Pure speculation at this point (and monumentally stupid). Giving a Forge Gun to a class with speed and an equipment slot will ruin this game. Those weapons also have much higher PG and CPU requirements and were obviously meant only for the Heavy Dropsuit.

As to the OP's question I would say yea, you should probably switch. I ran heavy for a long time in the closed BETA and still go back to it every now and then for certain situations but the Assault Suit is just too versatile to not use. I know that's the way it should be but the discrepancy between the two is so large the Heavy class really doesn't seem like something meant to deploy on a regular basis.

Its more than speculation when there are videos and pictures from CCP showing assault dropsuits holding forge guns and HMGs. I hope it doesn't come, but its more than speculation when there is actual evidence to suggest it.

The problem is not the heavy suit: The problem is you think that heavies are supposed to be able to solo. Assaults have a somewhat easier time soloing, but a good Heavy with a support logistics will DESTROY everyone around them, if they are good.

Keyword, if.

(That, and the AR boys are getting better and better at headshots, while most Heavies are still aiming for center mass like morons.)

Heavies can't strafe. Obviously if both are standing still the heavy will win, but that's not a realistic situation.

The problem with aiming for the head is that most of your bullets will simply go around the target.

Better to aim for the upper chest/neck, as those will give you the highest number of hits and the recoil might carry a few rounds into the face.

Sure. But can an Assault Vk.1 strafe better than an Assault-II?

A Heavy Vk.1 stacks up to an Assault Vk.1 almost equally as well as a Heavy-II stacks up against an Assault-II. Nothing in the balance changes as the tech tiers go up.

You have to choose between believing that Heavies suck at every level, that they're OP at every level, or that they're fine at every level. But the relative balance between levels stays the same.

I think they're fine except for the ridiculous Vk.1 price, and that it'd be a bit more balanced if proto Heavy had another low slot.




Fellow fattie, we're on the same page.

I said the same in my last post in this thread.

Not exactly as an AR Assault user versus a heavy HMG user:
AR user skills are 2X versus HMG/forgegun 3X skills.

It means that with players of equal skill the AR user by default has FASTER access to higher skill levels.

The heavy player gets the shaft and the AR user gets the sp goldmine.

There's something too that but it's a short term advantage.

Does make me miss the old sights and my pistol only fit though...those were the days.

I've been 3-shotted by the Kaalakiota. Pissed me off that a sniper rifle can do that much damage to a heavy suit, but when I notice a sniper shooting at the LAV I'm driving, whether shield or armor, it tickles it at best. I feel this is something CCP needs to address. It's blatantly obvious that snipers pummel everybody, but it's like pissing in the wind shooting at vehicles.

If you look at the fitting screen it also appears that she is wearing an assault suit with 2 light weapon slots and a sidearm, 2 high slots, 2 low slots, and 2 equipment slots.

Since there is nothing like that in the game then the video is not evidence of anything except that the DEV's have things that we don't.