Why is the medic's rifle better than the HA's lmg?

[Yenni]

Is it just me, or does the HA LMG (atleast on the terran side) seem like it's about 75% as effective as the medics rifle.

Not to mention the medics auto heal power seems to out do the HA's shield by alot. Although this may just be due to Medics gun being so much better than the LMG.

I remember hearing MH talk about switching the two weapons between the Medic and the HA. I don't know if that's entirely neccessary.

I'd still like the HA to keep the LMG, but make it useful for...something.
Don't get me wrong, the gun works, but let's be realistic. It lacks in basically every area compared to the Medics rifle.

-Hip accuracy
-Damage per shot
-ADS accuracy

The larger clip just makes it so much aggravating that you spent 70 rounds trying to kill someone.

[moosepoop]

the medic class needs to be renamed medium assault. people keep thinking its like the team fortress 2 medic.

[Arovien]

shhh keep it down. I wanna farm more xp/certs before they nerf the T1 Cycler. The AOE self-heal is pretty damn effective at longer ranges too. Not gonna go into it for obvious reasons >.>

Oh, who are we kidding. This will be addressed months down the road.

[Legolas]

I'm still holding out hope that we will have...

Light Assault: Assault Rifle -- an assault class with an assault weapon? Never!
Combat Medic: Carbine -- people are only playing this for self-heal + best weapon at the moment.
Heavy Assault: Battle Rifle -- BR could be a carbine-assault hybrid, with more range goodness than a Carbine but less need of auto than the Assault. LMG will never work right unless its allowed to replace the RL.

...and be free of the over-under powered LMGs forever. Down with the OP/UP LMG!

[Infernalis]

The Heavy Assault will be better with specific faction weapons like the Jackhammer/Minigun/Lasher. Right now he's more a verstatile anti-tank class than anything.

As for the LMG it would be cool if you could deploy it but I guess it won't happen, it will forever stay a lesser AR with a big magazine.

[bullet]

I normally pick the Medic over anything else if I'm going into infantry combat. The medic's gun and sustainability are really good, but HA wins out if there are vehicles I could get to.

[Traak]

I think medics who are maxes armored with 10,000 hp armor and no weapons would be great.

Some of us just aren't really into doing much other than healing and repairing. Support FTW!

[AThreatToYou]

HA's are sometime to receive MCG, Lasher, and JH... sometime...

[Gonefshn]

The carbines are the best IMO.

LMG is nice because you don't have to reload often. I find HA to be pretty viable especially because of it's AA weapons. It's there to take out hard targets like MAXs and vehicles. Having the LMG gives them some credibility in infantry combat and a lot of sustainability. The shield is too poor thats the issue. If they could live longer than other classes those extra rounds in the clip would matter.

[Yenni]

Originally Posted by Gonefshn

The carbines are the best IMO.

LMG is nice because you don't have to reload often. I find HA to be pretty viable especially because of it's AA weapons. It's there to take out hard targets like MAXs and vehicles. Having the LMG gives them some credibility in infantry combat and a lot of sustainability. The shield is too poor thats the issue. If they could live longer than other classes those extra rounds in the clip would matter.

The shield may very well be the underlying problem. I don't like how it's just a damage reducers and not an actual shield that needs to be broken like the the standard shield.

Just 20-30% extra shield would be better than what the HA has now.

[Hamma]

I like the carbines the best also.