With the scrambler rifle building up less heat per shot now, the Amarr Assault suits are finally really competitive.

Made me happy.

Amarr assault is very competitive even without the ScR.
800 armor HP plus a damage modded weapon ain't a joke brah.

With the scrambler rifle building up less heat per shot now, the Amarr Assault suits are finally really competitive.

Made me happy.

amarr assault is already the best assault suit, regardless of weapon.

900EHP with 3 damage mods full proto is easily done. no other assault can do a fit like this.

Stacking penalties how do they work?! Only bads stack 3 damage mods.

Stacking penalties how do they work?! Only bads stack 3 damage mods.

Amarr Assault was plenty competitive even before then. Just no-one ever used it because Amarrian weapons are high-skill. Go talk to Tiberius if you disagree.

With the scrambler rifle building up less heat per shot now, the Amarr Assault suits are finally EVEN MORE REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY really competitive.

Made me happy.

amarr assault is already the best assault suit, regardless of weapon.

900EHP with 3 damage mods full proto is easily done. no other assault can do a fit like this.

Scrambler Rifles honestly aren't hard to use.

It's just like any other semi-auto weapon, and the heat sink can easily be committed to muscle memory. People didn't use it before because they're too busy playing Cloak N' Daggers to notice it.

Scrambler Rifles honestly aren't hard to use.

It's just like any other semi-auto weapon, and the heat sink can easily be committed to muscle memory. People didn't use it before because they're too busy playing Cloak N' Daggers to notice it.

Says the fellow who preaches the Godlike skill of a Fire and Forget launcher...............

Snip...It's so easy anyone with the SP could do it............................[/i]

Soloing a vehicle with a Swarm Launcher is much harder than using a Scrambler Rifle, as with a Scrambler Rifle (like almost every rifle in the game) there's little to no thought behind it.

It's hitscan, so as long as the reticule is red you're going to land a hit. Aiming is as simply as moving the mouse or right joystick, and if you cannot do this sufficiently then Aim Assist does this for you.

Thanks to it's high RoF, you can kill pretty much everything other than a brick-tanked Gal/Amarr Sentinel in a very short time span. Stacking Damage Mods (like most people do) will make this task even easier.

That's not to say however, that anyone can simply pick it up and perform well with it. Like other rifles, you still need to be "used to it", and then you need to compensate your aim and tactics to match the situation at hand.

It's not "total EZ-Mode", but to say that it's a "high-skill" weapon is off base.

On the other hand,


In order to solo with a Swarm Launcher, you:

-Need to be tactically aware of every escape path that the vehicle can possibly take, assess which ones they're most likely to take, and predict when they'll take said escape route and how long it'll take for them to escape

-Estimate the Pilot's build based on their movement patterns, what they're currently doing, and what their HP is. That way, you'll know when and which position to attack the target from.

-Know when and where to evade an area, along with being aware of your surroundings. Being able to guess the "comfort level" and combat awareness of the target is also necessary, as it allows you to predict when a target may send hostile Infantry on a "search and destroy" fetch quest.

-Predict the movement/flight path of vehicles and adjust the firing angle of your Swarm Launcher accordingly. This ability has been even more necessary due to the 20-¦ turn radius nerf. Knowing how to delay the 1st volley for a high alpha strike is also very helpful, and important.

-Being proficient with your secondary weapon is another skill needed, as most targets will eventually send Infantry to hunt you down, and you'll need to win a fight with them if you wish to survive. Along with that, many targets are inexperienced and to prevent their asset from being destroyed will "bail out" and attempt to kill you, usually with an HMG. You need a great secondary if you wish to survive this.

Unlike SCRs, there's no easy way around this either. You can't stack a module which will help you with the following traits needed, nor is there an option in settings to make that any easier (except maybe the last one).

On an unrelated note, it's a real shame how so much skill goes into using a Swarm Launcher, but most people don't even notice (or outside of PC, care). It's kind of like teaching, in a sense.

So now we're talking about vehicles? Cool.