Yes! They are.

We know blasters are supposed to be AI. They have a short range and work well against infantry.

Rails are AV and Anti Installations and they dont do much damage to infantry. You can snipe tanks and dripshits from a mile away. Works are intended.

Missiles however work well against both AI and AV. For crying out loud I have been sniping people with missiles across the friggin map! Yes! I kill doods with my missile gunlogi across the map. This is not ok!

I am not saying nerf the missiles. I am saying reduce the range of them. Introduce a parabola system where in the path it follows, follows the path of a parabola.

If you reduce range of missiles then reduce the range of SL missiles which also travel accross the map and then bend around the mountain you are using for cover

Quite contrary ole chum, I prefer the swarm launchers to have that feature. They work like heat seeking missiles which I am totally ok with. I think them swarms mechanics need a buff.

A buff?

So an extra 20% damage buff on top of being put back to what it once was and bending around cover is not enough while being able to lock on through mountains and fired from the otherside of the map isnt enough?

The SL is like the small missile launcher, so if small missiles has a range cap so should SL and large really shouldnt get hit with the cap

Dude. I have seen you play and you use a shield gunlogi. If you have the kind of damage resistance I have and use the same mods I do you can get anywhere between 47% to 64% shield resistance. I have survived every orbital strike thrown at me but 1. The only time the OBS got me is when both my shield resistance and shield recharge were in a cooldown state after destroying another gunlogi. It is more than enough.

And the 30% buff affects armor, not shields. Armor tanks need a armor hardner but thats about it.

Swarm mechanics need a buff. EOS!

SL do not need a buff, they need to stop zig zagging ther way around cover to hit me, im not too fussed that they got the buff of 20% but even the milita SL hurt shields enough

Missiles right now have too much damage in general, and too much direct damage and range in specific. That is why they completely outclass railguns. Splash weapons should do significantly less DPS to have any semblance of balance.

When no one, and I mean no one, puts a blaster on a DS there is either something wrong with missiles or something wrong with blasters. Not jumping on the nerf missiles wagon, yet, but if all anyone uses is one of two options, then there is an imbalance there.

When no one, and I mean no one, puts a blaster on a DS there is either something wrong with missiles or something wrong with blasters. Not jumping on the nerf missiles wagon, yet, but if all anyone uses is one of two options, then there is an imbalance there.

Thanks for your input! Anywho we are discussing missille launchers here not swarm launchers. If ya wanna hijack a topic there are plenty of "Why Swarm Launchers need to be buffed" topics out there!

Enjoy!

A: As a swarm user, you cannot lock on targets if they're behind an object, terrain, etc. Its most likely they had you locked an fired before you got behind cover, at which point the missiles are already locked onto your electrical signal. I've never seen missiles go through the ground. You were most likely hit by AV nades. I've also never seen missiles I've fired from a SL go swerving around buildings. They generally hit the wall and blow up. If they don't hit a wall when they shoot sideways after they are first fired. On ground vehicles, I'd much rather see swarms do an artillery arch, like a Javelin missile, or the LRMs from MWO do, and come in from above the target.

B: Small missile turrets do need to be fixed. They're just a tad OP right now......Just a tad. I starting to think that Large missile turrets need to be a lock on weapon, for use as anti vehicle, and mid range anti installation with splash damage. This would make them useful against LAV, and DS. Not so much so as spamming missile death on infantry. Also great for taking out turret installations, enemy clone centers, and supply depots.

The large rail turrets aren't bad, they're good for long range AV sniping, can still snipe infantry, and are good for taking out installations as well, without having missile flight time. Though due to the nature of Railgun slugs I do think they need some minor blast damage. Even with rail gun main up close I've still managed to pop a couple heavies that were trying to forge my tank.

Went in a match last night sniped people with my Missiel Gunlogi across the map in their spawn point from my spawn point. Geez when is CCP gonna fix this? Missiles are now the Rails in the previous builds LOL. Way too much range on them Lulz.

Meanwhile, I had my tank blown up trying to kill multiple AV dudes on that 3 point map

I don't recall seeing you get a lot of kills either -_-

I thought Dust 514 technology was suppose to be more advance than our time, because right now I rather have a Javelin Missile Launcher than the ****** Swarm Launchers we have now. Its far superior..