You say it's hard? It sure doesn't feel that way to us.

Do you have any idea how hard forges and rails are to use? Especially on fast targets and far away targets? It's not like we're pussyass swarm launchers with trackers- we practice to be able to hit ya'll at the speed and ranges you move at. Ain't easy.


However, dropships definitely need a huge HP and speed buff. 30%, at least. The answer is not to nerf, but to buff. Buff dropships.

It certainly is not easy, well... unless your like right there in our face. Most times when I destroy them they are a few hundred meters away and I have to lead my shots and time it with your speed. , not to mention the arch that also begins to take place afer 150m or so. I have had a hard time killing ones who maneuver well in the sky, I don't have tracking rounds. Countless times I have ran into ones where I miss , miss and miss because of a dropship pilot who does alot of sudden stops, banks , rises, dips making himself unpredictable. If your just sitting there hovering in the sky , don't expect to not die quickly.. your just sitting there in the damn sky

Okay, I've had a bad night with dropships, lost quite a few to tank railguns and had several forge guns being utter douchebags too, so this is a rather bitter and biased post. Having lost quite a few dropships tonight to tank railguns I decided to go have a look at their stats, and what struck me most as the main reason I lost so many dropships was the charge up time on them. 1.8 seconds on the standard railgun, 2.2 seconds on the compressed.

Now the base damage for those are
Standard (standard level)
1106.9
Compressed (standard level)
1383.6

So assuming the tanker hits with the first shot and With the second he can do at least 2213.8 damage in 4 seconds, now seeing how the dropship pilot won't know he's being shot at till the first shot hits he has 2 seconds to react to something that just took out 1/3 to a 1/4 of his health. To put that into perspective 2 seconds is how long it takes a module to activate or to build up a dropships acceleration in any given direction.

To put it simply, more than anything else the main reason railguns (and forge guns too, particularly the assault variants) are so deadly is due to their ROF which combines quite horribly with its damage.

He is correct. Ex dropship pilot myself. They are the med fighters are gona be light and they haven't released any info on the heavy.

Edit: if you want an idea of what it feels like, it's like a high level shotgun which cannot you across 90% of the map.

A shotgun that cannot what?
Hit, 1-shot, miss?

Sorry, stupid ipad, doesn't register the space then autocorrects the word, it's fixed now.

Edit: if you want an idea of what it feels like, it's like a high level shotgun which can hit you across 90% of the map.

Ah ok.



You mean like a sniper?