have you ever used a forge gun?

it takes 4-5 hits on a well fitted tank or more if the driver knows what he is doing.

your suggestions would kill the forge gun. having to reload after everyshot? useless weapon right there.

also its not easy to predict the path of a dropship. since the FG is one of three weapons with travel time. if you hovering in clear view of well everything you deserve to die a horrible fiery death.

nerfing the FG because it killed you is pointless because that's what it is intended to do. if you are flying a drop ship odds are something will kill you because the maps are far too small for it to actually shine.

Also whats next the HMG i can kill a Dropship with it so i obviously is op? MD if you hovering near me i can flux you and then pop you with MD rounds so that must be op as well?

I have been hunting HAVs since last June as a Heavy and both of us have seen some horrendous nerfs, I can see where everyone is coming from but without the FG there is litttle to counter a HAV from an infantry POV.

The issue isn't that a forge gun can kill a dropship, it's that it can conceivably kill a dropship with the dropship having no recourse

There was a thread where people worked out that a decent forge gun loadout does about 3500 damage per shot. With a Myron fit for nothing but tank you can have about 4000 shield hitpoints. No afterburners, no CRUs, nothin' but extenders. That's the only way to not get insta-blapped in a dropship.

And you can do this from anywhere, before the dropship pilot has any way to even know there's a forge gun on the field. The range is essentially unlimited, and it's incredibly accurate. I've seen videos of people using forge guns, and the stuff they can do is pretty crazy, and pretty unpleasant to watch as a pilot.

I drive a HAV, since dropships aren't really worth flying right now. Virtually all of my deaths have come from clever use of swarm launchers and AV grenades (despite the fact that I drive a Sica), or railgun turrets.

Don't get me wrong, I don't advocate a massive damage reduction to forges. I'm more in favor of a massive range reduction. But to say that infantry would have no way to deal with HAVs without them is flat out wrong.

Forge guns are countered by infantry.

It has taken me WEEKS to get to the point where I am a threat with them.

And posting a montage that doesnt show the guy getting ganked does not = OP, it means yer watching a forge gunners greatest hits.

Edit: thats an ishukone assault forge. those cannot hold their charge. once the circle fills it goes off just like a tank railgun.

Here's a video of a guy with a forge gun killing people, including LAVs, infantry, and dropships, from both at short and long range, while strafing, moving at full speed away, or while standing still. I'd love to hear what you would have done differently that would have rendered him unable to kill you.

That guys busting out a Proto Assault Forge Gun in a pub match.

Of course he's going to stomp.

says the guy who camped a mountain with Officer Snipers. That's right I remember you...please tell me the militia submachine gun is OP too!

The fact that you have one of the most Powerful weapons in the game at your disposal, one that can decimate heavies wielding a forge gun, and you call them OP?

I just find that....unsettling.