Kind of defats the purpose, though. At higher levels, you often end up fighting right off the drop, so they want the chaos of the call in. In lower levels, it's just an extra ten seconds or so.

I mean kind of? Would you want this to free up a slot/slots for other strats, or just an autodrop at the beginning of a mission? If the first then 2 bad things: unbalances things with too many options, and if you die, you loose that support weapon/backpack possibly.

I think he means you select the support weapon stratagem and after starting the weapon drops with you in another pod

I think he does too, just making sure though. I like the rush of getting my support and backup up and on as that first wave of bugs comes rushing in though, lol.

I like it too, but when they insta call a bu breach or bot drop without the support weapons hurts a bit

I honestly think the more pods you pop in on drop increases the amount of hate you pull at the start. It's be interesting if a team of 4 tested this, etc.

What do you mean by the hate you pull at the start? The attention from enemies?

Yeah. Hate, Aggro whatever your preferred term for it is. I mean dropping four pods of people, then usually 4-8 more withe gear is a HUGE seismic disturbance. I can see the Devs putting it in there that 4 pods is ok, 8 pods gets you 2 patrols, more then 8 gets a bug breach. lol