Flux answers most of your problems. Cores answer the rest.

Generally, heavies are easily eliminated with some teamwork.

They are slow, they can shoot in only one direction, and they have no range -- so you're best to use that to their disadvantage. Eat them up from distance and/or get them looking one direction then mow them down from another. Tactics 101.

They only become a problem when there are a LOT of them in an enclosed room/area with logi support -- it's then that orbitals, grenade spamming, and REs really shine.

I don't really have any issues with "heavy spamming" although I'd like to see more diversity in the city sockets in PC, where the heavy train is boarded by everyone.

On a related topic, I also think that frisbee REs are kind of ridiculous and I'd like to see that changed in some way (either require an animation to deploy (kind of like the needle), and/or having them drop straight down at your feet such that they cannot be thrown).

Haha this! Even when the old ScR was king.

But to be fair, the only heavy items they have, are the suits.

With this community, if you play in a way that is not a 100% copycat of how they play, its spam this, spam that.


At the core or the problem, is the fact that vet players can outfit a medium suit with ungodly amounts of defense and offense, both active and passive.

So suddenly, people who play the game less than 40 hours a week have to come up with a cheap, viable counter. And thats how the "Spam" complaints start.


People counter proto squads with heavies....oh now they are spamming heavies
People counter proto squads with RE, oh, now its RE spam
Send tanks after them? Tank spam
Fly to out of reach places to keep yourselves out of the redline? Now im rooftop link spamming\
Hack some flank CRUs? Im letting my team down by hack spamming.
Or sometimes, i "spam" redline sniper fits by using 1 sniper fit i dont lose in a safe place 150M from the objective.


Whatever you or I (regular people) do, if it works its going to be called spam. The guy who just used 2 full clips on his Six Kin to kill 1 guy is going to call the guy who killed him with 1 remote a "RE spammer".


So, with that said, lets look at what is not spam:

Stacking a million passive bonuses to increase the active modules you are wearing? Not spam
Queuing for ambush match after match for 8 hours? Not spam
Throwing core grenades till the Ishukone hives run out? Not spam
Killing the same new player militia fit 10 times in the same game? Not spam
Using a double swarm commando to unload at a dropship and then change back to assault? Not spam
Assigning 2 logis to one heavy all game? Not spamming logis or repair tool streams
Bombing everyone with a Incubus, and then running to hide/refill ammo every few minutes? Not spam
Making a thread everytime something kills you and ruins your sense of entitlement? Yep, definitely not spam.


So there you have it! If you suicide charge in milita fits all game to give squads free kills, not spam. if you come up with a strategy and successfully execute it, chances are, youre a spammer!

I only ever go for the middle, makes it look the ceiling's trying to poop out a tank.