...Your own allied turret teams kills you by slamming you into the mountain building or ground.

..Your own gunners crash you as they accidentally hit your own dropship causing it to spin out of control.

...Somone spawning in the drop ship throws the roll extremly off.

...Somone exiting the dropship causing the tail end to flip up too much.

...nearly impossible to land as the camera shakes rather voilently no matter how slow yo float to the ground.

...still crash as a sudden gust of wind knocks your landing dropship into the ground upside down which at that point you're stuck if you managed to survive it.

...when you realize you're just better off not installing a cru (as you still dont get teamspawn points) and not having guns and just fly around as the worlds most expensive pinata for swarm launchers which BTW are much faster than a nanofibered up viper and more manuverable than your flying bus can possibly perform.

I can't even fly them, no literally i hop into the pilot seat and press the normal buttons for take off and nothing so i push and hold all the buttons and nothing. I switch my controls to southpaw and nothing, but tanks and lavs i can, must be a scout thing

I think it is too early to say that the new physics model is bad.

There are skills that affect the maneuverability of the dropships.

It may also take time to hone your own skills at flying them.

Before, anyone could jump in a dropship and fly them around no problem, now I can totally see them only being flown by people who REALLY take the time to practice and get good at them.

I think that is a good thing personally. Granted, it is HARD to sit in one place and provide cover, but it is more responsive and if you go too hard to one direction or another you can quickly lose control. Try making small adjustments and practice it.

I jumped into one, started flying, realized something was wrong when I did a barrel roll upon trying to land and grab some dudes up off the ground. When I jumped out something weird happened where I quickly started to ascend like I was superman, luckily I had a SL with me so I launched a couple swarms before dieing when I hit the invisible ceiling. Something is definitely wrong with the physics now, but it seems like everything else feels pretty good.

I didnt say it was profitable i said it was there, and actually quite fun.

I didnt say it was profitable i said it was there, and actually quite fun.

...Your own allied turret teams kills you by slamming you into the mountain building or ground.

... an allied tank kills you on accident as the resulting spin usually is a nose dive into the ground.

..Your own gunners crash you as they accidentally hit your own dropship causing it to spin out of control.

...Somone spawning in the drop ship throws the roll extremly off.

...Somone exiting the dropship causing the tail end to flip up too much.

...nearly impossible to land as the camera shakes rather voilently no matter how slow yo float to the ground.

... an HAV runs away and you choose not to chase it as doing so puts you in the right angle to get shot by it.

...still crash when a sudden gust of wind knocks your landing dropship into the ground upside down which at that point you're stuck if you managed to survive it.

...when allied forces causes more crashes than the enemies. (current score 4 allied, 2 hostile, 3 self)

...when you realize you're just better off not installing a cru (as you still dont get teamspawn points) and not having guns and just fly around as the worlds most expensive pinata for swarm launchers which BTW are much faster than a nanofibered up viper and more manuverable than your flying bus can possibly perform.

And before you tell me I suck as a pilot I got two more tanks painted on my dropship today one of which was a sagaris (lawl armor tanking sags) a few dozen infantry mowed down and airdropped two squads worth of folks safely. That is probably a hell lot more than average pilot since launch. I would like to thank the brave mercs that had some faith in me not to crash instantly. Had the enemy had the sense to use swarm launchers earlier I wouldnt be here braging bout post build kills.

Im having no problems at all with the new physics. It's harder to keep it steady so your missile gunners can hit stuff (that said I think alot of the time parked next to an empty tank still wouldn't be good enough for most gunners) but I think it's new found agility adds to the fun. So far iv not crashed it once fatally. And I had a doosey of a head on with another dropship! It's agility means that the npc launchers find it very hard to hit you. Landing it again, still no probs, just hover a meter or so of the fround and wait for the landing gear. Still hard to evade swarm launchers though. Would be handy if you got a lock on warning.

Overall, bar the cost. I prefer them this way. Feels alot more realistic, not like the old physics where it was virtually flown for you.

I still need to actually teach myself how to fly the damn things.

I keep trying to like dropships, but it seems like they just get worse and worse with each new build. These new controls are laughable at best, I really hope it's just a bug or a bad joke....

they just either went overboard nerfing them (which they did need a nerf they were waaay to easy to fly last build, it was basiaclly a hover tank) or they havent added the things that will stabilize them yet (pilot suit, propulsion) props to op for trying and suceeding some wtih them and you have every right to brag- a pilot who doesn't brag is just some guy.

the friendly fire effecting their physics is disturbing because then we just get grief by ppl who hate pilots but I'm sure they will work it out if not no ones gonna be flying dropships and despite what ragers claim CCP is not that stupid to just leave them like they are open to being grief by non enemy fire, the code was just not completed I'm guessing they didn't code in friendly fire vs non or idk but no one should scream about a sky is falling.. they want dropships to be in game but currently as they are it's not feasible really to risk them at such a high cost.

that said i dont have the isk right now to learn 2 fly them but I will be back once they get them worked out.. i'm having alot of fun on the ground anyway witnessing my first orbital strike was cool

give us an indicator when the landingear is down. since us pilots usually look top down when flying.
I think Square do something too. open doors or panding gear. im not sure.
They need to update the Pdf they gave out with all the new controlls.

I shot at some guy flying on my team. I was way out in the open, running towards him, and he took off. I put a few bullets in it to tell him to pick me up.

Then I watched him do a lazy half loop into a pipe and almost crush me with the burning wreck.


CCP philosophy: cars in the future have no traction control or 4wd, aircraft in the future explode if you sneeze on them, all vehicles shake almost until they disintegrate if they crash into anything, like for example if a bee hits the windscreen.

I called down a viper to see how the physics were. I liked them. think of barrel rolls and back flips as things that will break swarm locks. I also had no trouble with people spawning in and jumping out or shooting people with the turrets. I did eventually get shot down but it was a hell of fun flying around trying not to flip over

next time i can afford to fly i will have some dog tags with me, squeeze them in my hand and say things like "talk to me goose" i think that's maybe why i was shot down so quick.. and when my gunner is asking me "why the hell didnt you engage?" I will push that sob a remind him I WILL ENGAGE WHEN I'M GDAM GOOD AND READY!!!

It'll really be interesting to see how things look in a couple weeks and what people spend their SP on. I'm seriously doubting it'll be full-on into dropships. No way of earning SP without help (don't even get SP for spawns), massive price hike, significant SP investment.. not sure how badly I'm a glutton for punishment.

LAV is pretty damn amazing now that the drop ship got turned into a troop transport kite

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...The new ejector seat throws you into orbit.

a lot less sky trolls.

Good.

we need fighter jets in this game...

a lot less sky trolls.

Good.

If anything this would only encorage to dropship camping even more as parking the thing on the roof is the only reliable way to maintain presence.

we need fighter jets in this game...

New Dropship mechanics FTW!

I love the new mechanics. If you take the time to learn to fly the ship you can do a lot more with it now.

If you think it is hard then it is finally good. It will separate the good pilots from the useless pilots.

Ahh dropships... more and more I call you that because you just drop out of they sky!

Alright I am not a pilot but I am one hell of a drop ship gunner. I had to relearn gunning its different now but i got it down. So if any of you dropship pilots want a good gunner Add me on the contacts i will for sure gun for ya!