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

But crying about things that haven't even happened yet is so much easier.

I never was bothered by swarmers anyway since im an assault dropship pilot. I do get hit by the occasional invisible swam volley. I just think vehicles need some counter AV to make it balanced. something like flares for dropships and a pulse for ground vehicles.

Seems like a lot of vehicle users, tankers especially, are really worried about the 1.4 swarm launcher changes. Well I'm a dropship pilot and I am not affraid of these changes. Should I be? Maybe, however swarms can kill vehicles now anyway, and since we haven't even seen these changes why are vehicle pilots so scared and outraged?
We should be doing what we have always done, learning adapting and getting on with our jobs.
Pilots have been tested time and time again, I don't intend to quit now because of a slight change in swarm launchers.
If anything its a challange, and I intend to meet it.

Will I loose more dropships? Yeah probably for a while, until I adapt and restratigise.
So harden the **** up fellow pilots, we got work to do!

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.

Seems like a lot of vehicle users, tankers especially, are really worried about the 1.4 swarm launcher changes. Well I'm a dropship pilot and I am not affraid of these changes. Should I be? Maybe, however swarms can kill vehicles now anyway, and since we haven't even seen these changes why are vehicle pilots so scared and outraged?
We should be doing what we have always done, learning adapting and getting on with our jobs.
Pilots have been tested time and time again, I don't intend to quit now because of a slight change in swarm launchers.
If anything its a challange, and I intend to meet it.

Will I loose more dropships? Yeah probably for a while, until I adapt and restratigise.
So harden the **** up fellow pilots, we got work to do!

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.

Seems like a lot of vehicle users, tankers especially, are really worried about the 1.4 swarm launcher changes. Well I'm a dropship pilot and I am not affraid of these changes. Should I be? Maybe, however swarms can kill vehicles now anyway, and since we haven't even seen these changes why are vehicle pilots so scared and outraged?
We should be doing what we have always done, learning adapting and getting on with our jobs.
Pilots have been tested time and time again, I don't intend to quit now because of a slight change in swarm launchers.
If anything its a challange, and I intend to meet it.

Will I loose more dropships? Yeah probably for a while, until I adapt and restratigise.
So harden the **** up fellow pilots, we got work to do!

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.

It is true that dropship pilots are not known for their farsightedness, as most pilots choose the role knowing the drawbacks. This has got me thinking about how to deal with redline railgun tanks, I'm thinking putting a forge and some swarms up high near the red might do the trick, but we will see! Happy hunting!

Cool story bro. Swarms are also getting a clip reduction, so they will have to reload more, creating more time to engage from optimal range, which on a tank is pretty far. Atleast you can look to your sides.....I have to move my whole dropship to look somewhere. Since this is all speculation we don't know if they will be better or worse we will just have to see and deal with it like we always have, adapting and surviving. Keep safe mate, don't risk your tank if the battles not worth it!

And thanks to this thread I am gonna log on and lose a few :)

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.

Seems like a lot of vehicle users, tankers especially, are really worried about the 1.4 swarm launcher changes. Well I'm a dropship pilot and I am not affraid of these changes. Should I be? Maybe, however swarms can kill vehicles now anyway, and since we haven't even seen these changes why are vehicle pilots so scared and outraged?
We should be doing what we have always done, learning adapting and getting on with our jobs.
Pilots have been tested time and time again, I don't intend to quit now because of a slight change in swarm launchers.
If anything its a challange, and I intend to meet it.

Will I loose more dropships? Yeah probably for a while, until I adapt and restratigise.
So harden the **** up fellow pilots, we got work to do!

Could you please elaborare on what you mean by "as a role in the current state of the game, you're screwed."
I can be pretty useful, just need a crew of 4 and we can do amazing point control...

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.

Seems like a lot of vehicle users, tankers especially, are really worried about the 1.4 swarm launcher changes. Well I'm a dropship pilot and I am not affraid of these changes. Should I be? Maybe, however swarms can kill vehicles now anyway, and since we haven't even seen these changes why are vehicle pilots so scared and outraged?
We should be doing what we have always done, learning adapting and getting on with our jobs.
Pilots have been tested time and time again, I don't intend to quit now because of a slight change in swarm launchers.
If anything its a challange, and I intend to meet it.

Will I loose more dropships? Yeah probably for a while, until I adapt and restratigise.
So harden the **** up fellow pilots, we got work to do!

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.