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Serimos Haeraven
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Posted - 2014.04.16 15:08:00 -
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I have literally NO idea why, but apparently, (not sure exactly when) CCP changed the Dropship collision damage to make them even more sensitive to landing and collisions with objects. My only question is why the hell they would do such a thing, when just a few months before they had re-adjusted it to where it actually made sense and worked. Now, if I'm landing, I have to literally be as careful as possible, because if I go 3 mph faster than a near stand-still landing, I'll loose more than half of my shield.
Before, the bottom of your dropship was considered the "tough" side of it, since it needs to make quick landings and take-offs to ferry troops in distress or land to drop uplinks. I used to only loose around 200-500 shield HP when doing a "quick" landing, but that has since quadrupled since this change to collision damage.
And this isn't the worst part; now users are taking ramming as a serious tactic, since these dropships have become that much more sensitive to collisions. I have seen literally 4 pilots in 3 sessions all try to just ram my dropship in an incubus instead of shoot at it. Being a veteran pilot, these kids are seriously ruining the actual intention of what an Assault dropship is made to do, and they take advantage of their armor buff as a buffer to survive the collision (even though no incubus survived running into me).
CCP, what the hell were you thinking when you yet again changed the collision damage for dropships? I assumed you learned from your lesson when you tortured us pilots for over an entire year, making us pay 1.5 million ISK for every single glass-cage dropship you gave us, but now you decide to make them fragile yet again, without warranting a reason for doing so.
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.16 15:14:00 -
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Zirzo Valcyn wrote:i see more pythons trying to ram my grimness more so. more idiots fly caldari for whatever reason. if they really want to spend 500k to take out my 200k ship then i just laugh and call another one
Personally, I've NEVER tried to ram another pilot, it's just plain cheating in my opinion. And I love my Python. That's what frustrates me even more, these rammers are often using Assault dropships, making them appear to be a serious pilot, when in reality its just an 8 year old kid in disguise that activates his afterburner right into the side of your hull... It's pathetic man.
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.16 15:58:00 -
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DUST Fiend wrote:I played my first match in almost a month, did a crazy maneuver to engage a tank, literally barely scraped the ground with my hardener on at full health, and exploded. Returned to not playing dust 
See man! I'm not making this up, they seriously did a silent patch to collision damage. It's bull ****... lol
RayRay James wrote:Serimos Haeraven wrote:Zirzo Valcyn wrote:i see more pythons trying to ram my grimness more so. more idiots fly caldari for whatever reason. if they really want to spend 500k to take out my 200k ship then i just laugh and call another one Personally, I've NEVER tried to ram another pilot, it's just plain cheating in my opinion. And I love my Python. That's what frustrates me even more, these rammers are often using Assault dropships, making them appear to be a serious pilot, when in reality its just an 8 year old kid in disguise that activates his afterburner right into the side of your hull... It's pathetic man. I have no idea how you fly Caldari, if I even graze a leaf I lose all my shields and armor and crash. Gallente ADS, I can run into a wall at top speed and survive. Yes, my skills are roughly equal in both
Well, NOW their sheilds are apparently weak as hell, but they used to be able to take collisions reasonably well. Now it seems to be the case that they are back to being a cage of glass that flys. Why CCP, WHY??
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.16 16:06:00 -
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Mossellia Delt wrote:Wait... you actually touch down to pick people up? ahahahaha
It was an example of things that get ruined now as a result of the collision damage change. Sure, occasionally I'll hover to pick up my team mates, but often times that leads me to get shot by an enemy railgun tank since I'm higher off of the ground, and often times blue berries aren't smart enough to think to jump a few feet and then get in, so landing often usually gets more passengers in my ship.
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.16 16:41:00 -
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Spkr4theDead wrote:I've been taking environmental damage in my tank recently. It's not just the dropship that has changed.
But I do agree that dropships die way too easily to even slight collisions. I remember having 2 shield hardeners on, and colliding ever so slightly with a dropship, and mine dropped down to 0/0 in an instant.
I don't quite understand their motive in changing the collision damage for all vehicles. It just doesn't make sense.
Ps. Congrats on reaching 2K likes lol
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Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.16 17:10:00 -
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RayRay James wrote:Virtual Riot wrote:I vied for a nerf to Railguns to help dropships. You got your nerf. ADS is very powerful now. You're not gonna die unless you are really bad, or 2 guys sync up breach FG shots.
Railguns got nerfed now you're all complaining about collision damage. No one complained about collision damage before railguns were nerfed, but now that its the only thing that kills you it has to be nerfed.
Does the QQ ever end? Be happy with what you got. I'm not complaining, I just find it very odd that a Caldari ADS can't even brush up against something while in flight without instantaly dropping to 0/0 and crashing and a Gallente ADS can crash into multiple things and still survive.
I choose to ignore people like that.
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.16 19:49:00 -
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Pocket Rocket Girl wrote:LOL i have had my drop ship deastroyed from 35m wheile being dropped from the RDV. and even had a drop ship deployed ontop of my drop ship and both gets destroyed
That's one thing that has been made 100x worse as well with this collision change. Sometimes those RDV's take your dropship and drop it from 40+ feet in the air, and before this change, it would take out about half my shield, now it's an insta-explosion and the chick goes "Deployment successful" ***** THAT DEPLOYMENT WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL.
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.17 03:48:00 -
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Beld Errmon wrote:Just because ADS ramming ADS was mentioned and im guilty of it I thought i'd explain why I'll do it, simple because I've run into ADS pilots who will sneak up behind me fire a few shots and as soon as i turn to fight them they bolt back to the redline or start flying around like we are in some kinda childish game of catch, I am fed up with pilots that won't dogfight so I will ****ing ram you if you do this.
I understand your frustration, but when that happens you have to learn to just switch the afterburner on and give chase. A lot of pilots i know can hit targets fleeing from them with ease, just have to lead the shot a little above wherever their forward momentum is going. And also remember to skill up those passive skills, having lvl 5 turret fire-rate, reload rate, and ammo capacity are big advantages in dogfights.
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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Posted - 2014.04.17 03:50:00 -
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Pvt Numnutz wrote:Mossellia Delt wrote:Wait... you actually touch down to pick people up? ahahahaha Heavies can't jump high, you might as well drop the inch you have to hover to pick em up.  I have noticed it too serimos, I tried taking off and hovering low enough for my landing gear to stay out and landing several times. Lost just about all of my health. That and my gunners can kill themselves with their own missiles now. Something broke.
I haven't seen the gunner issue yet, although i can imagine it might be a little funny to see a blueberry just screwing around with the turret and then oopsie, killed himself. But yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only pilot who has realized this.
Tankers are being diagnosed with a new disease; Cancer of the Assault Dropship.
Many of them don't survive.
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