OK, so the prevalence of fat suits running AR's/MD's and now the rise of the Forge Gun Snipers has become such common place on the battle field we need to look at how the role of the heavy needs a rethink.

Personally; heavies should not be able to equip light weapons. It's basically some idiot with a crap gun game that needs to be protected by tons of EHP because he/she hasn't got the skill to run a proper suit. Make it so that heavies can only use heavy weapons and a sidearm.

Forge Guns; such a stupid weapon! It does more damage than a tank turret and cost significantly less. Having forge gunners hiding in the hills popping infantry like they are ants isn't what I think CCP was expecting the gun to be used for. There is no "fall off" on damage for the range and it can be damn near impossible to determine the location of the heavy (at least there is a sniper trail from a sniper rifle).

Forge Gun suggestions:

1) Increase the cost of forge guns to be in-line with tank turret costs; come on, they are pretty much the same thing, they should cost serious ISK.

2) Make forge guns ineffective against infantry; sure people will cry about this, but isn't the forge gun supposed to be an AV weapon??

3) Forge Guns should increase the sig radius of the heavy so they can be swarmed! Yes, that's right, you use your forge gun its expands your sig radius so much that my friends proto swarms can lock you!

4) Add an "ionised trail" back to the location of the heavy! Seriously, that much energy would probably leave a trail of some kind!!

Yes, I've been touched in a bad place by too many heavies.

Comments/trolls/grief welcome.

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Oh dude, did I suggest ways to mess up your game? Oh dear, sorry abt that. Would have been nice to have a proper response, so I will chalk this one under troll/grief.

Pointless response is pointless.... but no, I'm an SMG scout FYI.

Dude, you need to smoke something, your gunna have an heart attack before your 40 (unless you're 40 then dude your gunna have one soonGäó). Why so angry, suggestions are what make the game evolve, good and bad.

if the heavy suit should only use heavy weapon slots..

then i guess we could all spec into commando suit and use hmgs and forge guns to kill u with!....

hmg for ppl who try to sneak up on us.. and the forge gun to shoot u from a distance!
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The suit and forge gun are both working as intended sir, I run logi not heavy and have previously run heavy, yes they are squishy and can be killed as well as seen when you have a look around. Sometimes it's death from above and most of the time it is death from not using your radar, a heavy has the highest sig radius of all the suits and as such does a terrible job of sneaking around. Seriously though I wish there were a way to minimize the amount of damage taken by infantry from a Forge Gun such as not taking all the splash damage (only taking what hits you) rather than a full blast from a forge gun when you get splashed. It may make OHKing guys a wee bit harder.