How are these pilots avoiding railgun fire?

No WP for transport roles, no matter how useful you are

by the time the RDV arrives (usually around 1.5 - 2 minutes) the blues have already ran to the furthest point. it's also very hard to talk rungungame kids into it. air assaults/drops/extracts are just not fun for them.

we are finding more and more uses for them all the time, working within the current limits of their hull made of flammable confetti. but yes you need someone that has received their piloting certification for them to be worthwhile. and for those that don't believe me, just post your location on the PC map and we'll see what we can do about scheduling a demonstration

I miss the old days of having a squad on board. Yelling over the comms to say things like
Drop drop drop
Three foot mobiles gunners on cas
Splash that forge gunner.
Good splash
Pick up at alpha going to charlie.
Gunners only going dog fighting.
Window in the window nail that heavy!(biomass map)


But ccp nerfed me to oblivion.

take out the railguns....

There is no real reason to QQ over the drop ships. They serve three different purposes. Troop movement, vehicle healing, and light attack for pesky high ground seekers. If people simply used them as intended there would be no problem. But everyone seems to think that they are the apaches of this game.... They are the Huey's of this game. Everyone complaining about them is trying to make an essential minivan act like a porche

I've wanted to set up a corp battle for so long where everyone just uses dropships. It doesn't matter if all you have is a militia ship with militia mods, or you're crazy and want to go full on "proto" assault. Watching that many dropships flying around crashing into each other with gunners firing at things would be highly amusing.

I know you can do cool stuff with dropships, primarily the ADS since their handling was left primarily intact moving over to Uprising, along with the added benefit of that increased flight ceiling. That's the true beauty of the ADS, quite frankly.

I suppose for a corp like yours, the issues with cost are essentially a non factor, so losing those expensive platforms is a lot less painful to you overall.

Hot drops (fly by or stationary from a height) are excellent if you can time them correctly, I was extremely proficient with those right before Uprising, then they added the drift and it really increased the distance that you throw people; the trajectory is very fidgety. You also need to make sure everyone can hear you who's in the ship, which becomes kind of a nightmare in PC even when your chat channels are set up pretty well.

It's a little more tricky with the comms because you need to always be calling out information, so you've got to be talking to your squad leaders, but you also need to communicate to your gunners, and it's hard to do a countdown for the whole ship to "drop" when only your squad leaders or gunners can hear you. (again, a corp like yours suffers a little less from having members die, so you can be primarily squad based, and the ship doesn't have to help the rest of the team as much; but **** happens)

Proto Cycled turrets are the boss on dropships. Afterburners on a shield DS with make you immune to swarms while mobile, and safer from forge guns; breach FG will still make you cry, and so will my kamikaze Gorgon.

The primary issue with dropships in relation to its ease to kill is

A:) Cost
B:) Rewards (primarily WP and SP)

Both of which are overcome in a corporation like yours, because, let's face it, you've got some kick ass players. Don't you still have the highest total SP of anyone in the game? And Calamity Jane II was in our squad the other day, kicking ass with a shotgun logi

spot on.. well said

yea i probably have more SP than anyone, but ZERO into vehicles, yes they are not cheap, and i advise my pilots and drives to use discretion in pubs, but they are taken care of for PC, even if it comes out of my personal wallet. yea annie and jane are freaks of nature. you could literally give them an avocado and a paperclip and they would MacGyver up something to go 20/2 in a match... they take their craft seriously while still having fun, as do most my guys

ok im just gonna leave this thread. It has become apparent that most here have no notion of competitive gameplay which is the entire perspective from which im speaking.

do dropships need love? absolutely. are they completely useless? absolutely NOT.

we are finding more and more uses for them all the time, working within the current limits of their hull made of flammable confetti. but yes you need someone that has received their piloting certification for them to be worthwhile. and for those that don't believe me, just post your location on the PC map and we'll see what we can do about scheduling a demonstration

Also please for the love of god put pilots and passengers in the same chat channel automatically.

I was actually thinking this exact same thing.

If someone enters your ship, it automatically unmutes them if they're muted / unmutes you if they have you muted, or simply puts them in your chat channel. Once they exit, it reverts to whatever it was before they entered. This would be a godsend for PC pilots.

I just want to trash talk enemies as I t-bag them, is that really so much to ask for?