Very few, including myself, use the Breach variants. They are seldom, if at any time, a problem for infantry and pilots alike. The long charge times and inability to move make the Breach the most balanced Forge Gun out of the three options. However, this recent nerf to all FG variants hit the Breach the hardest. It now seems more useless than before. All the complaints about Assault FG tower sniping just killed a perfectly balanced weapon.

R.I.P. Breach Forge Guns

Sorry a FG can in situations out snipe a sniper. All it takes is height or walls and the blast radius pays off in spades... Ace to be precise.

So you have a huge armored individual who can one or two shot tanks. One shot most infantry.

And is practically immune to one shots even to the head.

Plus less reputable members of the heavy FG fraternity might be WP farming by shooting all the visible neutral installations for double points even if the team could utilize a CRU or supply point to push the objective.

so the charging time for the FG was not long enough? really? 3 seconds is a long time to charge a weapon while trying to dodge bullets and grenades being thrown at us. now its 4 seconds charge time???? so now we have to really dodge those bullets and hope that we survive long enough to charge the FG?

geez CCP why dont you just nail our balls to the floor why dont you?

Absolute rubbish.

One shot can take all the shields off of the most shield tanked + hardener Python (and you never catch the first shot with a hardener). Despite the longer charge time (which is reduced to 4.5 sec iirc with skills), by the time I'm hit, reason what happened, and react, it's virtually impossible to get out of range or dodge the next shot. Not to mention I've been knocked around and have a very defective damage indicator, making everything all the more difficult.

All the forges were broken, hopefully they'll be more balanced.