Need input from good fighter/bomber pilots

[Jihadjoe]

When you have ammo you have to be carefull and concentrated when to fire which projectile.... and idea of making GB's missile ammo is fantastic! Now...GB missiles need maybe a bit nerfing (due to speed, Mjolnir posted this problem before) ...

But full missile loadouts... That thing i will never understand... only skill you need for that is finger pressing fire missiles button.. but that is just me...
The other day in NY there were Hackers (4 extraordinary pilots) owning all lawfuls and then 5 of Xenos came... it was fantastic fight (laggy as hell, though) but then LH gunship with missile loadout came.. and in 2 minutes he took down 4 eagles.... it makes you wander only one question... WHY?... It was balanced fight and then someone like that guy comes and ruins it completely!!! Very sad! But i bet he was happy and proud cause his skills in using missile GB took down 4 Eagles...

Thing that worries me is that i am seeing more and more Gbs with 4,5,6 or full missile loadout.... That is just wrong!! (IMO) And everybody constantly saying USE FIGHTERS; USE BOMBERS... some of us are and will continue to try...

Now about torpedoes... I am using Sunslayers on almost all of my fighters... Why? Cause when I fight any vanilla ship and i hit it on hull he is dead and when i am fighting and non-vanilla ship in 2-3 hits i strip down all of his guns... And that is why Torpedoes are useful .. just like mines!

EDIT: I am thinking about GB with 3 missile turrets and I am completley sure that is still way to much for 2,3 fighters to dodge... maybe less than 70 missiles in cargo space (due to their size)
Oh and btw I am not good pilot, just average... so sorry for posting here:P

Well, Skoko for starters you ARE a good pilot, don't be so bloody stupid.

I agree with everything you have posted here, ammo makes you be more careful with your projectiles, and then rather than spamming them endlessly into crowds of fighters, you might use some if you thought is was nessesary.

This would probably stop the missile spam that we see that takes the fun of the game away from fighter pilots, and Xenos in particular who have little to counter it with.

Second. GB missiles are, at the moment, the never ending source of fighter pwnage. You can't dodge them, so it completely negates your own skill as a fighter pilot, and you don't have to aim with them, which reduces the game to a button bash for the GB pilot.

Give them ammo and I think we might have some balance.

Plus. The missile GB which I have had most contact with (a LH GS with 6 missile turrets) strips your shield with one slavo, then kills you with the next. No matter how well you fly, not matter how much you dodge, you just die.

This GB was set up with THE EXPRESSED purpose of hunting Xenos. I got jumped by him when I was still flying a hawk for the XA, when I was on my own. In groups I know its possible to take it down with a lot of CD's, but all the same, If this thing turns up in the middle of a fight you might as well just sit still and await the nigh on certian explosion. You can run out of CD ammo, he can't run out of missile ammo. A bunch of eagles has almost no chance (vanilla) and bombers only stand much of one if that have CD's mounted.

Getting hit by 12 GB missiles in a very short space of time, them having ALREADY caused you to dump all your CM's isn't fun. It removes the fun from the game and reduces it to a pointless turkey shoot for the GB pilot, and an exercise in patience and calm for the fighter pilot.

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