Halo 3 Mod Tools - The Spirit Dropship

[@nikshipley7833]

I think the turret should only be usable by a passenger, so it doesnt have to pitch downwards to aim at the ground, seems weird for the drop ship to “look” at you haha

[@BotBruh448]

Probably a lot better if it's used by the co-pilot but if there isn't one then let the pilot access it, that way you're not just a useless flying target when you fly it alone (not that you're really supposed to be a threat with those dinky cannons)

[@chadraptor2351]

Well technically you could have it how to is and allow a co pilot take control of it at anytime.

[@fallencrusader2975]

@@BotBruh448 however that is what the phantom is used for. The spirit can be distinguished by needing a separate gunner to man the cannon, however the tradeoff can be that the spirit can hold more passengers than the phantom.

[@BotBruh448]

@@fallencrusader2975 game balance wise I completely understand what you're trying to do, but with the power scale to what he's probably going to do with the map and the overall player count limitations? It won't really matter

[@Wanderer_lke]

Why not have 2 different flight controlls one for hovering in place and the other to fly the ship around in its hovering state is when the pilot takes control of the turret(if co-pilot is with the pilot this options would be usable) that way if the drop ship needs to it can help clear a point but this also makes it a sitting duck if its piloted by one person? and maybe add the Halo CE three shot effect when this is in use so people know when to attack idk if its a good idea but would be neat imo

[@Zenlore6499]

I love that the “Schism Spirit” was basically an accident!

[@ToaDrakua]

A _beautiful_ accident, at that!

[@sovietonion4020]

_"There are no mistakes, only happy accidents"_ - Bob Ross

[@prematurebat2365]

@@sovietonion4020 exactly

[@o_o-037]

The game must've automatically applied the UNSC colour pallet thinking it was a human vehicle.

[@ShawFujikawa]

Dang, it actually looks spectacular in Halo 3’s lighting! The theme I’m getting from your channel as of late is ‘if it’s in the game, you can drive it’ and I am all for it lol.

[@tssilver10]

I've always thought that the Phantom should be more of a gunboat that carries soldiers, and the Spirit would be more of a heavy dropship (hence the large dedicated section in the middle for carrying stuff). The Phantom could carry like 40 soldiers, be loaded with cannons and turrets (the Halo 2 variants were just plasma avalanches), and carry 4 small vehicles like Ghosts or 2 medium vehicles like Specters or Prowlers. Carrying heavy vehicles like Wraiths and stuff should be reserved for a large ship like a Spirit, at the cost of only being able to carry about 14 soldiers.

[@klutzspecter3470]

The Phantom is a much better troop carrier than the spirit.

[@saopro21]

Halo Wars 2 has a much better system for this. Ultra-heavy equipment like mining equipment/buildings are brought from the atmosphere by Liches, Vehicles/Heavy ordnance is brought by Spirits and Phantoms are used exclusively as troop transports.

[@SeedemFeedemRobots]

for me i always think that the spirit is to the phantom what the chinook helicopter is to the blackhawk in design and purpose

[@imahaloguy]

It’s incredible how changing the shaders of the Reach Spirit makes it fit so well in Halo 3!

[@TheIshikawaRin]

Halo 3's (Covenant) shaders truly are beautiful and this just proves it.

[@kabob0077]

Seeing a Spirit in Separatist colors is amazing, it's beautiful.

[@SovereignTurkey]

i feel like the turrets on the dropships function better when opperated by a Co-Pilot, as opposed to the main pilot,

[@alih5862]

Or make the turret an Ai so it can target enemies without turning the whole dropship

[@lemmingscanfly5]

Could make a heavy spirit with some sort of cannons on the wingtips for the driver to operate, and then the CE 3 shot turret for the copilot on the bottom.

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

@@lemmingscanfly5 maybe have a swappable weaspon turret, like the Reach banshee. One mode has the plasma autocannon, press Y and have a concussion cannon.

[@klutzspecter3470]

There's a reason why most gunships IRL have a dedicated Driver and dedicator gunner.

[@Tera-plex]

You're killing it lately with these mods!

[@dachin99]

Lately?

[@HighMarshallHaka]

Always

[@Tera-plex]

@@dachin99 bro you know exactly what I meant...

[@alih5862]

@@Tera-plex What is he killing with these mods?

[@seinnei2075]

@@alih5862 he cant be stop, he is killing the mods!!!

[@Ruiluth]

Wow, it looks like it fits right in. Shaders are so cool. I love all of Halo's dropships so much.

[@protocetid]

Bungie replaced the Spirit because they regretted making it, they called it a tuning fork. They later established a canonical explanation, the Covenant phased them out after the events of Installation 04. Bungie may not have said why they brought it back for Reach, my best guess is they wanted to keep some consistency in the lore and for a bit of nostalgia.

[@kodredcud]

Definitely because of lore reasons

[@WWLinkMasterX]

Analyzing the two different designs, I'd say that the Phantom is more efficient and overall better for its purposes as a drop ship. Besides looking cooler, the only advantage the Spirit seems to have going for it is its modular design. Presumably it's easier to repair and customize.

[@justinnyugen7015]

@@WWLinkMasterX It also made for a unique gameplay scenario. Since they had to manually land and open their hatches, you could afford to rush in at an angle for CQC. Phantoms always stayed afloat and had more guns, so this was discouraged (side hatches weren't even in halo 2 for sniping, so you just had to wait for the grav lift to drop enemies and spam nades)

[@WWLinkMasterX]

@@justinnyugen7015 So basically, making them _less_ effective gave them a weak point and thus more interesting to fight against.

[@justinnyugen7015]

@@WWLinkMasterX imo yes, for the same reasons Hunters have their orange mid-riffs, Jackals have their shield gaps, Scarabs to have glowing selfdestruct buttons, etc. Weaknesses reinforce patterns, which give room to develop strategies. *That being said, Phantoms are incredibly fun to fight against vehicle vs vehicle for similar reasons. Destructible turrets and turbines, plus that beautiful explosion

[@Sanya6496]

Man the Covenant style one with the prongs being that deep blue colouration with a bit of purple is breathtaking. It's amazing to see how the shaders and lighting from Halo 3 still is mind blowingly beautiful.

[@Marinealver]

I always wanted Dropships to be Renforcements carriers into landing zones. Pelicans and Albatross for UNSC, and Spirits and Phantoms for Covenant.

[@jimwar211]

The spirit looks so good in that opening footage that until you mentioned it I completely forgot it wasn't in halo 3. It seriously fits so well.

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

The Spirit was also in Halo 5 and it has an even cooler door design. Also the elephant has the ability to make vehicles and weapons stick to it when on to move, maybe add something like that to some of the dropships so you can carry better.

[@haymaker6528]

The Spirit fits so well in this game. Upon the first site, I thought that it wasn't from a modder. Unbelievable work there!

[@wolfer1011]

The Phantom does serve a separate function, as you can receive briefs and such while in the Phantom, with Spirits on the other hand except for over the radio, not much can be done to communicate with others. So I'd go on to assume the spirit is more for bigger battles where you already received briefings and focusing on the deployment of troops. with everyone seated at the doors it can drop and leave much faster than the phantom does in actual use. While the Phantom on the other hand works for Ground Support (3 independent turrets instead of one) and more of the Special Ops type kind of assault we see in Halo 2 as the Arbiter also with quicker exfils due to the gravity lift. While the games don't really show this, having switched to the phantom entirely for Halo 2 and Halo 3. Modding tools would definitely be able to improve this aspect of it. Phantoms- Spec ops/Ground Support/Evac. Spirits - Rapid Mass Troop/Vehicle deployment.

[@LungoScrungo]

It just looks so much like it's part of the game, like as if it's an unused asset that was ready to be properly implemented but was instead buried away in the files, much like Halo 2's Flood Juggernaut.

[@SherProductions11]

yea these official tools what made halo 3 from ground up, that's why they look so good :)

[@UraniumBullets]

I absolutely love it, however I think to give it a more authentic look the turret should be operated by a second player. Since in game it could fire in any direction no matter which way the front of the ship was

[@dumbbest7328]

Or, you could take the scorpion's route and make to where the turret and vehicle move independently of one another, although I'm sure that would make it incredibly difficult to pilot properly.

[@Spritzkrieg]

@@dumbbest7328 Ayy, that's exactly what I was thinking

[@alih5862]

@@dumbbest7328 Or make it act like an Ai when not piloted by another player

[@ugoboom]

Reach models + halo 3 textures has a LOT of potential. Reach has incredible fidelity but it ended up making some things just look sad. the halo reach pelican is the worst offender, what a massive downgrade even with the art style change taken into consideration

[@mikeyunovapix7181]

I honestly cannot wait for the completed mod.

[@WWLinkMasterX]

Nice thing about the covenant drop ships is that they use grav-lifts to pick up vehicles, so it look a lot more realistic if/when you implement that feature.

[@Dillon6545]

The spirit needs a function where it can carry and drop ghosts and wraiths as the drivers pleased. Also please add the three Burts to the spirit because it's basically the same as the other air so please add it so where you shoot three at once or shoots faster but weaker projectiles since it is you know an fast air craft troop transport.

[@powernade]

I've always thought the Spirit was a little undergunned. A couple more front facing cannons at the end of the "tongs" might look cool...

[@SUPERMARI0875]

Hey RejectedShotgun, I love your mods and I have a suggestion. Could you make a version of the Albatros that keeps the doors open during flight? People could put turrets into the bay and make it a mobile gun ship or flying base. like a flying elephant. If possible put the flag start and score position in it for CTF. and have it so you could fly the flag away or towards the enemies flag. and if shot down, it turns into a stationary position like the one in Sandtrap. it is just a suggestion. I love the amazing work you are doing and each one of your mods is fulfilling my childhood dreams.

[@rougeelite1446]

Mobile objectives never rlly work well

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

I hope at some point the modding tools will allow you to modify how vehicles controls, assuming they don't already, the Phantom and Spirit would be so much better if they didn't have to face what they're shooting at, if it's already possible then I'd suggest making rotation of the ship locked to movement while the turret moves with the camera, kind of like how the wheels on Warthogs work now that I think about it, either way it's great getting to see things come to life.

[@AJadedLizard]

I think it'd be neat if the Covenant Separatists used these compared to the Loyalists' Phantoms. It'd visually set them apart at a glance.

[@Just2Chill4U]

Wow! The spirit looked so good in halo 3. I actually thought it was vanilla.

[@Borgia5119]

I’ve always wanted to see an interior cockpit built into one of these like they did in the phantoms

[@rashesttuba88]

I wasn't really paying attention when I started the video, just side-glancing to my second monitor, and in those first few seconds of looking over at it it just looked completely natural in halo 3. My brain just thought it was originally part of the game for those few seconds of showing it off in The Covenent. fantastic job with the modeling and animations, it looks great

[@AJ-vp3tg]

It's good to see somebody genuinely happy to do this kind of stuff. Your enthusiam and passion is something that a lot of studios and game developers lack, and thats why they put out bad games. Keep up the good work Shotgun.

[@jdjk7]

Yeah, the turret should be a gunner weapon. Having it at the back of the craft makes it really goofy to aim as the pilot.

[@jameo3888]

Maybe this is just my own headcannon, but I feel as though the Spirit and the Phantom were never in the same realm of functionality. Sure, they both carry troops and vehicles but they act more like the differences between APCs and IFVs. The Phantoms were meant to be more like IFVs, they can get troops into battle with the idea of "there's going to be significant resistance on landing" hence they had more weapons and (although never really shown in game) better armor. Whereas the Spirits were meant to be more like APCs, they're meant to get troops in as soon and as quickly as possible. Spirits had a cannon, but it was meant more so for surpressing fire while they offload troops. As such, they were more focused on speed so their armor was weaker than a Phantom. My only proof for this comes from the games (most of my Halo experience comes from the Bungie era so Imma use them) they're shown in; The Spirit show up in Reach and CE- Where speed and overwhelming the UNSC's Defenses was the goal and the resistance encountered by the Convenant was expected to either be low (CE) OR so high that Phantoms would get destroyed just as much (Reach). Phantoms show up in Halo 2 / 3 / ODST - Where speed and overwhelming the UNSC wasn't the goal. In Halo 2/ODST, Regret didn't mean to assault Earth, he knew it was a human world (I think?) with an artifact, so he took the stronger Phantoms to help shore up the small fleet he gathered. In Halo 3, Truth went with Phantoms as the UNSC defenses were pretty much breached already, so rushing their defenses wasn't important, and the resistance left was strong enough that Spirits would be easy prey, as two Hornets could move circles around a Spirit before it could really do anything. With all of that said, and I don't know if this was already done in the mod so I'm hella sorry if so, but maybe make the Spirits signifcantly faster than the Phantoms while also making the Spirits weapon and armor weaker?

[@deltahalo241]

In lore, I think the Spirits are actually supposed to have the much stronger armour than the Phantoms, though this may only be an explaination as to why the Phantoms are destructible and the Spirits aren't

[@semiproparrot9985]

i always liked the idea that the phantom could carry more troops and has the side cannons, while the spirit "could" carry troops but specialised in carrying heavier vehicles like wraths and other large/medium vehicles, where like the largest a phantom could carry is like a revenant but mainly ghosts

[@georgethompson1460]

Even as a kid playing halo 3 I had nostalgic memories of the spirit with it's tank dropper, part of me was slightly confused wondering where the spirit whent.

[@jaredfisher6017]

In all the Halo games the Spirit was featured in (except Halo Wars), we never really got to see what happens or what it looks like when it's destroyed because we could never really destroy it because it was for some reason made indestructible except for the turret at the bottom. So I think adding a "death animation" would be really cool.

[@ShintyShinto]

Digging that yellow glow on the friendly Spirit, the shade of green could be closer to the Phantom's but still looks great in Halo 3's lighting. That iridescent shine on covenant vehicles as you say gives a more "alien" look than the dull matt finish in Reach. Gameplay wise they do need something to differentiate them from Phantoms (burst-fire turret, maybe vehicle deployment). Missed seeing those double-barrelled shotguns flying around in the Halo skyline.

[@just_koop]

Everything looks so GOOD in the Halo 3 Engine, with a little bit of polishing of course.

[@Large_Bobr]

Like many others have said, have turret be operated separately via passenger, and maybe to spice it up make the plasma cannon shoot slower but give it reaches concussion round or something similar to that

[@a_balloon]

Remember when this guy used to make that awesome minecraft "The haunting" short movies? That was awesome, I wish he continued with it now, that would put a stop to speedrun's rise

[@Rawnzilla]

Love what you're doing here. So much fun! Can't wait to see what else you come up with!

[@jamB2007]

I would love to see this in mods with halo 3! I have such nostalgia for this vehicle and I love how it came out! It looks beautiful! As always your work is unmatched! But I would also love to see your take on the spectre👀

[@LTRiggs321]

my dude you are laying the ground work. MCC will never die

[@abunny6925]

Shi Kai wang stated that they created a new covenant dropship because the Spirit wasn't flexible enough, The phantom has two ways to deploy (and pick up) its troops to improve the encounters; the cobra like design serves as a way to protect the belly cargo.

[@xXcashXx3]

This looks really good like it was already in the game one of your finest work

[@GhostycardOfSpades]

The spirit looked so natural in Halo 3 I totally forgot it wasn't in Halo 3 in the first place

[@meman176]

2:06 i had a dream years ago that i was in halo 3 like it was like VR but i was actually in the game. It looked exactly like this map with the sand walls up super high. There was all sorts of vehicles ive never seen, and MILLIONS of covenant in a base that we were attacking with crazy vehicles that arent even in halo. The base looked like a super sized Valhalla tower with a halo 4 art style. The sand walls went around the base and it was shaped like a cul-de-sac with the towers interior inside of the massive sand walls, like a cave. There were millions of UNSC and Covenant fighting on top of the sand walls on each side and inside the base. Seeing this map which i believe is one of your sandbox modded maps absolutely blows my mind and i get crazy Deja Vu to the point where im questioning if my dream was a future reality lmao XD

[@Horrorpleb]

Wow, it surprisingly fits well in halo 3, especially since you're using the phantom textures for it.

[@Renagede77]

For the turret on the Spirit: 1 player inside, they pilot and control the turret; 2 players inside, 1 drives and 1 aims & fires the turret.

[@Hell_0115]

Bro this is just wholesome i love your work

[@qwoji500]

It’s also in Halo 5. The way the doors open in 5 is pretty sweet

[@MeMyselfAndKgore]

The spirit looked so natural that I legit didn't understand this was a mod for a couple seconds

[@i_am_pistachios1099]

I'd suggest giving it more concussive projectiles like in Reach to set it apart from the phantom. Not necessarily super damaging, but enough utility to disrupt ground combat.

[@Halomans]

Man that Green Spirit looks freakin Amazing!! Halo 3 is such a fantastic looking game. Best Sci-Fi Art Style of the Century??

[@DootMarine1173]

Do you think you could make a Halo wars 2 Banished spirit?

[@MrSaljstn]

For an advanced species you would thing they would have faster shooting projectiles on a spaceship, the plasma is just hysterically ineffective

[@hansgropenfundel4243]

I have an idea for the spirit that might or might not work in the halo 3 engine. You remember the hover lock for the falcons in Reach? Imagine lowering a dropship like the spirit or phantom to be low enough to dispatch troops, press a button so that your altitude and position are locked so you can't move while the troops are piling out. I imagine that once you press the position lock button, the camera switches to have a better aim for the main turret to provide better 360° ground cover without having your vision blocked by the ship itself. Of course, troops should still be able to pile out without this feature in a pinch if fast deployment is needed.

[@MacBamboocha]

I think the camera is a bit too close, but I'm nitpicking. This is freaking amazing! And yes, I agree: the Spirit is a much better design for a drop-ship. It looks functional and militaristic, specifically made to get troops on the ground fast. The Phantom looks awesome too, but it feels more like a traditional ship. More like a Pelican equivalent, and I guess that's exactly what Bungie went for in H/3.

[@dignusdingus3709]

Since Halo 1 to 3 all happen fairly close to eachother, I'd love a mod for 3 that makes it far more like Halo 1 in atmosphere, weapons and design. Seeing the Spirit in 3 is amazing! Splicing together some CE-sque marines would be the icing on the cake

[@justinnyugen7015]

Marines definitely were at their best in CE! I miss the Scouter eyepatch they sometimes wore, and how their armor shared the same visual motifs as the Scorpion (like Chief did with the Warthog)

[@prematurebat2365]

Looks exactly like a spirit should, nice work shotgun

[@kompav5621]

1:56 - "and we never could've known what they looked like anyway." Wrong, we're looking right at it.

[@TelestoTheBesto]

A Spirit in Halo 3 feels both cursed and awesome at the same time.

[@ThatHaloGuy020]

to distinguish the phantom from the spirit you could make the phantom more like how it was in halo 2 and since the spirit only has one turret you could make it fire explosive rounds like in halo reach or the projectiles seen in combat evolved.

[@just-a-user5218]

This is awesome. So the covenant phantom is next right? I can't wait to see what vehicles you can make drivable next. Wish that these could have been drivable back when the Halo games came out but you are fixing that problem now. Great work my man. Keep it going.

[@Demon-.]

Dude, you are fine! I love my dropship. I really hope they make a Halo game with elements of Halo Wars and regular Halo and you control a fight for your Covenant/Banished/Swords of Sanghelios/Covenant Remnants/UNSC/ONI by controlling a strategy and then hopping in as an Elite member of that faction. Sure, I see something like that being a bit more strategy and cover based, maybe a cool ability to go 3rd person and definitely removed from the more traditional Halo experience so far.

[@azzythechristianfurry]

Covenant Dropships have always been way cooler to me than the Pelican. Glad to see the OG added in.

[@acarter9806]

I think to differentiate the two, the Spirit should be more of a high-speed heavy lifter with cut down seating capacity (those two prongs being like giant hover engines that could suspend a vehicle below it) and only one gun, while the Phantom gets to be full of friendly troops with several guns that can be used by them. Maybe even different Phantom variants with different gun types (like how Reach has two different Falcons) such as fast spraying anti-infantry and slower-shooting fuel rods, or something like that.

[@fentposer]

It looks so good in halo 3 I completely forgot it wasn't even in it until he reminded me lmao

[@ArthurVere]

My dream is realised. You're the boss. Thanks for your work.

[@mike_y0st]

You should modify the Phantom to be a true gunship vs just a drop ship like the Spirit (to help differentiate them in your giant Forge battles). To do this, you could mod in two additional belly turrets on the Phantom like shown in Halo 2 (and keep the side gun turrets). A “second” driver could then operate all three turrets on the belly.

[@halinaqi2194]

O:55 they switched to the phantom due to performance. The spirit had a shit ton of seats so all the extra geometry was inefficient for a flying vehicle where you wouldnt see the seats for a majority of the time. The phantom fixed that. In reach they brought it back cause of the new hardware and upgraded game engine

[@okankyoto]

Totally drool-worthy! Suddenly makes me wonder why the plasma on the separatist ships in Halo 3 manages to be yellow colored (in lore)

[@wweTNAfan1000]

By years end we'll have all the halo CE assets in Halo 3. I can't wait

[@xverser2574]

Excellent work! Now though I wonder how getting it to carry small vehicals will go... Either way keep up the awesome work!

[@noork1173]

RejectedShotgun, you better be the one making Halo 3 Anniversary.

[@joeodst5170]

It would be cool to see a rework of the phantom into more of a gunship-type vehicle. That way has something for the covenant like the rocket pelican that can do some heavy damage.

[@ViolaDragon621]

god the Spirit in Halo 3's lighting looks pretty

[@cooliipie]

Your mods look so official. I wish you were on the team making the next Halo !

[@rickslor7077]

Looks very nice! My suggestion for the Spirit: Since captain Keyes rammed those hunters in that one cutscene in Halo CE, extra damage while ramming with the Spirit would be appropriate in my eyes.

[@D77tcPelican]

The fork drop ship is here, and I love it

[@nightfire6493]

Finally! Awesome; i've always wanted to fly one of those things ever since I tried to take off in one after they dropped off their troops in the first halo.

[@Marinealver]

6:57 Time for a little PAYBACK!

[@cjgamez636]

Noice. I love it when it becomes more and more lore accurate (even though its a sandbox)

[@Vibevibellama]

I'd love to see Halo CE modded maps make a return

[@Hazard8663]

Imagine going into blue teams base and dropping off a squad of spec ops elites that absolutely wreak havoc

[@Cosmic76Guardian]

This is a masterpiece, I always wanted to see a Spirit dropship in Halo 3. 👍

[@Asser1212]

Fantastic work done as always!

[@beast1ysniper464]

I can't wait for this forge mod your working on, and from what you've shown us already its gonna be awesome. I never got to experience extinction or arkbound, so I'm really looking forward to more updates.

[@joshmovingofficial]

I think it definitely needs the camera moved back and up, if possible. It’s awesome seeing a spirit in Halo 3!!! 😳

[@Vex-VII]

The spirit honestly looks perfect in Halo 3

[@ItsCori]

Hey RS, killing it with these mods! Whats the possibility that eventually you’ll be able to import Halo Reach dialogue into Halo 3? Hearing Marines react to an incoming Spirit would be a really cool detail, and I distinctly remember lines from Reach Marines whenever Spirits would glide by.

[@RejectedShotgun]

Sound modding is the only thing that's not possible with the tools right now, but an update has been confirmed to add it later on. Once that happens it should be totally possible.

[@ItsCori]

@@RejectedShotgun that’s good to hear. In this case, my mates and I agree that the Spirit import looks so much like a Halo 3 vanilla asset, and adding in accompanying relevant lines would just add to that so much more. Again, keep up the good work man!

[@sylaslock7841]

Halo 5 Covenant Spirit just looks more like a heavy drop ship with heavy gunfire. But instead just a upgraded Spirit dropship.

[@rapidpigz8238]

I think the Halo 1 turret is the most logical. The point of the gun is to suppress the enemy while the infantry bailed out and having 3 guns does that so much better than 1 gun.

[@justinnyugen7015]

Great work! Could you please try using the old H3 brute models with hairy forearms in the future? They look incredible when paired with the gray minor / red captain armor

[@Turtle3000]

It makes me wish the Spirit was included in Halo 3 originally. Having both the Spirit and the Phantom!

[@weskercarr6622]

Phantom will always be my favorite dropship but this is nice

[@Chrisspru]

the spirit could be tuned to be a lighter vehicle than the phantom. it has the same vehicle and troop capacity, but is faster and less armed

[@TheRoseReaper]

This gets me curious for a, "Banished" Spirit and see what other people's take on one would look like.

[@LORDKILUR]

Damn I wish MCC was bigger (particularly in OCE where I live). It would be so cool to have modded custom games that included this stuff.

[@marco117sw]

I think the Spirits should utilize the same turrets from their Phantom counterparts. HR had the two dropships sharing the same turret and I believe so did H4. However, if u leave it just the way it is with the HR variant, u can easily make 2 more variants utilizing the H3 Phantom turrets. One for the Covies and the other for Separatists. Different weapons = different variants of the same dropship type. By doing this, u can easily expand the vehicle sandbox and continue experimenting with other possible variants. I know this is easier said than done, I'm not a modder.