So I'm standing in a farm, digging a well, chatting with the three settlers, listening to Brahmin go moo, when a Virtibird flies over, sending everyone into panic mode. Before I can exit the workbench mode, the bird was on the floor in a crumpled heap of steel and fire.

Yeah- three settlers took it down. With pipe pistols.

Birds are too squishy. Every time I've seen one (or been in one) it gets shot down. It's ridiculous. Shouldn't they be like flying tanks or something?

REQ: a mod that gives each Virtibird spawned like 6 times more HP points. AND make them invulnerable to small arms fire, just explosives/rockets/gauss/miniguns etc. Please. I'm asking nicely

Otherwise they are kind of crappy, considering how *awesomified* the armour has gotten.

I agree, Niamh. I was at the castle and saw one fly over me for the first time and I was thinking.. whoa.. so bad ass.. And then it explodes. Another situation near the east coast of the map. I'm fighting feral ghouls, and I see one touch down and drop off some scribes and other ground support, it takes off and not even a minute later it explodes.

Yeah, I can't really count the number of times a Vertibird has just spiraled into sight over the building tops and crashed into a fireball in front of me. And I didn't even hear gunfire. The BOS pilots must really svck. And how many expendable machines does the BOS have? In my game, they are crashing at least 1 or 2 a DAY. Gee whiz.

Thats what they get for using salvaged car reactors to power them. things are designed by Michael Bay bro.

It is pretty silly that they go down so much. Though I disagree with them being immune to small arms fire. I should absolutely be able to shoot through the canopy and take a pilot out.

Which is typically what happens. If you kill the pilot, it crashes instantly (obviously). And I think thats what NPCs aim for.

Edit: also I don't carry any heavy weapons around with me. And there are SO MANY [censored] VERTIBIRDS that if they weren't easily destructible it would be absolutely ridiculous. And the BoS already kicks everything's ass.

It's ridiculous and it needs to be fixed.

I'd hope so. I think even for a casual person, shooting at the glass orb with open doors and the guy controlling the big flying thing would be the first choice haha I have only seen one time that a synth was shooting an institute rifle for a while at the hull and it blew up. Otherwise it seemed to be shooting the pilot, which makes sense

don't get me wrong, I'm not allied with the BOS so I don't want uber-god powers. But I do want more of a challenge when one appears, they should be as hard to take down as a Mirelurk Queen imo