Because each round hits 3 times harder and more accurately than it's "spray and pray" cousins . I love the assault HMG but I understand to quick overheat. If it didn't have that to balance it out, EVERYONE would be screaming for it's damage to be nerfed. Which would blow because I love destroying LAV's with it

Lubrication, most likely.

Because this is dust and minguns overheat here. So whats the point of miniguns in dust?
Thats right, theres always a place for a slow moving bullet sponge cqc dps monster. However the HMG with five barrels in dust overheats after 180 shots and thats about the same as 1 second of fire from a RL minigun (which never overheats).

So...

I really wish ccp had some resources and or creativity to balance or create a machine gun into dust because the HMG is not very fun to use, unless u enjoy being really slow and unable to shoot at or return fire at people a stonethrow away.

Clearly you where not here when there was such a thing as HMG sniping.

The AssHMG is mainly for AV. As for the heat build up, its extremely necessary and actually makes it balanced.

The only thing I would want changed with it is the reticle. I know it acts like the burst and the standard hmg (hold trigger longer, tighter reticle/bullet spread) however the formula is based on the firing speed which is why Burst gets tight real fast, standard takes a couple seconds and the assault never tightens. I believe the formula should change to match the heat build up at least for the AssHMG.

Also if you are a proper sentinel, you need to keep in mind that we are CQC monsters NOT ranged beasts NOT assaults. Point defence is our specialty, stick to it.

Actually it was a thing. I started playing in Jan 2013, and I saw HMGs getting kills at 50+ meters. The sharpshooter skill it had at the time made its range OP when combine with its damage and rate of fire.

And yes an HMG sentinel is CQC because of the range on it.

Comparing a fictional weapon to a real weapon is idiotic unless the fictional weapon is based off that real weapon. The HMG is not based off a real weapon ergo you should not compare it to any real weapons unless you want to look like an idiot.

As for the community QQing about lore and balance. For one they are QQing about fiction not reality. And as for running two SMGs I have done it, and it is acutally a lot of fun. However it is not a viable option for Sentinels.

What the hell? If I wanted a real mans weapon in this game i would choose a tactical nuclear bomb, just bomb the map and win every time.
Im asking for a ounce of realism and a deciliter of creativity from devs when balancing the weapons in the game, not just nerf the f out of the gun that 20 percent of the community uses becauses the majority qqs about it.
I just want a real machine gun in the game, wouldnt that be something? Trying to kill that lone noob heavy camping on a hill with a HMG instead of him hiding in a bunker. This game would be so much more interesting if half the weapons werent suprise ala gank.

I loved running the heavy class. Minmatar heavy class only though, I was really good with heavies. Especially the Burst HMG. I call those my "Scout Killer".