HMG's are actually broken. Currently they are functioning much more like an LMG which once again proves as to why CCP has no idea what they are doing in regards to weapons.

Currently by pressing R1 the HMG begins to fire which is ridiculous.

The Death machine in COD has to spin up before it begins to fire
The Wraith in Resistance 2 has to spin up before firing.

Then they turn around and kill you before you kill them

And then what happens if you're not behind them? Oh wait you die, with absolutely no counterplay. That's bad game design.

I'm not talking about OMS ambush ( one way a Heavy can play solo or get half smart blues) other than that besides dying ammo dries up. With my heavy I die maybe once every game( normally ammo) and get like 15-19 kills. And trust me when I say I know how to spec a suit/ vehicle. Your idea of a good heavy is what exactly? A heavy is mean to be a defender and the way I use it makes it seem like a fortress

Yeah cause dying with a expensive heavy trying to be an assault guy is the right way to do and then QQ about prices. Tell me how you use a heavy?

Actually mini-guns or multi-barrel machine guns don't have a spool up time, they fire as soon as you hit the trigger or press the button. All you have is a slight increase in ROF as it approaches full spin, but if fires the first bullet near instantly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_oEgkiJ8m4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykb3Is3Dsmw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=iAw82h-IhdQ&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18G5ycZf-rc

HMG stays above 50% efficiency up to around 45~55 meters last I recall. WITHOUT any sharpshooter skills. 10 meters my *ss.

That said, I agree with the idea that increasing the spread would fix the issue. Accuracy at that range should be lower, and even after heating up all the way, the HMG should STILL not be half as accurate as it is right now at ~50 meters.

Half of 2000 RPM hitting at ~50 meters is still 1000 RPM hitting at ~50 meters. Nuff said.

Glad to see the number of idiotic posts hasn't reduced since I stop looking at these forums...

Ok, I'll bite.
Go ahead and treat heavies like tanks, but if you are going to treat them like tanks, then you also have to give them a 10 m/s movement speed(like HAVs), armor hardener/repair modules(like HAVs), and two secondary weapons that can be fired simultaneously with the heavy's primary weapon(like HAVs).

Are you seeing how heavy suits aren't REALLY like tanks?

I have spent a lot more time with the HMG since making this thread and I can confirm without a doubt it's the easiest weapon in the game to use. Zero recoil (just bullet spread), no ADS required, L1 tightens the cone so much that you can outmatch AR users at past medium range, insane clip size and extremely low heat build up time so that you can spray your gun forever while everyone else has to get stuck in the reload animation, highest DPS out of all the weapons. All this on top of the already insane health advantage heavies already have. lolHMGs

Keeping the hipfire spread constant (so that it doesn't decrease over time) and removing the L1 button's zoom-in function (or patching it so that all it does is zoom-in and doesn't decrease the hipfire spread) would help a lot with balancing this weapon.

Pretty much every EVE player's go-to line when they want to justify a broken game mechanic without having to go through the effort of coming up with a rational thought.

Night of the Living Thread.