Hopefully more of the pilots do. Swarmers get it it easy with an Auto-Lock weapon. Why can't pilots get some love too?

Also, Logi-Derps need to come back. Until it does, My Myron has become my bootleg Eryx.

The python is suppose to be the king of Caldari drop-ships, yet, it reacts like a ping pong ball when a missle hits it. In the world of Physics an object with that much perceived weight and velocity should not react the way it does. Now that I have spent 6 months!!! of daily play using 20mil sp to level up the ADS it gets nerfed to the point it's only good for killing droplinks and an occasional straggler. Give me back at least half of the fire rate and all of the power from afterburners. While your at it add two more module spaces and a built in armor repair. I'll use the spaces for pg cpu upgrades (since you won't upgrade that ever) and the fire rate to actually have a chance in hell to kill av dropsuits before they bounce my ship off the nearest building. One AV suit should not be able to drop an "Ass ault" ship from the sky in one volley. I'm fine with Two taking me down. And while we are talking about dropships, Fix the viper so it actually has the power to ascend without an afterburner, it's pathetic, and I would also like to land a viper without losing half my HP. 2 more thoughts and I'm done. Bring back the Turbines, Logi Dropships, and stop letting gorgon collisions bring down anything in the sky. this is dust 514 not dust "the ghad suicide terrorist game"


P.S.
The assault dropship fire mechanics are the stupidest part about them, I would be fine with getting rid of them completely and adding a gunship with side guns and speed, oh, and bring back the Logi Dropship!!

-The travel is still audible, and I've yet to be hit with an invisible swarm.
-See above
-Aren't related to Swarms, therefore have no bearings on SL balance*
-Compared to the hard life of holding R1 and teleporting to the redline? Lol
-Null*
-Also irrelevant to Swarm Launchers*

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(1) Swarmers also face several issues, such as blueberries stealing their LAVs, blueberries blocking their shots, 12-15 hostile Infantry players, Scouts w/SGs, Sentinels w/HMGs, etc.

However, none of these issues are related to ADSs, so none of them have an effect on AV/ADS balance. However, if you wish to balance SL on factors irrelevant to the SL, the same would have to be done to ADSs.

(2) Players also have the ability to re-skill into AP weapons, which increases the quality of enemy threats an AVer has to deal with; it's still irrelevant to ADSs so it as well doesn't affect AV/ADS balance.

Balance of quality around quantity is terrible because quantity of items is always inconsistent. For example, a PC match has an average of 2-4 ADSs but an average of 0-2 SL users. Should we buff SLs to compensate for the lower quantity in comparison to the ADS? No?

Then that point is hypocritical, and null.

(3) The MinCom's sprint speed is (relatively) crap as well. Should we nerf ADS flight speed?

pilots do have love over tanks and lavs dropships dont blow up on impact with swarms letting pilots bail as well as any outher clones probably 96% of the time a dropship goes down there are no clone kills and no battle feed to warn outher pilots of the swarms

Same thing happens to the Myron.

I was on Ashlands flying over the pipes to destroy uplinks, and a single forge shot flipped me 90 degrees and I fell to the ground before I could even react.

I mean, I fit 3500 shield HP to try and avoid getting instablapped, and it happens anyway because the AV will just throw me into things.

Your swarms that requires 5mil sp to spec into should not easily take down a python the king of dropships that requires 20mil sp to proto out, not to mention the fact that it's an armor based weapon. The ads should be able to sit and take at least 3 volleys, you should have to reload and finish a second into a fully fitted Python. What you may not understand is that the ADS has been nerfed to the point that it can't even use any proto modules without a PG upgrade which uses up the 1 and only low slot on the ship. HOW DOES A VIPER HAVE MORE SLOTS THAN A PROTO PYTHON???? If you're going to take on a python one on one it should be with the plasma cannon or other SHIELD based weapon because that's all it is. I like the RACIAL differences in this game and agree with the added intelligence requirement in strategically using the right TOOL for the job. YOU swarmers should not be able to knock around my ship like a redheaded trailer queen at closing time, and you should have to work a lot harder to knock down my shields with a missle. HONESTLY THE ARROGANCE THAT A 47k HANDHELD WEAPON (NOT HEAVY WEAPON) SHOULD JUST BE ABLE TO EASILY DESTROY A 600K PROTO SHIP THAT TAKES 6MONTHS TO SKILL UP INTO IS ASTOUNDING. The ADS should have enough time under fire to aim and release it's payload. Right now my python can be shot down by one wyrkomi swarm before I even get a chance to aim and fire 3times which is what it takes to kill a commando. I end up hurried and guessing at a few shots and running away. I would really like to sit outside the lock on range of a swarm but its nearly impossible to judge the 25m difference between missle range and swarm lock on range. In conclusion: MORE MODULES, MORE PG/CPU, DEVELOP COUNTERMEASURE FLARES, BUFF FIRE RATE BONUS 2%.


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Uhm wow, look buddy you are a product of the misrepresented idea of dropships. You want to be a gunship pilot and that's all well and good, but trying to make the assault dropship a gunship is bad m'kay? I understand its hard to shoot av when they knock you all over, but av is meant to kill or route you.
The strength of the dropship is the teamwork aspect (if you didn't know teamwork is op) fit some turrets and get a good gunner or two, I cannot tell you how many times my gunners have saved my python from av. While I'm focusing on flying they are focusing on dropping targets, with the way the camera works for the pythons gun door gunners can do a much better job than you can. There are some issues with this that are worth griping about, namely gunners being able to kill themselves and the horrible rotation speed of turrets.

Apparently, You just AV. If you did fly ADSs you would realize that a good pilot never relies on other team members & the pilot must take care of himself. Don't blow up on impact? Whoop dee ****!n doo. As soon as we hit anything at any speed, 9/10 our health is ZERO. So, It might as well explode on impact.

Also, How have we pilots have love again? Skills have been removed. Our modules have been taken away. Majority of our vehicles have been removed. Variety of turrets have been removed & have been all replaced by generic turrets & modules.

Pilot tears are music to my ears ...