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Buzzwords
Deadly Blue Dots
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2012.08.04 08:16:00 -
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guys... common sense and reality have no place in this argument. keep your reality out of my fantasy. oh no we can't sight it in because it's big and powerful? well magical science handwave, now we have super duper power assisted joints in our dropsuits that allow us to lift and shoulder such massive things. oh, and shields to prevent the recoil from destroying our faces. or maybe the magic of science has made miniguns NOT such monsters in the future.
the REAL reason you can't sight the HMG is simple game balance.
in the current build the hmg is terrible, but giving it a scope would just make it a slightly better duvolle.
in the LAST build it was actually somewhat unique, and useful in it's own situations. it had decent damage combined with excellent RoF, balanced out by that very hipfire only restriction. if you'd been able to aim THAT, it would have been madness.
the end result was a gun that COULD tear people apart.. if they were dumb enough to hang around long enough for the barrels to spinup. that spinup time was the critical balance. combined with the heavies low movement speed, it gave anybody that wanted to ample opportunity to run for cover before being eviscerated.
so i vote no. keep it hipfire only, keep it initially inaccurate, but restore the damage and make it build heat slower. make it be really GOOD at something. a unique role that balances with the strengths and weaknesses of the heavy suit instead of just being the "AR+1: heavy suit edition" |
Buzzwords
Deadly Blue Dots
RISE of LEGION
416
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Posted - 2012.08.04 08:58:00 -
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it would balance it in that, it would make the hmg better than the ARs, which it very well may deserve to be. heavy slot vs light slot.
but it would also force the HMG into a similar if not identical role to the AR. so you still end up with the question: why not just play an assault suit?
the heavy suit forces a different kind of playstyle by virtue of it's horrendous mobility, utter lack of utility, poor regeneration, poor stealth, and fantastic buffer. if there was a 5th tier of assault rifle (militia-standard-advanced-prototype-hypothetical) that only heavies could use, would that make heavy suits USEFUL? because that is essentially all you get by sighting the hmg.
i would rather the weapon be balanced with the suit in mind, which i feel it was in the last build for those reasons i stated. |
Buzzwords
Deadly Blue Dots
RISE of LEGION
416
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Posted - 2012.08.04 09:30:00 -
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i agree with you on it's CURRENT state, but i disagree with you on how to fix it. |
Buzzwords
Deadly Blue Dots
RISE of LEGION
416
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Posted - 2012.08.05 15:15:00 -
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vermacht Doe wrote:
Maybe you're not good with it...
no amount of snowflake individuality will overcome the simple fact that the basic model only does 16 dmg per bullet, and overheats after 125 shots.
you wanna buff the hmg, buff it there. |
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