Uh....

Yes.

My thought exactly.

I believe I also may have facepalmed at the time too.

Don't we already have enough Dropship variants? I mean, I understand giving people options, but I think it's about time to add another aerial vehicle rather than the Dropship being the everything-machine.

Personally, when I think of something that deploys bombs, I don't think of a helicopter. Yes, I realize that the Russian KA-50 Hokum can carry small bombs, but that's far more the exception than the rule.

To me, carrying and deploying bombs seems like more of a role for Fighters. That way you have to handle the mechanics of dropping the bomb properly at speed to hit the target, increasing the skill ceiling of such a weapon.

Imagine a Dropship pilot holding position over your HAV and just hammering the bomb button every time the cooldown finishes. Putting a high-damage unguided weapon onto an aircraft that can hover, and especially one that can hover at high altitude, will most likely result in even more complaint threads than the "towership" shenanigans from E3, and either bombs being nerfed to uselessness or another flight ceiling being put in.

I'm gonna say that bombs should probably wait until Fighters are implemented so we don't have hover-spawn-farming or other ridiculous nonsense.

So, we still have Dropship pilots trying to get enough hitpoints to allow them to survive for any reasonable length of time, and WP so they can make enough SP and ISK to make flying them non-masochistic, and how we're having an HAV released that specializes in killing them even faster.

Uh....

This does boggle my mind, eventually maybe but what was CCP thinking at this time?

"Dropships, terrors of the sky, are absolutely laying waste to the ground forces we need a counter! Oh look that silly forge gunner thinks they can hurt these titans of the s...hmmm it only took 2 shots."

In reality I think they are meant to be the counter to bombers, but they better beef up dships to compensate.

I can see myself shooting infantry with this to even though it's anti-air

http://www.armyrecognition.com/components/ebygallery/Sitdef2007/up/zsu-23-4_peruvian_army_sitdef_2007_lima_peru_001.jpg

Dropship will need something, or we will need fast jetfighter to go with it, that's for sure.

in case you were wondering, the reason for the ease is so that players don't have to fumble by manually moving it back to the neutral position

GUYS THESE DERPSHIPS ARE JUST A MENACE. WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION 6 MONTHS TOO LATE.

On that note, an air to air Swarm launcher on dropships has to be implemented, like yesterday.

GUYS THESE DERPSHIPS ARE JUST A MENACE. WE NEED TO TAKE ACTION 6 MONTHS TOO LATE.

On that note, an air to air Swarm launcher on dropships has to be implemented, like yesterday.

I'm pretty sure that'd raise the current derp levels in vehicle balance to near catastrophic levels.

Now you have a ******* paper-cannon (glass is too strong to use as an analogy), that is supposedly balanced by being able to use the most faceroll weapon in the game to kill other vehicles.

As hilarious a mental image it is to consider 5 Assault Dropships nuking every vehicle that gets called in until a single Forge Gunner comes out and 2-shots every one of them, I think that's a little too ******** to be ignored.

AIR TO AIR

AIR TO AIR

AIR

TO

AIR

I use my Gorgon as A2A

I use my song... AND IS GOES LIKE THIS!

GÖ¬Oh, dropship, dropship,
Why you so terrible?

Oh, dropship, dropship
Why you can't barrelroll?

Did they made you mad ,
Or did you just be bein sad?

Oh dropship, dropship
LOLBROUMAD?GÖ¬

I thought I had seen it all, and they said bomber dropship

Bomber

Dropship

......

I literally want to drink my brain right now, because it's dripping out of my ******* FACE

I expected to see the AA vehicles bundled in the same expansion that introduces fighters, that would have made sense. It would have meant that the hard counter is measured and balanced against it's intended target, now unless the destroyer is forge gun bait it's going to get needed to he'll because of all the Infantry qq. The two things concerning it that I want to know however are
Are we seeing a new AA turret introduced?
How much higher can the destroyer aim?

well for the ladder seeing it has a faster turn speed I`m going to guess it can aim much higher then others, I assume its also fast but not necessarily strong.

Can I get a source on the bomber dropship quote?

So, we still have Dropship pilots trying to get enough hitpoints to allow them to survive for any reasonable length of time, and WP so they can make enough SP and ISK to make flying them non-masochistic, and now we're having an HAV released that specializes in killing them even faster.

Uh....