From what I've heard, its damn hard to aim the things with all the shaking the charge sequence causes, so if someone kills you with one, you should be patting them on the back.

Forge guns are mini rail guns, it takes two shots to take down a proto heavy with a proto forge dead on and 4 to take down a maurader HAV. The Forge gun has to be aimed from the hip so no zoom in and a very small splash radius. Granted if you are in that radius you usually die or are mostly dead but it so very hard to get dead on hits but thats how a mini rail gun should be. Honestly if something going a fourth of the speed of light hits you, you go splat, the wall next to you goes splat and in the real world anything that the round touched is vaporized no questions asked so be grateful that they choose moderate realism over fantasy. HMG does need work.

Takes way more than 4 shots to kill a Marauder tank. Madrugar, probably, but Marauder never. It takes at least 9-12 direct hits, without the driver using boosters. I know, I use my Proto Forge with proficiency to the max. As for infantry, its fine, the thing is so hard to use, most of the time whe someone sees you youre dead if you miss the first Forge shots, and if you win, shields and armor are almost always low.

Takes way more than 4 shots to kill a Marauder tank. Madrugar, probably, but Marauder never. It takes at least 9-12 direct hits, without the driver using boosters. I know, I use my Proto Forge with proficiency to the max. As for infantry, its fine, the thing is so hard to use, most of the time whe someone sees you youre dead if you miss the first Forge shots, and if you win, shields and armor are almost always low.

The forgegun is a mini railgun firing plasma in a magnetic field, on impact the field breacks venting plasma onto a target. The rail gun would fire a large mass of plasma not a pinpoint dot of it, now this against vehicle doesnt matter because the vehicle are large enough to absorb all the damage, were as on infintry the intire mass of plasma wouldnt be able to hit the smaller infintry. Ergo realism and not a anti infintry weapon. it should still do damage to infintry but it shouldnt be a main weapon against infintry thats why AV have side arms.

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If you are getting 1-shotted by a forge gun its because you are standing still. That or you're moving in very predictable patterns.

The forge gun is a AV weapon it shouldnt be used as a anti infintry weapon, and it shouldnt be able to accuractly hit a small target at medium range. So im asking that it gets does less damage vs infintry and it get a small accuracy falloff just enough to miss infintry at range but not enough to kiss vehicles at range.

my.issue with this came up when I round a corner in biomass and started putting rounds into a heavy, then he plasted me with his forgegun while I was moving around shooting. Another time was when I had a sniper setting at a good range and was lining up a killing shot when he blast me off the roof I was sitting on.

If not lowering the damage vs infintry atleast make it accuracy fall off enough to miss infintry but not enough to miss vehicles that way only blind luck could allow them to shoot me off a building better than my sniper could.

my.issue with this came up when I round a corner in biomass and started putting rounds into a heavy, then he plasted me with his forgegun while I was moving around shooting. Another time was when I had a sniper setting at a good range and was lining up a killing shot when he blast me off the roof I was sitting on.

If not lowering the damage vs infintry atleast make it accuracy fall off enough to miss infintry but not enough to miss vehicles that way only blind luck could allow them to shoot me off a building better than my sniper could.

He pegged me a higher end of medium range, I cant move without having to deal with sniper sway so I sat there and figured that there was no way a FG could take out my armored advanced assualt suit in one shot even of he could get shoot me from 35ish meters. He did both that wasnt luck that was to much accuacy for a anti vehicle weapon

The forgegun is a AV weapon it should cause major damage to vehicles and yes it should kill a tank in 4 or 5 shots. However the forge gun is not an anti infintry weapon and should do less damage against infintry. The forge gun should also not be a long range weapon, it should have a accuracy fallout at medium range.

So damage vs vehicles is good
Should do less damage vs dropsuits
Should have less accuacy(as in cant even hit dropsuits at mid range but can still hit the much large vehicles at mid range)

The machine gun needs some help it is supposed to be a anti-infintry weapon at mid and short range so increase is damage r find some otger way to improve it.

More damage