Oh look pilot controlled turret, really nice now that would be usefull if you wouldnt need to put the nose of the dropship into the ground to hit some 1 below you. Cause you can only shot something thats stright infront of you. Just bollocks if you ask me.

Looked like they were able to move the turret around independently.... But feel free to make snap judgements :P

FPS view is still god awful too.

I assume most people saying its fine here haven't even touched a dropship.

This, but before this gets any further, I think we should actually wait for them to arrive and try them out before we start saying their crap.

Can't you already look up and down without pointing the nose with the right thumbstick? If that's not how you control that turret's pitch, I sure hope they change that soon.

I mean, it's under the nose, right? It should be able to pitch up and down.

Front gun too shoot other drop ships not ground troops perhaps? You still have gunners to shoot downwards.... if the perspective is OK from those positions.

I fly derpships all the time and am looking forward to FPS fire.

Ever since hearing about the assault derpship I've been flying strictly in first person and it doesn't take long before you can circle a target and keep them in your sights.

That said, Blam said on IRC a while ago that the turret moved. I believe we came to the conclusion that it only rotated on one axis using the available control stick.

I really tired to show off the nose gun but the camera wasn't looking at the right times.

Lack of better explanation they drive like an armored sports car. New throttle on trigger controls are awesome.

If aiming was not an issue on my end I would have scored more kills.
Rail gun nose was weird and hard to use as are the blaster nose gun. Also all models don't look like blasters anymore.

Yes

I`ll look more into it but we do know about the Assualt dropship is:

its low flying.
its weaker.
highly menuvarable.
has a turret in additon to the side turrets but the front one is for the pilot.
its STD or ADV, so inless they give us sevral of them we will still not have proto DSes.

It had better cost about 15k ISK fully fitted if it can't get much over 2k eHP because its going down to OHKs from a variety of AV weapons.

Probably, on the plus side they won't be as large a detriment to the team as there's less space for blueberries to lounge around in.

I can see doing a curved / circular strafing maneuver, but without increased CPU / PG or enhanced defenses, I don't see it being able to handle swarms or even one well placed forge gun shot, nevermind all the plasma cannons and rocket pistols we'll be seeing. You'll have to stick lower to the ground if you want to do any sustained damage, and that's a really scary place to be in a weaker version of todays dropship.

I withhold all judgments until I get my hands on them, though just from what I've glimpsed, it seems that dropship pilots may still have quite a long climb ahead of them. Have they said whether or not dropship pilots will finally start earning some kind of WP in Uprising?