Shooting down dropships

[Lilith]

Not sure if it`s a bug or something I`m doing wrong, but whenever I shoot down dropships, all the enemies are perfectly fine and just chilling inside the wreck?

Any thoughts?

[[CT] Forced Jaketh]

Yeah its like that, they get shielded by the wreck too, youre lucky to kill the smaller units when you shoot it down before they drop

[[CT] Forced Jaketh]

Exception to that is the AA turret side objective which kills all the units on a drop ship when it shoots it

[ChequeMate]

Shoot the dropships when it is in flight before it has dropped the cargo or shoot when it is about to leave after dropping. Only these 2 situations will kill some enemies, otherwise it wont.

[❌ Peath]

Don't shot it down, use AA or Grenade Launcher to nuke the cargo before it's deployed.
Way more effective and no risk of dropping the whole ass ship on ally's head.

[Catteus Of Mars]

Originally posted by ChequeMate:

Shoot the dropships when it is in flight before it has dropped the cargo or shoot when it is about to leave after dropping. Only these 2 situations will kill some enemies, otherwise it wont.

[Dain_Ironfoot]

Sometimes a few die, sometimes they don't... other times you'll kill a bunch or the ship will crash onto and destroy a bot factory, tank, or large group, etc...

[Lilith]

I like shooting them down to cause obstruction, just thought maybe I was doing something wrong as I`d expect the enemies to be dead after such a crash, onwards and upwards

[AoD_lexandro]

Better off aiming at the bots underneath and taking those out before they get a chance to drop. That's generally what I do when I get the chance.

[Ledion]

they do get damaged, but I agree one would expect more heavy causalties from such a crash

[Bybliiik]

Bro give it a time, game still not ready and still fixing bugs

[Ashlem]

I hate how inconsistent this is. Sometimes the bots die, and other times they're perfectly fine.

I managed to shoot one carrying an AT-AT just before it stopped (was aiming at another dropship but then that one showed up and got lucky with my quasar), and instead of dying horribly in a crash, it safely lands and begins pummeling us.

Other times I shoot a dropship down and Ill see a kill count of say, x4 or something like that to indicate I killed a bunch of enemies (and in before "that still just counts as one!" LOTR joke).

With how crazy the spawn rate gets at higher difficulties, it should be changed to where if you shoot it down with say, 3 seconds of it dropping off the bots, the crash landing should kill everything underneath it.

If you can die from impact for being thrown against a rock, the bots sure as heck should die if a massive ship falls on top of their heads. It seems they already have the physics coded for damage from impacts.

Or at least show them heavily damaged with sparking, smoking, and the bots on fire.

[[CT] Forced Jaketh]

You know enemies can also walk through certain corpses when you the player cant go through them so have enemies phasing through solid objects at you like drop ships, strider wrecks and bile titan corpses

[Phishfood]

even if it doesn't kill them trapping some inside will help your team deal with what's left

[Howl]

If you shot a ship before it drops 100% the enemies should die. So stupid they dont like yeah sure you survived that fall. Its just bad design and needs to be fixed

[Mahjik]

I know this is a bit of a necro, but someone did a bit of research:

https://youtu.be/MyrW4WOobkY?si=bDREnM911YR0NLf6

Not like most who have played a lot haven't seen this but basically heavy enemies are not destroyed by the others either are or damaged. In short, don't waste the shot on the dropships bringing only tanks or factory stiders.