I'll give you a bump for grins and giggles.

There's something not right with all of this in regards to the armor and weapons. This could be due to the fact this is a beta and they're testing a lot of the components behind the scenes we're not seeing.

I can't put my finger on it, but there's a disconnect between the weapons and their skill level and the armors and their skill level. When I can run around in militia gear and still take people down who have nice sets...there's something wrong.

I don't have the master fix for this, but I agree, there's some refinement that is needed for all classes and all weapons/armors.

I want to be able to work for something and not have a cookie cutter scenario like all the other FPS.

(stay tuned and watch for ideas, don't be alarmed if you see smoke...that's just me thinking)

I can only guess you're not using it at optimum range. don't expect someone to not be able to take you out when they get the drop on you.

You need to be smart and make sure the bad guys are always in front of you.

What you're asking for is to have your armour make up for your lack of strategy. Sorry m8.

Many complain that heavies are overpowered. Even pros attest to worrying at the sight of one making a move.

Interesting tread while i agree with you that the heavy is a bit weak i dont think it is due to lack of armour it seems to be more due to its manner of defence or rather the current primary defence of most assult and scouts can simply strafe side to side while hip fireing to avoid getting shot a heavy can not as effectivly, this side to side movement apears to be more effective than the extra hit points of a heavy,

I dont know if its hit detection or wonky movement but some people seem to take far less damage than you put into them the heavy can not make use of this aspect.

You know there's no difference between 10% resist & 10% extra hp right? Except resists allow you to effectively repair faster right?

Just had a thought regarding resistances while this is not resistances in traditional sence of 10% damage ressistance to all damage the new system would take into account the type of round being fired a SMG round would have very little impact due to a lack of velocity where as a rail slug would have high damage due to the penitration it would naturaly have from its velocity, this could go onto gernades being less usefull as its just shrapnel its not very good at penitrating heavy armour, same with missile splash damge where as a direct hit would do high damage,

Personally, as a armor heavy, i have alot of success when i play to my strenghts, when i try to over extend my strenghts into my weakness, things go from bad to worse very quickly.

#1 Range- As long as i am within a low-low mid range, i can be successful with the HMG. To combat this, you will usually see me drving around in my Sup-die, hopping out when i am in satisfactory range, cutting down enemies, hopping back in my car, and rinseing and repeating.

I also combat this by rolling with a squad, ARs are my best friend, Often times i will carry an AR over the HMG just for the added range in some maps.

#2 Skill tree- If you are trying to play a armor heavy and do not have mechanics at V yet, please do not post. As it stands in my higher end suits i rock about 1.15k total life, between my shields and armor, and that can be very hard to kill, not when 3 GEKS/+ are raining down the hurt on me.

TL;DR: Play better, skill better. No complaints here on the heavy, i can most times 2v1 most players.

They even made it worse by making all grade has the same amount of armor & shield they differ only in the number of slots which is bad and not worthy to pay an extra 50k is for at least they could made it so that armor/shield HP increases going up grade.

I have been using STD type-2 heavy suit in this build and i don't plan to upgrade it cause my passive skills makes me in bar with proto heavy dropsuits and am doing more then well against other upper suits so, i don't have the incentive to use the ADV or PROTO suits they are way too expensive wth minimum advantges over the STD one so CCP if you want to keep it this way i don't have a problem because i'll keep using the relatively cheap and efficient STD type-2 heavy.

A whole topic complaining about the downsides of a heavy dropsuit would be better spent complaining about paper beating rock.