K Drives - just make them do some damage or something

[thurmack]

Please just make them do some damage, or have some meaningful benefit of some kind.

Right now they are only useful as a stepping stone for MR1-5 who don't yet have an archwing launcher, after which they become entirely obsolete.
Gathering Ventikid standing is onerous, even more so because the first huge chunk (to get your first kdrive) doesn't even earn you affinity, and at the end of the huge grind you just end up with a board that goes a bit faster and jumps a bit higher, to absolutely no end because a baseline archwing is exponentially better in every way.

At least let us tack on some spikes or blade and run into enemies, or give us a boost of some kind that we can take into combat if we pull off some neat tricks. Maybe trick combos can translate into melee combos so we start a fight with a bit of an advantage if we arrive by kdrive flipperoos, or performing tricks could give us a brief affinity or loot drop bonus.

[Somi_xD]

Attacking with K-Drives, Attacking with Melee Weapons while k-driving.
This would be nice, but i think to really use K-Drives in combat we would need way smoother transitions for mounting and dismounting it.
And the current ragdoll if you get knocked of the board would get you killed.

Edited August 6, 2019 by Somi_xD

[Birdframe_Prime]

Uhhh... you know there's actual mods for this, right?

Kinetic Friction (grinding builds up Electrical damage that deals out as you land the trick), Thrash Landing (landing a trick deals 40% of the trick's score as Blast in a radius), Trail Blazer (leaves a trail of fire that deals damage to enemies) and my favourite Slay Board (dismounting launches the board damaging enemies it hits).

I personally think they need to really, really, massively buff these to deal damage more effectively, but they exist ^^

[Magicfingers]

you can do damage with a K-drive. just pick a target, jump up in the air as high as possible, and then just land on top of the target......instant smashed (and dead) target (as long as it's not a high level enemy)

[(PSN)Ozymandias-13-]

Meh, they're just a gimmick anyway. 

I will never waste time to acquire and master them. Archwing is better in every way, and the initial talk of "weather conditions" preventing archwing in the vallis never happened.

[Aldain]

I still think it would be better if we could just shoot our guns on them, like press the weapon swap button to switch to "combat mode" which would allow the K-Drive to be in Cruise Control mode while we aim and shoot, it would even be better than the Archwings in some circumstances because you're less likely to be knocked out of it in combat.

[(PSN)IndianChiefJeff]

I wouldn't expect K-Drive melee unless it involved some board technique which involved either ramming enemies or something else in that manner. I still believe wieldable secondaries would be a good thing to incorporate just to open up the versatility of these otherwise gimmicky hoverboards.

Edited August 6, 2019 by (PS4)IndianChiefJeff

[(PSN)boilerhogbc]

It takes about 30 minutes to level a k drive up with an affinity booster(full loadout too).  Driving around the map doing tricks.  About the same amount of time spent leveling a weapon or three.  How is that difficult?  Theres only what?  3 to actually do for affinity?  Easy.

[Velothed]

All I really need is a sink for Ventkids standing, like relic packs for example. I absolutely love K-Drives and as I only go the the open worlds solo or with friends, I can always use my hoverboard instead of the archwing. The problem for me is, that I don't get anything out of doing Races and Tricks anymore (other than fun). I'd also love permanent leaderboards for the races. I'm not exactly sure, because the races change every day, but I believe the leaderboards reset daily. Weekly or monthly resetting leaderboards would also be cool.