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Severus Smith
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Posted - 2013.12.11 15:17:00 -
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Just give it a cone spread and increase the damage per bullet to compensate. Here is the math I did:
1200 RPM
50 Damage
Against 1m wide hitbox
2.2-¦ spread (DPS vs range too high, maybe good for Burst HMG)
25m = 1000 DPS (optimal)
40m = 666 DPS
60m = 416 DPS
80m = 333 DPS
100m = 263 DPS
2.8-¦ spread (My recommendation for regular HMG)
20m = 1000 DPS (optimal)
40m = 500 DPS
60m = 333 DPS
80m = 250 DPS
100m = 200 DPS
3.8-¦ spread (Not bad either)
15m = 1000 DPS (optimal)
20m = 769 DPS
40m = 384 DPS
60m = 250 DPS
80m = 185 DPS
100m = 151 DPS
Those numbers (2.8-¦ spread) would make the HMG king in <40m, suppressive from 40m to 60m and damaging out to 100m. It could now do point defense (as it would slaughter in CQC) and keep an enemy squad suppressed at range (300 DPS at 60m still hurts) while not outclassing the rifles (who have longer ranges) at their optimals of 50m+.
That there would help the Heavy class tememdously. |
Severus Smith
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Posted - 2013.12.11 15:45:00 -
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Jooki Chewaka wrote:Severus Smith wrote:[...] 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. |
Severus Smith
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Posted - 2013.12.11 16:39:00 -
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Jooki Chewaka wrote: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. |
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