Well it may be junk and uselles at this point but when corporate warfare or better to say the game goes retail there will be a lot of roles on the battlefield and there will definetly be players specialised in taking down tanks and vehicles that will be supported by their teammates in terms of anti-infantry firepower.

even IF the forge gun were significantly BETTER than the swarm launcher. (and i do not believe it is) it's SUPPOSED to be.. ANY suit can carry a swarm launcher, ONLY heavies can carry a forge gun.

the swarm launcher is therefore OBVIOUSLY not supposed to be the premier anti-vehicle tool. it is the lighter suits OPTION. the "last resort" the "obviously not as good as the other thing i CAN'T use"

why can't people see this? forge gun REQUIRES a heavy slot. swarmlauncher requires a light, OR heavy slot. right there.. that's all the justification you need for the forge gun to be BETTER than the swarm launcher... and it isn't.

Currently beta seems to have beaten down thing that were ment to be ovver powered making them practacly usless HMG and swarmer is prime examples, but yes the swarm was way op in last build but it is underpowered now, furter patches should balence them a bit better, the main problem with the swarmer was the fact that people were using them as rocket propelled shotguns so that was the reasoning for the nerf.

No weapon should have the ability to be effective at in your face door to door or CQC to the rest of us as it is against tanks swarmer is a unusual gun which shoots multiple warheads which was probably desiged that way to make them different but id seriously doubht it was ever designed to be a anti infantry, plus have you ever been in a tank it does attract quite a bit of attension of everyone with any AV ability what so ever,

the sl still does its job and there's absolutely no need or any way ccp will remove it. It's great for taking out dropships and militia tanks fall in two shots from my militia sl. It does suk cq dumb fire, but add a lil open range and that tank is in trouble. I've seen prototype sl's at work and they're downright nasty.

I liked it back when it was an anti infantry rocket shotgun, and I like it now that it is purely for locking onto vehicles. Nothing better than firing a couple salvos at a dropship halfway across the map, forgetting about them, then getting a bunch of kills a couple minutes later when the last rocket finally connects.

Swarm Launcher + militia vehicles = more valuable kills.

Quit trying to use it as a shotgun and actually try locking the vehicles with it. Once you understand the missile paths and quit trying to blow up innocent walls it's only 2 shots to kill a milita HAV. The tracking after lock on is great - target gets a chance to use clutter to avoid missiles, shooter doesn't have to be a perfect shot. If I can pop vehicles from half way across the maps with the default swarm launcher set-up (no gunnery skills yet - still working defensive skills), then it can't be too badly broken.


TL:DR Quit trying to spam the dumbfire shots at soldiers - that's what an SMG is for, the swarm launcer is for stuffing a cluster of missiles up a tail pipe and laughing at the carnage.

Or while you line up on the targets with your forge gun I can fire on 2 dropships trying to escape the AO, and 2 LAV's, and have time to have already moved by the time the missiles hit and the surviving targets start looking for the anti-vehicle soldier.