Make current proto swarms the new militia/basic swarms. All versions would shoot 6 missiles.Militia/basic would do 220 damage per missile. Advanced would do 235 per missile. Proto would be 250 per missile.

The only thing this video shows me is that 1 person shouldn't try to kill a tank on his own with a swarm launcher alone. Before 1.7 there use to be av squads that would run around in lavs and ambush tanks because they were extremely easy to kill but what everyone has done was given up and put all their skills into Rail Rifles. You show me a video of a commando, a heavy and a logibro in a lav attacking a hardened tank with the following. Assualt FG Flux nades Swarm Launchers and Av nades have the three of them jump out of the lav and ambush the tanker. Post that video and then the truth will come out. Give the Logi A 2 man rep tool a nano hive and a scanner give the heavy a decent FG fit and the commando dual Swarms.

Swarms are supplementary damage... This whole video is like taking a heavy suit then asking how many body shots it takes a basic scrambler pistol to kill the heavy with..

If you were looking at Primary AV then a forge gun is your target.
Besides. The fact that swarms Aim FOR you is another reason they have reduced damage. However, the militia did perform sub-par even for a supplement.

I propose the changes because of how ridiculous the current damage scaling is on swarms. No other weapon, and I mean NO OTHER WEAPON, scales as heavily as swarms do. They go up by 220 damage a tier. The closest thing that does that is large railguns, which go up in damage by 218 a tier.

As was shown in the video, under Ideal conditions, a standard swarm launcher took two magazines to kill an armor tank, which it has bonus damage to.

I think the best demonstration was against my Gunnlogi at the end. With hardeners up, He couldn't down me period. This is as it should be. But when he sht me with my hardeners off, he took my entire shield off in 3 swarms. That's what should happen. I have my wave of opportunity when my hardener is up, where I can get in, do my job, and get out. His wave of opportunity begins when my hardener turns off, which is keeping me away while my cooldowns are running. The problem with tanks is they can bypass that cooldown by running multiple hardeners. That is unfair. One hardener per vehicle. Make all tiers of hardeners have the same uptime and cooldown. (caveat: armor and shield hardeners can be different from each other) Make base resistance increase among the tiers. for shields, 60% at standard, 80% at proto. A proto hardener should mean I can take on any AV that comes my way. But when that hardener turns off, AV should have a big window, on the order of 2-3 minutes, where they can easily drive me away/kill me. Also, Add in wp for damaging tanks enough to retreat.

The infantry game is the keystone of Dust. In the end, what matters is capturing and holding objectives. Everything else[u] is in support of the infantry. A tank should be an asset the same as an orbital. It should be used for 30 seconds or whatever, and then cannot be used for 2-3 minutes without fear of losing it quickly.