slight my ass. The HMG is pointless if it cannot hit something across a street effectively.

rule of thumb: if the weapon's optimal is shorter than an HAV then odds are it's broken or it's a shotgun.

I drive railgun HAV........so by your logic anything except for snipers are broken? come on people! your smarter than this!!!

Your expectations are too high.

They're now what they're meant to be, moving damage sponges. Don't expect to be killing everyone at CQC now. Your role is to survive and take hits while the assaults do the killing. When the assaults die you stand there and don't let them take the objective/position.

A class that has the highest HP cannot have the highest DPS. People learned to counter you and they still have this in mind, you're a primary target. Make them do so and don't expose yourself. Your teammates do the flanking job. Always run with a squad, remember people will target you first so take cover. If the squad dies you're the only hope. Let them get very close to you and either kill them all or scare them away. But always hold the position.

The HMG nerf will force people towards this role. It's interesting how CCP is developing the meta game. I like the direction of balance they're aiming. Proto suits have to get close now and run towards cover in fear, no longer in their safe zone provided by sharpshooter.

tried HMG militia and it is fine imho. I can still mow down anything up close in under a second. all others are doing less damage too which means I survive longer. they all have less range which means that I can cross the street without getting shot down in 1s by some AR dude with 3 damage mods on the other side of the map.

overall it is a buff imho.

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.

They're now what they're meant to be, moving damage sponges. Don't expect to be killing everyone at CQC now. Your role is to survive and take hits while the assaults do the killing. When the assaults die you stand there and don't let them take the objective/position.

A class that has the highest HP cannot have the highest DPS. People learned to counter you and they still have this in mind, you're a primary target. Make them do so and don't expose yourself. Your teammates do the flanking job. Always run with a squad, remember people will target you first so take cover. If the squad dies you're the only hope. Let them get very close to you and either kill them all or scare them away. But always hold the position.

The HMG nerf will force people towards this role. It's interesting how CCP is developing the meta game. I like the direction of balance they're aiming. Proto suits have to get close now and run towards cover in fear, no longer in their safe zone provided by sharpshooter.

This. First game I played in squad with the Dead Sixers our Heavies went 17/4 and 30/6. Now how can you tell me that the Heavy is underpowered after that.

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Trouble is, why wouldn't people use a logi/assault combo instead of logi/heavy? Or, at the very least, why wouldn't you use assault rifles instead of HMG's? The only benefit you have is less frequent (but much longer) reloads.