<[CCP]Wolfman>: when it comes to the HMG, we're just going to watch the numbers and see how it performs

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So at least there's hope for a hotfix on HMG.

I am mowing them peoples down with my assault HMG no probs.

Only number he is going to watch soon is how many people walk away from this game. Tbqh if I wasnt a CEO I would be gone... I'm playing for the friends and realationships I've made I do not enjoy dust anymore.

I think the removal of sharpshooter should have been more than enough.

They track all of the market gear sold, they had a Dev blog on gear sales a few months ago. I think it's how they justify the alterations. Well we sold 5 tac rifles since january 21st, so 50% damage boost. Oh we only want HMG's to be 10% of weapon sales, nerf nerf nerf.

Someone at CCP worked hard on the HMG, when nobody buys it he will get depressed and they will buff it again so it sells and he can be happy.

^ This is my understanding of video game development

keep the range nerf, that's fine. crouch and ADS for hmgs last build was retardedly powerful
but for god's sake, why the damage nerf?

Why don't you guys just boycott HMGs and use ARs?

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So at least there's hope for a hotfix on HMG.

15m is not fine man, at least 25-30 or something!

all my fuckin skills went to HMG not AR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So at least there's hope for a hotfix on HMG.

Down here in the DUST what he is talking about is Another Nerf.

Heads up. Or down. Whatever.

"Numbers"... how have ARs survived this long again? Though this does make me fear for the future of the logi...

Or does he mean number of tears from the poor fatties?

if it shuts the whiners up i don't really care. i never engage things beyond 15m anyway.
but if you get within my 15 meter death zone god have mercy on your scrubby little soul

agreed..love my corp but the HMG is broken..no fuccckin range or damage..fucccckin joke

15m is not fine man, at least 25-30 or something!

all my fuckin skills went to HMG not AR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15m is not fine man, at least 25-30 or something!

In case you kids haven't notice, ALL WEAPONS HAVE BEEN NERFED, except for the Tactical AR's that have a little boost.

Stop complaining about you favorite weapon no been OP anymore. Personally i think CCP got the Balance spot on this time. I hope they just focus in Bugs now, and ignore all the spoiled brats in this forum.

<[CCP]Wolfman>: when it comes to the HMG, we're just going to watch the numbers and see how it performs

<[CCP]Wolfman>: we will be watching the HMG stats to see how things perform. Then we'll make a decision on whether or not to make any further tweaks.

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So at least there's hope for a hotfix on HMG.

Only number he is going to watch soon is how many people walk away from this game. Tbqh if I wasnt a CEO I would be gone... I'm playing for the friends and realationships I've made I do not enjoy dust anymore.

Up is down

Well I do remember in the Codex build I think it was??

When they cut our RPM down to 1500 and the damage was 16/17/17.6 and they had to buff up our RPM because we barely had any extra DPS over an assault rifle, those where the days when I used to use a Gek..... (shudders) now our damage is 14/15/15.6

I think now we have about 466.6 DPS compared to the old 533.3 DPS so rounding off the small points thats a reduction of 12.5%

Now if my memory serves does a std Assault rifle have 31 dmg and 750 rpm (sorry if I got this wrong)

So Std Assault rifle DPS would be 387.5 DPS so we have a 17% higher damage output assuming all rounds connect and ignoring all damage reductions given shield/armour bonuses.

So we still have an edge but it's getting thin especially with the range nerf on top of the removal of SS.

Personally to compensate I have changed my loadout and tactics drastically but we could use a little something back considering we got no new gear.

Only number he is going to watch soon is how many people walk away from this game. Tbqh if I wasnt a CEO I would be gone... I'm playing for the friends and realationships I've made I do not enjoy dust anymore.

<[CCP]Wolfman>: when it comes to the HMG, we're just going to watch the numbers and see how it performs

<[CCP]Wolfman>: we will be watching the HMG stats to see how things perform. Then we'll make a decision on whether or not to make any further tweaks.

Only number he is going to watch soon is how many people walk away from this game. Tbqh if I wasnt a CEO I would be gone... I'm playing for the friends and realationships I've made I do not enjoy dust anymore.

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So at least there's hope for a hotfix on HMG.

/me predicts there is no spikes in the data.

Good to hear they are watching it closely.

CAN THEY PLEASE DO THE SAME THING FOR MASS DRIVERS?

and what exactly is this 15 m you are talking about?

Personally i think CCP got the Balance spot on this time.

OK, Heavies are fine to the average VET
I have not had too much additional troubles pwn'in faces as before uprising.
EXCEPT the stupid slow turning speed. Now when scouts get in my face I **** my pants as I try to keep up with them (maxed sensitivty). This was originally boner city as ne one within 10meters would die in less then 2 seconds.
Heavies can no longer show off their dancing skills with strafing, BOOO!
Aside from that, heavies are still quite formidable. Ya we got a nerf but so did everything else practically.

I will say that forges guns are coming out more often than they used to.
75% of the time I would rock HMG and melt faces, now role has almost switched with the forge gun.
HMG can still poop in peoples mouths (within its new range) you just need to be more accurate.
See what happens when you hit someone on the dot of your reticle with a Burst machine gun (I was getting 1 shot burst last night, on ADV suits!). HMG can no longer be utilized as spray and pray, the DMG just isn't there.

NOW for newberts starting out in the game, they will ultimately get pwnd. Its almost not worth speccing heavy unless you have good amount of SP already. (~6mil sp). As a 1012eHP PROTObear, I am already having some trouble keeping up with top end assualt/logi players in advanced suits. There is no incentive for newbies to play heavy currently, without a CCP hotfix that will never come, the heavy population will plummet.

This game is a hard game to commit to with all its current trouble and bugs, but ultimately needs a bigger player base so that CCP wont be so desperate to empty our wallets and might be able to budget a bigger/better team for development.
NOOBS are super frustrating, but are necessary for our beloved game to thrive.

Nonetheless we are ultimately gambling that this game with be amazing 6months-1yr down the road.
So really, ENOUGH QQ MORE PEW PEW.
If you can no longer stand this game after a couple weeks into this Uprising build then find another game, the constant bitching and whining does not make our game better.

SIDENOTE: Ever since Uprising came out, my PS3 no longer suffer constant hard freezes (w/ PS3s IP set in DMZ in router).
I used to freezing everything ******* game and hadn't hit cap in the past two weeks. Lots of homos like me have this trouble stil, try this DMZ option if you have done the PS3's restore database and file system, unistall/restal dust clientl, game data deletion.....etc.