Part of the lack of parity with Dropships is the fact that just about anything that hits you will rock your ship, possibly sending you tumbling towards the ground regardless of your HP. An adjustment to total ship HP seems fair in this context as those sorts of control issues aren't things that HAVs or LAVs really have to deal with. If your car or tank is hit by swarms... it doesn't move. If your DS is hit... get ready for some course correction.

I would also like to see duel pilot controlled turrets on the front. I would however suggest that the be limited to being the same make and model.

Your mom is fat.


Objection: we are not talking about making dropships into bombers or a fighter jets - those are different types of aircrafts. We just want the dropships to be able to perform what they were designed for - transporting people in and out of the front lines providing tactical support.

Right now pilots stand zero chances of surviving if they suddenly caught into scope by a couple of decent swarmers or just one good forgeguner or a railgun tank. ZERO. They don't even have to be prototype, advanced is enough. If you are running best and most expensive vehicle gear on your ship all you'll get is two second of agony to see how your babybird will be seared through by the next round.

Dropships are not designed to fight back, but they deserve a chance to survive that kind of situations.

And we want our buffs ASAP. It's been a while since the uprising release - the last update that touched dropship theme.

I'm a proto swarmer.

I almost always land the first volley... but the good dropship pilots always kick in those pesky afterburners and they run away and escape my second volley.... which is guaranteed to kill them.

Good pilots always get away from my swarms, and they're not much good for anything else for the rest of the match, because i will gladly sit there and wait in a nice comfortable corner for them to come back. The moment they come within range thinking it's safe, another volley of proto swarms to whisk them away again.

FYI. 6 missiles coming at you hits a LOT harder than 4. If you see 4 missiles coming, that's MLT. You can choose to tolerate the hit depending on circumstances. If you see 5 or more missiles coming at you. Hide yo kidz, and book it.

You guys don't need more defense.
What dropships need are real air-to-ground weapons. Like unguided 1,000 pound bombs, and cluster bombs so that you can blister the surface.

Oh wait..... that's just content that CCP fears to release because of the whiney "I hate vehicle combat"-crowd.
lol we need to start getting people used to vehicle-domination, if Dust is EVER going to be what was envisioned.

Tanks, Bombers, Jets, MTACS... Vehicles DOMINATE warfare people... VEHICLES always fight first, in order to enable ground combat between infantry. What does/should infantry do? Handle CQC, and invasion of buildings, street fighting where vehicles are not permitted for whatever reason (with the exception of snipers).

Oh well, rant complete.

Dropships getting away from forge guns.... that's a different story all together.