Poll: Should Mounted Machine guns be better?

[rombaft]

well here's the thing with any of the machines guns, mounted or not - people aren't afraid of them.

i've ben prone shooting my saw at a guy standing still and he still kills me. he just stood there, didn't crouch or go prone. this happens all the time.

i don't know how else to balance it, but when someone is shooting a machine gun like that, they should be going for cover, not walking across the street like there's no problem. they need to be more accurate or do more damage or something. even point blank it takes a lot of shots to kill a guy with the saw.

learn to aim man, I pown lots of guys with machine gune, and with a saw and you go prone you should be able to pown everyone

[imported_CTUnit1]

I voted for splash damage because it would be totaly awesome to shoot bullets that expload on impact and destroy like 200 people with one shot. Better yet have an automatic nuke launcher!!!!!!!1111one

[FM_Echo_One]

They are fine/balanced now.

[Slapidus]

I think they need a little upgrade,hopefully we'll see it in 1.03

[C11.Nemisis]

they are fine how they ae right now, they do alot more damage than their unmounted counter parts in the support class

[[LG]Cataclysm]

well here's the thing with any of the machines guns, mounted or not - people aren't afraid of them.

i've ben prone shooting my saw at a guy standing still and he still kills me. he just stood there, didn't crouch or go prone. this happens all the time.

i don't know how else to balance it, but when someone is shooting a machine gun like that, they should be going for cover, not walking across the street like there's no problem. they need to be more accurate or do more damage or something. even point blank it takes a lot of shots to kill a guy with the saw.

I'd love to see a deployable bipod.

The Rate of Fire could be upped a little, IMO.

[MetalChris092781]

What kind of moron would want splash damage to a mounted 240, 249, or 50 cal? Do you realize what kind of ammo these things fire? FULL METAL JACKET! FMJ munitions don't produce any "splash" damage!

[imported_CTUnit1]

What kind of moron would want splash damage to a mounted 240, 249, or 50 cal? Do you realize what kind of ammo these things fire? FULL METAL JACKET! FMJ munitions don't produce any "splash" damage!

But you cant say that you wouldnt like an automatic nuke launcher in the game... come on.

[dmonkey]

I'd want one, they should make the commander class an invincible mech warrior type of thing with tactical nukes and full scale shields...

bblashahsahaha

[solodude23]

They are fine in that sence, but it would be alot better if you could, "deploy" the portable ones on the ground, windows, ledges, etc. Instead of haviing to use the ones pre-deployed which are nt mobile....

[imported_Tumbler]

Splash Damage

I voted for splash damage because it would be totaly awesome to shoot bullets that expload on impact and destroy like 200 people with one shot. Better yet have an automatic nuke launcher!!!!!!!1111one

My vote is splash damage as well. Mainly because while in motion in humvee's/jeeps/vans/buggies/Transport helo's (mec & China) it is exceptionally hard to hit troops.

When you are stopped it's pretty easy to hit troops but you still need to hit them several times. I still say the current system doesn't reward the player for using these weapons enough. The vehicles are huge easy targets for grenades/rockets/support machines guns/M203 grenades, etc. so many counters and they aren't really that dangerous right now. Against a skilled player they are basically a liability.

[Saureco]

No change needed.

Great damage against light ground vehicles and helos. Terrific at tearing up troops at range. Quite frankly, that's all you need.

[jmuduke]

I think they should give the support machine gun better accuracy while proned. It is almost the same gun as the mounted machine gun in the buggies but its accuracy is total crap. I think they should add a bind that puts your machine gun on a bipod to increase accuracy but it should take a long time to set up the bipod and a long time to take it down and you can't move while mounted. I think that would even out the support class.

[Wynterheart]

What kind of moron would want splash damage to a mounted 240, 249, or 50 cal? Do you realize what kind of ammo these things fire? FULL METAL JACKET! FMJ munitions don't produce any "splash" damage!

instead of splash damage, how about shrapnel? like rocks and parts of buildings, or ricochets from the bullets?

[Solar71]

YES ! ! !
More power... Not a lot, just a little more... like +20%
More splash...Not a huge amount like the blackhawk guns, but just a little more slash damage also like maybe a 1M radius or something like that... so like shoot at 1 point, and 500cm in all directions takes damage as well...

SWEET!!!