Is there a point to shooting down dropships?

[Soyak Striker]

You can do it with high powered guns like recoiless but the bots still seem to drop no matter what. The landing ship kills the player instantly but somehow the bots survive it. Am I just wasting time trying to do it or does anyone see an actual effect of killing them?

[Nihil]

Yep noticed that too.
I was shooting them down for a time being. But stopped. There is no point. Sometimes you get lucky and they die when touching the ground. But most of the time they will just land on their feets.

But on paper, yes they should be destroyed if you shoot down the dropship before they can deploy them

[Korintheblack]

Originally posted by Soyak Striker:

You can do it with high powered guns like recoiless but the bots still seem to drop no matter what. The landing ship kills the player instantly but somehow the bots survive it. Am I just wasting time trying to do it or does anyone see an actual effect of killing them?

I shot dropships with my recoil-less and it didn't seem to do anything at all. Shot the engines where the weakpoint is supposed to be.

Also, bots are made of metal. You are made of meat.

Dropships are supposed to crash and explode when you shoot them down, killing majority of the occupants.

[Slavbringer57]

It does seem to do damage from my experience, small bots and chickens seem to always die, while devastators and hulks seemingly take some damage...
Honestly it probably still is a better use of recoilless ammo than trying to kill a hulk with it. Do hope they buff the damage it does though, it'd be just one change to make recoilless stand out over railgun.

[Kopejka]

You gotta so it really fast to kill the bots inside.
And not all of them will die. The ones with chainsaws usually survive

[pie75]

you can shoot the bots while they are inside the dropship, instead of shooting down the dropship

[Korintheblack]

Originally posted by pie75:

you can shoot the bots while they are inside the dropship, instead of shooting down the dropship

I defaulted to doing that and you can get quite a few of them with the recoil-less rifle.

[Soyak Striker]

Originally posted by Korintheblack:

Originally posted by Soyak Striker:

You can do it with high powered guns like recoiless but the bots still seem to drop no matter what. The landing ship kills the player instantly but somehow the bots survive it. Am I just wasting time trying to do it or does anyone see an actual effect of killing them?

I shot dropships with my recoil-less and it didn't seem to do anything at all. Shot the engines where the weakpoint is supposed to be.

Also, bots are made of metal. You are made of meat.

Dropships are supposed to crash and explode when you shoot them down, killing majority of the occupants.

Metal will still crush if several hundreds to thousands of tons of other metal drops on them.

[Aya]

Some bots will die