DUST Fiend
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
2815
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Posted - 2013.05.06 20:06:00 -
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Ahhh.
The dropship.
I'm a stubborn capricorn, and decided no matter what, I was going dropships. So, I went dropships.
Cool.
Well....yet again....wtf?
Why is it every time you "tweak" dropship controls, it goes from 1 to 11? These things have very weird and cumbersome mass, I don't even know what happened to the camera, something is definitely different. They feel even less responsive, and are much more difficult to maneuver, when it was already fairly difficult. There is hardly any upward thrust unless you tilt the ship almost completely backwards, and the camera just feels weird somehow as you try to pull up and the ship practically flips over, yet basically stays in place. You have to move very slow and are very easy pickings for rail guns.
I like how you buffed the CPU / PG of the Logistics dropships, thank you very much for that. The bonus to the Gallente logistics ship is ok I guess, though you'd think a reduction to PG would make more sense with armor.
I guess I'm skilling up to the Assault dropship because I literally have no idea what inspired you to do whatever it is that you did to the logistics dropship (at least gallente, with and without armor plates). I'm just hoping that by "more responsive" you mean the Assault dropships weren't completely screwed with, and can actually be maneuvered somewhat reasonably.
I'm going to let the prices and the vehicle shield extender bug slide since it's patch day, this kind of sucks but I'm sure it will be handled shortly.
Let's not forget the fact that we still don't receive any kind of war points for doing dropship related activities, so while our buddies are on the ground in nice cheap dropsuits, raking in the kills and soaking up the glory and the ISK, we get squat in both ISK and SP, even if we live the whole match. We're stuck constantly fighting against the controls and oddball changes of dropships, every single time this game changes. It's getting very frustrating and I know I will be trolled for this, but that's fine. I'm just disgusted with the lack of attention to dropships as a whole, I'm really hoping Assaults live up to whatever justified the butchery that currently is the logistic ship (at first impression, I will continue to attempt to wrap my head around this, but this is just absurd)
Plus. Now, I like that you split the vehicle and dropsuit skills. That's cool. What isn't cool, is that I can't do what I'm specialized to do because there is no freaking support for it from this game. Every time, it gets harder and harder to do one of the most difficult and least rewarding tasks in this game. I chose to fly a dropship because they were fun to fly, and I could support my team by helping them relocate quickly.
Don't get me wrong. I'm mad bro, but I get it; I went into this knowing that I wouldn't be getting compensated for my work. I just thought you'd keep at least one of my legs intact, since you already broke one of my arms, and the crutches are over there on the table....
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DUST Fiend
OSG Planetary Operations
Covert Intervention
2815
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Posted - 2013.05.06 20:34:00 -
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Now I know that was a wall of rage, but it's not like they're literally unpilotable. It's just feels like it's even more difficult, and not getting rewarded is going to kill off whatever is left of this profession.
Please make this someones priority, something needs to be addressed here. I will start researching what other games have done and see if I can't come up with some ideas, I know plenty have been thrown around here on the forums as well, but I will attempt to add something constructive to the mix, and bring some light to some that may have been forgotten. I just know that something needs to be done, other than continuously making things more difficult for dropship pilots, a fairly rare breed in the EVE universe as is. |