Heavy suits need more work than ever before. There is so little difference from the starter suit to the proto suite its pathetic. The HMG finally does at least respectable damage but other weapons are now overpowered like the duvoll tactical AR. Heavy suits are already very much balanced out via the movement minus. If someone in a assault suite simply runs around me its nearly impossible for me to turn fast enough to shoot them.

Before I state what I am talking about, I did use both the GLU-5 and Duvolle Tactical AR's. BUT....

I understand the balancing of the weapons by adding some more damage to them to compensate for the sheer amount of shields a person could have. But when a weapon is over-powered and overused shouldn't that send a red flag alert out there? What I mean is all of the tactical assault rifles (GLU and Duvolle). Both giving damage of 75 and 78.5 hp/bullet is ridiculous. Stack damage mods and the assault rifle proficiency to it they can deal from 86.25 and 90.275 hp/bullet. To add more insult to injury, the officer weapons can not match up to them and the officer weapons are supposed to be the best of the best. In other words any new person or any person with not enough shield/armor will be demolished by these guns. I have seen more tactical AR's ran more than any other AR's in the game. All that I am asking (along with thousands of others) is please consider another weapon balancing

o/ Anpu...

I couldn't agree more... as heavies we are more laughing stocks now than anything...


o/
Bill

Probably reserved for future expansion...Different suit classes, etc.

this is why i proposed various changes to the heavy dynamic. including but not limited to:
increased turning and movement speed,
increased base EHP 1000
base resistance to small arms fire by 30%

read my post, https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=81725

Posting the following info on upcoming changes to weapon damage and HMG balance on behalf of CCP Rement since he's knee deep in making these changes. He will also be answer questions and discussing this topic in this thread as well.

Tl;dr version:
GÇó In the next hot-fix weapons will all get a 10% damage increase to compensate for the removal of the Weaponry skill bonus.
GÇó HMG damage buffed to 18 HP (including aforementioned 10% increase) and given a 5% dispersion buff.
GÇó In the near future, we will address range issues by removing the hard stop that currently takes place at maximum weapon range.

In Chromosome, the Weaponry skill gave an across the board 2% damage bonus to handheld weapons per level. Given the low SP cost of the skill (and the fact that itGÇÖs a pre-req for every weapon in the game) the majority of players would just skill straight to level 5 making the skill pretty pointless. So, in Uprising we removed the skill bonus. The side effect of this, of course, is that time-to-kill has increased.

This, combined with some of the control issues weGÇÖve been seeing, has led to combat feeling worse than it did in Chromosome. We will address this with a hot-fix that gives an across the board 10% increase to all handheld weapon damage to put DPS back to where it was. Additionally, weGÇÖve increased HMG damage and reduced the dispersion penalty when moving by 5% to address issues with the weapon.

The removal of the Sharpshooter skill (which gave bonuses to range) has also highlighted some issues with range in general. Weapon classes need unique range profiles. I doubt anyone would dispute that. And the sharpshooter skill was pushing far too many weapons beyond their intended engagement ranges. While itGÇÖs removal has caused some issues, the SS skill was a crutch and it hid more deep-seated problems with range in the game. It will not be coming back.

Right now, all weapons have an optimal and maximum range. Unfortunately, at its max range the weapon simply stops doing damage. This is bad for a whole host of reasons and weGÇÖll be addressing this with a point release in the near future by giving all weapons an optimal, effective and absolute range. Up to the optimal range weapons will do 100% damage (shield/armor profiles notwithstanding) and then drop off slowly towards their effective range. From effective range out to the absolute range damage will drop noticeably but weapons will still do incidental damage even at extreme ranges.