DUST Search - Dropships Actually Works Great

Baal Roo wrote:

Moochie Cricket wrote:

Makyre Vahliha wrote:

Moochie Cricket wrote:

Try flying a dropship in a PC battle and let me know what happens

You'll be surprised at how well my squadmate can fly during a tight battle. A lot of people get hard-on trying to shoot him down, but he gets away a lot. But having gunners is a whole other story. My squadmate screams at me when it comes to me shooting down certain targets. But that's because he knows his dropships well and I'm still trying to improve being a gunner.

I've been flying dropships since they were free in the closed beta so I like to think I'm one of the better pilots. Regardless, if you get ambushed by a proto forge then no amount of flying skill will help you.

Exactly. The problem is that the high end expensive dropships are only marginally better than the cheap-o starter dropships, but the proto-forge guns and swarm launchers are WAAAY more powerful than the low-end variants. So, as you skill upwards into dropships, and your opponents skill upwards into AV, the dropship actually gets WEAKER.


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Nguruthos IV Namtar Elite Gallente Federation 95	Posted - 2013.05.28 00:39:00 - [1] - Quote Moochie Cricket wrote: Try flying a dropship in a PC battle and let me know what happens See that redline rail a mile behind enemy lines? Of course you don't, but it sees you..BOOM, BOOM BOOM. Dead. Too bad you were [anywhere on the map] flying [anything] costing [at least a million isk]. Where as the guy that just killed you had [possibly zero SP], [possible zero isk suit], [or possible wasn't' even a player, just ridiculous AI]. Ahh, what am I kidding, you probably just had an RDV spawn inside you instead.
Nguruthos IV Namtar Elite Gallente Federation 95	Posted - 2013.05.28 00:55:00 - [2] - Quote Baal Roo wrote: Moochie Cricket wrote: Makyre Vahliha wrote: Moochie Cricket wrote: Try flying a dropship in a PC battle and let me know what happens You'll be surprised at how well my squadmate can fly during a tight battle. A lot of people get hard-on trying to shoot him down, but he gets away a lot. But having gunners is a whole other story. My squadmate screams at me when it comes to me shooting down certain targets. But that's because he knows his dropships well and I'm still trying to improve being a gunner. I've been flying dropships since they were free in the closed beta so I like to think I'm one of the better pilots. Regardless, if you get ambushed by a proto forge then no amount of flying skill will help you. Exactly. The problem is that the high end expensive dropships are only marginally better than the cheap-o starter dropships, but the proto-forge guns and swarm launchers are WAAAY more powerful than the low-end variants. So, as you skill upwards into dropships, and your opponents skill upwards into AV, the dropship actually gets WEAKER. This x1000 drop-ships scale so poorly in relation to their AV counterpart. At ten times the ISK and SP cost. All this, with a starting line of militia FG > militia drop-ship. Easily two shots dead and militia drop-ships are a joke as far as survivability. From there the disparity only get's worse.
Nguruthos IV Namtar Elite Gallente Federation 96	Posted - 2013.05.28 01:20:00 - [3] - Quote Makyre Vahliha wrote: .... We're getting too technical about how a dropship can be taken down. It's just like in real life, anyone can shoot down a military helicopter with a RPG in one shot, which is equivalent to AV weapon. I'm saying that one can be skilled in flying a dropship with practice, but not being invincible. Get outta here with that 'real life' garbage. Please. In case I needed to remind you, we're playing a game. Games need to be balanced to be fun, if I wanted to play real life I'd turn off the PS3. And how technology might scale billions of years in the future likely won't mimic Earth, year 2013.