Pvt Numnutz
Prophets of the Velocirapture
1975
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Posted - 2014.11.19 18:48:00 -
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Nonoriri ko wrote:Hi there I'm a rank 5 swarm person.
I also fly a lot of ads and dropship.
So I know both sides of the coin.
Turn your volume up. When swarms go up, you hear a whoooooosshhhh no matter where its coming from.
You don't have to wait until the first hit to hit afterburners and run. Soon as you hear the whooooosshhh afterburner and run.
Its like the noise from a vehicle being called in, can be heard from anywhere on map.
Learn to know this sound by nature/reflex.
Another strategy is not to go up, but down! Instead off flying high into the sky, with no obstacles for the swarms.
Fly down, a tall hill, or crate between you and swarms will cause them not to hit you.
Those big gray crate or even behind a supply depot can save you.
Just don't crash into the ground yourself.
The whooosh noise that swarms make are not 100% reliable and if you think they are you will get downed very fast. Yesterday I had swarms that didn't make the whoosh noise until they were at the edge of my screen, right next to my dropship as though someone was flying next to me shooting swarms 100m above the ground. Sometimes no sound is made at all and you just get the explosions on your ship.
Also if there is a friendly with swarms but you don't see the swarms render you may be disengaging and being paranoid for no reason. The whoosh noise is not reliable, we need an actual early warning system then I wouldn't care if swarms are invisible I would at least know I'm in a fight!
Going down has its own risks, if you cant maneuver behind something the second a swarm is fired then its going to hit you no matter what you do. I've had swarms turn around corners of buildings that I intentionally put myself behind to avoid them when I saw them launch. Its annoying as the whole idea of the turn radius thing was suppose to allow us to at least use cover, but from my experience nothing has changed. Oh I also got flipped completely sideways by a swarm the other day, hit me like a flying tank, or 4 forgegun shots in terms of knock back. Guess they were just darksouls swarms?
With the threat of swarms like that and no guarantee of cover actually stopping swarms I see going low more dangerous than going high.
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