a HMG takes down a dropship pretty easy. Get in a drop ship, fly up, hop out, kill snipers at close range. Or take a shotgun up with you.

To beat a tank get swarm launchers. Or remote mines, I love soloing a tank with mines. And AV grenades.

HMG's don't even kill militia infantry. Does even less to a Dropship. And if the HAV driver is any good, you should never get close enough to explode him/her.
@Proto
Hell yeah, can you imagine te fire fights on those stairs :) +1

Going up there is a good trategy and since ANYONE can do it, there isn't much problem. Though I think that militia Vehicles should only have one call per map.

DUST to hard to swallow for ze fps proz?

Poor you the EVE universe is harsh and if you cannot adapt you will get eaten. This issue has NOTHING to do with balance it''s called tactics and use of game mechanics.

There is very little honor in EVE what counts is the fight and the win.

Go look up some EVE news and see how people get screwed over before you can make any relevant complaints...

EVE is not 'balanced' when someone gets the upper hand in some way.

There was one game where we, the attacking team, got all the clone reserves popped or taken, and had control of the last defender spawn point. If one side gets into such a position then they deserve to lose big.

No fair fights, except everyone has the chance to fight.

This isn't EVE the game will fail because they tried to build it to much like EVE.

The game is only going to fail if they make it a clone of the six thousand other shooters out there. EVE is the only MMO to have consistent profitable growth since launch, why in the world would they not make use of a winning formula?

What a silly thread.

Having dropships on top of the towers is not a glitch, its making effective use of high ground. Drop ships are meant to fly high up, if they weren't CCP would have put a glass ceiling much lower.

If you don't like them, fly a drop ship up yourself and kill them. Throw drop uplinks on the tops of other towers, giving yourself a spawn point at their level. Aim upwards with a swarm launcher or forge gun. Spawn a tank on top of a second tower. There's a hundred ways to deal with this, crying glitch isn't going to get you anywhere.

Yes its not a glitch, I fly dropships for a living in dust. Ive flown that high just having my guys inertia dampen down to the objectives. Ive rammed ships off of those towers and watch them and their suits fall to the ground, If you don't like it then listen to those that have given you great ideas but unless you didn't see I'll reiterate

1. Get a dropship and fly up there
2. Get a swarm launcher (even if you don't see it move around a bit and even if a slight bit is showing the lock on will find it)
3. Get a Forge Gun (this might not work if they are hiding by the middle, but in order to fire down they must be close to the edge)
4. If none of those 3 don't work out for you, GET ON COMMS AND ASK SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT.

Yours truly, MPR11
Dropship Ace.

I think that a Swarm Launcher can solve a lot of problems in those cases!

QFT

you're not really helping the cause if you simply refuse to ever use an AT weapon anyway.. like what would YOU do if they fixed the draw distance and the sound effects/damage indicators? still die?

I'm not sure why you went through 5 drop ships... I played on a map where there was a game of freaking musical chairs going on up there. Drop ships would come up from behind one of those towers, set down, then the dropships start jockeying for positions on different towers until someone stopped the music. It was pretty intense. It's not like you get a full spread on the battlefield once you've landed or that you're guaranteeing your team's victory by perching up there like some ugly beetle.


Well now we know that the guys in Dropships at the top of the tower won't get any love from you TLC, no matter how many times they try to holla at you with their missile salvos from the side of their best friend's ride.

Forge Gun can easily hit that then.

Try it out instead of complaining while you only use your "gun game"

Even if you manage to take them down, what is the point when they can just call in another dropship and get back into position in half a minute?

Why should players have to waste their time trying to counter these exploits anyways? While the rest of us are actually playing the game, should a fraction of our team and the enemy team be playing a game of cat and mouse with dropships and swarm launchers? It's stupid...

HA! lol ive played a cpl games with this jerk off and all he does is complain on comms

goes ahead of everybody and complains when nobody is helping him cap an objective

reminds me of my roomate

yells at people on the mic in mw3 for camping and half the time he is camping while doing it and if that dosent help
he sends hate mail thru my account :(

QFT

you're not really helping the cause if you simply refuse to ever use an AT weapon anyway.. like what would YOU do if they fixed the draw distance and the sound effects/damage indicators? still die?

why do you keep him as your roommate???? sounds like you're one of them masochists

look you little pansies. THIS IS WAR. there is no FAIR PLAy. you KILL OR GET KILLED.

if your too stupid to get a better strategy to get an advantage then you deserve to die.

if you dont get in a dropship and patrol those towers your going to get whipped on from the skys.

is the C-130 gunship noob too? because all that thing does is circle around the battlefield reigning hell.


in eve online there is GATE CAMPING- a legitimate strategy. Spawn point camping is the SAME EXACT THING but in first person. so freaking get a drop uplink and DEAL with it. stop coming on the forums and crying about me and other dropship pilots decimating your team.

valid tactics vs dropships. - Get in a tank. get in a heavy suit, get a forge gun, get a drop uplinks all over map, get your own dropship with gunners, get on comms and develop tactics to fight them instead of sitting here moaning and groaning about how CCP has made a great game and your too sucky to play it the way it needs to be played.

NO MERCY.

i will sit on you, even if i get 0 points from it because you know why? people on my team see im a good pilot and then they get in the gunner seat then its all over.