Dashen, on 15 July 2015 - 05:03 AM, said:
I find myself in trouble understanding how exactly lrm damage works, it seems it does no damage, i have lrm30 + artemis and it simply doesn't do much damage even when i hit targets at medium ranges.
Its simply dmg per missile hitting the target.
If you watch the videos closely you see a certain ammount of missiles simply missing the traget, or hitting interfering objects or beeing shoot down by AMS.
So if you consider the above mentioned there is an awfull lot of things able to interfere with your LRM dmg.
Even if you got an enemy standing still, at 300m, you are standing still and you got a perfect solid lock without any interference AND you got Artemis, it is a rare occasion to see all your missiles striking home.
So you will have to fire LOTS AAND LOTS of your LRM 30 to get some dmg on your target.
I've seen a lot of people chainfiring LRMs regardless of the situation.
Thats terribly wrong.
Especially if you are IS.
The strength of IS LRMs is they can fly as one big swarm. Since AMS systems only have a certain rate of fire you can easily overwhelm them. When I see ppl firing their multiple LRM 5 at chain into four assaults, everyone with AMS I could .... oh well.