Thanks for the info! Hopefully this will allow me to fly above tanks and drop remote explosives on them. Or allow my Heavy to travel anywhere I want :)

I agree, a good gunner should move around and lead the target to account for ship movement. Me and tebow rained hell on some guys last night. It's all about alittle skill and communication.

I'll be on later, I'm sure we can squad up even without a mic we should do fine

Could someone give me the lowdown on how to stop? Like, I'll be moving along, then I'll want to slow down to give my gunners a good shot...but I kind of just whip all over the place. Is there some way to stop quickly, or do you have to bank all the way around to slow down?

Also, <3 cycled missile launchers, so good vs vehicles. Last build I used to have a blaster and a missile launcher (blaster for enemy dropships) but you don't see them enough to really justify it right now.

How would it cap objectives?

Wel tebow that second gunner should have known that the first gunner tested that small rail and decided that a missile launcher works better. But maybe I'm just better with missiles lol

Has anyone had any luck with fitting a remote rep on a dropship and repping another vehicle's shields or armor?

So I got an awesome air to air kill today (sure my gunner gets official credit, but read on)....


I'm in my Prometheus, orbiting high when i notice an enemy Eryx DS. I've got altitude and my random gunner isn't landing any shots, so I ignore him and we both happily harvest infantry kills. Eventually, we both get forced skyward by groundfire, so we start mixing it up. were both making highspeed passes trying to get the advantage. Its obvious this is going nowhere...

Kitten it. I'm full shields. My autorepair is ready to go. Let's do this! I thrust hard, pitch back and make him eat my landing gear. He starts pitching and rolling, trying to get his flaming dropship under control. I kick on my repair module, pitch down and yaw left. The pilot bails before my gunner lights up the dying Eryx, killing the 2 remaining crew.

Remind me never to fly with people who aren't on comms, there goes 1 million ISK to idiot gunners >_<

Today I have DS a spin supposivly a hot fix was put though (but not file updates... odd).

Whatever the heck ccp did I can acutally fly the darn thing without crashing it now.

Now that I said that I am probably going to start crashing again.

Just flew against Sikhids. Quality flying man.

From an RP perspective, why are dropships so ridiculously hard to fly? Think about it.

Set altitude. Rotate. Push in a direction. Let the computer take care of the rest. The Balochs seem to fly themselves just fine. Why would the dropship designers make it so hard?

From a PS3 controller perspective: why is it that different from a soldier's controls, beyond the addition of altitude?