I am building this thread for dropships pilots to share opinions and also attach feedback threads to. I have fully invested my skill points into the armor assault dropship. I plan on going over each area that needs to be worked on in general for dropships.

I will be breaking down the dropships down into parts to go over so I do not just have one gaint thread. I will be talking about things like the new front turret, handling, turrets in general, survivability against AV, and more as it comes up.

I would like you guys to link me to threads in here that you think are useful or just put down you comments. I want to build a better dropship for our future use.

I feel that all pilots can agree dropships have improved this build but they have a ways to go. We have to fully dedicated SP into them so they are truely are only way to play the game. That means they need to have the same bang for the buck that assault dropsuit players gain. We do not have that.

CCP has shown improvement so lets see if they can continue to listen to us to make this game more diverse.

So pay attention I will try to gett a turret thread up tonight and attach the link here. I will bump this thread as things update.

The gallente ships are a bad thing to measure dropships on right now, they have some major handling issues. The python (caldari ADS) is a dream to fly, has a decent tank, deadly to tanks with proto cycled missiles, and so manoeuvrable you can pull off some crazy turns in that thing. And I heard a corpmate call a logi ship a "bumblebee" a description that fits it so perfectly I might rename my eryx fit to it.

Ya but the one problem with your shield dropships is that you can be 1 shot out of the air. A proto breach foge can end your day with a single shot where in my armor I can at least last it.

I have to agree with the handling issues of a armor dropship. No idea about the caldari though.

In my armor assault I am so floaty it is insane it is constantly floating which is ridiculous. something I am going to talk to later. Really need to squad up with someone that has a shield assault dropships and test it out.

you should have gone shield mate^

plus 2 turrent damage mods it packs a punch 20% damage bonus on a front ION cannon, iv been wiping out tanks, installations, infantry etc... and its perfect for a dogfight^

these new dropships are quickly become the main predetor in DUST 514 the only counter measure is these bloody OP forge guns that are just a nusance when trying to put down effectice fire :/

Other than other tanks they are currently the only thing that can kill tanks. But very slowly...

New python pilot here. How do other assault DS pilots (especially python) perform solo attacks? Hovering seems difficult because you have to point nose down at the target (losing altitude fast). I have considered level fast attack runs but keeping the reticle stable while in motion is challenging.

Thanks for advice

New python pilot here. How do other assault DS pilots (especially python) perform solo attacks? Hovering seems difficult because you have to point nose down at the target (losing altitude fast). I have considered level fast attack runs but keeping the reticle stable while in motion is challenging.

Thanks for advice

New python pilot here. How do other assault DS pilots (especially python) perform solo attacks? Hovering seems difficult because you have to point nose down at the target (losing altitude fast). I have considered level fast attack runs but keeping the reticle stable while in motion is challenging.

Thanks for advice

Use the third person view and use the right stick to move the turret up and down, the first person view is useless for the exact reason you described. Since the ads seems to have an inherent forward drift you'll spend most of your time flying over a target turning then flying back over them. If you push the right stick down it maximises the amount of time you can fire in the target, kills your forward view though so make sure your clear before you do it, your liable crash otherwise. And whatever you do, don't linger in one place too long, your liable to get hit by AV.

Also don't under estimate how high blaster turrets can shoot, those things tear through dropships if you give them the chance.

Could someone tell me how to avoid SL Swarms?

I can never pull it off, is it a case of outrunning them, or getting an object between you, and them?

Could someone tell me how to avoid SL Swarms?

I can never pull it off, is it a case of outrunning them, or getting an object between you, and them?

Thus far I have killed 2 militia tanks, 1 myron, 10 infantry, around 4-5 LAV's, and probably around 20 turrets. I have many more assists on all of those things. I have also sent 2 tank running for the redline, and kept a madrugar hiding under a building fir over half an ambush. On the downside I've probably lost around 15 pythons, it's been an expensive learning Curve.

Give us assault runners the ability to shoot out of a dropship if we are not manning the turrets

well I see that as to much if they were using heavy's and even light weapons, but if its side arms and when the doors have been opened (press X) then yes that would be more then fine.

I've been flying the Viper exclusively while waiting for the Shield Extenders to be placed back under vehicle skills just so I wouldn't burn my way through my wallet so fast.

I figure that getting used to the increased inertia with the slower ships will help getting the hang of the more agile ADS.


All the info on the new ADS is great, but does anyone have feedback on dropping troops with the new squad size?
Has anyone in a corp taken advantage of inserting 5-6 of your team on top of an objective? If so, what are your experiences? Is this as OP as I think it will be?

Could someone tell me how to avoid SL Swarms?

I can never pull it off, is it a case of outrunning them, or getting an object between you, and them?

I just wanna see a option to invert my camera on dropships.

New python pilot here. How do other assault DS pilots (especially python) perform solo attacks? Hovering seems difficult because you have to point nose down at the target (losing altitude fast). I have considered level fast attack runs but keeping the reticle stable while in motion is challenging.

Thanks for advice

I've been flying the Viper exclusively while waiting for the Shield Extenders to be placed back under vehicle skills just so I wouldn't burn my way through my wallet so fast.

I figure that getting used to the increased inertia with the slower ships will help getting the hang of the more agile ADS.


All the info on the new ADS is great, but does anyone have feedback on dropping troops with the new squad size?
Has anyone in a corp taken advantage of inserting 5-6 of your team on top of an objective? If so, what are your experiences? Is this as OP as I think it will be?

I've been flying the Viper exclusively while waiting for the Shield Extenders to be placed back under vehicle skills just so I wouldn't burn my way through my wallet so fast.

I figure that getting used to the increased inertia with the slower ships will help getting the hang of the more agile ADS.


All the info on the new ADS is great, but does anyone have feedback on dropping troops with the new squad size?
Has anyone in a corp taken advantage of inserting 5-6 of your team on top of an objective? If so, what are your experiences? Is this as OP as I think it will be?

has anyone else noticed that the crash damage wasn`t fixed on some objects? (like that D bag militia DS ramming me or the RDVs).

My Python runs me 1,491,420 atm i feel like for that kind of a price we should at least get another 250 shields rather than having the same shields as a myron.

I lost my first and only Assault DS to an RDV when I was practicing back in my spawn. It came in from underneath and took me out before I hit the ground. A milliion ISK down the drain.

What modules/turrets are you running that runs you that much? I'm only at ~1 million, and I'm capping both my CPU and PG, and that's with the high-end missle turret.