14 replies to this topic

[Barnaby Jones]

Because they aren't doing reduced damage at 3x their optimal range (270m) like all other ballistics.

They only start doing "damage" at 200m.

Add that to the pile of irregularities PGI....

[stjobe]

Barnaby Jones, on 03 April 2013 - 02:30 AM, said:

Because they aren't doing reduced damage at 3x their optimal range (270m) like all other ballistics.

They only start doing "damage" at 200m.

Add that to the pile of irregularities PGI....

The MG is the red-headed step-child of MWO weapons. Treated differently than every other weapon, differently than all the other ballistics, nerfed, beaten, and abused.

Someone at MWO must hate MGs with a passion to keep them in their current useless state for so long.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

stjobe, on 03 April 2013 - 03:25 AM, said:

The MG is the red-headed step-child of MWO weapons. Treated differently than every other weapon, differently than all the other ballistics, nerfed, beaten, and abused.

Someone at MWO must hate MGs with a passion to keep them in their current useless state for so long.

Add LBX-10, NARCs and Flamer to that conspiracy list, too

[Karl Streiger]

MG are actually Meele Weapons you have to throw them at your enemy to deal any damage.

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Karl Streiger, on 03 April 2013 - 04:35 AM, said:

MG are actually Meele Weapons you have to throw them at your enemy to deal any damage.

I thought they were manual handicaps? Since they are a bigger threat to you than the guy you're aiming at (ammo 'splosion)

[Karl Streiger]

mwhighlander, on 03 April 2013 - 04:36 AM, said:

I thought they were manual handicaps? Since they are a bigger threat to you than the guy you're aiming at (ammo 'splosion)

Does an ammunition explosion deals splash damage?

[80sGlamRockSensation David Bowie]

Karl Streiger, on 03 April 2013 - 04:39 AM, said:

Does an ammunition explosion deals splash damage?

Lol, no. Not yet™

[stjobe]

mwhighlander, on 03 April 2013 - 04:36 AM, said:

I thought they were manual handicaps? Since they are a bigger threat to you than the guy you're aiming at (ammo 'splosion)

Actually, MG ammo used to have 0.08 damage per projectile for internal ammo explosions. That's fixed now though.

[zhajin]

machine guns are a hybrid. game code treats them more like lasers, but from a player perspective they are ballistics treated as ballistics. drop off is suppose to be 90m - 200m so kind of a hybrid there too.

[Xelah]

PGI listens for trends? I'm Just going to leave this here.

[Tennex]

not only do they have short range. they do very limited damage. there nothing else a light mech can mount in that ballistic slot

[Davers]

stjobe, on 03 April 2013 - 03:25 AM, said:

The MG is the red-headed step-child of MWO weapons. Treated differently than every other weapon, differently than all the other ballistics, nerfed, beaten, and abused.

Someone at MWO must hate MGs with a passion to keep them in their current useless state for so long.

Sounds like someone forgot to dump the ammo on his Battlemaster.

[Escef]

stjobe, on 03 April 2013 - 03:25 AM, said:

The MG is the red-headed step-child of MWO Battletech weapons.

Fixed.

MGs have always been unimpressive.

[Davers]

Escef, on 08 April 2013 - 05:13 PM, said:

Fixed.

MGs have always been unimpressive.

No one is trying to make machine guns the new medium laser. But it should be useful, shouldn't it? Why didn't everyone complain that the AC/2 wasn't supposed to be useful in TT either? I don't see any aircraft for it to shoot here...

[Hayashi]

We have to consolidate all the threads on Machine Gun feedback because there's too many of them at present. Please continue here.