Jake Bloodworth
DUST University
Ivy League
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Posted - 2013.09.09 20:05:00 -
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I find that Heavy players are, for the most part, bad at this game. Heavy players need to understand that playing a Heavy is more than fitting your suit with "insert special snowflake build here" and pointing your HMG at the enemy until they die. Heavies are slow, lumbering, high EHP suits. This does not mean they are meant to sit on a point until someone figures out the best angle and range to kill them from. This does not mean the heavy is to lumber slowly toward their intended target while holding down their fire button of choice. Why exactly do heavy players think proper FPS mechanics are intended for everyone but them?
No, you can't stand up under withering enemy fire. No one can... not even a tank.
No, you can't sit in one place acting like a fortified, HMG wielding pill box.
And no, no amount of proto-rep tools will make up for your inability to avoid damage.
You have to move, albeit more slowly, just like everyone else. You have to consider approach, range, and flanking. You lumbering up to a target is just stupidity. You aren't dying faster or more frequently because of the suit or it's bonuses. You are dying because you failed to do something. You may have failed to find cover. You may have failed to call and LAV to get across that open space. You may have failed to kill the other player before he/she killed you. I don't know exactly how you may manage to fail, but I do know that it was indeed YOU that failed.
You will find that your play style and skill-level will change when you take a little personal responsibility for your own failures. An LAV will save your hide from being roadkilled/picked off in an open field. Flanking will allow you to take on fewer targets at one time. Using cover effectively will reduce the enemy's ability to apply steady damage to you. Using grenades(Read: Cooking) properly will increase your quality of life.
You will still die. You will still be cut down by AR and LR users before you are able to get them in your optimal. A better player will still manage to kill you with an SMG inside your HMG optimal. But, it won't happen as often. And, you won't be posting whine threads in GD as often either.
Could the Heavy use a little love? Sure, but not the kind of love that allows you to be a one man wrecking machine that takes multiple players to down. We aren't super-caps... |