The sentinel skills should be changed to something useful and the HMG operations skill should 5% less spread per level instead of 5% less recoil

Well... Forge gun heavies are doing as well as before. HMG heavies are beastly up close against any suit, it's just that 35m+ HMG is just meh and you're a sitting duck. Unless you got a LAV you just have to avoid open areas, the problem is that even some installations have got open areas that will just devastate any heavies trying to spring across to the next cover.

lemmie fix that for you



the rest of the heavy weapons and dropsuits need to be implemented ASAP

there fixed

and im pretty sure operation is heat buildup not recoil

The sentinel skills should be changed to something useful and the HMG operations skill should 5% less spread per level instead of 5% less recoil

Hopefully an Amarr-based heavy weapon will be released that can overheat. Then the sentinel bonus would make sense.

Hopefully an Amarr-based heavy weapon will be released that can overheat. Then the sentinel bonus would make sense.

They already got love by having an increased turning speed (making them a LOT less vulnerable to fast suits!), so no, they don't need more love at this point in time!

But the sentinel skill is the skill ALL sentinel suits will get, and even if it was amarr only it should be a slower heat up instead because the current one promotes overheating which is something a good player won't do

The Sentinel Role bonus is 5% bonus to heavy weapon reload, which is meh, all weapons already have a rapid reload skill, so this is kind of redundant. I would rather see it as something like 3% resistance to small arms/explosives per level.

The Amarr Sentinel bonus of -5% Weapon Feedback Damage is at the moment, completely and utterly useless. When the Amarr Heavy weapon (laser?) is added to the game, this will be a perfect complement.

Accually the sentinel bonus is the feedback damage and the amarr sentinel is the reload for some reason, also it's only 2% faster reload
Both of these should be changed IMO, feedback damage promotes overheating which only bad players do so I think it should be a slower heat up instead to allow longer shooting durations, the reload speed should be changed to 3% damage resistance but I'm open to other ideas to

Played with the HMG after 1.4 update. Still bad, even more so with such large maps. They need range, even at the cost of some dispersion. A little extra damage wouldn't hurt. Still don't know how damage per round goes AR>SMG>HMG.

The Sentinel Role bonus is 5% bonus to heavy weapon reload, which is meh, all weapons already have a rapid reload skill, so this is kind of redundant. I would rather see it as something like 3% resistance to small arms/explosives per level.

its like this
.556>9mm>5mm
it makes sense.

and no heavies are just fine the way they are.

I'm fine with where heavies and their weapons are, stat wise.

What I am not fine with is the lack of content. One suit and two weapons... Yeah, and its been that way for, how long now? Since heavies were introduced?

Give us content, like, say, the Amarr heavy weapon, and suddenly people may stop complaining about the Amarr sentinel's bonus. Give us more than one suit, and suddenly, whole new worlds are opened up for us to explore.

Content. Or, rather, the lack thereof. That is the biggest problem that heavies face.

The Amarr Sentinel Bonus makes absolutely no sense for Amarr (+2% reload speed/level)

The Sentinel Role bonus should be the Amarr Sentinel Bonus (-5% Weapon FeedbackDamage/level). Even then, this would only be useful if we had a Heavy Weapon which caused feedack damage.

I agree wholeheartedly that we need more content for Heavies, but this wouldn't solve the goofy Sentinel Bonus Problems.