I want this game to be as balanced as possible so don't resort to posting comments saying Q.Q or that I hate heavies and I digress.


When heavies received their turn speed buff ages ago that's when heavies started appearing on the OP radar in forum threads.

Before they had tons and tons of HP. More HP than even now with an HMG that would tear you a new one but they were slow...not only were they slow but they couldn't turn on a dime like they do now.

This is my main issue with heavies, secondary issue being the complete ease of firing without worrying about overheat or spool up time but that's a different topic for a different day.


The reason Heavy suits received their bonus to Turning Speed in the first place was due to scout issues at the time and their uselessness against them at the time and I do vaguely remember one of the DEVs saying that the turning speed buff was just a temporary buff until the matter could be resolved.

Well, Rattati it looks like that time is now. Heavies are in a good place now with health, the scout issue is no longer present (albeit replaced by a different one) and the HMG now has a devastating amount of damage enough to swat anything that comes close to it (which is the way it should be) but all that with a high turning speed and ease of the weapon is not an ideal form of balance.


Just to get things more into context this is just like a Battleship in EVE having their Large Turrets have the same tracking speed as a small frigate turret. If you are familiar with EVE then you know how ridiculously absurd the idea is and would make running smaller ships in the game useless.

This can still translate roughly into DUST even with it's players being capable of independent movement.

- Currently Heavies have the Highest Health in the Game
along with the Highest Damaging infantry weapons in the Game

From a gaming standpoint for balance those two traits translate into
Slower movement
Low Mag Size and or Long Lock on time / target acquisition


Sentinels can serve a broad purpose and the purpose depends on each race. Currently the Caldari serves more of a purpose of Long range Anti Material Support while the Amarr Sentinel is more of a Armor tank to soak up tons of damage. The Minmatar meanwhile would be the ideal heavy people have in minds with the HMG compatibility.


What I have in mind is a reduction of Turning speed from lowest to highest:
Amarr
Caldari
Gallente
Minmatar


You can also see that this correlates well with each races ideal battle methods and this would still allow the Minmatar Heavies to completely wreck suits just like Jove intended. As a bonus, not only does this change create balance but it also discourages the use of light weapons on sentinel suits without completely invalidating Light Weapons on Sentinel Frames.



I have to wrap it up now to pick up the kid from practice but please keep in mind that I have ideas for balance to the other suits as well. This is just a topic about heavies.

group a sentinel with a squad or at least another person.

This is supposed to be a team based game no?
Where everything has a counter to it.

We are acting as if heavies are supposed to be fully efficient on their own which is NOT the way it was intended to be.