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Django Quik
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Posted - 2013.06.22 15:18:00 -
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I have just spent an entire match on a rail installation under the MCC and shot down 9 dropships within seconds of them deploying. The fool just kept calling them in in exactly the same place in clear view of me!
That said, you don't have to be completely stupid to lose a dropship. They do seem very vulnerable (I've killed around 15 today alone!). But having never used them, I can't really say what's wrong - I just know that I kill them far far too easily. |
Django Quik
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Posted - 2013.06.22 15:36:00 -
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ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:Azura Sakura wrote:I disagree... Also we get no WP unless we get kill assist. .-. why are you trying to get kill assists in a 1.5mil dropship. drop your team off. they drop a spawn beacon while your flying back to safety. recall dropship at replenishment instalation and re deploy to the beacon. job done
That's not what he said - he was pointing out that there's absolutely no way to get any WP by piloting a dropship unless you get kill assists from your gunners, which requires hovering around. That is the biggest problem with dropships. |
Django Quik
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Posted - 2013.06.22 15:38:00 -
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ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:Icy TIG3R wrote:1.5 million drop ship, almost 4000 shields and 800 armor, and a bunch of modules.
2 shotted by a forge gun in 4 seconds. were you hovering or close to the ground or both?
It doesn't take a huge amount of skill to hit a moving dropship with a forge gun. 2 shots isn't hard to get; you just have to figure out what direction it's heading and aim a few meters ahead of it. |
Django Quik
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Posted - 2013.06.22 15:41:00 -
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ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:Django Quik wrote:ADAM-OF-EVE wrote:Azura Sakura wrote:I disagree... Also we get no WP unless we get kill assist. .-. why are you trying to get kill assists in a 1.5mil dropship. drop your team off. they drop a spawn beacon while your flying back to safety. recall dropship at replenishment instalation and re deploy to the beacon. job done That's not what he said - he was pointing out that there's absolutely no way to get any WP by piloting a dropship unless you get kill assists from your gunners, which requires hovering around. That is the biggest problem with dropships. but a dropship is for dropping people off.. if they are already on the ground then the dropship is not needed and you should switch to ground combat untill the dropship is needed again
The point is that there's no incentive to use a dropship for its supposed purpose. The maps are too small to make troop transport worth it, especially when a couple of LAVs can do that job without easily being 2 shot. If you're only going to use a dropship for a minute to drop people off and then play infantry for the rest of the game, what's the point in spending any SP on them? |
Django Quik
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Posted - 2013.06.22 15:44:00 -
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I think people need to stop seeing what they want to see when they read about people being unhappy with dropships - pilots don't want to be able to get kills, they just want WP for serving their team. Also, if they are troop transport, give them a tonne of HP, so they can drop troops off in danger zones. They don't have to have the killing power of a tank but they do need the survivability of one. |
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