DUST Search - Assault Dropship

gbghg wrote:

HeavySteelB52 wrote:

Garrett Blacknova wrote:

HeavySteelB52 wrote:

Well that's great that really sounds unfair, they can take more damage and can shoot you from a longer distance. Now if Dropships had more HP that would be nice. I find forge guns annoying too, Im assuming that whatever is taking almost if not all my shields down without my Dropship even moving is a forge gun.

Fly more than 5m from ground level and a tank can't aim that high. Get directly above (or close to it) and even when they fix turrets so we can aim up more than 10 degrees, you'll be able to bombard us safely and easily.

I'll have to try that out, thank you for the tip. Big smile

But then some douchebag with AV comes along and starts shooting. I have to say, I've been putting quite a lot of thought into whether ADS will be viable in Corp battles, and I seriously think they're not. 1 guy with militia AV is enough to close off areas of the map to an ADS and that's in a pub match with randoms on the other team, a full coordinated enemy team would either kill it, or render it all but useless.


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HeavySteelB52 Turalyon Plus 12	Posted - 2013.05.11 01:22:00 - [1] - Quote I was flying my Assault Dropship and was being shot at from a long ways away and at first had no idea what was shooting at me as the missiles where zooming past me. I saw the detection they where coming from and headed over that way to find out it was a tank. So at this point I was a good distance away from him and I knew it was a tank because if the icon and he was moving. When he was shooting at me his missiles would zoom by me and had I not been doing my best to dodge them they would of hit me but when I would shoot at him the missiles wouldn't even reach him. My question is are tanks able to shoot longer distances then Assault Dropships?
HeavySteelB52 Turalyon Plus 12	Posted - 2013.05.11 01:33:00 - [2] - Quote Well that's great that really sounds unfair, they can take more damage and can shoot you from a longer distance. Now if Dropships had more HP that would be nice. I find forge guns annoying too, Im assuming that whatever is taking almost if not all my shields down without my Dropship even moving is a forge gun.
HeavySteelB52 Turalyon Plus 12	Posted - 2013.05.11 01:39:00 - [3] - Quote And maybe extended the range of Assault Dropship turrets. I understand large missiles go farther and that's cool but swarm missile are small and those things chase you for a while.
HeavySteelB52 Turalyon Plus 12	Posted - 2013.05.11 01:47:00 - [4] - Quote gbghg wrote: CCP hates dropships, accept it, move on, get used to being shafted every time something is changed. Extract from "life of a mercenary pilot" - by gbghg Yes I'm getting used to it and won't stop flying because of it.
HeavySteelB52 Turalyon Plus 13	Posted - 2013.05.11 01:51:00 - [5] - Quote Garrett Blacknova wrote: HeavySteelB52 wrote: Well that's great that really sounds unfair, they can take more damage and can shoot you from a longer distance. Now if Dropships had more HP that would be nice. I find forge guns annoying too, Im assuming that whatever is taking almost if not all my shields down without my Dropship even moving is a forge gun. Fly more than 5m from ground level and a tank can't aim that high. Get directly above (or close to it) and even when they fix turrets so we can aim up more than 10 degrees, you'll be able to bombard us safely and easily. I'll have to try that out, thank you for the tip.
HeavySteelB52 Turalyon Plus 13	Posted - 2013.05.11 02:16:00 - [6] - Quote gbghg wrote: HeavySteelB52 wrote: Garrett Blacknova wrote: HeavySteelB52 wrote: Well that's great that really sounds unfair, they can take more damage and can shoot you from a longer distance. Now if Dropships had more HP that would be nice. I find forge guns annoying too, Im assuming that whatever is taking almost if not all my shields down without my Dropship even moving is a forge gun. Fly more than 5m from ground level and a tank can't aim that high. Get directly above (or close to it) and even when they fix turrets so we can aim up more than 10 degrees, you'll be able to bombard us safely and easily. I'll have to try that out, thank you for the tip. But then some douchebag with AV comes along and starts shooting. I have to say, I've been putting quite a lot of thought into whether ADS will be viable in Corp battles, and I seriously think they're not. 1 guy with militia AV is enough to close off areas of the map to an ADS and that's in a pub match with randoms on the other team, a full coordinated enemy team would either kill it, or render it all but useless. I agree, I know if I see more then like 3 Merc of the same Corp in a battle I hesitate to bring out a Dropship and if I do and I see things are getting messy I recall that 800,000 floating paper bag lol, I'm not afraid of dying I'm afraid of loosing 800,000+ so fast with little to show for it.
HeavySteelB52 Turalyon Plus 13	Posted - 2013.05.11 03:05:00 - [7] - Quote Maybe some changes for Dropships May 14?