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It hit me in the "weak spot" of the ship. Which constitutes about 30% of the vehicle.

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http://tinypic.com/r/npnryp/5

http://tinypic.com/r/r23ww5/5

It hit me in the "weak spot" of the ship. Which constitutes about 30% of the vehicle.

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They should shrink the damage spot on the dropships to the exhaust area.

lol, no.

They need, more HP

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I've had the same thing happen to me. I was at full health (about 5k eHP) and got 1 shotted from the back, even if it was a forge that dealt 3600 damage a 30% damage boost doesn't equal 5k. Close but no cigar, I should have had 500 ish health left which would have gave me enough time to active reppers and use my afterburners to get away.
My dropship I was using was 2682 armor with 23.5% resistance and 1710 shields with 10% resistance.

More HP doesn't solve the Forge gun two shotting a dropship.

It's perfectly okay for a 1.5 million ISK, 12 million SP medium vehicle to be 1 shot by a hundred thousand isk weapon with a tenth the SP. virtually out of nowhere with no warning and no way to prevent it.

And this, we call, balance.

I have heard about weak spots on vehicles, but i can't say I've ever noticed any damage difference. Are there really differences depending on where you hit?

On another note, I will beat the dead horse and say proto FG's are quite strong to STD vehicles.

On another another note, DS's have the short end of the vehicle stick. Using a HAV, can normally one shot most, on rare occasions two. I may be giggling gleefully on the outside, but they can't be useful if they're getting blasted from across the map. The LAV's last longer than dropships, and cost a fraction of the price. At least give them the speed and tank of a LAV. LLAV's will take 4 direct hits from a proto rail turret before popping.

34 meters away with a Breach. Did he have a good hiding locked-in-spot-charged and waited for you to pass by? Or after dying did he spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to stalk a dropship, is that even possible?

No infantry weapon should be able to one-shot a medium class aircraft. It may be realistic but this just breaks game balance when there is currency involved.

-1 for trolling a dropship kill. That is beyond tactless.

LLAV's get a crazy resist rate on top of a impressive tank, that's why they take so long to kill, and when you add in all the ground cover they get....

Because that's happened to me several times. Just this time I took a picture lol. The distance is irrelevant as a FG huts the same from 3 feet as 300 feet. If they tapered off over distance then it would be riskier to be around them but there is no trolling here.

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Or slightly more commonly something like this: "We got hit by a FG out of nowhere, now we're burning with 300 HP left. I instantly activated my after burner that we'll assume every DS has even though they don't, but it takes two seconds to kick in!. Except that Assault FG has a cooldown of 1.8 seconds Base per shot. And he can lower that even more with skills! Too bad, It's been one whole second, and you just took the second shot for 90% overkill of your HP. Glad so much player skill went into this whole episode!".

So you don't consider him sending a mail gloating about the kill to be trolling?

The 34 meters however is odd. How was he that close to you with a weapon that has a terrible RoF and leaves him locked in place while charged? I was half bracing myself to hear people have found a way to FG surf on LLAVs.

Minor correction here, proto assault forge gun has a charge up time of 2.5 seconds lowered by 25% to just under 1.9 seconds. Let's stick to the facts shall we? ;)

I'm almost POSITIVE that damage dealt value is that players total damage dealt for the match and I've stated this before in other threads.

lol no. That's not how it works. Although sometimes it bugs and says '0'

Than explain how an Assault Rifle can do 3,500 damage to my Assault Suit.

I'm always floored that people still want to nerf the one and only player skill based AV weapon in the game... Proto swarms do massive damage to armor tanked drop ships and they don't even have to aim the thing.

They ruined the purpose of the DS when they increased the downward angle of the mounted cannons. that should have never happened.

They should have just left them as the player transport blimp. A well fit Eryx used to take 6-8 shots to bring down with a proto forge and 2 complex damage mods.

Well they decreased the downward/frontward angle for the last couple months due to a bug they refuse to comment on/fix.
But I digress...

I can't speak for that Era. I wasn't in closed beta.

Anyways, if the cannon angle is reduced then all they need is some good HP, and the ability to fit a few more damage resist mods. Also, some WP for the pilot when a player spawns on them would be nice.

In this case, good hp appears to be 19k+... or three forge shots. = /

Seriously, even at proto level that's an absurd number of eHP. I understand that forge guns are both tough to use, annoying (when charged), glued to fat suits and expensive (sp wise).

However, the things also shouldn't melt HAV's, DS's and bounce harmlessly off LAV's.

After all, the fragility of HAV's as well as expense (I$Kwise) is one reason there's so damn many bumpercars driving around anyway. One of the most effective counters pops nearly instantly under forge fire...

NOTE: Good tankers don't have this problem... in good tanks. I understand this, as a mediocre tanker who used to have a fairly decent tank.

The problem arises from lack of cheapo tanks with any staying power. The possibility of more than one decent tank per game might slow down the whole 'murder-car' issue (taxis are only LLAV's.... they're yellow remember).

/ramble.