Missile Homing

I know that tuning for speed increases the homing, but are there any other factors that determine homing? Or is it just purely speed. Just got a V-2 Way Missile, and wanted to know if it was worth speed tuning. I already have Box Missiles with 2 speed tunes, and a bunch of Ballistics. Is it worth my effort to tune the 2-way, or should I just concentrate on my Balistics.

2-way's probably bad.

Range increases homing duration.

Homing's greatest difference is among different types missiles.

Most missiles seek flying targets better than grounded targets. This is especially important to Anti-Air missiles.
Missiles that curve weird without lock, like V-2 way missiles, only "home" into the spot where they once were, they're really really inaccurate.
Pulse Missiles, such as Tentroin HD and Helingale AM, seeks better the higher up you are, I have no clue into the specifics.
Anti-Ground missiles, such as Geograsis AM4 and Poseidon AM, homing better on grounded targets rather than flying ones.

There are a few notes about the distences regarinding missile's homing.
The firepoint, where the missile is shot.
The activation, when the missile starts to seek.
The cut, when the missile stops seeking.
The range, when the lock goes poof.

Most missiles have activation right after firepoint, and then cut is near the range.
IE, fa----------cr
Snail BD has a long time before activation, cut is fast, but range is far. Makes it inaccurate.
IE, f----a-c-----r
Gathima AM2 has the longest time between firepoint and activation. But it does have amazing homing. I have no clue when this thing cuts.
IE, f---------a--r

Just a few notes.

seems gathima horizontal missiles seems same like normal missiles, start seeking when fired then stop when out of range/cant turn...
while the vertical one seems seek-then-stop when curve down like snailbots missiles, only faster than snailbots missiles so a bit moer accurate, except it cant atk mid-short range target...

best seeking missiles actually barrel LGJ and Grandam BS, , it almost can turn back to chase target, but both are damned slow so easy to evade

and uh... i wonder about poisedons AG missiles... seems it lock on better on running target than flying one... or it just me?

Courius wrote:

and uh... i wonder about poisedons AG missiles... seems it lock on better on running target than flying one... or it just me?

This is correct. AG missiles track grounded targets better than aerial targets.

I notice explosive missiles have better turning when they are higher in air.

It no matter what type the target, if they are in sky they are bombed.

uh... so far i know, all missiles except pulse missile are explosive (pulse missiles are beam)

and no, not always... some missiles are so heavy so they almost cant chase their target... good example for this are toybox cruise missiles (but unlike toybox, toy chan one are deadly cause she can spam it). but unlike most missiles just keep flying straight till explode cause out of range, cruise missiles curve down to the ground if "lost the target" when evaded... so careful with the AOE.

another example is snailbots missiles... since it drop down vertically, if evaded it cant chase it target and keep goin till hit ground . but snails homing is pretty hard to evade in ideal range, which mean just curved down after fly up to sky

i request DG's missile chart?