Unlike earlier models, the weapon requires no spool up time: rounds are expelled the instant the trigger is pressed. This comes at the cost of intially reduced accuracy as the counter-rotating drives slowly align. Once fully aligned, however, the HMG produces a pinpoint stream of gunfire with unmatched killing potential.

Hitscan or bullet it does not matter make the area that lines up with the enemies hit box larger would in effect make more like firing a projectile and less like a laser pointer.

If you want to think of it in terms of the size of the reticle being the rough area of the "hitscan" then it is a needle currently, make the diameter/area larger.


I hope that clarifies it a bit, I apologize if it is still unclear as I am a bit sleep deprived.

At 30 meters your target can still effectively bunny hop and strafe enough of your damage. That All I meant. There is no loss in damage based on mechanics.

Yes, either a huuuuuuuuge spread or increased range. Right now it has pinpoint accuracy and crap range => crap weapon.

Minmatar weapons are however short range uber dmg weapons, so I think the spread should increase to make this weapon feared again.

Looked at jolly rogers video from chromosome the other day. Look at the HMG spread in that vid, it is working there (see 4:10 for example):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd0tAoagjDE

If they fix this, I might go heavy.

So it seems most agree that this is not working as intended. Now if only we can get some confirmation from CCP

It only seems to do this when standing still. If you move at all you can notice there is much more spread.

The is no spread. If you are talking about the huge circle, it doesn't actually matter. The circle is a lie. The bullets don't go anywhere but the point in the center.

You can visualy see the bullets travel away from the center when your moving. Ive even tested it and got hit markers when i had the point in the center not aimed at the target.

The animation is not the same as where the bullets are hitting. But for the sake of argument I can also make s video of this too.

Hey guys.

We've had a look at this video and it's pretty cool. Great work pulling it together. :) Love getting this kind of feedback.

We're having a look in to the situation with HMG spread and will keep you posted, mmmmkay.

Hey guys.

We've had a look at this video and it's pretty cool. Great work pulling it together. :) Love getting this kind of feedback.

We're having a look in to the situation with HMG spread and will keep you posted, mmmmkay.

hopefully us heavies can have a improved HMG to murder all those reds with
and maybe go back to the days when we were feared

Thats it! heavies cant aim! Who wouldve known -_- on the other hand my shotgun can be point blank and still not function properly... Your weapon does, i dont wanna hear it... Although i agree a hmg's spread should be much larger. The smg functions like a hmg more than the hmg. But my hate for heavies in chromosome when i first started in standard gear is keeping me from sympathizing.

Hey guys.

We've had a look at this video and it's pretty cool. Great work pulling it together. :) Love getting this kind of feedback.

We're having a look in to the situation with HMG spread and will keep you posted, mmmmkay.

Hey guys.

We've had a look at this video and it's pretty cool. Great work pulling it together. :) Love getting this kind of feedback.

We're having a look in to the situation with HMG spread and will keep you posted, mmmmkay.

Hey guys.

We've had a look at this video and it's pretty cool. Great work pulling it together. :) Love getting this kind of feedback.

We're having a look in to the situation with HMG spread and will keep you posted, mmmmkay.

I'm not sure that increasing spread per se is the correct solution, as this will make the weapon even less effective at mid range . Rather just make the area that hits larger, to reflect the fact this is a multi-barrel weapon. To illustrate:

Current situation of laser beam-like fire looks like this:
--- (which is crap close up)

Increased spread would look like this:
< (which is crap at range)

Increased hit area would look like this:
---
--- (where the two lines represent the top and bottom barrel, and anything between them at any range gets hit)

Well in past builds the HMG did actually shoot in a cone and it became tighter the longer you shoot.

So they have the technology, apparently some wires got crossed and numbers may have been inputed with thick thumbs causing this debacle.

I'm not sure that increasing spread per se is the correct solution, as this will make the weapon even less effective at mid range . Rather just make the area that hits larger, to reflect the fact this is a multi-barrel weapon. To illustrate:

I feel dumb..

I use to whine stating that the dispersion was far too much which ultimately added to the HMG's inaccuracies. After all this time, it turns out that I just suck at aiming...

No wonder why I play a support medic MinLogi with an Assault MD now... because I can't shoot.

VIDEO!!!

Dust 514 - Heavy Machine Gun accuracy

Hello guys,

There are lots of heavies that you talk to about their heavy machine gun. When Asking whats wrong with it, a lot of them say that it feels sort of inaccurate, the range is bad, the spread is too much etc etc. People who don't use it would say things Like, "you should crouch and Aim Down Sites" and in all fairness it does help but, just a bit.

The real reason that the heavy machine gun feels so under powered is that it's too accurate. The damage is centered on a point that is as small as the point on the laser rifle's "Aim down sights". So even if you aim down sights or have the target inside your spread at all times, chances are you are not going to deal any worthwhile damage unless you have the target centered.

I could talk about this for ages and I still wouldn't make believers out of the most of you so why not a video.

NEWS!!



Thank you CCP for answering . I hope the video helps the DEVS and the Heavy community alike.