If you know anyone with a copy of BF3, try chopper flying on there. it feels somewhat similar.

Um... They fly like helipoters now. I like it

Helicopters really dont fly like that.

At least you can do a barrel roll. ;)

It feels REALLY sluggish for being a heavy vehicle in the sky with only thrusters holding it up. Very hot air baloon feeling, as others have said.

I like the new abilities of control, it just seems gravity and rotational controls are underpowered. I'm ok with inertia, but a rotational (left-right) spin needs to be improved.

Still playing with it, trying to figure out what feels wrong.

I like that it's more challenging though, while offering more control-- hopefully some agility tweaks will help it be more nimble, not just a hard to fly boat in the sky.

This probably explains why I cant have a gunner for more than 2 seconds stay in.

Ill tell you what is wrong with it, its unable to strafe left or right or fly backwards.

Helicopters should be able to do that these, 'vtol fighters' we have can only fly straight and cant even peform a simple z axis manuver.

tilt backwards and hit up, it'll go backwards that way.

We cant be friends if you cant do barrel roll. K?

tried that lost all lift and tail dived into the ground.

if I could get in a game I'd try more things..

Who the hell gives a **** about KDR or ISK when this is all gonna be wiped anyways....

bro chill.. just because our ships raped u last build dont mean u need to rage about it now.. we have our place on the battlefield as so do you.. so stfu with your elitist crap.. you'll get raped again by our ships in due time when we figure this out.

btw i can afford about 900 dropships once i transfer my EVE pilots isk to my merc so your point about isk is moot when the actual game goes live.... so yea i have abit more than "38 million" in new eden

Like providing airground support cover for a capture point?

Or repairing an HAV?

I like the new dropship phisics, it feels like an helicopter.
I also like that not everyone will be able tu fly the dropship, only skilled people will use them.

You have nooo idea...

yea i had a big smile on my face until hit with a swarm launcher and fell into a squad of 16 enemy infantry but at least i killed there medic before they waxed me lol

naw, like trying to get the sense of why this passed CCP approval.

I need to get in more games with the super cheap dropship fit I made and just crash a dozen or two trying to map it to my brain.

finally got in one game which was a huge snipe fest (cool map tho) and pulled out a cheap dropship but someone wanted to gun so we went down in a blaze of glory when the first swarm laucher hit ;)

I like that I can rotate left-right while hovering, but I'm trying to get over it's huge sluggishness.

I got caught on a side of a mountain and couldn't get off for 20-30 seconds, as it had rolled and up wasn't' working.. I finally hit down to roll it down (upright) to be able to go up again. so weird.

update: I'm starting to get the hang of it, it just drives like a boat.