I don't think dropships are useless, they are pretty great for shooting swarms at! I wish more people would fly around in dropships and shower me with WP.

Oh, also you can't put uplinks on roofs without dropships, or rain prof 5 rockets on the objective for 15 minutes straight, or scan a whole map for an entire match, or... Well I could go on.

An uplink has no hp, can be dropped by any weapon, doesn't move (except when being thrown.)

A dropship can have decent hp (not an ads) can move freely about the battle field, usually has someone defending it with the side turret.


I'm gonna say that uplink is really looking strong. you know, unless someone gets 300 wp or within melee range.



But in all fairness. The stupidly small maps ruin dropships. What exactly were CCP thinking by making some maps smaller and adding in even smaller ones, when redzoning is already such a problem.

I suppose that makes sense why CCP would attach this to DS' "Able to traverse the battlefield virtually unimpeded, the dropship is the perfect way to get infantry into and out of hotspots".

Descriptions are irrelevant, only the reality of in game assets and tactics matter, which rarely if ever favor troop transport save the initial drop at match start. Dropships are too fragile and / or slow to extract troops, maps too small to justify wasting time playing taxi, along with far too many options for allies to spawn where needed.

Standard dropships are still a joke vs dedicated AV, and only see use as disposable elevators and suicide coffins for those lacking the required skill to best properly flown ships.

i run DS or ADS nearly every single dom/skrim. their ability to put uplinks in high spots or take uplinks down from said spots is infinitely useful, 100x more than someone flying around with an MCru.

Have you ever actually played a match of dom on the tower map?

1st ones to the roof = winners

What do you mean?

Death taxiing from an incubus?

Squishing people with a grimsnes?

Not exactly efficient for troop transport. However, they are pretty good for getting to high places quick, and taking out snipers.

I wish dropships were more useful outside of rocket spam too. Uplinks need a serious re-working.

Well, to be fair, Buwaro, the new tactical 300 WP strike is severely underused. It's pretty good for stopping uplinks up high. If it had a bit better hit detection or went through things like walls and structures (looking at you Null Cannon tower) smart SLs would be clearing Uplinks way faster and more efficiently than DSes often.