CCP, this is probably the last nail in the coffin for me as a dropship pilot, and I'm here to let you know why. In my first match that i had to wait over 8 minutes for (the estimated wait time was 1:20) the match i got into was Ashland domination, as it appears that many others are being shuffled into that match. Except when I finally got into the match, there were only 4 people on each side, for the entire game, and one was a forge-gunner.

He had a militia forge which originally does absolutely nothing to my proto ADS with 4,062 shields, except this time, with each shot he took out 2,000 shield instantly. That's right, even a militia forge gun can now 3-shot a proto ADS with 4 ward shield extenders. Not only that, but in your view of "fixing a camera", that means that all you do is re-position the source point to the front of the dropship so we can sort of look downwards but still not really, and the camera swings violently when you try to aim at things. And with this camera now in the front, if you try to look at your back, the entire camera is taken up by the back of the dropship and you can't see anything.

I can't even see my entire dropship at all in 3rd person anymore. You have royally ****** up with this update CCP, the wait time will deter any potential new members you could get, along with the fact that there are only very few people in each match, and it's not because people aren't online either, there are many people on. Good luck surviving the massive wipe that will be known as the Dust Ice-age.

CCP, this is probably the last nail in the coffin for me as a dropship pilot, and I'm here to let you know why. In my first match that i had to wait over 8 minutes for (the estimated wait time was 1:20) the match i got into was Ashland domination, as it appears that many others are being shuffled into that match. Except when I finally got into the match, there were only 4 people on each side, for the entire game, and one was a forge-gunner.

He had a militia forge which originally does absolutely nothing to my proto ADS with 4,062 shields, except this time, with each shot he took out 2,000 shield instantly. That's right, even a militia forge gun can now 3-shot a proto ADS with 4 ward shield extenders. Not only that, but in your view of "fixing a camera", that means that all you do is re-position the source point to the front of the dropship so we can sort of look downwards but still not really, and the camera swings violently when you try to aim at things. And with this camera now in the front, if you try to look at your back, the entire camera is taken up by the back of the dropship and you can't see anything. With this new camera, it makes shooting ground units around 100x more difficult in an Assault Dropship. It used to be fairly easy and you could lead targets, etc, but now this new camera jerks your riticule when you try to aim ahead, causing the turret aim to go in an un-wanted direction, almost like how side-gunners get affected by looking down.

I can't even see my entire dropship at all in 3rd person anymore. You have royally ****** up with this update CCP, the wait time will deter any potential new members you could get, along with the fact that there are only very few people in each match, and it's not because people aren't online either, there are many people on. Good luck surviving the massive wipe that will be known as the Dust Ice-age.

Not only that, but in your view of "fixing a camera", that means that all you do is re-position the source point to the front of the dropship so we can sort of look downwards but still not really, and the camera swings violently when you try to aim at things. And with this camera now in the front, if you try to look at your back, the entire camera is taken up by the back of the dropship and you can't see anything.

Okay how many times am i going to have to say this? There were 4 enemies on the other team, and only one had a forge gun. You can do the math all you want on your old statistics of what FG's used to do to shields but I'm pretty much positive they made shields have less resistance to forge guns. And I don't even care how much you would do with your advanced or proto FG, because dropships are underpowered as it is and trying to act like you're a pro at taking down dropships is stupid because a 4 year old can take them down now.

actually FG have 10% bonus against shields


as far as I remember correctly, the back thruster is the weakspot.

I have been flying for a very long time. I was never shot down by this FG, because I know how to keep moving in an ADS, that's standard, and i can't believe you would assume i was just sitting there letting him hit me constantly. I'm apart of Condor Squad and fly with them regularly, and we all know how to predict and dodge forge gun shots like it's nothing. I'm just letting everyone know that FG's do more dmg to shield reppers now, and whatever change was made to FG's is a big one, because I know for a fact that it was a militia forge gun hitting me and doing that incredible amount of damage for a militia. Look, once 1.4 starts to stretch into a few days and weeks, you will realize how much weaker dropships are to forge guns.

BECAUSE A MILTIA FORGE GUN CAN NOW DO 2000+ DMG TO MY PROTO DROPSHIP.

I could have easily been taken down if i hadn't hidden and waited for my shield to regen every single time i got hit once.

You can do the math a million times over and still not get the correct result in-game, CCP has proven that time and time again. Please, i encourage you to go into a match with a miltia forge gun and "test the waters".

Look, I'm going to say it only 1 more time. There were 4. people. on. the. other. team. The other 3 weren't running forge guns, only 1 was. It was the best match to test my theory in, and it was proven right. And i know it was an MLT because the user was getting kills on infantry on the screen.

I'm pathetic? For what exactly? Letting CCP know that the Camera is a half-assed attempt to make dropships better when in reality it was worse than the camera they originally had?