Sidewinder missiles need to be nerfed/deleted

[Antonio]

I like it when people ask for a bigger skill gap while only so many profit from it. When there is a skill gap that makes people rant about them losing a 5vs1, something is definitely weird.

Oh boy. people don't need to Conn 24/7 to turn into something that actually can harm the top-tier players. How dare they.

Yet again the_holy_rper jumps in and completely misses the point except this time you did it while intentionally taking stuff out of context to hope it helps in proving the point. It doesn't matter if it's a 5v1 or a 4v4, if the first 4 use sidewinders and the other 4 don't, the former are at a big advantage from the start, without taking ships, gun loadouts, skill or anything else into consideration. Encouraging everyone to use a broken missile to what, "make it fair" (?), is not going to solve the issue.

Reducing the skill gap is not the core issue of Sidewinders, it's merely a consequence of a broken weapon. Any broken weapon/ship inherently reduces skill gap. Old Bergelmir, Typhoon, Crecy, 1500ms 1500 range gunboat solarises, 1000 ms no spread GB cerbs, 8.33 snub meta before the gun rebalance, and any other blatantly overpowered or very strong thing in one way or another reduced the skill gap. Were they not supposed to be nerfed? No, they were rightfully nerfed, that's how balance works. You don't leave something blatantly broken as it is because "it reduces skill gap" and "you can use it as well".

The core issue, if not obvious by now, is the pure speed and acceleration they have, and CMs being very unreliable. Other issues are aux slots in general and the high damage they have for such a fast projectile. It's too fast to dodge, CMs don't work as soon as there's more than 4 people in a fight, it's very hard to CD since it's so fast, and it hits pretty hard.