Brilliant early warning system. Its not unbalanced, and provides enough information so the pilot isn't always guessing, but can make educated guesses. This system would go quite a long way in keeping pilots in the sky and isk in their pockets. Good video judge I fully support this +1. We have needed this for a long time....

Well your dropship still turns to dust when a forgegunner appears. 2 hits and you hit the ground and your armor HP are nowhere near to survive a direct hit after your shields dropped. Even with both armor reps going. Cause my assault forgegun does a whopping 1900HP damage. Seriously ditch your shield tank on that thing. Get rid off the shield extenders, replace 1 off the power diagnostic systems with a 15% PG upgrade and get a plate on. You have amazing armor repair capability but you put a penalty on yourself with the shield extenders. And another fact has beeing proven in that vid that dropships take only 55% damage from swarms regardless if its shield or armor. Why? Well the guy in the vid had a advanced swarm launcher (5 missiles) so he would do 2145HP damage against armor (basically killing you with alpha damage). However when you where into armor you had around 200 shields and 1700 armor. All 5 missiles did hit and you dropped down to 1072HP armor. So the swarm did effectively "only" a whopping 900HP damage against you. The main thing that kills dropships are forgeguns which deal exactly 100% damage. Which makes it the only true choice to take dropships down. That beeing sayd your dropship pilots had still the easy mode on versus swarm launchers.
Oh and for the people who didnt noticed. He was fighting 2 swarm launchers not just 1 and he still survived.

Counted the amount of volleys he took without exploding. A whopping 5 volleys from swarms and the 6th he sponged with the speed of the dropships. Tell me how many swarms would a tank take before blowing up these days? Probably around 5~6 and thats the max.

I thought rather than just pointing out issues, I would try to offer a solution. So from a dropship POV, although would be great for tanks too; here is a video where i added graphics to a real fight with a swarmer to show my suggestions to fix the radar and HUD to make it fairer. Not the total solution but part of it.

What do you think community and what you you think DEVs?

Remember to set it to 720p

The Video

Well your dropship still turns to dust when a forgegunner appears. 2 hits and you hit the ground and your armor HP are nowhere near to survive a direct hit after your shields dropped. Even with both armor reps going. Cause my assault forgegun does a whopping 1900HP damage. Seriously ditch your shield tank on that thing. Get rid off the shield extenders, replace 1 off the power diagnostic systems with a 15% PG upgrade and get a plate on. You have amazing armor repair capability but you put a penalty on yourself with the shield extenders. And another fact has beeing proven in that vid that dropships take only 55% damage from swarms regardless if its shield or armor. Why? Well the guy in the vid had a advanced swarm launcher (5 missiles) so he would do 2145HP damage against armor (basically killing you with alpha damage). However when you where into armor you had around 200 shields and 1700 armor. All 5 missiles did hit and you dropped down to 1072HP armor. So the swarm did effectively "only" a whopping 900HP damage against you. The main thing that kills dropships are forgeguns which deal exactly 100% damage. Which makes it the only true choice to take dropships down. That beeing sayd your dropship pilots had still the easy mode on versus swarm launchers.
Oh and for the people who didnt noticed. He was fighting 2 swarm launchers not just 1 and he still survived.

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Undo Judge Undo. Don't get this thread locked up or derailed. Please, I'm begging you undo.

You are right. it's 1 in the morning. fixed.

Counted the amount of volleys he took without exploding. A whopping 5 volleys from swarms and the 6th he sponged with the speed of the dropships. Tell me how many swarms would a tank take before blowing up these days? Probably around 5~6 and thats the max.

But that's not fair! You can't expect infantry to actually live with being seen on the map because they're locking on to you, could you? How could you suggest actually giving pilots a buff!?

In all seriousness, this is a wonderful idea. I support it fully. Would help too when I don't have a scanner and someone is behind me.

If these swarm missiles track vehicles by radar signature instead of heat signature, rather letting dropships shoot out radio frequencies

Thank you. I think it would also add a dimension of thought to swarming a vehicle. Sure you can lock on at 300m but you give your position away and allow the pilot to share your location with the squad. Plus it allows the tank/dropship more time to act/evade if you lock on too far away. Adds an element of risk and reward.

I like this idea but how would it work if you aren't facing the swarmer? Would there be a warning lock sound? Or would an icon pop up on the side of the screen?

I like this idea but think it should be a passive skill attached to the vehicle skill tree. Possibly increasing the range and time on radar per level.

And perhaps a similar skill for swarmers, or a module that reduces a vehicle's ability to detect them.