Yea, kinda promotes farming.

What of?

[CharmingConfusion]

Originally posted by ETF Roop:

Originally posted by ♂TheBlasterMaster™✞:

Yea, kinda promotes farming.

What of?

The bugs. They mean that people get to the drop ships and farm bug kills instead of evac, cause they have the ammo resupplies there. Removing them would limit the amount of time people would be able to sit outside the ship and farm kills.

An alternative I though of would be a health system for the ship. Rather than explode or anything equally dramatic, once it hits 10% or w/e it will evac. This gives players an incentive to stay outside and defend as stragglers arrive but also encourages leaving once everyone is present due to the possibility of getting left behind if the ship takes too much damage and you're trying to farm kills on the ramp outside.

[Roop]

Originally posted by CharmingConfusion:

Originally posted by ETF Roop:

What of?

The bugs. They mean that people get to the drop ships and farm bug kills instead of evac, cause they have the ammo resupplies there. Removing them would limit the amount of time people would be able to sit outside the ship and farm kills.

An alternative I though of would be a health system for the ship. Rather than explode or anything equally dramatic, once it hits 10% or w/e it will evac. This gives players an incentive to stay outside and defend as stragglers arrive but also encourages leaving once everyone is present due to the possibility of getting left behind if the ship takes too much damage and you're trying to farm kills on the ramp outside.

How does not having ammo refills promote farming? I'm clearly missing your point.

[Good Cop]

players refusing to evac until last second is easily the most annoying thing in this game. I REALLY wish there was 100% explosive charge friendly fire damage in these moments.

[RaptorSolutions]

Make it so you have to hold the dropzone first, the dropship doesn't just land in the middle of bug swarms.
Then once it lands it leaves in like 20 seconds.

[Savageclam]

We had a game yesterday and the dropship landed 853m away ...
only about 5 made it.. took the full 2 mins to run with 7 sec spare. so sad seeing most of the team just arrive as dropship left.

[Daimo]

There are two types of people:
1 People who like shooting bugs
2 People who play games for math