AFAIK all proficiency skills keep the damage bonus. This change really hangs on an increase in slots and fitting resources for heavies.

Confirm/Deny?

e: Also SISI doesn't show anything besides descriptions. No info on specific stat changes.

Not a skill; just a change in base stats.

You know... Like heavies having more than 2 low slots in Uprising.

That's why I asked, in hopes that Iron Wolf could spread some light

Range isn't getting nerfed. Heavys should have all the range they do now, when the new HMG sharpshooter is skilled properly. The sharpshooter change has nothing to do with reducing the range of any weapon. It is simply swapping the current function of sharpshooter (bullet flight time increase) for a dispersion decrease given a max posible range. Functionally, there should be very very little difference between how the skill works now and how it will work post uprising.

That's some really heavy duty tinfoil you're wearing. Shame it's all aluminium and not actual tin.

I don't know why the heavies are surprised by this.

Dust is all about the AR, and making sure that the assault troops are the complete focus of the game.

Thankfully I have an ALT that will have enough SP to be relevant in the assault class come May 6th, so that I can wait and see how the heavies actually work before I spec this character into them. No sense wasting SP on a dead class.

A. All weapons are rebalanced, what you're basing your claims upon aren't true.
B. An HMG isn't supposed to be effective above close-medium range.
Its a ******* spray gun, dafuq do you want.

In conclusion, wait for May 6th and stop whining.

Has anyone even complained about the HMG?

Close - medium = between close and medium, not from close to medium.
And I didn't say spray and pray, I said spary.
This weapon has a pretty big cone of fire, hence its a spray weapon.
Also, who says they didn't change the weapon it self?

Enough doom saying, wait till May 6th then complain.

What's up gang! You know I've been reading this thread for about 10 minutes now guys and the way I see it, things don't look all that bad for us so I'm gonna hit you guys from another angle with some straight talk.

Let's talk about the lack of sharpshooter skills for the heavy machine gun guys. Well here's the thing dude: the sharshooter skill, as we know it, will be the first thing that goes extinct when Uprising hits us! What I mean with that guys is that no matter which is your weapon of choice, you won't be increasing your range anytime soon guys. I don't care if you're a scout like I am, a caldari assault, a heavy, let me tell you right now: you're **** out of luck when it comes to increasing your range bro.

The other things that I've heard people say is that heavy is slow, heavy is only good at close quarters, a heavy cannot keep up with war points and kills. Well if you know anything about me guys you know exactly what I'm about to say man and here's how i'm gonna lay it down for you: Perhaps SOME of you guys have picked the wrong suit for your play style? "Oh but Ric CCP has promised me a sandbox where I can create my own super soldier!"
Well ****.... I'm gonna suggest you guys go out there, put your thinking cap on and figure out the goal you wanna reach and pick the right tool for that!

I mean when I wanna make a baby I'm not gonna use a condom!

Since when did heavies actually spec into AV? 99% of them are anti-infantry, most AV on the field is from assault players who's suits weren't designed for it. The only AV I see from heavies is when they are forge sniping infantry players, and there also happens to be a vehicle on the enemy team that the forge sniper will temporarily shift focus on (maybe).

Heavies and AV... LOL. Stats probably show scouts doing more AV than you guys.

Bitter? Yes. Tired of playing ambush and going up against 1-3 tanks on the enemy team, and no heavy on our team does a thing about it. So I end up having to waste the entire match hunting these tanks down, getting meaningless deaths from the tanks and other infantry players (since I am defenseless with only a crap sidearm and very little health), losing ISK, and 90% of the time never get a single kill. End of the match I get extremely poor ISK, SP and a nice dent on my KDR. All because I had to take up the slack of heavies who weren't doing what their suits were designed to do, as they would rather farm infantry with their precious HMG.

Sorry, but I won't shed a single tear for heavies in Uprising who no longer have the ability to increase their range or get skill based damage buffs to the HMG. Personally I am getting tired of getting sniped from across the map by HMG's that get more accurate with increased fire, while my AR gets horribly inaccurate and kicks like an insane mule on crack that also had been kicked in the nads, several times. Not to mention all the militia forge snipers that take nearly zero SP to spec into yet can take out any suit in the game in one hit.