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

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

...or that proto av hiding behind a rock...or better yet will not even render until it is too late.

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.

This post fills me with some confidence that the playerbase is not totally full of strategically inept mouth breathers.

The amount of people I've seen who just want a flying tank, rather than a dropship, are staggering. Good to see they can actually be used and used well.

alot of people just dont notice there there,,
they just do a little explosion by my feet knocking my health down by 20 .. and me wondering where it came from.
there not rally a threat.
if some 1 tried abit to take it out it would be toast,
i find myself just ignoring them

INB4 DUST Fiend goes ballistic

This post fills me with some confidence that the playerbase is not totally full of strategically inept mouth breathers.

The amount of people I've seen who just want a flying tank, rather than a dropship, are staggering. Good to see they can actually be used and used well.

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.

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

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.

Flying dropships in pub matches is easy for a good pilot. I rarely ever go down unless I'm being way too aggressive or just dicking around. The problem is as soon as the enemy has ANY real AV on the field you're absolutely worthless and can be swatted out of the air with ease.

In other words, the balance at the lowest common denominator end of the spectrum is fine, they just don't scale up to "proper" organized play.

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.

So, as you skill upwards into dropships, and your opponents skill upwards into AV, the dropship actually gets WEAKER.

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.

5 dropships lost in one PC match, they can be useful if AV is light, but if they get a high position with 3 forge gunners your toast.

The moment you start to become useful is the moment AV players go balls out

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=80606&find=unread
Bastards had 3 forge gunners on the tower in E7, made it impossible to do anything but fly at high altitude and die.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Honestly, 3 Forge Guns in an elevated position SHOULD make it impossible to do anything with a dropship. That's perfectly good balance IMO. The problem is, it really only takes 1 decent forge gunner anywhere with an even halfway decent vantage point to make it impossible to do anything with a dropship.



In real life a soldier can take down another soldier with a single pistol round. I guess ALL the guns should be OHK then, amirite?

Now, is the front turret on assault dropships still useless to them?

In real life, the Helicopter pilot doesn't have to grind a few more battles on the ground to get another helicopter, because he's probably dead.

Depends on what you fit, how accurate you are with it, and how long you have to shoot the damn thing.

Figured that. Seems like you would need an extremely lucky shot with a missile or railgun to kill anything on the ground, or tons of time to take out another dropship.

And how technology might scale billions of years in the future likely won't mimic Earth, year 2013.

Unless that technology increased to a point where "real life" could be simulated, and the "human" race is living inside a simulated version of reality.

carry on