That's hit detection for ya.
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Balance? Oh, you mean that thing every incompetent developer strives to achieve by making every weapon worthless instead of every weapon good?

No, I'm fairly familiar with balance in the sense you are talking about.

Your sense of balance is bad, and you should feel bad.

okay there is a lot of misconceptions here so lets fix that. The HMG is a damge by volume weapon like a shot gun or SMG, but the HMG does a lot less per shot then either of those, also even inside of smg ranges and while the HMG is at its best accuracy it misses a lot of its rounds. All this means that

1) yes it is a short-shortmid range weapon, and yes it always has been one(actualy its gained more range in this build then any other). Ever had an HMG stuck in your chest? it might as well be a shot gun.

2)While HMGs do have the best DPS, fully applying that DPS requires being in SG one hit range, and these guns can only be carried by the slowest suits in the game, if you allow a heavy to apply better then AR dps to you, he is either a god like heavy or you fail horribly.

Now lets look at ARs they have almost the same DPS as a HMG, reload in a few seconds, can be carried by any suit, can apply their full DPS at any range short of LR and SR, have 3-4kills(1-2heavies) a clip even on the STD ARs. As some one that hates HMG heavies trust me they are UP as ****, their only advantage is that they live long enough and spray easily enough that they have a small chance of back up saving their asses. One on one I can take most heavies with a std scout, where they shine is when they have company, but then so do SGs.

As a side note the number of proto heavies Ive see get droped head on by proto gear is ******** nothing should beat a heavy head on in its optimal

so no need for a nerf, just better programming


/me glares at CCP socksfour

I don't care about the range of the HMG however I think the bullet spread should be looked at
I've had it happen many times where a HMG it hitting me from 100M at least and it eating away at my hp in a matter of seconds the range is fine to me but it should be hitting alot less the father away the target is and I don't think it spreads out enough

I'm pretty sure the op doesn't understand the concept of balance.

All weapons could theoretically have ranges of current snipers, with accuracy as the limitation as well as damage optimals. It might be easier to balance too, as max range would be out of equation.

Honestly what I would like for my HMG is when I hit right mouse button it should spin up to max speed without expending rounds. This is the first game I have played with a HMG that didn't do that.

You want to balance the HMG? Increase it's spread, increase it's heat build up, re adjust it's optimal range and damage drop-off, but making it a CQC only weapon is stupid as ****.

Increasing spread will make it more CQC than ever.

I agree its not just a cqc weapon but the HMG breaks the game if it has the range of a laser.

game balance is more importance than realism with HMG.

I'm talking about longer distances, like a cone, that way it will at least be able to provide cover fire at a distance instead of the bullets just disappearing.

And heat is practically non existent, you can use 80% percent of your ammo before the meter fills.

I take a guess you're one of the twits who expected to spray everything with dozens of rounds a second all day, it's your sense of balance that is flawed. Don't you think if it was meant to be long range it would have a sight or a longer zoom in?