i have to start by saying that it is ridiculous to have needle laser like dot for its crosshair, if it is going to have such short range , its dispersion should be greater and do more damage, secondly both when ADS and when hip firing the muzzle flash makes it nearly impossible to even see the crosshair we're meant to be so accurate with, so i ask you people see for yourself , links below, in order not firing hip fire and ads, ccp save the fat people before all our kind use light weapons, we need way less muzzle flash to be able to actually see, we need more dispersion and it needs to do more damage, like radiating to that large circle, sorry the pics are all angled , i was in a hurry, apparently red dots dont care about any photo oportunitys and were shooting me in the back so hence the rush and funky angle




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With all the changes, i dont know the current laser rifle max range, but my guess is thats around 90-100m, so i'd think that a heavy machine gun should hit at those distances, not even by chance... it makes it way too OP.

With the 2.8-¦ spread it would be ~200 DPS at 100m if the target was entirely inside the cone of fire. That isn't much and the Heavy would most likely be melted by the laser rifle by that point. Besides, the laser rifle has a range of 120m.

Maybe tweak it more and have it's falloff begin at 80m so that it does even less damage at those ranges.

2nd, and regarding the post per se, if by chance a scout gets hit from 100m 2 bullets in the head from a hmg like that u say he dies, and thats nuts, im sentinel with laser and smg, and sometimes from medium range heavy machines can kill my 700hp shield before making them take cover, if you give them more range it'd be crazy.

My only counterpoint is that we are talking about a Heavy Machine Gun here. A Heavy Machine Gun that looks exactly like the M134 yet is over 5000 years in the future. The modern M134 can shred a car in 2 seconds at 1000 meters. Now I know were not playing ARMA and for game balance the thing can't have realistic range and damage. But come on, it should still resemble a Heavy Machine Gun in spirit! Where if you're in front of it while it's firing, regardless of range, then jump for cover because it's going to hurt...

Heavies are slow, big, limited in slots, and have no equipment. As such, the gun they're carrying should make up for it in sheer suppressive power.

The flare is stupid you can't see anything. Given that everyone else has these wonderful cross hairs I think the heavies should not be blinded by a stupid animation.

i have to start by saying that it is ridiculous to have needle laser like dot for its crosshair, if it is going to have such short range , its dispersion should be greater and do more damage, secondly both when ADS and when hip firing the muzzle flash makes it nearly impossible to even see the crosshair we're meant to be so accurate with, so i ask you people see for yourself , links below, in order not firing hip fire and ads, ccp save the fat people before all our kind use light weapons, we need way less muzzle flash to be able to actually see, we need more dispersion and it needs to do more damage, like radiating to that large circle, sorry the pics are all angled , i was in a hurry, apparently red dots dont care about any photo oportunitys and were shooting me in the back so hence the rush and funky angle




http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y337/noxmort3m/rant1_zps370907fd.jpg

http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y337/noxmort3m/ranthipfire_zps836b0241.jpg

http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y337/noxmort3m/rantads_zps77a1de29.jpg

It would be awesome to get a dev response

so i ask you people see for yourself , links below, in order not firing hip fire and ads, ccp save the fat people before all our kind use light weapons, we need way less muzzle flash to be able to actually see, we need more dispersion and it needs to do more damage,

TO LATE CCP I ALREADY HAD TO GOT DOUCHE BAG AND RUN A LIGHT WEAPON IN MY HEAVY WEAPON SLOT. I AM SURE ONCE I KILL ENOUGH MEDIUM AND LIGHT SUITS THEY WILL CRY OP ON THE HEAVY SUIT AND MAYBE THEN WE WILL HAVE A TRUE SENTINAL BACK IN THE GAME WITH A REAL HEAVY MACHINE GUN THAT CUTS TREES DOWN LIKE A MULTIBARREL MACHINE GUN SHOULD.



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I am wondering are you trying to phase out the Heavy in this game. The heavy or sentinel as you like to call it is far from being able to complete it's role of defender, guard(sentinel), or like the start of the game would show a force to be reckoned with. I don't see one new HMG weapon on your list for 1.7. As of late you have promoted scouts and free scout suits which leads me to believe you would prefer a bunch of jack rabbits running around with shotguns that poop grenades when you kill them.
The HMG is no longer a true HEAVY MACHINE GUN. If you need proof watch a modded Gek take down a heavy at close range. Even in the present there isn't much of a chance of any assualt weapon (AR) cutting down someone in front of them with a multi-barrel HMG! If you think it has to do with my own personnal skills in the game then look around and you will see Heavies running with assualt weapons or the OP-scrambler rifles or even worse a heavy with a shotgun. As of late I have had to damage mod my proto HMG just to try and compete with the damage dealt out by other advanced weapons. Awhile back you took away the range of HMG and added red and yellow flames that come out of the barrel when firing at red targets(bad idea). You took away the range and now the blast radius of the forge gun making it half the weapon it used to be for infantry kills but you are soon going to increase the power of tanks? All of this nerfing to the heavie's weapons and new weapons for other roles leads me to believe the heavy is not an important role in the future of this game and you don't mind if HMG's are not used by Heavies with heavy weapon slots.
A true sentinel of any objective should be feared as the name sentinel reflects but this is far from true and the options if you stay true to character and run heavy weapons is very shallow. Thank you, Slade

I roger what you're saying, I really do.

But why are all these pictures taken at "MySpace Selfie" angle?

i have to start by saying that it is ridiculous to have needle laser like dot for its crosshair, if it is going to have such short range , its dispersion should be greater and do more damage, secondly both when ADS and when hip firing the muzzle flash makes it nearly impossible to even see the crosshair we're meant to be so accurate with, so i ask you people see for yourself , links below, in order not firing hip fire and ads, ccp save the fat people before all our kind use light weapons, we need way less muzzle flash to be able to actually see, we need more dispersion and it needs to do more damage, like radiating to that large circle, sorry the pics are all angled , i was in a hurry, apparently red dots dont care about any photo oportunitys and were shooting me in the back so hence the rush and funky angle




http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y337/noxmort3m/rant1_zps370907fd.jpg

http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y337/noxmort3m/ranthipfire_zps836b0241.jpg

http://i1027.photobucket.com/albums/y337/noxmort3m/rantads_zps77a1de29.jpg

Sounds like it's time to get a Hip Shot Dot

new and improved photos of the struggle of the blind cotton ball shooting fat man
http://s1027.photobucket.com/user/noxmort3m/library/

i have to start by saying that it is ridiculous to have needle laser like dot for its crosshair, if it is going to have such short range , its dispersion should be greater and do more damage, secondly both when ADS and when hip firing the muzzle flash makes it nearly impossible to even see the crosshair we're meant to be so accurate with, so i ask you people see for yourself , links below, in order not firing hip fire and ads, ccp save the fat people before all our kind use light weapons, we need way less muzzle flash to be able to actually see, we need more dispersion and it needs to do more damage, like radiating to that large circle, sorry the pics are all angled , i was in a hurry, apparently red dots dont care about any photo oportunitys and were shooting me in the back so hence the rush and funky angle


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so last night before work i had my fiance take a bunch of pictures of my screen while i shot with my HMG , there are something like 15 different pictures over the course of a few mins, in most you can hardly see the red dot, in some its not so bad, but id like to point out that the flare is flickering all over the place so literally every second its covering a different part of the screen, if you actually click the images you can read the distances to the targets, this is about the best i can do my wonderful people, form your opinions, ccp , grant us your mighty dev responses

http://s1027.photobucket.com/user/noxmort3m/library/