broken yes , it takes longer to get a lock on when they should lock on faster

fully skilled with no prof your lock on is like 1.05 cant get much shorter than that...oh ccp i dont think the lock on shortening skill is working btw

Dudes I have been testing the swarm launcher (only tier 2 assault varient ) bit equiped on my comand with another swarm launcher bloody hell . I emptied my first clip before the first volly hit a maddy that I was hunting (I was aprox 350 m away) then swiched to the next swarm launcer and rpeated. The poor bugger was down before he could even reacrt to my first volly . Now that was seriosly op . If I had that on a maxed oit commando I wouldent even have to swap just reload the swarms at the moment I think are too powerfull ..... but im going to wait till 1.5 till I really make my desision as the vehicle av balance will re adjusted and will possibly warrent the buff to swarms .

Infact ccp has probably buffed the swarms so as to collect enough data to balance the vehicles against. So we just have to endure 1 month of hard ship so they can balance it accordigly. After all how else would they be able to do it ..... I mean really think about it. It will all be fine is what I keep telling myself when 3 vollys of swarms hit my tank in less than 2 seconds .

3 isnt half of 5. And 3 swarm shots takes down everything except for tanks with lots of plates/shield extenders or hardeners.

Swarms aren't as effective as prior to 1.4 mainly because you have to reload more often. I would gladly exchange the skill and get my 5 rounds back. This maybe become a problem when more than Swarm guy is firing synchronized but on the other hand if you force two guy into AV with one tank its ok again....

LOL you took that literally.

And 3 swarm shots will hit pretty hard, but only if they hit, and against good LAV drivers or Dropship pilots, they usually don't. speed-tanked LAVs can run faster than the Swarms give chase, and so can most Dropships. If they put a wall between themselves and the missiles, guess who doesn't die?

Tanks can't dodge that easily, so it's reasonable for them to have that extra survivability, and my 200,000 ISK Sica has been able to march through a full clip of an Advanced Swarm Launcher and kill the guy while he was reloading.

So in my eyes right now, it's working as intended (at least for the most part - not saying it's perfect, but it's not bad).

Well damn, what's your fitting?

nothing unusual, 1 repper 1 plate 1 resistance plate, blaster fit, mcru and a shield resistance module only has like 3k total life.What killed the dropship in the end was me trying to dock with our own mcc since we got redlined that fight and I got bored. New Camera sucks.

No one uses speed tank lavs, and there's no warning to the swarms so drop ship pilots get hit 2-3 times before they can react

No-one uses speed tank LAVs, except that about half the LAVs I've seen in 1.4 so far have been able to outrun my Swarms for long enough to take cover.

And the Dropships I usually ride in avoid the second hit more often than they take it, and if we DO take a second volley, we land and repair up before returning to battle.

I said i would be astounded if ANYONE defended swarms in 1.4....

damn.......