It's way slower than the normal one so it's not good for general mobility
It's inferior to the tank in combat, less versatile and at the same tech level so it's not good for killing nests either
For some reason it has half the shooting speed of the handheld rocket launcher which makes it specially bad for combat, surely this was not intended?

I honestly just wanted an armed hovercraft that can deal with the odd biter attack without having to sacrifice HALF of it's speed to do it, it's an incredibly harsh tradeoff for a terrible benefit, i just don't get it.

Few things to address here:

1. It is intended to be slower then the normal hovercraft in the same way the tank is slower then the car. The missile hovercraft is faster then the tank and should be more agile.

2. Not sure what you mean to the missile hovercraft is less versatile then the tank. It is faster and more agile then the tank, isn't damaged by trees/rocks like the tank, and can go over water? Do you have other suggestions to improve it's usability/versatility?

3. Shooting speed is not supposed to be half that of the normal rocket launcher/spidertron launchers. I will patch that in a moment.

The ideal of the missile hovercraft is a more agile, faster version of the tank. My original ideal was not the be 100% better in all ways, but I guess it should be in the way the vanilla vehicles are 100% better then the previous version. Maybe I should buff the health and possibly the resistance so that it follows in the line. I am always open to ideals and suggestions though I am not looking to make anything over powered and game breaking.

Update has been pushed. Check the changelog for all the changes. Pretty much buffs across the board for all hovercrafts. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions for other ways to improve the mod and I will take them into consideration.

It's way slower than the normal one so it's not good for general mobility
It's inferior to the tank in combat, less versatile and at the same tech level so it's not good for killing nests either
For some reason it has half the shooting speed of the handheld rocket launcher which makes it specially bad for combat, surely this was not intended?

I honestly just wanted an armed hovercraft that can deal with the odd biter attack without having to sacrifice HALF of it's speed to do it, it's an incredibly harsh tradeoff for a terrible benefit, i just don't get it.

I have made further balancing adjustments to the missile hovercraft that should make it feel an improvement over the tank in combat. Please let me know your thoughts on the missile hovercraft now.

I have made further balancing adjustments to the missile hovercraft.

Wow i didn't know you'd actually address this and so fast to! Thanks for looking into it, i'll take a look at the changes, do some tests and make a proper feedback post soon.

No problem. I have also updated the mod portal main page with updated stats for each hovercraft. This way one can compare them to the vanilla vehicles on the wiki. Also, don't forget that hovercraft, like vanilla vehicles, are improved with quality if you have the DLC, which includes their weapons.

I have noticed I did not add in the mechanic the spirdertron uses to rapid fire it's four launchers to the missile hovercraft. Therefore, it does not fire as fast as I intended. I will fix this issue tomorrow as it is a bit too late to get started on that this evening.

Alright, seems that what I was wanting to do is not allowed on anything but spider vehicles (for some unknown reason).

Therefore, I have reduced the cooldown of the hovercraft's launcher turret by 25% to get the same affect. So it should now fire about 67% as fast as a spidertron. And the update is pushed so now test the changes and get back to me....tomorrow.....I am going to bed.