Please for the love of God give us Gal pilots more to play with!

Liteshow · 2003-10-04, 12:09 AM

A small list of things that would make my life as a Gal pilot infinitely more fun...

1) More roll. That way we can actually point those little pea-shooters at ground targets. Not like they do much damage, but it would look cool to have a Gal circling and strafing...

2) A down/rear view camera. If you've ever stood under a Gal as it lands you know how big they are. How are we supposed to be able to see where we are going?! Even 18-wheelers have mirrors everywhere!

3) Flatter land. For every time I've tried to land a Gal and been flung 200 feet away by the trees...

4) Bigger cargo bay. Just for once I'd like to drop a Prowler onto the roof of a base, not just Marauders and ANTs.

5) Names on the sides of our planes. A slightly more personal touch, as Gal pilots tend to treasure their rides

Liteshow
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Rogue · 2003-10-04, 03:55 AM

I think it would be nice if they change the Galaxy cert into a Dropship certification, that would include both the Galaxy and the upcoming Lodestar.

NNY · 2003-10-04, 03:58 AM

i 2nd the motion

i have used the GAL before and the extra cameras will help alot

but the bigger cargo will never happen

STEALTHKILLER · 2003-10-04, 08:49 AM

I think its a great idea but they'll say "If you want more cargo room You'll have to give up your max slots.", or somthing elese like the side guns. Cause they'll have to increase the length of the cargo hold which means you have to give something up. Or something like that.

Febnon · 2003-10-04, 10:51 AM

if you want more cargo, wait awhile, then get a lodestar

JakeLogan · 2003-10-04, 01:44 PM

I would like to see a a MAX transport vehicle. or at least more MAX slots in the gal.

DoomWarrior · 2003-10-04, 11:51 PM

probably not but, a special ship for carrieng like 6 maxes, only maxes

SandTrout · 2003-10-06, 12:27 AM

Makeing it easyer to land with being able to switch to belly cam would make being a galaxy pilot a lot less stressful. Mergeing the cert with the lodestar would also be a good idea, because there's only one dropship center per continent, so you have those 3 cert points siting around, useless most of the time. An extra dropship-center on each continent would be aprieciated too.

I personaly dont want to see a vehicle thats flying over a base, droping 6 maxes onto a roof to terrorize enemies.

Those "pea-shooters" are geting buffed in the balance pass, so that will help imencely against those mosquitoes and reavers shooting your but.

SilverLord · 2003-10-06, 11:23 AM

Lodestar?? Explain.

Indecisive · 2003-10-06, 12:00 PM

They announced it a while back but havent done sh!t with it yet. Its going to be basicly a galaxy, but can carry an undiclosed amount of vehicles. Yes. Even tanks and AMS's

Liteshow · 2003-10-06, 06:39 PM

Does anyone actually like gunning for a Gal? Is there any point to hopping into those side guns other than going for a hotdrop? The tail gun might be alright, but those forward guns are useless!

The idea behind more banking in flight is so they can actually point those guns downwards, which is not possible right now, or else give them more of a firing envelope. Another solution would be to swap the side guns for a top and bottom turret.

On other multi-position vehicles where gunners are necessary, at least it is fun because they have a very large range of motion. I realize the Gal is not a fighter plane. It would be nice however to be able to defend yourself adequately, and if the devs were to incorporate a tail/belly cam, be able to see who's shooting your ass off...

Liteshow
Johari - A nice place for vacation

Paingiver · 2003-10-06, 06:47 PM

i would like to see a faster, more infantry type dropship, one that is really fast and has good handling and is fun to drive. It would be nice for it to lok like the dropships in halo, and it would be cool, if you could see from the soldiers point of view inside of the gal, so you would be able to shoot out of the open boarding ramp or something.

Holgarth · 2003-10-06, 08:02 PM

Something like the heli-jets in the arnie movie 'The 6th Day' would be cool, carry 5 reinforced peeps and a pilot, gunports at the doors that players with mcg's can fire from.

The jet part of it for travling fast and the heli part for silent stealth drops on towers and bases, would proberly have mosie type armour with a min-chaingun that the pilot can fire.

The pilot can hover near a roof and the players can mount it that way as well for quick pick up.

Phaden · 2003-10-06, 11:35 PM

The Lodestar is coming out AFTER the Expansion hits is what i heard in one of the QnA's

dymetrie · 2003-10-07, 01:55 AM

Completely agree with the idea of putting more camera angles on the Galaxy for easier landing/ seeing who's blasting you...

One little tip though.

Try and get the tail gunner (or anyone for that matter) to stay on board for a HD... then when you reach your target, th epilot HD's as well! Most of the time, the galaxy will switch to auto-land (but there must be someone in it for this to happen) and smoothly pilot to a landing spot and touhdown....

The only problem with this is that the Gal can end up quite a distane away from the squad...

Dym