Well once upon a time I could fly a dropship expertly and so precisly it was like bread and butter.

Now I cant manage to keep the thing to stay upgright.

but seriously its so easy to flip the dropship its not even funny anymore.

hopefully this stops people using them as dive bombers.

I'm assuming they'll be implementing pilot suits and pilot skills any day now. They'll require some real dedication, which is a good thing.

I'm assuming they'll be implementing pilot suits and pilot skills any day now. They'll require some real dedication, which is a good thing.

This seems like the most likely reason for the **** show that has become piloting. What gets me is why implement the ****** physics separate from the pilot dropsuit?

the dropship was a bit overpowered.. i was flying it with one hand practically, one of my gunners xveneryx went like 38/0 twice.. average was about 20/0.. the only thing that opposed us was multiple proto forge gunners.. swarm launchers were a joke. i actually felt sorry for the other team.

i'm anxious to see the changes and learn to fly the new one. if it can be mastered with practice and something to do with the pilot suit making it fly better it might be pretty cool, and give the dedicated pilots more pride in their role.

a pilot without pride or an attitude is just some guy

the dropship was a bit overpowered.. i was flying it with one hand practically, one of my gunners xveneryx went like 38/0 twice.. average was about 20/0.. the only thing that opposed us was multiple proto forge gunners.. swarm launchers were a joke. i actually felt sorry for the other team.

i'm anxious to see the changes and learn to fly the new one. if it can be mastered with practice and something to do with the pilot suit making it fly better it might be pretty cool, and give the dedicated pilots more pride in their role.

a pilot without pride or an attitude is just some guy

I can't even land this stupid thing now, it isn't fun to fly, it 'rolls' and 'floats' all over the place. I could never drop anyone at an objective now, I'd lose half my shield, be taken out by anyone with a forge gun, can't provide a stable targeting platform for my gunners, will give you sea-sickness from crazy screen shakes just from LANDING and I'm not spending millions to replace it.

RIP Eryx, I loved you, but now you're a floaty metal coffin.

The physics change is beyond a bit extreme UNLESS this is all balanced out by a pilot suit and additional skills. One touch and you're upside down...and good luck to touching down to picking someone up without losing half your shield, landing from one foot above ground does damage.

At the Options part where you remap your controllers, there-¦s an option for dropships.

I-¦ll try the different loadouts to see iif any of them are the old controls.

I suck completely with this new dropships =(

At least the vertical speed is nice compared to the previous.

woa,, what?? we can remap our controllers??! is this DS3 or just KBM?????

This is probably the difference - pilot suits should give bonuses to flying these. This is CCP logic in Eve, so why wouldn't they implement it here?

I'd have though the Dropship skill would provide some of it. I know that low LAV skills mean the LAV skids and slides all over eh place. But pilot skill and suit makes sense. The suit is just not there.

At the Options part where you remap your controllers, there-¦s an option for dropships.

I-¦ll try the different loadouts to see iif any of them are the old controls.

I suck completely with this new dropships =(

At least the vertical speed is nice compared to the previous.

Just get Gud. Took me five myrons to finally figure out the trick to the darned thing. And, I have to say, it's KITTEN AMAZING

the dropship was a bit overpowered.. i was flying it with one hand practically, one of my gunners xveneryx went like 38/0 twice.. average was about 20/0.. the only thing that opposed us was multiple proto forge gunners.. swarm launchers were a joke. i actually felt sorry for the other team.

i'm anxious to see the changes and learn to fly the new one. if it can be mastered with practice and something to do with the pilot suit making it fly better it might be pretty cool, and give the dedicated pilots more pride in their role.

a pilot without pride or an attitude is just some guy

Its taken all of 40 of my dropships so far. I cannot function as a dropship anymore, only as a fighter without guns or players.

Get gunners, and fly the thing like a fighter. You can easily dodge swarms and forge guns now. Also, buffer tank to the hilt.

Uhm gunners bail and nobody wants to spawn despite being near stragetic places, they cant handle the high speed they get sick and its simply unsetteling for most occupants.

Good F__king luck with your dropship practice - hope you have 38 million in isk in the bank to learn with, and lets not forget that you are also being shot at while your practicing. LMAO There goes your KDR and WP.......

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

Good F__king luck with your dropship practice - hope you have 38 million in isk in the bank to learn with, and lets not forget that you are also being shot at while your practicing. LMAO There goes your KDR and WP.......

Just watching someone flying one of these things makes me feel seasick. They wobble all over the sky like drunk ducks.

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

lol, i wanna see the faces of the poor corporation of guys who get steamrolled by a blitzkrieging team of marauders, vtols, and dropships that keep coming back. Some of these EVE corporations make money faster than they can throw it at a Dust corp ingame.

Let it be known.....

When things get serious among political wars in the EVE universe, prohibitive costs in Dust are a non-issue.

yea no sht goon and test are chomping at the bit to show these elitist how things get done in new eden

in eve you can win a battle but the war is won economically..

these noobs have yet to learn this and it's gonna cause some epic tears when it goes down..

I'm no dropship pilot, but i had a few vipers lying around. In my opinion the drop ship feels MUCH easier to fly. Maybe i haven't ****** around with it enough or something, but i like the no DS's.

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

I just dont like how I cant do my dropship job anymore...

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

learn 2 fly. Good drivers and pilots will become one hell of a commodity. No corp wants a player who loses more than he is worth. If you can get good, you will be highly desired.

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.