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Seituoda Taskforce Command
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.12.12 20:02:00 -
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Mobius Wyvern wrote:OH MY GOD A DIRTY VEHICLE SCUM WANTS AV BUFFED?!
Yes, actually, I do. For a guided missile weapon, the Swarm Launcher has pathetically slow missiles.
To clarify, its prior ability to do thousands of damage without the user even having to aim was completely broken, but now that its damage has been brought into better balance the slow-as-dog-**** flight speed of its missiles has become far more evident. There are quite a few baseball pitchers that can THROW faster than the Swarms in this game.
I realize that the broken Militia Nitrous injector is the primary cause of difficulty in hitting HAVs with Swarms, for example, but they should really be fast enough to make that less of an issue in the first place.
I had a lot of spare SP laying around and 2/3 weeks ago I had the bright idea of making an AV fit did not fancy the forge gun so was going to go with Explosives (seen some good players that have explosives for primary weapon) or the Swarm
As I have had some fun with the Swarm I went with that and Prototyped into it.......
Now I can cause some damage I thought to myself and for a couple of weeks it was ok and you went around having your fun... getting taken out by snipers, dropships getting landed on you and just the general problems Swarmie have... because lets face it Swarm launchers are just crap on the ground and you need to be up high to use them....
The other night there were 3 of us spread out around an area, enemy tanks drive right in front of us no more than 40 to 45 meters away, we all fired.. no less than 14 rockets in the first volley heading his way.... second volley away.....third volley......oh hang on a second....where has the tank gone???
Now I know tanks are not slow in the slightest in real life or in the game.... but to be able out pace Anti vehicle missiles on a straight run and do two 90 degree turns, one at the start of the sprint and one at the end to hide behind a wall seems just far to much...
I always thought the Swarms could cause great damage and there slowness balanced them out.... now like you said they are just pathetically slow.... This is great that a vehicle user actually notice this
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