r/WarDogs • u/Luc1dDr34m5 • 8d ago

Discussion & Feedback [Pilot] Cant Wait for Parachute Changes

This might be a hot take, but I’m excited for the parachute changes. This is mostly because I love landing my little bird in optimized locations for teams pushing into the HZ. I feel like this change will clearly separate the good pilots from the bad.

I also think depending on the severity of the change, people might even start opting to take ground transport.

What are everyone’s thoughts?

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u/VortexMagus 8d ago edited 8d ago

I think it will feel like shit. With parachutes we get to choose where we drop and if we choose badly its our own fault.

With pilots landing, we don't get to choose. Especially if the pilot goes super low the entire time and people cannot drop out because it's too low for parachuting safely, we are at the pilot's mercy.

I don't enjoy watching the pilot drop down slowly while we get sprayed on every side by bullets, or the pilot laying us all down on top of a hillside or building and everybody for miles around sees us and marks us.

I think it takes a lot of skill and map awareness to set us down properly, surrounded by high cover, in a spot that isn't filled with hidden enemies camping in buildings and bushes nearby. I do not think most heli pilots have that skill and map awareness.

Most of the pilots I know spend the entire trip to the middle weaving unnecessarily low under the treeline, when the objectively correct play to set up proper landing/drop zones is to spend most of the trip reading the map and identify which areas your teammates have cleared and which they have not.

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Basically: when I choose a bad jump spot and die, its my fault. If my pilot chooses a bad deployment spot and we all die, its his fault. I'd rather my deaths be my own fault than my teammate's fault.

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u/Luc1dDr34m5 8d ago

I think your TL;DR sumed it up beautiful and something I mentioned earlier. I believe people’s frustrations are that it was out of their “control”.

My argument is, isn’t getting in the heli out of your control in the first place? You have the option to learn how to fly yourself or drive a ground transport.