Pvt Numnutz wrote:Well they are an anti vehicle weapon. I'm sure you have already made up your mind on the term anti vehicle, I view it as destroying or deterring vehicles. Swarms deal explosive damage so they are more suited against armor vehicles.
Further more swarms are a light weapon, so I assume they are most effective against light vehicles, however when coupled with a few other light weapons, or a heavy weapon or another vehicle they can help on harder targets like tanks.
Since when did the whole "light weapon means a weak weapon" thing start? Is this why people counter AR/CR/RR/SC and other light weapons with the superior heavy weapons? No one in their right mind would think that light weapons are weak in any other aspect but vs. a vehicle unless we're talking about the SL. SL users sacrifice a weapon to defend themselves to make suicide runs trying to destroy tanks. I call it a suicide run no matter how tactical you are about it because they're sitting ducks to everything. To say that a light weapon should be ineffective just because it has "light" in the description is ridiculous when you consider that the only alternative is that for every tank you need 2 proto forge gunners waddling around.
If everyone wants to jump on this "SL is a light weapon therefore it can't kill anything because it's a light weaponGǪ light weapon" bandwagon that seems to have just taken off the last few days then I propose the FG gets a massive damage buff. Like crazy. I'm talking about buffing it from the 1.4 baseline. If it's to truly be the "main AV weapon", make it able to destroy a specced out tank in one clip at maximum optimization. By this i mean proto/proficiency 5/damage mods. It's a "heavy weapon" after all and should obliterate everything, especially "heavy" vehicles like tanks.
I won't QQ about a respec if everyone's all on board with this "light/heavy" bullshit, I'll start grinding today for the FG fit. At this point I'll have just about every method of AV at my disposal and if someone tells me I shouldn't be able to kill a tank then I can confidently tell them they don't know what they're talking about.
Until that time I say drop the whole "light weapons can't hurt heavy things because like the names are different" argument because it really doesn't match up to the fact that the SL holds the title for the AV weapon of Dust 514 in the sense that it's completely, irrefutably designed for destroying vehicles. **** the "well not all vehicles because, well you know, lightGǪ" spam. It simply doesn't mean anything when you look at what the weapon is.