I haven't been playing for long, but if any of you have seen me with my HMG, you know this thread is a load of bull. The HMG is powerful to anyone who can become accustomed to its range, anyone that says otherwise spends too much time with a TAC and wants everything to be an Iwin button.

People who use HMGs these days often do so poorly.

HMG is a defensive weapon.

You take your heavy suit and you move in once an objective is taken and guard it with your life.

Oh no, your feelings are hurt. Would you like a lolly?

If the heavy doesn't suit your playstyle, then don't play it. Simple. The heavy is, and has been, intended for point defense and AV since open beta. Suck it up, get used to it.

You misread. I put the "intended" in there intentionally. They were always meant for a defensive role.

Yes, you can attempt to use it any way you please. Though it will have a place in which it shines. For the heavy that is a defensive position where the advantages of the weapon can be brought to bear.

Kay, let's see. High HP, check. Low speed, check. What does that equal? A low mobility heavy weapons platform. That's its description, no? Its anti-personnel main weapon of choice is short range. No one can argue with that. Coupled with the low mobility, this means that it needs the enemy to come to it. Is there any fault with that logic?
Again, I'm not forcing the suit into a role, I'm simply stating THAT'S WHAT'S IT'S BEST AT.

But in answer to your question, yes, yes it is. Tanks are awful offensively unless supported by a squad, because AV will ambush and take them out easily. When playing offensively without a squad, the tank will need to keep moving, unless it wants to be hit by a lot of concentrated AV. Not good for offensive play, since usually you want to hold the ground you take. Even defensively they need a squad, for the same reason.

Frankly, if you can't be bothered coming up with a decent, logical argument to my post, then you have no case.

Again, I'm not *forcing* the heavy into a role. That IS its role. I also never said that the heavy was BEST at any particular role, but that the role it's best at is defense, be it AP or AV defense. There's a difference. It's like saying option A is best across the board, scoring 90% in categories 1, 2 and 3, but option B scores best in category 3, with 89%, whereas it scores 50% in the other two.

If you want to play heavy, then do so, but don't force it into a role it's not suited to e.g. assault.

At the current time, assaults can take the place of the heavy in a defensive role, but that's simply because of the TAR, not because of any fault on the HMG's part.

They only took from the heavy. I don't know anything they actually gave the heavy suit. Thanks CCP!

The heavy doesn't have much spread as is. The accuracy has always been good, at least I thought so. Some might even complain that the reduced spread is a negative as well. I personally never noticed an issue with too much bullet spread but I'm only one person. Perhaps others did.