Swarm launchers shoot WAY to fast now. Why was the swarm launcher buffed anyway?

It lost its ammo cap though. They are fine, two shot wonders.

dunno my grimaces was doing fine today, I'm not sure if they buffed the resilience or something. Ate 4 swarms 2 forge guns light railgun shots one heavy railgun shots and splattered by a large missile launcher all in 2 armor rep cycles.

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

dunno my grimaces was doing fine today, I'm not sure if they buffed the resilience or something. Ate 4 swarms 2 forge guns light railgun shots one heavy railgun shots and splattered by a large missile launcher all in 2 armor rep cycles.

dunno my grimaces was doing fine today, I'm not sure if they buffed the resilience or something. Ate 4 swarms 2 forge guns light railgun shots one heavy railgun shots and splattered by a large missile launcher all in 2 armor rep cycles.

Just gonna say again, it was a bug fix and Nerf.

The weapon functions almost the same, except its more reliable when trying to lock on and we now have only 3 rounds instead of 5.

Also, they may have increased the reload time.

dunno my grimaces was doing fine today, I'm not sure if they buffed the resilience or something. Ate 4 swarms 2 forge guns light railgun shots one heavy railgun shots and splattered by a large missile launcher all in 2 armor rep cycles.

Except it shoots twice as fast

I call Bullshit. First

I wouldn't doubt it. I have a feeling something is not quite right about the damage when shooting at flying targets. The other day in my python, I was getting hit by all kinds of AV and only taking like 10% damage to my shields. The only part that was threatening was that it was still knocking me around and I was near some buildings. But every now and then I would take a hit that would knock 2/3 of my shields off. I even had several hits for.no noticeable damage but the would sure spin me in circles.

Also swarms are not OP. I you have a good fit and play it well, a lone swarm launcher should never kill you.

For half as long. Then takes longer to reload. Which happens twice as often.

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

A Maddy with 1k shields and 6500 armour, he is right next to me. I unload 3 proto SL rounds(prof 3 and 3 complex DMG mods) he starts to rep, and starts to run.

I reload, unload my other 3 rounds, 2 hit and the last missed...didn't matter anyway...he had more armour by the time they hit...just like pre Nerf...except I had to reload...twice.

just sharing a match I had earlier. Swarms are not that different...just more effective.

Fixed

I wouldn't doubt it. I have a feeling something is not quite right about the damage when shooting at flying targets. The other day in my python, I was getting hit by all kinds of AV and only taking like 10% damage to my shields. The only part that was threatening was that it was still knocking me around and I was near some buildings. But every now and then I would take a hit that would knock 2/3 of my shields off. I even had several hits for.no noticeable damage but the would sure spin me in circles.

Also swarms are not OP. I you have a good fit and play it well, a lone swarm launcher should never kill you.

I'm not telling Trainspotter you have to actually invest your skill points to get the skill point bonus.

Fixed

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.......