Destructible ♥♥♥ drop ships?

[Mikafor]

I played a match against automatons where I saw a reinforcement flare get fired. I aimed perfectly and got the timing just right to where my orbital strike made direct impact on the ship just before it dropped more bots. No kills, all the bots dropped and the ship flew off after.

It would be nice if the drop ships could be destroyed so good execution of a strategem rewards you, not just completely waste it.

[Mr. Bix]

you can destroy dropships, but your orbital strike didn't do enough damage

railcannon strike or the SAM side objectives on ♥♥♥ planets can do the job

[Noun]

Some other options are hitting them with 2 precision strikes, 2 weakpoint hits with a recoiless, enough autocannon spam(turret is quicker but you'll need 2-3), mortar shells hitting the ship (4 mortars will do it very quickly) or very well timed 500kg bomb. Sadly human bullets don't work though.

[Plagen]

I've seen drop ships get shot down. Though, they usually always drop the bots before that happens, lol.

[ImHelping]

The dropships seem really jank, and I say that as a guy getting a LOT of practice racking up dropship multi kills with both the recoiless and disposable launcher.

Recoilless can be pulled out and snap out a 180 3rd person shot. Disposable makes me feel like a loading timer will appear in the wait between Pressing 3, and it actually being ready and scoped.

Sometimes you nail the engine and it doesn't drop because who knows. Which makes it extra frustrating when you are using the far worse to aim disposable, and the dropship does a 50 foot bop up and down sometimes because screw you for seeing it coming.

Of course, that also helps really drive home "yeah this dropship spam is A BIT MUCH" When you annihilate two in a row and whoops here comes three, four, and five.

[Noun]

Also it's generally better to just pound the underside to shred whatever it's carrying.

[Wasp]

a good disposable or Gustav's to one of their 4 boosters seems to perfectly do the trick

[ImHelping]

Diposting pertama kali oleh wpsp2010:

a good disposable or Gustav's to one of their 4 boosters seems to perfectly do the trick

A guaranteed sample rewards package wouldn't hurt either. as I am realizing in hindsight the lower level players surviving that mission are making worse actual progression than playing a trivial bug mission.

"Well, at least I already have the bonus support ammo and faster call ins! That is what matters-wait no hold on..."

[Aestrea]

Takes like 2 spears to take out a dropship but even if they drop their passengers, the dropship will crush them if it dies right on top of them.

[Echo2Omega]

The EAT17 will drop a drop ship with 1 shot to an engine.

Drop ships have 4 engines so the odds are in your favor.

As General Brasch explains "Use the right weapon for the job and you will achieve victory!"

[Onimaho]

I don't know if it is a game glitch, but if you wait for the ship to stop moving and just about to drop the troops.

Hit any of the thrusters with a recoiless or disposable rocket and it'll take it out with 1 round.

[Mikafor]

Thanks for the tips, Helldivers. Still feels a bit underwhelming when direct impact from an orbital strike can't do the job.