





I personally dislike the smaller thrusters on the newer D-79, they seem really dinky and ridiculously small to be lifting the entire body. The older ones are built into the wing, and are more protected that way, the new ones seem to be isolated from the body, contained in their own little pods. Imagine if only one of them were destroyed, the entire craft would be unbalanced. The older one had armored thrusters as well as additional backup thrusters (2 instead of 1).The E3 trailer you mentioned was correct, it was doing a hard and fast landing and had to divert extra thrust in a moments notice, so it makes sense. However, the older model rarely needs to do this, and never does it when just hovering like in the Halo Wars 2 picture I provided. It doesn't make any sense for it to have to turn the pods 90 degrees just to hover. Did the the designers not make the thrusters specifically designed for hovering strong enough? I hope it's either a bug that will get fixed or the pelican is in the middle of some strange maneuver in the picture.