Im sure your aware of this.. but shooting over stuff..isnt that hard.. Just aim straight up after lockon..

Now can we get to the heart the swarm issue.. its just not doing enough damage at 5 proficiency

I'd hope they'd behave like a lock-on missile in any other game, always heading straight for the vehicle and making course corrections along the way. Now give them a set agility (read: maneuverability) so that vehicles are capable of dodging them.

Now that all that is in place, we need some skills. I don't care what the names are, but here's what they'd do:

Flight Time - Missiles fly for X seconds, and this skill increases that by Y% (like getting better fuel efficiency)

Velocity - Missiles travel at X m/s, increases velocity by Y% (like using a better propellant)

Agility - Missiles are capable of turning at X degrees / sec, this skill increases that by Y%

Now, we can add swarm variants. Missiles with low agility / velocity but massive damage, missiles with high agility / velocity but low damage, and standard missiles that have medium agility / velocity. This causes some specialization, the hard hitting but slow missiles will be very good at killing HAVs, the quick missiles will be better for lighter LAVs and Dropships, and the medium missiles will be OK at killing all of them.

It's lazy coding. The missiles don't begin to track the target until they arrive at the original lock-on location.

That means the target must put cover between himself and his original location rather than between himself and the SL operator in order to trick the swarm into hitting an obstacle rather than his vehicle.

If he was to the side of a hill and simply slipped behind it the swarm would arrive at his original location, locate him, make that ninety degree turn and strike.

On the other hand if he moved around to the opposite side, still in view of the launcher, he would block his original location with the hill and the swarm would suicide into the hill when it required his location.