Same goes for the Gal Assault, the bonus is too poor for them to care about losing it.

I suspect a simpler explanation:

A Fast and Tanky unit will tend to outperform Fast or Tanky units.
The MN Assault is exceptionally good at being both.

So I have a serious question, and this is not intended to come off in a snide tone.

But in over six months, there have been no less than five serious, well thought threads on addressing HMG dominance in CQC. There has not been a single dev response, nor any indication that these threads have even been reviewed.

In fact there has never been a non-trolling dev response in any similar thread in two years that I have read.

Why?

Further, Sentinels/heavies have been proven more problematic than worthwhile in a balance perspective, so the answer has been "make them even MORE CQC. More of the same thing that has never worked should work now, right?"

Why are Heavies not being repurposed to dedicated AV and area denial?

Area denial is not room by room brawling. Area denial is what you post at the door/gate to keep people OUT of the rooms in the first place.

Sentinel suit's advantages and disatvantages are TEXTBOOK examples of open-ground, area suppression parameters. But they are being crammed into close quarters.

Why?

The only answer anyone has EVER provided is "heavies are cqc." This is a non-answer that holds as much validity as when I say "because :reasons:"

There is no vision for the heavy suit. They were originally billed as the go-to suits for AV and area denial. What we have is a CQC brawler that performs poorly in an AV capacity compared to lighter, more agile AV options (swarms).

So instead of doing more of the same thing, why do we not separate the role of the heavy, which should be a support platform that assists an assault squad, from the assault, which should be the go-to suit for attacking in CQC?

Let's be clear about one thing even though my posts might on the surface smell of "dont nerf my (insert stupid thing here).

I am all for fixing sentinels. I am all for making HMGs not be instapop deathvomit.

I am not, however, a fan of balancing methods which have, time and time again, proven either inineffectual or utterly neutering.

The whole "reduce HMG range/damage" have been done over and over again. And every single time within three patch cycles, someone gets it in their head that reverting those changes will provide a balanced fix.

This pendulum has been swung far too many times for me to have any faith in it's ability to solve the core issues with the gun. It's time to rethink how the gun works entirely.

There lays the problem, Have you Played TF2, Battle Field, or Star Wars Battle Front? In those games Heavy Infantry are as described, but they are still used offensively.

TF2 Is the prime Example, where Ubered Heavies and Medics on their Tails are used to Push Objectives, In Battle Field and Battle Front, the LMG weapons are Just as effective Up close as it is at Range.

How do You take a Weapon That Kills With ROF and DPS at range and nullify it in CQC, which as I theorized is against the Minn Weapon Philosophy. I wish CCP would tell use what they want the heavy to be in this sense.

Data too raw and without all factors. To avoid Myopia, can you give us a list of the number of times which sockets were used for these PCs? The location of the objectives affect how well suits perform where.

That aside...huge spike in Amarr HMGs. Not so much the other HMGs. Why is this?.

So can we have a list of the top WP in PC gain JUST like this one?

See, here is the thing. We have this massive spike in Amarr heavies and act as though it is definitely the HMG.

Yet, the Min Assault and CR as well as the Gal scout and shotgun outperforms The Cal heavy and their HMG. It outperforms the Min heavy and their HMG 2 to 1.

The Gal heavy and HMG performs 30% better than the two above mentioned scouts.

The burst HMG is better than the HMG -- but it doesn't have near the number of kills. Why is that as well?

Too much raw data with no comparable over all picture data from other areas such as WP gained per suit/death (or, if it exists -- WP gained per suit by equipment.) (where is the assist per weapon/suit data?)

All sorts of data that needs to be considered before blanket nerfing.

A lot of people are going to draw ridiculous, narrow minded, knee jerk conclusions based on this and most people wouldn't know the scientific method if it bit them on their ass.