Then people should lobby for the weapons alone instead of bitching about the suit itself.

/facepalm.

Look, I'm going to not be characteristically long-winded about this, and I will obey the KISS principal, because you obviously have no reading comprehension whatsoever. I'll even use bullet points to make it easy to understand.

1. The ENTIRE point of the Heavy dropsuit class is to carry and employ heavy-class weapons.

2. Yes, you can put any other kind of weapon into a heavy weapon slot. No, this is generally not a good idea.

3. If the entire point of the heavy class is to carry heavy weapons, THEN WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO USE AN AR?! The HMG should be the far more attractive choice for a short-medium range full-auto bullet hose, if you're a heavy.

For the record, the reason NKs are generally considered acceptable (and even then, dedicated knifers will immediately call you out and call you an idiot for thinking this) is because they are mostly-functional. You get close enough, then there is very little that can actually survive being stabbed in the back. Or in the face, if it's a really good NK'er. The flaw in your reasoning is ultimately that it is understood that NKs require a particular type of suit to take advantage of- usually scouts, for their speed and stealth- but NKs can be put onto any suit in the game.

The HMG can only be carried by heavy suits. See above bullet points as to why your argument is flawed and makes you look like you are unable to read.

Then lobby for the nerf of the AR not the buff of the HMG. Scouts being as thin as THEY are dont need heavies doing more damage. Heavies being as heavy as they are dont need more HP (3 - 6 shotgun shots to bring one dont if they register at all) and Just so you know, Nova Knives are better used on assault and logi suits then Scouts.

If you buff the heavy any more you're causing the scout to become even more useless and its nearly dead anyways, at the very least heavies have forgeguns to keep them as a playable class alive.

His name is Jacques Clayton (or very similar to that)

He was in my squad.

I only remember because i saw you in game for the first time and then you immediately started firing swarms at me.

He is an EXCEPTIONAL player. Do not use him as a grounds for evaluation.

I think the problem with heavies is that they crap for situation awareness. I run a scout suit and always sneak up on heavies from behind getting pretty easy kills with plasma cannon. I don't see much of a problem with this. I barely ever see heavies use cover, they too often run around solo thinking that they are a mini-Tank.

When I think of a heavy I think it was meant to be played as a part of a squad with logis close by repping them. If you run by urself or you are out in the open in a heavy suit, you deserve to die.

Disclosure: I've only run A-1 in this build, I dont run heavy as my main.

And the last part "the whole basis of scout vs heavy balance is supposed to be that the scout can outmaneuver the heavy" IS kinda imposible since heavies can turn as fast as scouts. Which doesnt allow us to run around them without being instant killed.

Play a scout, even a mlt one, for a few games. Now imagine that but it costs you 150k isk a suit. It dies to 0.5 of a second of incoming fire, grenades instant kill no matter what, and we cant make any mistake or its instantly fatal. WE CANT EVEN SURVIVE A SMALL FALL.

Or you could not be in MY thread. HMG is not the heavy, if you dumbasses could get that through your large thick skull you might understand that. At least heavies seem to have a place in PC but you never see two or three scouts per team. You never see people looking for scouts in EoN PC, they wont even accept scouts for PC battles last I checked.