After reading this thread it seems that there are two major complaints with the Pheonix. One: indirect fire, and two: that the Pheonix missles get more 'bang for the buck' then those of the other anti-vehicular weapons. Now, I'm not a beta-tester, (I'm one of those people that you're not allowed to give Tobacco, pornography, or beta slots to...
) but I do happen to have a couple of ideas to maybe help solve these issues (and maybe, if I'm a good little boy, the great and powerful beta-testers will carry these ideas to that wonderful place, where the magical Devs will listen to them
).
To solve the indirect fire problem, perhaps instead of removing the indirect attacks altogether, instead make them more difficult. After all (and correct me if I'm wrong) the devs haven't said that there should be no indirect fire, only that they thought that it should require a hefty amount of work and effort, perhaps more effort then it's worth. So, to make it more difficult, I would say make the missile easier to spot. Make the missile bigger, and the flare from the thruster brighter. Have there be an easily visible line connecting the missile and the firer. Maybe even make it travel slower so there's more time to see it, and it's easier to dodge.
And regarding the problem that the missiles themselves are too powerful, I should think that the answer to this one is fairly obvious. Make it so that the missles take more space, or that you can carry less of them in the same space. From what I've seen the Pheonix loads alot like a Bazooka, which means the missile are to big to go in anywhere other then directly into the barrel. The Striker, on the other hand has missiles that are small enough that they can be loaded into a clip in the back. Thus it seems logical that you could carry more Striker missles per invertory space then Pheonix missles. The primary complaint that I see is that the Striker requires more shots to kill something then the Pheonix, so making the latters missles larger should solve that.