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.

Killed four players with the ads with a missile launcher turret. Ate 4 crashes, one swarm, rail gun shot before having to abandon ship and finish on foot.

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.

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.

To shoot you have to point down

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.

i don't know what a bombing run is

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

You mean like in every helicopter in the real world and in every video game?

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.

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.

FPS view is still god awful too.

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

It's the only way their comments make sense

ftfy

It's like the gunship from Battlefield dude. The turret is on the nose and you aim by moving the whole aircraft. Put on some cycled missiles and you have same helicopter from BF3. At least this time the pilot will get kills and WP. Also don't depend on useless gunners.

That's a jet. Try that maneuver with a lunar module and peashooter tied to the nose.

My first thoughts too. This does seem completely cumbersome. As if flying and dodging AV isn't hard enough now you have to be in a flight trajectory to the ground in order to hit someone with a small missile?

Yeah. Don't know what I expected but that seems very disappointing.

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.

turret is on the aircrafts nose, the nose points down towards the ground because it's a VTOL craft, to move it needs to tilt, by tilting fowards, nose points forwards, down towards the ground. what exactly is the problem here?

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.

Yes go ahead and explain me what a bombing run is with our useless missiles. Really curious about that.

It's the only way their comments make sense

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.

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

bambi on ice?

I only have a couple of hours of flight time but i really do not see what the problem is.

Is the Assault Dropship main weapon equivalent to a large or small turret?

Yes go ahead and explain me what a bombing run is with our useless missiles. Really curious about that.

I hope that they fix missile cause now they are just for fancy decorations.

How are LAVs if you dont mind me asking are they still like bambi on ice?

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

I hope that they fix missile cause now they are just for fancy decorations.

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.

Was hard to tell, did assault DS have two side turrets as well?

Yes

Gun was y axis only so you have to get used to aiming while remaining level, I foresee great pilots pulling this off quickly gunning a squad or a tank down then flying off.

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.

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.

Well from the look of the current uprising gameplay the caldari assault dropship seems to have 1334 shield and 962, looks like it has 1 passive shield mod too, can't tell the type

I knew it was a matter of time until a post like this.
FFS its not even may 6 yet and you're b!tchin!!!!!
Grow up.

Well from the look of the current uprising gameplay the caldari assault dropship seems to have 1334 shield and 962, looks like it has 1 passive shield mod too, can't tell the type

that it appears useless.

Questions:

Base HP?
How much PG/CPU?
How many slots?
Was that STD or ADV?
Cost?

I'm just taking numbers from what I can see on this youtube vid assault dropship bit starts at 2:25
http://t.co/JisnUYruFI
Really wish I could of gone to fanfest, would have loved to try all the new stuff out.

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.

Lower flying? ...

And they didn't even raise ceiling in general?

You mean like in every helicopter in the real world and in every video game?

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.

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.

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.

Yet a tank pilot can drive and control the turret. No one should be arguing realism.

Yet a tank pilot can drive and control the turret. No one should be arguing realism.

tank- ground vehicle where you can stop and aim without moving the vehicle in which to do so
dropship- air-borne vehicle where you can NOT stop and aim without moving the vehicle in which to do so.
see the difference.... that's why its bad to have the pilot as gunner as well as the pilot.

This looks like a whole new game. I can't freakin wait!

+1 for you miss. the aim moves you further more and some people in the forums seem to me to be crazy to think some of the things they think.

Yes

Can I point you to battlefield? They have a spinal mounted weapon on the AH and that thing is pretty damn dangerous. Lets wait until we've all tried using them before we declare them useless and unworkable.

Can I point you to battlefield? They have a spinal mounted weapon on the AH and that thing is pretty damn dangerous. Lets wait until we've all tried using them before we declare them useless and unworkable.

I'm one of the main DS pilots for Dead Six Initiative (Ladwar's corp), and I gotta say that I'm pretty sure I'll be able to aim these things relatively easily. Currently, I put targets directly under my nose and point straight at them so both door gunners get an equal shot. Now I get to do the exact same thing I was doing before AND do damage on my own.

I'm one of the main DS pilots for Dead Six Initiative (Ladwar's corp), and I gotta say that I'm pretty sure I'll be able to aim these things relatively easily. Currently, I put targets directly under my nose and point straight at them so both door gunners get an equal shot. Now I get to do the exact same thing I was doing before AND do damage on my own.

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.