Gabriella Grey
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Posted - 2013.06.08 02:11:00 -
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I have experience as both a Sentinal/Forge Gun user and Dropship. The biggest problem with forge guns is dropships are an easy to spot target. HAV's and LAV's have a bit of lead way being that they are on the ground. there are tons of things that obstruct a forge gunners view of them. Also not to mention seeing that glowing forge gun from a HAV is much easier compared to being 1000 of meters in the air. I read in previous post Dropships speed was decreased a bit a while back, and it makes running from just anyone who decides to shoot rockets at you hard to pilot defensively. I do miss being able to use ACM (Air Combat Maneuvering), and mass to make lock on missiles hit sides of mountains, buldings or simply explode inches behind the ship. With forge guns there should be a roll off of damage depending the distance between them and the dropship, so just like the "fun factor," has been added to LAV's and other vehicles, I think dropships should have a fighting chance against them. I hope that CCP if they plan on producing a HUD interface for pilots to know about forge guns, or perhaps something to skill up where it detects forge guns and rockets in a reasonable area would be amazing. A few other things I think that dropships could benefit from also is there is a jerking glitch with the turrets that are manned by passengers. When you aim too close to the front of the ship they jerk upwards making it hard to track or lead your target. Another known glitch is if you are ever shot out of the dropship, and try to re-spawn in a logistics dropship or board back onto an assault dropship it glitches as if you are not moving anywhere until you jump out and the pilot calls it back and rez another. There also seems to be a huge issue with small railguns, and even more so when on a dropship. They do not feel accurate, when compared to missiles and blasters. It seems that even with direct hits small railguns only do splash damage. Last thing I noticed with dropships is no kill assist while you are piloting are given to the pilot like they are in tank. Other than that anything else that could be brought up are really searching hard for something wrong with dropships. I am sure CCP will soon give dropships their day to shine like everything else. |