Why is the Freelancer missile lock so slow?
TL;DRMissile lock times are a first flight-ready implementation still being tuned, and players will be able to improve them by customizing the stock Freelancer's components.
First flight-ready implementation. Plenty of stuff is still getting tuned and changed, especially when it comes to things like missile locks, targeting times. A lot of that is just long-term balance.
And also remember that this is the stock version of a freighter version of the Freelancer, and you will be able to customize the components on the ship to improve things like missile lock time. So don't look to the stock version of a ship to be the answer to all of your prayers. You will be able to customize and kit it out.
Every single ship that we've sold so far is going to have plenty of different component and loadout options beyond the stock equipment. There's going to be plenty of options where we're not selling you something out of the box that has no room left to upgrade because it's already the best at what it could ever possibly do.