The assault dropship looks cool.
The problem? Still no defense against swarms, LoLmissileturrets and lav-like hp.
And standard dropships still don't get any WP for mCRU or moving people around.
Also, the assault dropship will be most probably advanced so people will have to waste a f***load sp just to test them.

This round i'll pass, no more dropships for me.

Basically since it probably has less HP, and less slots it will be an overpriced suicide box, not unlike the previous dropships but ..worse?

Also ladwar you are correct, the guns move to camara not the DS, if you look down thats whee the gun points and thats a hell targeting moment so we will need to keep the R3 to yawing when the A DSes fire, true it word be limited to aiming since the DS wil move after a moment but thats hwy I said it will be better against vehicles.

I really don't think it'll work that way hal and I don't see it being valid as an attack platform more then the current dropships are. but hey maybe it will and the video didn't show it in the best light but from I seen its not going to be better.

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.

The video didn't show it very well. Iron Wolf Saber said, I believe, that you can aim the turret down with the right stick.

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?

in fact shows that you can not aim down with the right stick for the turret and actually did not make any kills or even assist but did have a small number of hits and well lived past its crash with the other dropship somehow.. so explosive paint has been nerfed some.

The reticle was fixed in the center of the screen and did not bob as the dropships nose did. I believe the pilot in the video just didn't bother using the camera control on the right stick at all. It makes sense as they would just reuse the remote repair aim mechanism. Small movements wouldn't be noticed as it is the view that shifts, not the reticle.