[Suggestion] Shooting Down an Astraeus with a Unit in It

When an Astraeus is destroyed, the unit that's in it just... disappears. That's anti-climactic, especially with Commanders.

I suggest that the unit that's in it fall to the ground.

If the Astraeus is in orbit, then the units burn up upon re-entry. Would look really really awesome to see fireballs of burning units crashing down to the planet during a mass Astraeus invasion.

However, if the Astraeus is in the air layer, the unit should then fall to the ground and deal fall damage to what ever is below it. And if it's the Commander that was in the destroyed Astraeus, then it explodes when it hit the ground.

Hell yeah, go for AWESOME!!

edit:
actually, I want to see fire balls and burning debris for planet smashes as well, planet smashes should be slower once the claxon sound starts, so you can have a nice view on a slowly burning asteroid commin' straight at ya.

(added another finishing touch to the list of details yet to be implemented)

That would be awesome some time in the future, but there are more pressing matters.

thats polishing, it is a good idea and very annoying that a comm dies 10 inches from the ground in an astraeus
however, the visuals themselves would prolly be added near release, since Uber is focused on optimization atm

with the com it's particularly annoying.

I had it happen to a teammate and he was like "....uh ...it seems I'm dead?" as his stuff was dying but didn't know why. he had to use chronocam to see it happening.

I think bulky T2 and the Comm should survive a fall from Air (taking heavy damage), but everything should burn up if it falls from Orbit. Would look really cool.

I expect we'll see this stuff come in a little after the spawn-in drop animation returns.

Yeah, it's almost exploitative to snipe commanders in this manner.

I am more concern about some unit may be able to shoot down Astraeus traveling in the space

Falling from orbit with a fireball effect would be nice, but since the Astraeus hovers about 3 metres above the ground, I'm not buying the "shot out of the sky thing".