Everyone-¦s in cover but the heavy, and as he begins to tank bullet after bullet, its boomstick time. Out of cover and off with their faces. That however would require the HMG to be able to dish out on similar distances with the AR.

The fatsuit has to be WITH the squad, not IN FRONT of it, coincidentally where the buisness end of everyone-¦s and his clone-mum-¦s AR is pointing.

You seemed to have missed my point.



Your progression of quality is still an IRL argument.

Besides, how can you say their future tech is worse? Can you tell how much force is behind each shot? Perhaps to overcome technological advances in protection (our suits and shields), they had to develop more powerful weapons that have disadvantages.

If we were going for realism, there probably wouldn't be any mercs. If nothing else, EVE pilots could easily handle eliminating any threats on the surface. More likely, we would have incredibly advanced robots sweep through areas, eliminating any missed targets, and reasserting control.

Thats some fine reductio ad absurdum right there.

Right now the HMG is a glorified shotgun.
You cant even properly set up a killzone with it except indoors.
And I doubt ambushing players around the corner is the HMGs niche, thats what shotguns and nova knives are for.

An Ideal use of the HMG would be fire support and suppression. Thats the most sensible application for an MG. But it lacks the damage and the range.

So yeah.

Real life HMG should be allowed to be used by other dropsuits if they have the strenght.
Heavy dropsuit should have 20 slots (5High, 5Low, 5 weapon and 5 equipment) I mean it should be "too big to fail"

-1 to obvious Troll

As for restricting line of fire, if you position yourself correctly, it shouldn't be a problem. Also, ever heard of taking point?

But he is with the squad, he is just standing ahead of everyone else. He should still be close enough to the squad that a logi can use their repair tool to keep him alive.

Ok CCP Real life HMG shoot as far as and use the same round as Assault rifles at least make the HMG shoot as far in the game

The Heavy's nature is to have a bit more health than everyone else, and thus be a little slower. The job of a heavy is to carry the heavy weapons; in the case of Dust, the Forge Gun and the HMG.

The nature/job of the Heavy has nothing to do with the nature/job of the HMG. The nature of the HMG (any HMG, "IRL" or not) is to be a weapon capable of putting a lot of rounds downrange very quickly, not necessarily accurately. The job of an HMG, when it comes to vs infantry, is suppression, primarily, and killing, secondarily. It's not supposed to be a pin-point accurate bullet-hose with a ridiculous effective range. It's supposed to project a wide screen of bullets to discourage enemies from moving by keeping them behind cover. It shouldn't have as much recoil as an AR due to it's weight, but ALL fully-automatic weapons should have a level of dispersion proportional to their rate of fire, the size of their rounds, and the duration of their sustained fire.