DUST Search - Dropships have no opportunity

Pvt Numnutz wrote:

What fit were you using? With a complex hardener and an enhanced heavy shield extender I can shrug off most swarms and even try and fight them. The only ones that I have to run from regardless of resists and tank is the minmando with wikis.

I have more of a problem with the fact that av v ads is balanced around a single turret dropship with tank shields and hardeners. There isnt really any interesting fitting options, you need an afterburner, you need a hardener and if you want that hardener to make an actual difference you need to fit an extender. This all means you have no fitting what so ever for side guns.
Gunnnner fits do have to run constantly, you can't fit a good enough tank and you can't use a hardener because it blinds your gunners defeating the purpose of gimping your ship in the first place. I've been playing around with a solo dropship and its really fun to be able to actually fight against swarmers, fighting forge guns has always been fun and challenging. when a dropship actually fights back against swarms is really depressing. It's like they have no idea how to actually fight when their target is fighting back.
Nothing about a swarm fight is fun, instead of being fun its just tedious and that has everything to do with there being no skill involved on the swarmers end.

"Dying with your rep tool out - the logi-flasher!" Who hasn't been caught by a cute little female scout doing this?


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Balistyc Farshot MONSTER SYNERGY 297	Posted - 2015.07.14 14:36:00 - [1] - Quote Pvt Numnutz wrote: What fit were you using? With a complex hardener and an enhanced heavy shield extender I can shrug off most swarms and even try and fight them. The only ones that I have to run from regardless of resists and tank is the minmando with wikis. I have more of a problem with the fact that av v ads is balanced around a single turret dropship with tank shields and hardeners. There isnt really any interesting fitting options, you need an afterburner, you need a hardener and if you want that hardener to make an actual difference you need to fit an extender. This all means you have no fitting what so ever for side guns. Gunnnner fits do have to run constantly, you can't fit a good enough tank and you can't use a hardener because it blinds your gunners defeating the purpose of gimping your ship in the first place. I've been playing around with a solo dropship and its really fun to be able to actually fight against swarmers, fighting forge guns has always been fun and challenging. when a dropship actually fights back against swarms is really depressing. It's like they have no idea how to actually fight when their target is fighting back. Nothing about a swarm fight is fun, instead of being fun its just tedious and that has everything to do with there being no skill involved on the swarmers end. I haven't ran an ADS in a while because I changed over to tanks when the new frames came in, but swarms shouldn't be a problem. You seem to think the ADS is an attack chopper. It isn't! Use it to strafe and push around infantry before dropping in a heavy, logi, and a couple of scouts/assaults. Those 4 will clean up any minmando rocking swarms and you get to see that he lost more isk in that one av fitting than you did in the whole ADS. I liked when the prices came down on all vehicles, so we need to stay away from this AV versus infantry discussion. It is in a great place right now. My tank can push around an objective unless I get greedy or stay in 1 place too long. Same with an ADS. If you get greedy, you are asking to be blown up. If an infantry man is behind cover and you are trying to maneuver to get that one kill, you are doing it wrong. Strafe!!! Fly around, drop in infantry, while your infantry engages, engage the infantry, then leave before 2 minutes has passed. This will see your ADS perform the hit and run/drop and run tactic it was meant to do. Vehicles have been solo beasts, but we need to see them as vehicles! BTW - You are lucky. My ADS used to get downed by tanks a lot lately, not swarms. Redline rail snipers!!! "Dying with your rep tool out - the logi-flasher!" Who hasn't been caught by a cute little female scout doing this?