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Scout Hunter II
SVER True Blood
Unclaimed.
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Posted - 2013.02.03 19:33:00 -
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They are expensive and just kinda fly around. Seen tanks win battles, but never dropships |
Keira-Stormborn
Ostrakon Agency
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.02.03 19:45:00 -
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If people work as a team sure, but the majority of players in the majority of matches will never do this outside of 2-3 friends in a squad. |
gbghg
L.O.T.I.S.
Legacy Rising
371
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Posted - 2013.02.03 20:58:00 -
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Don't insult dropship's you don't see a lot of them because when you give someone the choice of driving a tank and racking up the kills or flying a dropship and only getting assists and spawns most people choose the tank, plus dropship's are hard to fly. However even a squad of 3 in a dropship can make a big difference, they're a great way of harassing the enemy and moving people around the battlefield. However you don't see a lot of them in pub matches because they're are simply too valuable to waste on them, only time you see dropship's in pub matches is when someone is learning to fly or are testing out a new fitting |
Vyzion Eyri
The Southern Legion
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Posted - 2013.02.03 21:14:00 -
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Once a pilot can fly steadily and smoothly, any gunner who hopes into the turrets can easily get kills. Before then, though, the only damage you'll deal to enemies is that of the corrosive vomit your passengers spew overboard. I know from experience, and days spent with a mop. |
gbghg
L.O.T.I.S.
Legacy Rising
371
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Posted - 2013.02.03 21:16:00 -
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Vyzion Eyri wrote:Once a pilot can fly steadily and smoothly, any gunner who hopes into the turrets can easily get kills. Before then, though, the only damage you'll deal to enemies is that of the corrosive vomit your passengers spew overboard. I know from experience, and days spent with a mop.
Or ramming any decent dropship pilot will have crushed at least one enemy to death |
Irish Syn
Chernova Industries
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Posted - 2013.02.03 23:13:00 -
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These are dropships, not gunships. They are not meant for combat. What they are meant for is transporting troops across vast distances between bases. Have you ever pulled up your map and zoomed all the way out? Would you really want to run across that or drive a LAV across the rough terrain when you could quickly and smoothly get there in a dropship? However with the low player count and small maps that we have at the moment, this role isn't critical so players are trying to adapt the dropships into a role they are not designed for.
Also you don't see many dropships because they are expensive and have a broken war point system (you don't even get WP if someone spawns in your ship, really?). |
howard sanchez
Conspiratus Immortalis
448
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Posted - 2013.02.04 01:49:00 -
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Yesterday I was in a random solo pub skirmish on the new manus peak.
We were behind, redlined and in danger of being locked out.
A solo player called in a viper in the backfield, parked it by the cru and when 2 or 3 blues hopped on he ferried them over the far 2 objectives. Out they jump and, voila, no more redline. Game on.
Dropships can change the game. We just have to try doing different things to win. |
Templar Eight
Amarr Templars
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.02.04 01:54:00 -
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Keira-Stormborn wrote:If people work as a team sure, but the majority of players in the majority of matches will never do this outside of 2-3 friends in a squad.
Keira is right about when in a team is works well!
This is still beta and not much to do except ambush and skirmish.
The mistakes I've seen in my past combat play throughs is that players use Dropships as Gunships which is fail concept. Sure you could build a pretty decent tank sit up for your Dropship but its made only for pick ups and drop offs all over the map. Not to search and destroy.
I'm pretty sure CCP will be bringing out a combat fighter/gunship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCIPDUh7NmM Skip to 5.44 to see the gunship.
Sure, it's an old video but the concept is done so it's possible to have them later on. |
OMI43221
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.02.04 20:48:00 -
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You also have to remember that dropships were hit hard when missles were nerfed. 1 pilot and two gunners in a drop ship spamming missles down on everyone use to be 'the thing'. Since they nerfed missles so hard there really isn't a single weapon that works well in a drop ship. |
Scheneighnay McBob
Bojo's School of the Trades
1058
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Posted - 2013.02.04 23:00:00 -
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If the people can work together, you won't find any thing more dangerous than a dropship with good gunners dropping a bunch of shotgunners and HMGers on your head.
Keep in mind the real weapon is the crew- but blasters can still pack a punch |
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Rekon Syport
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.02.04 23:18:00 -
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Yes, we have a couple pilots that have flown our squad to top 1-4 simply cloning the cherries entirely from drop ship combat. Rare, perhaps, but shows it can be done. 1 pilot, 2 gunners, 1 drop man to finish off any that run off wounded towards the horiozon. |
Irish Syn
Chernova Industries
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Posted - 2013.02.04 23:30:00 -
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OMI43221 wrote:You also have to remember that dropships were hit hard when missles were nerfed. 1 pilot and two gunners in a drop ship spamming missles down on everyone use to be 'the thing'. Since they nerfed missles so hard there really isn't a single weapon that works well in a drop ship.
Again that's trying to use the dropship as a gunship. Really I've found the primary uses for the turrets on the dropship to be for shooting down incoming missiles and picking off snipers from mountain tops. |
Martin0 Brancaleone
Maphia Clan Corporation
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2013.02.05 07:10:00 -
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Dropship are good if the gunners can fire decently without overheating the blasters and if blue dots spawn on it and, more important, actually drop and go take the objectives. |
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