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/

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.

I support heavies (they are nice people, and I am a born logi with a scout's soul [want logiscout with 2 equipment slots and no light weapon!]), and have recently proposed a plan that would increase Heavy HP by 25%-50% while at the same time making them a lock-able target by swarm launchers (or some variant of the swarms). I believe that this would promote a new angle of the traditional paper-rock-scissors::AV-vehicles-infantry game by allowing heavies a better posture in their role, and making AV users valuable infantry squad members.

I say all those nice things so that you know I'm not trolling when I point out that your pictures of "the problem" included a pile of corpses you had created "for demonstration purposes."

I LOL'd.

Look! I think they did something...

* Improved HMG effectiveness at short/medium range.

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=129785&find=unread

yeah........really vague