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TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.21 16:02:00 - [1] - Quote yea forge gun and turrets can knock around a dropship but it's not that hard to recover if you're not too low u just have to relax when it happens and not over steer
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.21 16:43:00 - [2] - Quote Asimov Black wrote: Kain Spero wrote: In case you don't know what this maneuver is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S6RNWE0WKQ I've heard the forge rounds knock the dropships around is this true? Yeah, it is a pain, but you can recover. Also if the dropships beeping, all passengers please disembark or die. Sorry to the three who didn't make it, I almost recovered but the armor repair didn't recharge fast enough... I just don't know what went wrong... We did manage to distract the entire enemy team for the entire match... yea i lacked gunners but our squad had a tank so i loitered above them and basically provided a distraction and made the other team nervous while our tank camped them in old communications map area
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.21 16:46:00 - [3] - Quote AC2AW-LEEROY wrote: After finally bringing up a couple of drop ships I found they were not as hard to fly this build as i had read they were still hard but I could keep them level , hard part seem to be slowing them down to land or circle firefights on ground also seem very easy to knock out of the air. seem to need to be some place inbetween last build and this one yea slowng down is the hardest part, it will make random gunners bail because there not getting a level shot
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.21 16:48:00 - [4] - Quote GM Unicorn wrote: After the patch I was totally unable to flight straight. After the over9000 Gamescom battles and some puking passenger, I was able to achieve simple flying and few loops and barrel roll without closing them with a faceplant. I feel that new controls are more rewarding when mastered...even if I still feel like that http://tinyurl.com/dropshipzz I assume we have some new toys coming soon from the pilot suit and propulsion modules?
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.21 20:54:00 - [5] - Quote Volek Tahn wrote: I'm the type of pilot that flies fast and hard, if you're ever in my ship, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry... People that pilot their dropships as slowly and carefully as old people drive their cars won't make it far as a pilot in this game... There's a time for both IMO depending on the situation.. No gunner is going to stay with if you're flying all over the place every moment and you will get no vehicle assists for their kills because they're not getting any.
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.21 20:57:00 - [6] - Quote Sees-Too-Much wrote: Huh. So that's how you avoid swarms. I need to get into a DS more often so I can get some practice. Lousy homework... The advice I've also been given in a thread I made "dropship vs swarm launcher" advised me to find a tower or some other hard cover to make the rockets hit that instead..
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.21 21:38:00 - [7] - Quote Rhadiem wrote: I'm curious what the average life expectancy of a dropship is now, after the 10 mile swarm launcher launch range + supersonic speed boost. As a guy who killed tons of Sagaris, Surya, Eryx and Promethius with the Swarm Launcher in E3 build.. they did not need this massive massive buff. The new characteristics are annoying too. /soapbox about 2-3 minutes from my xp.. enough to get a squad where they need to be and maybe get about 3-4 kills on the way there
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 11:07:00 - [8] - Quote PlayA Hater wrote: How many swarm launches can you take in your dropship? I usually die when a second full volley of rockets hits me, so I can survive one. Then again I'm only using the militia stuff all round. Any advice on which dropship to aim for and which modules to go for would be appreciated. I kinda just want to be able to stay alive for longer and take more damage. Thanks about 6 but my shield HP is about 3470
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 11:10:00 - [9] - Quote TEBOW BAGGINS wrote: PlayA Hater wrote: How many swarm launches can you take in your dropship? I usually die when a second full volley of rockets hits me, so I can survive one. Then again I'm only using the militia stuff all round. Any advice on which dropship to aim for and which modules to go for would be appreciated. I kinda just want to be able to stay alive for longer and take more damage. Thanks about 6 but my shield HP is about 3470 myron if you have shield skills, gorgon is you have armor, i hear the gorgon is tougher but slower tho
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 11:11:00 - [10] - Quote dropship crew FTW, fueld by tears

TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 11:17:00 - [11] - Quote yea the militia dropship is trash.. you can fly it for about a minute and gunners get maybe 3-4 kills on average, the myron shrugs off all but the most advanced SL and gunners sometimes go double digits..
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 11:24:00 - [12] - Quote PlayA Hater wrote: Thank you guys for the help, I think I'm gunna start pouring skills into dropships then now I know they can take abit of damage and are worth while you'll just to put up with a bunch of smacktalk from morons who think their high kill counts on leader boards mean something special.. you'll find a consistent squad very easy tho if you fly well..
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 11:37:00 - [13] - Quote Tailss Prower wrote: TEBOW BAGGINS wrote: PlayA Hater wrote: Thank you guys for the help, I think I'm gunna start pouring skills into dropships then now I know they can take abit of damage and are worth while you'll just to put up with a bunch of smacktalk from morons who think their high kill counts on leader boards mean something special.. you'll find a consistent squad very easy tho if you fly well.. that wasn't pointing out it was special just that normally me and my gunners work well enough togather that win or lose we still showed them hell while having fun i wasn't refering to you
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 17:19:00 - [14] - Quote Tailss Prower wrote: TEBOW BAGGINS wrote: Tailss Prower wrote: TEBOW BAGGINS wrote: PlayA Hater wrote: Thank you guys for the help, I think I'm gunna start pouring skills into dropships then now I know they can take abit of damage and are worth while you'll just to put up with a bunch of smacktalk from morons who think their high kill counts on leader boards mean something special.. you'll find a consistent squad very easy tho if you fly well.. that wasn't pointing out it was special just that normally me and my gunners work well enough togather that win or lose we still showed them hell while having fun i wasn't refering to you oh my bad :P is ok bro.. +2 to fellow pilot when the null sec wars happen we'll get more recognition maybe for our role.. as it is now the community basically craps on us good dropship/pilot and good gunners cause the enemies rage meter to rise and go off the charts, making a bunch of enemy infantry go AV which weakens their offensive power on the ground vs other friendly infantry, then they get so raged that they go out and try to kill the survivors of the crash.. best to fly your burning ship out to BFE/middle of no where causing them to the leave the ground fight to try to kill the crash survivors, we 3 killed like 4 out 6 of them and their LAV before they killed us 3 crash survivors.. cheers and laughter ensued on our mic.. a wiser man from another MMO once said: "a pilot without an attitude is just some guy..."
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 17:45:00 - [15] - Quote ^^^ Sees I don't have the luxury of taking exact count of SL's my new ship can take, I had to take my best guess.. I made a new ship with the SP I had banked up after you logged out. The Viper is trash.
TEBOW BAGGINS FIREFLY ATLANTIS ENTERPRISES UNLIMITED TACNET 549	Posted - 2012.08.28 17:53:00 - [16] - Quote Sees-Too-Much wrote: I wasn't even referring to that, though I'm sure we gave them much more of a fight than they were expecting. I'm referring to the DS pilots who claim they can "easily" avoid swarms. I have yet to find such a technique. Perhaps...more altitude? I have noticed that the DS seems to go faster when you're higher up. BTW, CCP, we need an altimeter and spedometer in our dropships! Also, someone earlier mentioned shield rechargers. I'm going to tinker with my fits later and see if I can get a more effective fit by using rechargers rather than boosters. my bad sees.. confusion abroad today lol.. i had some luck with rechargers last build.. it's like a passive shield tank in EVE.. it's really hard to say if a booster or chargers is better. I'm wondering if we're getting capicitors on the ships soon, where boosters take cap like they do in EVE. that would be sick if we both flew dropships the same match, with one gunner on mic each.. (+a random gunner or none at all, as long as we have 1 gunner each on the mic) and then coordinate attacks from the cockpits next time we squad.. see you next time

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