Garrett Blacknova
Codex Troopers
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Posted - 2012.11.23 14:29:00 -
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Sinboto Simmons wrote:waist ammo in maps with low visability(spelling?). It's "waste" and "visibility" here. "Waist" is the narrowing above your hips.
Back on topic though, Yes, swarm tracking has severe issues and missiles will sometimes pull away in random directions for no apparent reason.. Locking onto a partially-exposed target, though? That's totally legitimate, and you need to be more careful to avoid those situations. There's an occasional problem with the missiles "clipping" through cover from these shots though, which needs to be fixed - although in my experience, it's less of a common problem than when missiles swerve randomly off-course.
There are three core problems with missile pathing/tracking which I'll list below:
1. On launch, missiles fire only a short distance forward before they sometimes go crazy - this frequently results in them impacting on scenery - buildings, hills, etc. - instead of heading for the target. If the missiles survive this random uncontrolled flight, they will THEN lock onto the target and track it.
2. When fired at a target partially in cover, or at a target that's on its way into cover, missiles which SHOULD impact on the cover the vehicle is behind can sometimes instead dodge around that cover or clip through it and damage a vehicle which SHOULD be safe from the attack.
3. After launch, Swarm Missiles take time to start tracking, but their initial point of aim is always the location the target HAD BEEN when they were fired, and NOT the location the target has moved to by the time they start tracking it. This results in missiles being almost incapable of hitting Dropships, since they frequently, even when fired from the direction the Dropship is travelling, EVADE the target and aim BEHIND it, ending up on a "chase" path when they should have flown straight into it from the front. It should take skill - or at least some measure of effort - to get a Dropship out of the way of a head-on attack from Swarm Missiles. Simply flying straight AT the missiles shouldn't be a valid method to escape damage, ever. It CERTAINLY shouldn't be a reliable method of avoiding at least 50% of the damage, and of avoiding all the damage more than 50% of the time. |