Swarm Missile Pod - 4.78 patched

[daedalus]

You think it's 4 times more powerful? Have to disagree, cause a skilled fighter pilot can avoid swarms effectively (I think). I tried a single swarm against nomad targets. It deals significant damage, true, but not as much as capship weapons do.

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It is a lot easier for a fighter to avoid a Nova. In fact most targets not immune to missiles will be fast moving.
Swarms are as difficult to avoid as cruise disruptors, (i.e. almost impossible, especially against ships with no countermeasure). It's probably the same code. They look the same.
They can be fired as single shots (highlight in the weapon list and click fire) or as a repeat (hold down the weapon number key). It's the number repeat that does the damage (obviously) and looks spectacular.
I wouldn't expect it to do as much damage as a cap ship, but in present form it's more deadly than a liberty bs missile turret. And the only skill required to use it is being able to count numbers on the keyboard.
It's a lovely weapon but needs an ammo restriction. Even 50 would make sense, as it would garauntee 8000 hull damage to a target very quickly (in less than 2 seconds).

EDIT: I can confirm that the new ini works, although I had to remove swarm from the gun mount. It will now only mount on the torp.

Here's what I mean about the ammo. It appears to be expecting ammo.

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