This is a refreshing attitude to see on a pilot, I like your moxie

You're a dropship pilot and can fit afterburners to react to any sort of swarm fire, swarms have never been a serious factor for you because your maneuverability was always able to get you out of sticky situations. Rails and Forges are already in a state where they make Dropships near useless to fly to begin with so Swarms becoming more effective AV doesn't really affect you because as a role in the current state of the game, you're already screwed.

The Swarm and LAV collision change are set to finish the job CCP set out to do when they made Dropships useless, they'll be making every other vehicle class useless as well.

I admire your enthusiasm and nearsightedness .
You realize that HAV pilots have choice - they can switch to railgun and.. you know how it's gonna end for DS pilots.
But hey, your struggle gives me strength, keep up the good work.

My squad was tanking in a Dom match and after we started rolling out they started a major push to out redline and beat us back with Proto AV. As we tried to push up the road their whole team was determined to take us out, three or four people were firing advanced or proto swarms at us we did our best to kill them with our Blasters turrets and used the members not in tanks to eliminate them with AR's and Snipers but as we tried a last ditch effort to advance an orb was dropped on our tanks and as backed up behind a hill to avoid a finishing volley of swarms I a bumped a tank in my squad or he bumped me (tanks don't have a good rear view) and instantly I explode. Now they want to buff swarms and let them lock faster giving us less time to get in range of them and spelling death for my burning tank. For the person who says idiot drive the other way and attack them from the left instead of pushing the right there was a Falchion guarding the other side witch could hit us far before we would have reached it.

Dude, do the math. It's way more powerful now.

Or not.. first map was a pubstomp with an assault forge gun getting the first kill. Thank you stupid event.

Dropships are countered too hard by any sort of Rail weaponry currently in the game for them to have any role short of getting uplinks in high places or for early game troop transport, both of which can be accomplished with militia tier dropships and for far less cost to the pilot.

This is what I mean when I say, "you're screwed." as a dropship pilot because the game in its current state offers no incentive for you to ever use a Dropship over literally any other vehicle in the game assuming you plan to use the thing outside of its niche of uplink placement and early game transport.

A Dropship is an expensive flying WP generator for the opposing team.

lol...

I always find it funny to hear about niche role needing to adapt instead of creating circumstances for others to adapt to...
things are backwards when our vehicle pilots "need to adapt" man.

lol im a proto swarmer and it's the same thing every time. Team establishes control of map, I wiyrkomi the ever-loving fk out of any vehicle called.
Team redlined? No vehicle is getting out out of it.

If anything, you dropship pilots got fked over worse by the newly lowered flight ceiling.
Before you could at least offer a viable ultra-high altitude spawn position, safe from AV; now you guys are fked no matter what you do. AV is around? Good luck doing your job.

We'll see what happens come 1.4.

yup, we have always been nerfed and we broke our banks but have the heart to stick with vehicles... maybe someday we will be rewarded...

Fellow pilot, in response to AV changes I want to get the word out on the wonders of dual afterburner fitting. It's going to help all of us mercs in the sky.

The way that i have found most effective is this; skill into an advanced large railgun and fight fire with fire

Considering Numnutz doesn't run Afterburners I'd love to see how that transition from being in the thick of battle to a place where you can avoid enemy AV works out for you guys. I've played the fun game of cat and mouse while retreating to the redline / flight ceiling and hoping the enemy AV gets bored waiting for me to come down so I can be granted another 5 whole minutes of near useful gameplay again but I've found I'm infinitely more useful to my team and squad when I'm simply running a more effective vehicle class.

We'll agree to disagree. I'll keep on the eye out for your Squad though, I'd love to be proven wrong.

No you don't, because the people you'll be shooting that railgun tank at are the ones who live to screw DS pilots over every single day. You have no idea how good it feels to blow up a railgun tank that has been trying to destroy my dropship by using my own railgun tank against them.

Not like dropships can be any more vunerable at this point in time tho is it?

well then I might just have to skill into tanks a little. I was planning on skilling into logistics and scout Lav's anyway (not to run people over but to use them for what they are actually meant for) Would you recommend a gunlogi or just a sica?

Yeah i actualy skilled into a LAV recently as well, but I still don't really enjoy it that much so I'm kind of regretting using that SP, and for me I'm not skilled into a **** ton of other vehicles so LAV skilling is a pretty big sink for me at least, although the reason I am kind of sticking with a logi lav is because it can actively heal ground units, and in PC there's a strategy that could really be hard hitting if i skill into it right.

My tank can't out run swarms They shaved more than a second and a half off of swarm launcher lock time a second and a half less air time for swarms.