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that is entirely the point since you are complaining about how hard drop pod raids are on you and how unrealistic. first of all they are drop pods, not crash pods, so there is no "SHOULD get disoriented". drop pods are used by shock troops and they would hardly get into any transport that would leave them in the thick of the battle completely disoriented so they can be picked off by any peon with a pitchfork.
and i don't seem to think there is a defense against those raids i do in fact know as i keep defending against them with quite ease on a rough randy (they are not bypassing my "ALL of your defenses", so i have no idea what you are talking about).

drop pod raids are realistic enough as they are and if you are having trouble with them you should just be glad that there is some challenge to the game for you.

the whole point of drop pods is that they are aggressively fast to give the enemy litte time the react. if you take that away then there is really no point in having drop pods at all. making them wait inside the pod or making them be disoriented only makes it unrealistic, not the other way around.

and if you put some thought into your base layout, your defences and the positioning of your pawns then those raids are easily defended.

had something equal happen to me yesterday - pretty much at the beginning of a new colony my 2 rimworlders would not get the food that was right next door (the door being simple wood). nothing was physically blocking their paths but for some reason they would not go into that room to get the food. trying to manually feed them by right clicking using the other colonist would give me a grey box saying "no food availiable". sending them to consume food or to pick it up would work however.
the problem disappeared after restarting the game though.

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