Another heavy assault post (dont flame me)

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[Zarparchior]

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[Vis Armata]

I just grab Jackhammers when I can; I'm thinking that if the NC get such a good close-in shottie, I might as well show them what it's like to be on the receiving end.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Ditto.

[Kikinchikin]

only time i can actually get one, is in a big battle, and i can never make it to a locker or equip terminal for shotgun ammo...

[Ducimus]

I've found that the Rocklet rifle makes a very good substitute for a jackhammer. Of course it takes forever to reload but thats beside the point....

[Plato]

Rocklet rifles are deffinately the poor man's Jackhammer. I'm working on getting my Heavy Assault weapon cert to use the 20 JH's I have in my locker. I acquired all 20 just last night from their suicide charges

[Airlift]

Nice! I was up to 17 at my highest stock level, but carelessness and bad luck (plus getting pwnt hardcore a couple times) have recently depleted my locker down to 9 remaining.

[Kikinchikin]

i only got 3... :o but i got 8 lancers, if i ever get anti vehicular...

[shinken]

Originally posted by Hellsfire123


This is not serious sam, guns do have recoil. If you expect to be able to spray 30 rounds from a chaingun before feeling it kick, you're delusional.

I have 1 word for you, NO
in real life miniguns have almost no kick, the gun is so barrel heavy that it keeps barrel rise down to almost nothing, have you seen the movie, Predatorm (i think thats right) the guy sprays an entire chunk of jungle and absolutly no kick, which is very accurate, the only chain guns in real life with that much kick are aircraft cannons like the GAU-8 avenger cannon on an A-10 but that can rip through a tank w/ a few of it milk bottle sized shells,

[Chryse]

have you seen the movie, Predatorm (i think thats right) the guy sprays an entire chunk of jungle and absolutly no kick

As we all know, the movies are an airtight representation of real life.

Not to get off the point here, but my father was an Air Force flight engineer in Jolly Green Giant air rescue helicopters in Vietnam. One of his duties was to man a window-mounted 7.62mm minigun like the one Jesse Ventura used in Predator. We watched the movie once and, when that scene came up he gave me a look and said, "Bullshit." I asked him why he thought so and he said that the minigun is heavy and bulky and the ammo alone would be a bit too much for even "The Body" to lug through the jungle. He also said the torque generated from the recoil combined with the rotating barrels would be too much for anyone to steady, and that it required a reinforced mount inside the helicopter to even operate with any control.

Jesse Ventura and Arnold Schwarzenegger (in Terminator 2) sure looked cool using miniguns, but the rounds they used were blanks, which do not produce the same level of recoil as live ammo.

[Plato]

If my minigun isn't going to be realistic, I want the TR to have a heavy assault shotgun too. Gimme my Thunderhammer!

[Airlift]

There is no doubt that the real life minigun is not a man-portable weapon that you can tote around and smoke your enemies with. They are always mounted on something. However, what the shit difference does that make? Real life has no bearing on game mechanics.

[Chryse]

However, what the shit difference does that make? Real life has no bearing on game mechanics.

True, but my point wasn't to compare the game to real life. I went OT for a sec to correct Shinken and clarify that, just because an ex-wrestler and current governor of Minnesota uses a chaingun like a weed-whacker in a movie, that it really wasn't possible to do. I never tied that into the game itself.

[Knuckles]

*Whips the the thread back on track*

I'm dropping my HA cert tonite. The Lasher's just not worth it. I've just read up on the official boards and tests shows that the Lasher, apart from having that ridicolously slow moving orb/projectile, has the least damage per second (DPS) of all HA weapons. It's even inferior to the cycler in that regard... and it costs 4 points more...

My kill rate has gone way down since I switched to the Lasher, so I'm going back to my Sweeper/Lancer combo. But before I do drop that HA cert, I'm going to use up all my stashed Jackhammers. If You are playing on Werner, and are TR or NC - today will be a good day to take cover.

- This disgruntled Vanu's guna go out with a bang!

Oh, and oh yeah - I am going to buy myself both Combat Engineering and Advanced Medic for those 4 points. I had originally planned to make my character as good a grunt as it could possibly be (AV/HA/Reinf/Adv Medic/Combat Engineer = BR 19), but alas. The vanu weaponry just ain't up to par - so I guess I'll mainstream instead, and buy the Magrider (aka lawnmower) and the AMS. Maybe I'll try out the Skyguard instead of The Magrider...

Lets see what happends.