I don't know how experienced you are flying an ADS, but it feels like 50% of the time, if not more, either I can't hear the swarms (audio glitch) or they don't render. Sometimes both.

Without lock on warnings it's often too difficult to know if theres swarms after you.

Cool. ADSs get same 175m range for guns, with same lock-on time for shooting infantry, and we're dealing.

Until then, walmart.com might have an indestructible death balloon you can order.

Too many times we AV users are snuck upon my ADS / DS when they supposedly fixed the tacnet to detect vehicles better but it just isn't constant at all .

It's the same for HAV's as well .

I can't understand why you pilots can't hear the missiles as they travel towards you .?. I can and do and why don't you take defensive measures once you noticed that your hit ?

There isn't much that can even reach you so you know that it's either a swarm , forge , railgun , missile turret or blaster turret and swarms make a distinctive sound when traveling .

I recently skilled into proto swarms just so I can see what it's like from the other side of the fence. I can honestly say the first match was the easiest 500k isk I have ever earnt. All from a suit which costs 50k and I only lost one. Almost every swarmer now runs commando, and even though I was on gallante, not minmitar, I was having no problem killing a pretty well fitted ads, even though the enemy pilot knew where I was after my first kill.

Now I know some of u are going to say he shouldn't have tried to kill me if he knew where I was, but really a hit and run craft which knows where it's target is should easily be able to deal a lethal amount of damage and then run away before it is itself destroyed.

Anyone wanting to know I used an advanced gal commando with armour plates and damage mods and one cbr7 and one wirikomi swarm. With very limited skills I could easily fire off the swarms needed to kill ads' s and normally fire off a fifth as well for good measure, and once those swarms were in the air they were guaranteed to hit. I have only ever seen one swarm I fired not hit it's target when that target was a dropship.

During flying I noticed all of my targets were jumping every time I fired a missile at them. In my swarm suit I decided to test why this was. I FOUND THIS JUMP COMPLETELY NULLIFIED ALL SPLASH DAMAGE AGAINST ME even though I was jumping less than the splash range.

Literally the only vehicle I am having difficulty against with my swarm suit are shield hardened gunlogis as they can tank more than 6 swarms from me so I need to reload, and they can easily get behind cover to stop me locking on to them, they don't need to get 175m away.

I strongly feel it is too easy to kill all vehicles with swarms (except the gunlogi) and therefor I at least request a lock on warning sound for all vehicles