The entitlement of some vehicle specialist just sickens me sometimes. Instead of looking at vehicles as one guy with the power of a squad, see it as a force multiplier. Without a team of foot soldiers you're gonna get blown up because the mean ol' AV are out of reach but if you coordinate an attack with squad mates taking and defending an objective would seem like an pain. Or you can just hop in a maddie an wreak sh+»t up.

Kalente, musturd, radar, many others can clear a room solo, seen it multiple times. They can have the power of a squad, should we nerf them?
Yet the ADS equivalent of them (NOT me) cannot.

The entitlement of some vehicle specialist just sickens me sometimes. Instead of looking at vehicles as one guy with the power of a squad, see it as a force multiplier. Without a team of foot soldiers you're gonna get blown up because the mean ol' AV are out of reach but if you coordinate an attack with squad mates taking and defending an objective would seem like an pain. Or you can just hop in a maddie an wreak sh+»t up.

Individual skill shouldn't be a balancing factor in a game plus all the good ADS pilots along with most other vehicle specialist to. I'm not disagreeing that something ain't wrong here but your approach sure is.

There are a handful of people that can do exceptionally well in Pythons even at the highest level of play.

I actually really like that it's a small group of specialists who can operate these vehicles properly, and that they are difficult to use.

Just because a dropship is expensive doesn't mean it should be able to fly around the map without a care, disregarding AV.

So yeah **** swarms, go other AV(**** tanks too ya'll are either godly maddys or Redline rail assholes)

There are a handful of people that can do exceptionally well in Pythons even at the highest level of play.

I actually really like that it's a small group of specialists who can operate these vehicles properly, and that they are difficult to use.

Just because a dropship is expensive doesn't mean it should be able to fly around the map without a care, disregarding AV.

A tank, which is also a vehicle that takes very little skill to kill with, would laugh at that.

Ha!

Tanking takes FAR more skill than any infantry role.

The problem is though that the risk vs reward is not lucrative enough for ADS pilots. How is it fair that my Dropship costs at least 100K more than your best Protosuit, but it's way less effective? Just because you 'like the thought of this core group of ADS specialists', it doesn't make the whole state of pilots ok.

Good pilots are few and far between. Why is that?

BECAUSE ADS'S SUCK!

when compared to ADS -_-

It should not take 10 seconds for an AV player to kill a python, or make it run away. A tank, which is also a vehicle that takes very little skill to kill with when compared to ADS, would laugh at that.

It should not take 10 seconds for an AV player to kill a python, or make it run away. A tank, which is also a vehicle that takes very little skill to kill with when compared to ADS, would laugh at that.

You can't compare a tank to a dropship in terms of how much damage they should be able to withstand. Dropships are not supposed to be flying tanks. They should be much more fragile than tanks.

I'm not saying dropships are perfect, but they're not nearly as bad as you're making them out to be. A lot of players, including myself do pretty well in them.

Yeah the problem is the AV weapons are balanced against tanks, some say they aren't good enough against tanks atm, but they are almost certainly too good against ADS.

Just because a dropship is expensive doesn't mean it should be able to fly around the map without a care, disregarding AV.

The entitlement of some vehicle specialist just sickens me sometimes. Instead of looking at vehicles as one guy with the power of a squad, see it as a force multiplier. Without a team of foot soldiers you're gonna get blown up because the mean ol' AV are out of reach but if you coordinate an attack with squad mates taking and defending an objective would seem like an pain. Or you can just hop in a maddie an wreak sh+»t up.

To OP; you are probably a terrible pilot.. I can have three different fits on my python and survive roughly 3 AV. If you let a forge gunner hit you with just two shots, stop flying now. You need to be able to make them miss at least one and no that doesn't mean flying in a straight line back to the red line. Although I do agree the python needs a SLIGHT buff to resistance of swarms and nothing else. The main probably with python is swarms are hitting the dropship with the damage buff it should have against armour. Also the range on swarms are nearly difficult to run away from but manageable to do.. While I read countless posts about how pythons need a buff, I want you to sit back and think "is it the python or do I just blow nut sacks".... I'm going to guess the second choice.. If you have any experience in flying dropships you should already know how to move to dodge the swarms or make a forge gunner miss at least one shot. But there is no way in hell does the python need any sort of hp buff but a mere slight buff to the resistance to swarms.. Forge guns are currently balanced in my opinion and no complaints there.. My suggestion to you is stop sucking.

extremely poor 0/10

but i can't expect any better from a FA.g

As for dodging swarms, you have never flown a python before LMAO! Dodging a forge gun is easy work, you can't dodge swarms buddy. I don't have any problems with forge gunners, just with swarmers and rail tanks that fire enough damage to kill me in 2 seconds (the red-line ones). Please fly ADS before you go on your scrub butthurt reply rampage

CCP i have addressed what i believe to be the MAIN issues surrounding why the python is a broken record. Please address these, don't keep sweeping them under the rug, us pilots exist too! From the unbalanced AV-ADS perspective to low eHp there are a lot of things wrong with the python. I mean, we are the ONLY vehicle in the game that cannot shoot back if we are being shot at!

FIX US

TL,DR: If you aren't going to change it, REMOVE IT!

Well if you sit there with your thumb up your bum of course you aren't dodging any swarms. I learnt how to from Derrith. And an ads is not supposed to be a flying tank. It has and was always supposed to be a fragile vehicle with great power (which it is) so before you rant anymore and make yourself sound and look anymore stupid (downy) think about what you are about to say.