DJINN leukoplast
Hellstorm Inc
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.08.16 02:00:00 -
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Personally I find the swarm launcher to be mostly useless against vehicles, at least up to the adv variant (haven't tried proto yet in Uprising).
LAV's (and especially LLAV's) - Swarms are almost 100% useless, the LAV's are far too fast and nimble for swarms to really give them much trouble aside from giving them a temporary distraction. Heck, the LLAV is even mostly immune to the forge due to their speed and insane ability to tank up their health with hardeners, resistance mods etc.
Dropships - Yeah, pretty much the same as the LAV's, they are fast enough to escape before any devastating blows can be had. And they can just fly high or go behind/on-top of a building which makes them unable to be targeted as they regen for another rinse-and-repeat attack. Also the time it takes to lock and send a volley towards them, usually is enough time for them to massacre you with their gunners (this is if they are really close to you).
Tanks - Probably the best things swarms are good at, but that isn't saying much. From my experience, as soon as the tank gets hit once or twice, they just back up behind a hill or wall and any incoming volleys, or future volleys of swarms, are null and void. They regen then pop back out, rinse-and-repeat. Even if the swamer has the high ground, it doesn't take much movement with a tank for the missiles to hit buildings, hills etc.
And tanks are pretty fast, they can easily relocate to a new section of the map which forces the swarm player to basically run to the entire other side of the map, and if they can make it over there without being slaughtered by infantry using anti-infantry weapons, the tank just runs away again back to their old spot... once again requiring the swarm player to relocate.
IMO, swarms could use a buff. Faster lock times and significantly faster missiles. ATM, the adv assault forge is almost infinitely superior to swarms when it comes to taking out vehicles. But alas it requires a heavy fat suit which is extremely slow and has no equipment slots. Swarms need to get closer to the ability of a forge, simply because it is the only viable AV weapon for the light weapon slot. And light/medium framed players shouldn't be forced to spec into the forge or heavy to get decent AV results. It's already bad enough we have to gimp ourselves against fellow infantry to use AV, but to use a completely new suit with less slots and be slow as hell?
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