heavies are pretty good right now, what i propose is instead of more slots, give them a resistance to certain weapons and weakness to others. this way a nerf hammer isn't needed for weapons that don't need it like the AR. but make it so heavies take maybe 10% less damage from Assault rifles. but maybe make them weaker to an up close submachine gun (it can find weaknesses in armor) give them resistance to shotgun and CCP needs to nerf the flaylock pistol but heavies should still get like 4% resistance to that.

i'm not a heavy so i don't know entirely what i'm talking about so let me know if this could be a worthy fix to return the glory of the heavy

HeavyGÇÖs not good enough?
Really? In what games?
Because they are doing pretty good in Instant battle Skirmish

IGÇÖm not sure how well they are versus something on their own tech-tier, but they are doing pretty well against stuff at Standard-tier. And thatGÇÖs the problem, if they get more perks, it means everything else thatGÇÖs not on that tech-tier is going to suffer.

Heavies were supposed to be the infintry version of a tank, to literally be able to stand up against a tank and repell them or hold them at bay, they currently can not do such a thing. Now I know we do not want to make heavies into gods, that isn't the point, but I think they should get a bonus against large calibur fire weapons, mainly things that would come from tanks or LAVs and should cause heavy damage to any LAV that hits into them. Cause honestly, you can not move fast at all in a heavy suit you can not dodge well, in general bonuses against taking damage, however for this trade off, restriction of weapons, such as they can not use knives, shotguns, pistols, sniper rifles, and various other weapons (unless you are the commando). Also, the gernades would be limited down in type and how many you can use, such as you could no longer use the AV gernades and flux gernades. This would be the trade off for having a lot more powerful weapons for the heavy in the HMG and other Heavy class weaponry.

Reasons for changing what weapons can be used
-size of suits and size that the hands must be to be able to provide protection to the user.
-Increased damage protection.
-Vehicles can no longer hit you without being heavily punished.

This would not be asking for a buff, this would be asking for trade offs, by giving up various things that I could do in the past in order to fill the role I am supposed to be as a heavy. If it was possible to ask for I would ask that heavies be banned from all gernade types and be given something similar to large planted explosives. Ideas and thoughts on this all?