Additional pilot tool - greased balloon

[Mr.Bando]

-Decrease both angular and longitudinal drag by +(some meaningful percentage)%
-Can cause damage to balloon or hull per second to balance out its use
-Slight engine thrust decrease

The intended effect of this is to allow your ship to "drift" or strafe sideways using existing forward/backward momentum.
No intended lateral speed or turning speed increases so moonshine/kero and claw is still prefered for doing what they do.

[Yarr Vinny Scarr]

Cool!
Crab-like strafing, drifting

Would be quite hard to pull that off in a galleon, but rather rewarding!

[Richard LeMoon]

This tool would actually play into an idea I have been pondering. Turn you ship the way you need to behind cover, and have an ally push you into firing position. With less drag, you would be a lot easier to push. Squid pushing a Galleon sideways into battle.

[pandatopia]

This tool would actually play into an idea I have been pondering. Turn you ship the way you need to behind cover, and have an ally push you into firing position. With less drag, you would be a lot easier to push. Squid pushing a Galleon sideways into battle.

I like the idea but...galleons already have guns on the side. They are actually the ship that needs the least amount of pushing into battle XD

Also, MULTIBALLOON DRIFTING?!??!?!

[Richard LeMoon]

I meant advancing on the enemy team, not taking cover.

[Sprayer]

Make it last some time afte use like hydro so it can be combined with other pilot tools too.

[obliviondoll]

Instead of damaging balloon over time, make it double damage taken from fire stacks.

That makes sense when you cover your balloon in a flammable substance, right?

[Battle Toads]

That would allow for a whole new way of movement and it could be rewarding for good pilots, although it seems OP for a galleon if it can both move forward and have guns facing on a target at the same time

[macmacnick]

Mobula strafing, anyone?

[Mr.Bando]

Well, the tool name doesn't have to be "Greased balloon"

You can call it "Extra rudders" and have it DOT some other component


I can also imagine what would happen to your ship if you get rammed or bump a building in labyrinth with this on.

Pinball anyone?

[Richard LeMoon]

It could actually be very helpful in a ramming situation, especially for Squids. Generally, you can't maneuver far enough away to avoid a second ram. Kicking this on would let you bounce away and give you a bit more time.

I like the name 'Greased Balloon', though.