After many test rounds we've determined that the new swarm behavior makes then obnoxiously difficult to dodge. No slightly inebriated pilot should attaempt to fly against swarms.

swarms have always been a pain in the ass you ninny :P

I personally don't get the effort being put into making swarms... uh... different.

Isn't there something more interesting that that time could have been spent on?

I guess they are supposed to be the basis for some future cap ship missiles or something.

I've only played once against them seemed to get hit more but only by one or two missiles in the volley so overall the didn't really do more damage.

no mr spuck thats what we mean the swarms are fired in an agt like pattern andit makes them alot harder to dodge completely cause they come in from different angles

The work on the swarms is to optimize them for large-scale battles on the large warships. Some people have horrible fps issues when there are swarms in use. Incarnate has discussed this in the News posts and also in the thread about the swarms. While they were at it, they've added the ability to easily tweak the missile behavior. Those tweaks now take a fraction of the time that it took with the old code - it's not so much effort anymore.