dropships worth shooting down?

[Colton Grundy]

the drop ships killed by my groups the troops it drops are still fine after being shot down more often then not, vary rarely does it kill the troops. is this a bug? are we not shooting them down in time? is it even worth shooting down if the troops are still going to land just fine after a crash.

[Poolboy]

It's always worth shooting down as it more often than not explodes after a short time dealing huge damage to anything near it.

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

They don't kill all of them, especially devstators and heavier armored. But I would say it's worth it with weapons like EATs and the quasar. It does do damage and kill enemies in its area, it just doesn't kill everyone on board.

But it's better than nothing. I can't get the timing right, but I think you can kill tanks the same way if you do so.

[BiggieJohn]

If you shoot it down too late best case scenario it body blocks them. If you shoot quick enough you can delete them all.

[ApricotMigraine]

I almost routinely can only shoot down one before 2 more show up. I get 4-5 kills, usually troops. Never killed a heavy like that. Still worth it imho.

[Omen]

Always worth it drop down animation is cool

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

They seem to get trapped underneath the dropships instead of destroyed for whatever reason. Sometimes it's a pain too because they can seemingly shoot through the ship and attack you too, which is dumb.

[Flo]

I shot down a ship carrying a tank, they both came down from super high, then the tank proceeded to climb the ship's wreckage to gain the high ground and started annihilating my entire squad as a 360° machinegun turret

[Colton Grundy]

Originally posted by 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner:

They don't kill all of them, especially devstators and heavier armored. But I would say it's worth it with weapons like EATs and the quasar. It does do damage and kill enemies in its area, it just doesn't kill everyone on board.

But it's better than nothing. I can't get the timing right, but I think you can kill tanks the same way if you do so.

ok so timing matter at least a little bit. i guess i just expected more to die in any given crash. some just trap the troops and then they flood out after we move anyway

[Wutever]

It's basically 50/50 whether you did something useful or wasted an anti-tank shot. Especially if said dropship was full of irrelevant troopers.

It's looks cool tho, so there is that.

[Colton Grundy]

Originally posted by Kitt 🌟 Stargazer:

They seem to get trapped underneath the dropships instead of destroyed for whatever reason. Sometimes it's a pain too because they can seemingly shoot through the ship and attack you too, which is dumb.

this is kinda my issuse with it if they are still going to shoot us might as well just save the rockets for them

[𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 Sinner]

Originally posted by Colton Grundy:

ok so timing matter at least a little bit. i guess i just expected more to die in any given crash. some just trap the troops and then they flood out after we move anyway

It makes a difference when the bot drop spam happens. If you have a quasar, there isn't a reason not to shoot some down unless you already have hulks/tanks pushing your team. Not worth it with the Recoiless Rifle though, you just don't have enough ammo really.

[Kitt 🌟 Stargazer]

Originally posted by Colton Grundy:

Originally posted by Kitt 🌟 Stargazer:

They seem to get trapped underneath the dropships instead of destroyed for whatever reason. Sometimes it's a pain too because they can seemingly shoot through the ship and attack you too, which is dumb.

this is kinda my issuse with it if they are still going to shoot us might as well just save the rockets for them

It generally keeps them pinned at least so they can't move and those drop ships don't go away. So as long as you avoid viewing them directly you can often just avoid unnecessary conflict at least.