So the effective range of an HMG is 15-20 meters right? well if you buff it by 10 meters, heavys will be good, AR nubs will have to keep a distance and boom, balance.

This I can get behind.

HMG needs a slight buff...

I have a heavy alt and was a heavy back in Chromosome. Heavies are in a sorry state right now. Nowhere near as bad as scouts and dropship pilots but it's pretty bad. Current gameplay has been reduced to solving every situation's problem with an AR. :/

I dunno if a 10m effective range would really solve much, but testing it out would be nice.

So the effective range of an HMG is 15-20 meters right? well if you buff it by 10 meters, heavys will be good, AR nubs will have to keep a distance and boom, balance.

So the effective range of an HMG is 15-20 meters right? well if you buff it by 10 meters, heavys will be good, AR nubs will have to keep a distance and boom, balance.

I agree. AR has some great range, 10 or so more would go a long way into making the hmg viable in more situations rather then peek a Bo around corners. Won't help it much in PC though if this is all it gets. Heavies play mostly city, no need for more range. What we do need is doom mode turn speed increased. Otherwise using it vs strafing is pointless, I can't use me weapon often at its best damage output, forcing me to dance too. I could tank through his ar if the doom mode turned faster more often then not I betcha.

Or they could do the smart thing and revert the HMG's stats back to what they were in Chromosme- without sharpshooter. They tried to fix something that wasn't broken to the point that the only heavies I'm afraid of either have forge guns or ARs.

This I can get behind.

I use HMGs almost never, but when I do, I actually do better than with my SCR and AR. My WP is lower, as I can't carry equipment, but my KDR with it is around 20.
I didn't use HMGs when Sharpshooter was a Skill onto its own, so I can't compare. I do know Heavies were gods on the battlefield back then, so perhaps HMG users became spoiled?

If used properly, there is no beating a Heavy outright. They are meant to lock down a choke point and dominate tight spaces. They are meant to just kill, kill, kill and thats what they do when used as intended.

Now, a Heavy needs a Logi too, they work as a team. Heavies may not trample the battlefield anymore, but they are still massively effective.
HMGs, like SCRs, are great in the right hands. The players that know how to control engagements. Heavies can't just rely on being beefed up walking HAVs anymore they actually have to play with concern.

My vote: HMGs are fine right now.

Whatever Lance/Himuko/SoTa/Warlord said He's got pretty much the same opinion as every other Heavy and due to the fact that as a side role I run heavy I'm going to have to agree with them... (that's 4 people, but trust me they all want heavies and HMGs to get buffed...)

Just played a match, where a heavy was about 30 yards out, and he was shooting at me with my trusty ScR, and all his shots landed I the dust around me, and the ones that hit probable did like 7 damage.

Herp-a-Derp.

Mininiguns in real life have a range of 1000meters. Thats way more than any assault rifle.

Just going to leave this here

You can have real world minigun ranges when we get real world AR ranges

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I ran Gatsun's at the end of a match right before downtime. Probably died 5 times, but it didn't matter because if the downtime happens before the match is over you don't lose anything :)

This is supposedly the best HMG in the game and I figured it would destroy players at slightly longer range than I usually use my other HMGs at....

Turned out I was wrong. I felt like I was downing players just as fast as normal. Man, I miss the HMG back in Chromosome. Such an amazing weapon.