You mean the build when people spawning on your DS or hitting it with your own SM would flip it over into a death plunge? Yeah, that was so great and "rewarding". I hate this bullshit about how much more demanding it was -- it was just borked to the point of being unusable and everybody who tried it knew that it will not last. "You got hit by anything and somebody spawned on board at the same time? You're now belly up and this pain is the planet breaking your back." That flight model made me play infantry until end of the build.

You mean the build when people spawning on your DS or hitting it with your own SM would flip it over into a death plunge? Yeah, that was so great and "rewarding". I hate this bullshit about how much more demanding it was -- it was just borked to the point of being unusable and everybody who tried it knew that it will not last. "You got hit by anything and somebody spawned on board at the same time? You're now belly up and this pain is the planet breaking your back." That flight model made me play infantry until end of the build.



Currently I have built a lovely Myron and added some nanofiber chasis mods -- I would dig that difference again if there was anything that I could use a flying speedcar for. Current WP system combined with map size gives me exactly 0 motivation to take my baby out for a ride.

Mix the nimbleness of the Precursor controls with the lower fragility of Codex and throw in reduced knockback from swarms and it will be perfect.

If you love dropships so much, why don't you just marry one?

Cause The damn dropship said no to me.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=418304#post418304

Well looks like there is a chance for some dropship love in the future. :)

Now just to reinstate precursor controls/mechanics back to dropships for flying them and I will be one happy pilot.

Well pilots I say lets spam for precursor controls now and see if we can gain back some more love. It could be a bright future for us.

gunners shouldn't be able to shoot their own ship , its over looked coding that really needs to be fixed. I believe that helicopter guns are mounted on gyroscopes stands that are configured to stop movement if the angle will hurt the craft and dust is in the future.

Also the universal sign of get out in a transport ship is the vehicle stops Im sure if drop ship pilots didn't try to use the ship like a halo jumping spawn point and peeled into a objective point low and fast and hovered people would jump out like a Vietnam huey.

Right now drop ship pilots get no love is because instead of using the ship like a transport they are flying in circles like a c130 gunship pelting one area like artillery and getting mad because people want you to transport them instead.

Mix the nimbleness of the Precursor controls with the lower fragility of Codex and throw in reduced knockback from swarms and it will be perfect.

Now for nano fibers they are useless this build. They suck this build. If you used them last build you would know why. I have tested them this build and they do so little it is not worth it.

But the new controls are awesome. actual skill required.

As a non pilot I cant speak from the flight controls , but almost every time ive been in a drop ship its usually a disaster.

gunners shouldn't be able to shoot their own ship , its over looked coding that really needs to be fixed. I believe that helicopter guns are mounted on gyroscopes stands that are configured to stop movement if the angle will hurt the craft and dust is in the future.

Ive probable rode on a drop ship longer than I should of for the fact that every time ive jump out timing a jump ive went flying into the red zone or 100`s of feet away from where I should of. Also the universal sign of get out in a transport ship is the vehicle stops Im sure if drop ship pilots didn't try to use the ship like a halo jumping spawn point and peeled into a objective point low and fast and hovered people would jump out like a Vietnam huey.

Right now drop ship pilots get no love is because instead of using the ship like a transport they are flying in circles like a c130 gunship pelting one area like artillery and getting mad because people want you to transport them instead.

instead of a light or a auto kick function , maybe when the drop ship is safe enough to be jumped out of the doors open or if that coding is to complex for processing power a blue shield is active when not safe and disappears when safe to jump.

One of the things demoed during yesterday was improved lag compensation which allowed better placement of missiles' launch point. Now there's much less deviation.

And do Dropships themselves get any love? I highly doubt it.

They've got a whole freaking game to make, you can't expect them to focus on the troop transports when a lot of the core game mechanics are still missing.

I'm keepin' the faith. CCP will deliver.

For those that think the whole "randoms don't get out" is because of flying I've repeatedly LANDED next to objectives and watched as people just sit in the dropship.

It's part of the reason you'll rarely see me use a dropship anymore unless I'm in a squad. Without the ability to kick people out a dropship with a CRU (in a random match) is more likely to harm the team by taking half of it out of play.

The only time I've ever seen people actually use the dropship as a spawnpoint that they got out of was when a swarm had caused me to end up crashed upside down in the middle of a base. And even then some people would try to use the guns before they bailed out.

It's a massive problem, I end up flying them into the redzone.
I mean, you can land on an Objective, you can hover above it, you can do flybys but none of them want to get out. It's like they think we're invincible.

I think the dropships are still top heavy and needs to be more center heavy.

I like the current controls now though its learning.