I'm fine with the speed, to be honest. Sure faster is better, but I would rather be able to fire more shots than fire 7 shots sort of quickly. As it is, all an Incubus pilot can do is nag a Python, very rarely can he destroy it.

Not unlike the problem with most AV weapons before Delta...

I am not really a fan of saying the Incubus is the ONLY ANTI VEHICLE DROPSHIP. It would be much more practical and dynamic for the game that the type of turret equipped on the assault dropship makes it anti vehicle or not. But as it stands the Incubus is in a bad place and the same goes for the python.

I'm saying that if the rate of fire and overheat are too close together to adjust one without seriously messing with the other than my option looks like a viable choice. I personally am fine with the rate of fire except it drops the DPS and combined with the heat build-up issue makes it unable to seriously take on vehicles/installations.

I could get behind that, except there seems to be an issue that no one brings up. Why is it that the missiles are really good at dealing with infantry and at the same time are also pretty good at dealing with vehicles? If rails are truly meant to be AV and blasters are meant to be anti-infantry than what are the missiles suppose to be good for? The direct damage needs to be reduced so that the dps of missiles is lower than the dps AND overheat of the rails. Maybe the missiles should be for some serious suppression? Decrease the direct damage a lot and decrease the splash damage some, but increase the splash radius to maybe like 8 meters?

OR

Decrease direct damage of the missile turrets. Leave the splash damage and splash radius alone, but increase the clip of Blasters and/or reduce heat build-up of blasters.

I am not really a fan of saying the Incubus is the ONLY ANTI VEHICLE DROPSHIP. It would be much more practical and dynamic for the game that the type of turret equipped on the assault dropship makes it anti vehicle or not. But as it stands the Incubus is in a bad place and the same goes for the python.

If you give me 15% RoF even the fooked up sentinal swarmers wont last long enough to get a 2nd shot off, lol.

Basic small rails do enough damage to trololol infantry meanwhile doing enough to drop all but the dreaded triple rep Madruga, which suggests the issue with with armour rep or even just that people should be allowed to make their tank immune to small rails as they will get dropped by everything else in seconds.

The small blaster perhaps could use a slight increase, but only really on an ads that doesn't get to sit still for long, because I'm running small blasters on a cheap LAV and taking out HMG's with ease.

I actually didn't miss the shot, and I'm glad somebody noticed that. Watch it again and you'll notice the reticule is firmly on the opposing dropship. That, my friend, is the other issue with small rails: Hideous Hit Detection.

You were fractionally off the right side in my view... But as for the rails not being balanced if your only issue is the higher level heat buildup issue then I agree with you, however if you're suggesting that it's no good at lvl 0 - 3 then I'd have to disagree as I am quite happy with the lvl 3 rails.

It also sucks to have to be so pinpoint accurate with a rail and yet take damage so easily from swarms. Pythons just run off or hover close down to their lil b*tch swarmer buddy now. Missile turret shouldn't be the better choice for an Incubus.

Also, imo, I wouldn't stick turrets on my ADS because it takes away from tank. I'd rather NOT lose 300k than get a few vehicle kill assists.

The Incubus it self is not broken.

As a Python pilot I can say without doubt the Incubus is in a rough place. Right now its only 'bonus' is being tough enough to ram a python out of the sky.

Before, yes the railgun was OP on the incubus. The missiles were a OP vs infantry. Right now the missiles are reasonable vs infantry and lacking a little vs vehicles but they are still in a much better place than rails are against anything.

Lets not forget the small blasters though for the incubus, they are actually really good again now for those that forget about that.

Overall the rails need fixing. Lets not kid ourselves, the main reason this all got changed so much was because of pilot stacking skills. I would like to see a balance where every dropship is totally viable in its role, a good missile python pilot should beat a bad rail incubus but a good rail incubus should be able to kill a good missile python.

Lets not forget the missiles do have the advantage of being versatile against most targets where as an incubus has to pick an anti infantry or an anti vehicle role. (Further, blasters are only good for side gunners. The blaster sucks balls for the ADS main weapon)

So yes balance for all please.

I'm saying the opposite. As it is right now, I feel that a level 1 Incubus is actually better at its job than a level 5, due to the fact it can fire more shots. A speedy ROF counts for nothing if you just overheat before dealing with your enemy.

I agree that lvl 1 shouldn't be better than lvl 5 (as it is at the moment) but I also disagree that we should be able to destroy a vehicle without having the deal with the heat buildup, having to save a few shots is far more entertaining than the 'pew pew pew dead Python/Gunlogi' of pre-Delta...

As a Python pilot I can say without doubt the Incubus is in a rough place. Right now its only 'bonus' is being tough enough to ram a python out of the sky.

Before, yes the railgun was OP on the incubus. The missiles were a OP vs infantry. Right now the missiles are reasonable vs infantry and lacking a little vs vehicles but they are still in a much better place than rails are against anything.

Lets not forget the small blasters though for the incubus, they are actually really good again now for those that forget about that.

Overall the rails need fixing. Lets not kid ourselves, the main reason this all got changed so much was because of pilot stacking skills. I would like to see a balance where every dropship is totally viable in its role, a good missile python pilot should beat a bad rail incubus but a good rail incubus should be able to kill a good missile python.

Lets not forget the missiles do have the advantage of being versatile against most targets where as an incubus has to pick an anti infantry or an anti vehicle role. (Further, blasters are only good for side gunners. The blaster sucks balls for the ADS main weapon)

So yes balance for all please.

LOL ok blasters are good AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT put them on an Incubus be it for the gunner. you shot 48-54 rounds before you over heat. and use them as the pilot you do better crushing reds then shooting them.

lol want a good ads then here skill into the assault dropship skill (bonus to damage) but do not skill into the gall ads skill for the rof and ammo. you will do better damage and shoot more with the rails this way. you do not have to have that skill to use the incubus. funny CCP is hurting players that skilled into the gall ads lol.

After tomorrow, the problem should be lessoned.

I agree with you on blasters though. They are best on ground vehicles, due to the inherently steady platform that LAVs and Tanks provide. Put it on a dropship and you start getting problems. A blaster gunner often finds him or herself in a far to elevated position to deal with infantry, because of the blaster's nature as a close range weapon.

And of course putting a blaster as the main gun of an ADS is questionable, given that the spread is so horrendous and the nose of the dropship obscures your target.