While it is relatively easy to use, it doesn't get all the credit it deserves.

The lock-on time means you have to be careful when you try to shoot, so you don't die.

You also have to be able to predict the swarm's path and the vehicle's movement, then compensate for it.

Lastly, the angle you fire at is also important. Once I locked on an HAV through a small gap- I knew the swarms would all hit the wall if I fired normally. Instead, I fired roughly parallel to the wall- with that angle, the swarms flew out past the wall, and curved back to the other side and hit the HAV when the homing kicked in.

Answer: False, none of what you speak of is the truth.
Point, lock, shoot = easy mode

Lock on. Release trigger. No talent.
Plus they turn invisible and turn corners

Lock on. Release trigger. No talent.
Plus they turn invisible and turn corners

Let's get precise then, it isn't lock on release trigger...
It's...
1) Get in situation w/o HAV having infantry protection or watch to see when resist/repair mods are spent (HAVs shouldn't be in the open when these are down).
2) Find armor tanking HAV (my Wyrikomi takes 4-5 rounds at least to get through Gunlogi shields)
3) Get out of cover long enough to fix, maintain lock, and release.
4) You've hit your target, but now the trail of your missiles have revealed your location if anyone is paying attention.
5) If you are lucky you do step 3, 3 more times without interference and you might have taken out the MLT tank you are shooting at.

Anything Caldari in the game (with exception to tanks) is easy mode.

Snipers
Swarms
The LAVs that are far better than the armor variants.
Dropships.
Sniper Rifles
The Suits
The Women

SoTa is easy mode

Create fake account, troll, wait for victims = easy mode

Swarms have always been easy mode.

2.5k damage from a seeker weapon? Yeah, ok.

Swap the damage between Swarms and the Plasma Cannon, then give Swarms a major speed boost.

That way the Plasma Cannon is an actual threat, and Swarms excel at hitting fast moving targets without being faceroll.

Oh, and give the Plasma Cannon better range and less arc so it can actually be used.

Swarms have always been easy mode.

2.5k damage from a seeker weapon? Yeah, ok.

Swap the damage between Swarms and the Plasma Cannon, then give Swarms a major speed boost.

That way the Plasma Cannon is an actual threat, and Swarms excel at hitting fast moving targets without being faceroll.

Oh, and give the Plasma Cannon better range and less arc so it can actually be used.

Dropships?

tell me how 5 clips fit into tht one swarm launcher then. i'd love to know. thts 30 missiles in tht little thing.

To give this thread its proper due:

1) Armour tanks are underpowered. They need damage type specific hardeners to counteract their susceptibility to explosive damage.

2) CCP needs to implement a warning alarm when someone is trying to lock your vehicle, a second alarm for a full lock, and a third alarm for incoming missiles. This would allow skilled tank operators to use cover to break locks, or block incoming missiles. Active countermeasures such as flairs might be a nice touch as well.

3) If you are running with a Blaster tank you really should be squadding up with a good sniper. Next to other snipers, Swarm Launcher users are the second most juicy target for a sniper.

4) Swarms are very obvious visually. If they go invisible then that is a bug.

Swarm Launchers are actually fairly well balances as far as I can tell. The problem is that Armour tanks are too susceptible to explosive damage with no way to counter this. If you nerfed Swarm Launchers as much as Armour Tankers would like they would be completely useless against shield tanks. The answer is to buff Armour Tanks.

As fare as Easy mode goes, I have found that killing Infantry with a Blaster Turret is just as easy as locking a HAV with a Swarm Launcher. With both Swarm Launchers and Tanks, it is not the killing that requires the skill, it is the staying alive part that requires skill. If there were no AV weapons would the HAV not be completely easy mode? Yet you base your judgment of the Swarm Launcher on ideal conditions, as if your team has no Infantry or Snipers for the Swarm Launcher operator to worry about. Is this not a double standard?

Finally, if you are completely fed up with Swarm Launchers, switch to driving a Logi LAV. I have not seen a Swarm Launcher take out a Logi LAV since the global vehicle hit point buff a few days after Uprising.

And you suck at playing

tell me how 5 clips fit into tht one swarm launcher then. i'd love to know. thts 30 missiles in tht little thing.

there is no right way to play you jerk.....to hell with how you want to play...the devs made the swarm launcher and im going to use it....you try hard trash players have no business beating on people who dont wanna play your trash way....this isnt a stupid sports game...it isnt a trash competitive game....it is a game about war......to win a war you need use everything...... EVERYTHING.....also your a troll to...you and the people who gave you thumbs up....i suck for using whats in the game?.....no its the other way around....YOU SUCK......unlike you i play the game in many ways because it was made to be played however you want....stupid trash like you comes around and says.....OMG YU NUB YOUR USING A GUN THAT LOCK ON TU VEHICLES YOU GOTS NO SKILLZ......really in a game about beating the other team to a pulp your pulling that cheap stunt? theres a reason war is not a sport.....and i suck at playing? let me tell you something......i could probably beat you....do you know why? its not because ive got twitch reflexes or skill or all that other crap....it because i do whatever it takes to gain the upper hand on my enemy....you sir suck at having fun....you want to limit yourself and think your good because of it thats fine....dont get mad when people like me come around and smash your stupid tryhard face into some glass....you may have your perfect aim or whatever..but i have tactics and cunning...after all when it comes to war being a good shot means nothing if you dont allow yourself to fight at your full potential.....for a guy like me that means pulling out the swarms and smashing any one foolish enough to pull a vehicle out recklessly on to the battlefield...your saying people who play a war game the way it was always meant to be played suck? only an ignorant sports player with an ego the size of the sun would say that...go back to your damn competitive sports and leave my war game alone....

there is no right way to play you jerk.....to hell with how you want to play...the devs made the swarm launcher and im going to use it....you try hard trash players have no business beating on people who dont wanna play your trash way....this isnt a stupid sports game...it isnt a trash competitive game....it is a game about war......to win a war you need use everything...... EVERYTHING.....also your a troll to...you and the people who gave you thumbs up....i suck for using whats in the game?.....no its the other way around....YOU SUCK......unlike you i play the game in many ways because it was made to be played however you want....stupid trash like you comes around and says.....OMG YU NUB YOUR USING A GUN THAT LOCK ON TU VEHICLES YOU GOTS NO SKILLZ......really in a game about beating the other team to a pulp your pulling that cheap stunt? theres a reason war is not a sport.....and i suck at playing? let me tell you something......i could probably beat you....do you know why? its not because ive got twitch reflexes or skill or all that other crap....it because i do whatever it takes to gain the upper hand on my enemy....you sir suck at having fun....you want to limit yourself and think your good because of it thats fine....dont get mad when people like me come around and smash your stupid tryhard face into some glass....you may have your perfect aim or whatever..but i have tactics and cunning...after all when it comes to war being a good shot means nothing if you dont allow yourself to fight at your full potential.....for a guy like me that means pulling out the swarms and smashing any one foolish enough to pull a vehicle out recklessly on to the battlefield...your saying people who play a war game the way it was always meant to be played suck? only an ignorant sports player with an ego the size of the sun would say that...go back to your damn competitive sports and leave my war game alone....

Tactics & Cunning??? Swarm Launcher??? LOL!!!! BTW WAR is a Sport. Ever heard of WAR Games??? Paintball??? Lazer Tag??? GOML Scrub!!! Play Metal Gear, get good, then you may talk about "Tactics & Cunning"

And even after all of this the noob launcher is still easy mode.

OMG YU NUB YOUR USING A GUN THAT LOCK ON TU VEHICLES YOU GOTS NO SKILLZ......

My uncle died during paintball. He had a heart attack

hm? now this is interesting....the poor old man must have been having flashbacks to the Vietnam war...or he had to much junkfood

In the end we all succumb to the bacon

OMG YU NUB YOUR USING A GUN THAT LOCK ON TU VEHICLES YOU GOTS NO SKILLZ......