According to the description of the skills, increasing the railgun skills only unlocks the next railgun. And I'm sure if you unlock the proto forge gun, you will see that even the best fitting on a sagaris can't hold up at all. About 4 shots is all it takes with the best shield extender and the best shield booster running at the same time. The only option is to try to hide or run if you can react in time and have an escape route. Trying to stand and fight against a forge gun is suicide, this shouldn't be the case when you consider it's an HAV vs Infantry. It's hard to hit someone direct with a rail gun so you rely on splash damage, proto heavies are at an advantage with even minimal cover. I'll give some of these guys credit though, I had one jump on top of my tank with a forge gun, I had to get out and shoot him to get him to jump off. If I didn't have a gunner at the time, he still would have finished me off. I don't mind being taken out by someone with skill, but camping on top of a tower taking cheap shots at large targets with an OP weapon is a different story. That's why I'm upset that they nerfed the remote explosives, at least when those get you, you know you were bested by someone with balls.

Proto swarms are almost worse since you can't avoid them once they are locked on.

The point is that a Marauder should never be an easy target, regardless of how good your gear is. It should take no less than multiple people attacking it or another marauder, or at least another HAV. Even the standard tanks should be more of a concern to an HAV driver than a Heavy which isn't the case. This makes no sense to me.

And like I said, I don't think the forge gun should be rendered useless, it should still be effective against an HAV, just not that effective. If you think I'm doing it wrong, unlock a marauder and see for yourself what it takes to keep them alive.

^Obviously doenst use a forge gun and obviously doesnt get shot up by them either.

First off range is definetly an issue but not just for this gun there are other weapons with infinite range as well which negates the sharpshooter skills this should hopefully be fixed regardless.

Secondly the shot does travel requiring aiming to be led ahead if its a distant shot its not instantly applied to things inside the recitile I mean the shot is fast but at far away its possible to 'dodge' it.

Also the tracking is quite bad, one in four shots will be off dead center which can screw up long distance attempts and even short distant attempts as well. Followed by severly reduced swing speed when the charge is thrown into the bottle.

Refire attempts are at least 2.25 seconds apart, Railguns however are less than a second on refire, Blasters are extremly high damage and dps and missile launchers as well. Out of all three anti-craft weapons forge guns are probably the absolute slowest.

Finally you do understand that this gun is a modified blast mining laser used to blast asteriods made of extremly tough materials apart to be mined, materials that your tank is made out of most likely.

Finally you are getting one shotted by a forge gun in a drop ship? you're doing something wrong because Im near max proficency with the forge gun and it still takes most dropships 2+ shots to bring down.

i think it's funny that people complain about forge gunners on the towers, when i've seen tanks on top of those things. are you freaking kidding? a tank, on top of a building, not sliding off, shooting targets all over the map. i believe that's a textbook definition of absurd.