People respected heavies like people respected scouts.

Now that they're both easy to use, that respect is gone.

i never got respect, then i found out im good with nk, still got no respect then every thing turned red & when i came too ever thing was stabbed

When people were honored to have a heavy in their squad. When Amarr was the only one, and it took real dedication to become fully skilled.

You people are blaming us for something that isn't our fault. It was the 1.8 dropsuit respec, the 2 million clone challenge, and the other events that boosted everyone's SP so high that we could essentially pick whatever we wanted.

That's why there are a bunch of skill-less heavies running around. That is your "heavy spam."

We do NOT have an easy time of mindlessly slaughtering everything in our paths. We get slaughtered by remotes, scouts, other heavies, rifles from a distance, multiple enemies purposely hunting us down, turning on us and shooting as soon as we pop out of cover.

You people are really starting to be insulting, and rude about your heavy QQ. We are not hiding behind our crutch. We are not playing Dust on easy mode. We are going out there, and we are being absolutely obliterated just like everyone else on the battlefield.

We put our asses on the line for YOU, in places that YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO GO, placing ourselves in mortal danger in front of crowds of enemy infantry to keep them away from YOUR OBJECTIVES. We are the #1 hard counter to enemy scouts that YOU WOULD GET OVERWHELMED BY IF IT WASN'T FOR US.

I have sat in Planetary Conquest battles and constantly taken abuse from the enemy, following the orders of my Field Commanders. I have literally sat there and felt like a helpless ragdoll while I spawned in and got orbitaled, spawned in and got pinned down by rifles on top of buildings, spawned in and sacrificed myself to kill 2 or 3 enemies with me.

WE TAKE THE ABUSE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO. Stop making excuses and realize that you are hateful, and spiteful and just want take what's ours away from us because for some idiotic reason, YOU think it should be completely okay to waltz right into a crowd of heavies instead of oh, I don't know?

Picking them off one by one with a Rail Rifle or Combat Rifle?
Melting them all at once with a Laser Rifle?
Blowing them all to Hell with Remotes?
Hunting them down and shooting them in the backs with a Shotty instead of expecting to be able to walk right in front of and wave "hello! I'm a scrub who thinks you shouldn't be instamelting me right now!"

Everything kills heavies, and does it well. Every single weapon in this game. Even the Assault Rifle isn't the poster boy for weakness anymore. Stop blaming us for your inability to kill us with the multitude of ways you could easily pick every one of us off one by one. Because it happens to me every time I turn on Dust.

We are there to make the difference on the battlefield. Even to help you kill the hostile heavies. Respect us and stop demanding unwarranted, illogical nerfs that will solve nothing.

I am nowhere near the only one who thinks that heavies are balanced right now. Almost everyone I talk to in-game agrees with me. Only on the forums do I find such opposition and it's not right.

We sit there and endure the pain right up until the last drop of our HP to keep the enemy off your objectives.

i could kill a heavy being repped by 5 core repair tools in 2 seconds or 3 at most with most weapons its not hard

Your clearly too new of a player.

No sentinels were not feared because they were hard to use. In closed bete sentinels actually were more expensive both sp wise and isk wise. They were respected because they represented a much larger investment of time and isk than most other suits and their killing power (which was amazing) was acceptable because of these inherent costs. It had absolutely nothing to do with sentinals being harder to use, that came later, much later actually when the sp and isk costs of all suits were equalized.

Now that your history lesson is over I'd like to point out that I do agree with the first part of your post. Yes, people are annoyed with sentinels right now because there are so many of them on the battlefield. That really is all that it comes down to. The OP has failed to see that while heavies are not the easiest play style in Dust in numbers that have a massive advantage over other suits.

There are times currently when we see as much as 1/3 of a team spawning in as heavies. Mind you this is nothing compared to the number of people spawning in as scouts, but it is still a high number. When this happens. When the enemy has so many heavies. It feels like you can't get away from them. You spawn in, you get insta-blapped by an HMG. You turn a corner, three heavies are waiting there to meet you guns a blazin'.

So yes, the proble with heavies isn't the suit or the TTK it is the number of heavies. They, like scouts are simply far too numerous leading them to recieve hate by the bucket load. Hopefully this will change as medium frames are made more viable, which will let many vets move back to our cherrished assaults which have been collecting Dust for the last few months, thus bringing diversity back to the battlefield and tamping down this "x suit is amazing QQ-fest" in we are currently engaging.

People hate the heavy spam because it is spam.

It is spam because heavis are extremely potent (high DPS murderometer aka the HMG) with insane resilience (huge pool of EHP including the resistances) and they still have reasonable flexibility (can fit light weapons as needed for example.!

Are Sentinels broken? Maybe, maybe not. Is there a reason people spam the hell out of them? Yes, its because Sentinels are relatively simple to use while being incredibly effective for very little investment. A militia heavy suit with a STD HMG can obliterate a squad of ADV suits almost as effectiverly as a PRO Sentinel. Therein lies peoples' issues.

People used to respect Sentinels because they were weak and thus hard to use well. Come 1.8 and they gained a number of extremely powerful advantages. You say that they are weak against rifles? Good, otherwise why take any other suit: Weak against coordination? Have you seen Gal/AmSent/Logi combos?!

You can blame the SP gained from the Million Clone Challenge, but that doesn't change the reason why so many skilled into them.

I saw a heavy drop 30-2 in PC the other day git gud maybe?

i was in that PC. you're talking about Skeletor Voltron.

maybe you should go back and re-read because I was on that objective under the field commander's orders, regardless of it being a kill zone

by the way, the "on some maps you can't engage the heavy outside his optimal" argument is bullshit

guess how it is on every other map (and there are a lot of them?) WE are inside YOUR optimal. It's only fair that some maps are designed for heavies, because the vast majority of other maps are NOT designed for them