/me lays out some honeyed Lamb for a certain other wolf.

Goodbye my sweet assault dropship. Our brief love affair was wonderful and intense. Oh how I will miss you dearly. Without you I can not go on, I can not continue without you. If only our benevolent god CCP could give you back to me. If only...

Well... I will say CCP is not silent on the matter but you have to remember they spent a lot of time gutting everything we knew about vehicles for three months now and have been constantly working on change upon changes since 5/14 day.

CCP Wolfman and his team are in charge of everything you touch in the game now, so when people complain about ARs he has to deal with that, when people complain controllers being weird he has to work with that as well. Skill tree? that's his deal as well. Bonus system? his as well. Its alot of work and I wished both CCP Wolfman and CCP Remnant had like 3-4 more people on their team to work with. I am literally surprised how much time he has to still touch ground with the CPM every day and at least he makes a trip to the forums on a weekly basis despite how busy they are.

CPM does at least have frequent talks with him and we constantly have expressed many and myriad number of issues with the vehicles and weapons and character progression even. Overall his plate is massively over full.

I will apologize but thats for CCP to announce, not me.

I will apologize but thats for CCP to announce, not me.

Also if you looked at the CCP's backlog (if it were public, and no it wont ever be due to exploit listings in there as well) you will realize how much useless complaining we can do. Though its always good to keep complaints fresh just in case. Things do get forgotten over time or fixed 'accidentally'.

Double negative. It WILL be missed. Especially by me. It was my first and only true love in Dust, my shining star. Through the assault dripship I became a wonderous asset to my team, clearing uplinks on roofs and taking out tanks. Once it is gone I will be nothing more than an uplink spamming logi, dreaming of soaring through the skies once again.

I don't know what exactly is the overall staffing expectancies and the sorts but one issue that slows the process down significantly is visa applications having to get approved then moving people to china.

I'm hurt, I complain about small turrets all the time to CCP Wolfman, why do you think I know how full his plate is? He is one of the more constantly pestered devs by the CPM.

Turrets are not a problem. Missles work great vs vehicles and very well vs infantry while blasters tear apart infantry. The only turrets that need work are the railguns.

Here we go

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=851299#post851299



Complained about 5 months ago.

Restrictor plates or rods or rails are peice of metal typically placed on mounted guns to control their area of weapons fire coverage. In other cases its to prevent damage to both gun and nearby equipment while being moved about.

For example on old canvas and wood planes of ww 1 the tail gun would often have a rod between the gunner and tail section to prevent gunners from shooting their parent craft's tail off.

The drop ship had to keep changing due to the earlier fact a turret shooting the parent craft would indeed get you killed (the hit registered and altered flight characteristics) This was the one thing I complained about the most when they threw the new controls in (that my own gunners were killing me)

While CCP may not talk to you guys about the small things and how they plan to fix many things they do talk to the CPM often. I have consistently expressed my issues with vehicle and turret controls frequently attempt to remind them of all the things that need address, just CCP can only fix so many things at a time. The reason why I haven't complained about the turret snap lately is because I haven't been given the chance to be a gunner in a wildly flying dropship to see if the case is still true (my last pilot was wonderfully stable and let me get about 7 kills / 10 assists before I got shot out of the gunner seat) and as bad as I remember it. You posting just confirms its still there to an extent.

You have my assurance I am not going to let CCP forget on how annoying this factor is and I do hope they will visit and fix it soon or they already fixed it and forgot to update the CPM on it.

Also for seeking public statements/responses:
Monday
Not Friday

This thread may be on page 10 come around monday.

Well there is good news for dropships in 1.7,
Some noteworthy items I know people will be really really really really really really really happy with.

However... I have my fingers crossed that they don't get massively messed up like they did during through the entire beta and into uprising.

If there isn't some kind of respec to make up for the addition of a massive turret tree, along with the complete gutting and rehauling of vehicles, I don't really care how balance plays out.

I'll see you all at some point in the future.

It's not even like my skills are badly placed, I can work with what I have. It's the principle of the thing.

Well the turret tree is massive. It alone should be warrant for a full respec, since this is a complete change to how vehicles operate on the field, and will require much more SP for maximum performance. Keeping in mind that these are changes to core gameplay and skills, not random additions like new weapons, modules, vehicles etc. So, these are things that you would have to be privy to upon initial investment of any SP for any skill, since these can drastically alter your SP allocation.

Too much bad juju.