if any of those things are not on the map they actually work quite well.

Oh look, another dropship thread! This one will be different from the thousands of others that came before it, I'm sure!

*Reads thread*

Alas, I am wrong again... My search must continue...

*Throws cloak over himself and disappears into the night*

If you'd like to experience for yourself what forge gun fodder - I mean, 'terror of the skies'- you can be with 16 million SP purely dedicated to dropships!

I'll build it how you like it.

Disclaimer: I cannot be responsible for
~redline rail tanks sniping you an entire match with impunity
~redline turrets sniping you an entire match with impunity
~the "Sea of Grenades" (aka being anywhere close enough to the ground where you might see targets"
~kamakazi vipers (they're like 85k isk but can one shot you)
~Forge guns (They're a few thousand isk and can obliterate you within a couple seconds
~Mass drivers (They can topple even an armor ship and jam it into the ground in a hit or two from 50 feet below)
~RDV's (Aka free lav delivery systems. They can still spawn into or fly into your ship, faster now too! Will one shot it.
~RDV malfunction (Happens rarely now but your million isk ship is not guaranteed to be delivered. Sorry : /
~Destruction on delivery (Read: Forge guns can hit you from opposite sides of the map, redline to redline, from the start). Ship may be sniped before landing if anyone spawns in with a FG.
~Blueberry thieves
~Blueberry ramming (ships, LAV's Tanks will all crush you if they hit)
~Blueberry trolling (Friendly fire FG, MD, Rail turret, Rail tank, small rail LAV, any rail anything can and will send you careening to your death
~Discrepancies caused by having only standard ships vs Proto and Officer AV weapons. trollolol
~Turret malfunction ( Gunners turrets cannot aim towards the lower front without being snapped in an odd+useless direction. It's a bug
~Gunner malfunction (If your gunner is shot out, he cannot get back in the dropship. It's a bug
~End of match ship loss (If you're in the redzone, or calling in a vehicle as game ends, you'll lose it anyhow)
~premature ship loss (Be careful not to get killed while calling in vehicle or getting crushed by it, or it's gone.
~AFK timer explosion (If you're outside it for a minute it will die
~Spontaneous combustion (If you press start while parked on a structure, you will die)
~MCC Missile impact (They will all one shot you, and the sky is full of these buggers. Look out!
~Installation drop death (If an installation falls on you, GG)
~PSN/Internet/CCP disconnects/Hard crashes/freezes/Etc (You will lose the ship regardless. GG ISK)
~Invisible non-textured objects with collision in the sky (On one map there is a non-textured flat square, if you hit it, you will die. Lol, have fun finding this one!
~Invisible+Silent swarms. (You thought you were safe, you slowed down, you died. GG)
~Entire teams switching to free AV (Swarms, militia FG). GG
~No WP for anything other than kills
~But wait, you're "Not a gun ship", hence medium aircraft being less tanky than LAV and having only small modules
~But it's called an assault drop-ship?
~Lol, more SP bait

GOOD LUCK!

If you think this sounds fun, I recommend speccing at least 10 million SP into getting these things anywhere near capable of surviving the first few moments of a game. I think CCP did a good job of making these things attractive to new users. I mean, why would anyone NOT want to play a dropship in Dust 514?

Send me a mail in game and we'll get started with your very own ship rentals -TODAY!

...quickly...

Just got hit for 1900 by a forge gun with 35% resistance on...what a game.

If you learn only one thing... learn this.

NOTHING ccp does is "quick". They've made posts over 6 months ago about changes they are thinking about for dropships... some as simple as turning WP back on for CRU spawn (the same thing that infantry gets with uplinks).

What's changed so far? They dropped the base price a little. That's it.

Don't expect anything to change with Dropship for a month at the BARE minimum, realistically, more like several months.

Give up now.

Just got hit for 1900 by a forge gun with 35% resistance on...what a game.

With all the actives on, my Prometheus has about 50% resistance. I was actually getting hit by swarms and a forge at high altitude several times, but, coupled with damage decay, the damage was too low to notice.

Honestly quit the game, pull in passive SP and come back after 3 years. By then they'll just be adding Jets, DS will get the same HP increase LAVs and HAV's got, and they'll have a dev blog talking about heavy aircraft we might see around April, 2036

The only thing that pisses me off about this post is the fact that I can't give more than one "like" for it. My dropship alt was amazing and fun to play in the Battle Academy, and at one point, my best game was 12-0. Through the triple SP event, I was accelerated exactly 3 times faster out of the Battle Academy (since it is SP restricted). Shortly after being removed from queuing in the Battle Academy, and thrust into Proto-world with ~800k SP, I have loved being one-shotted by rail tanks in the red zone, literally RIGHT AFTER my assault dropship deploys.

This only happens 1/3 of the time I call in my dropship with my character that has less than 1/10 of the SP everyone else has. The other 2/3 of my dropships' deaths happen when the RDV hovers around for a bit, trying to decide how to deliver a ship on a perfectly clear landing zone, meanwhile, allowing for Railgun-fitted tanks to shoot over 500 or 600 meters from their redzone to ours, and hit my dropship twice, blowing it up before it even touches the ground.

Since this incident, I have stopped ordering pizzas from my nearby pizza delivery store, in fear that I may pay for a tasty pizza, just to have it destroyed upon delivery.

I'll build it how you like it.

stuff

Send me a mail in game and we'll get started with your very own ship rentals -TODAY!

Dude you are a lifesaver, with 1.2 I've been encountering a couple HAVs that can comfortably tank my proto I-FG. Some of the proto Swarm guys are starting to crack jokes. Unacceptable.

I'd like to purchase 100 DS deaths so my kill feed looks a little more respectable again.