Chaingun Tactics

[FlakMan]

How do you use one of these things? I can only seem to kill already damaged enemies and cloakers.

[gonnagetyou]

Long range- crouch and use controlled bursts to keep the COF down.

Medium range- crouch or stay still and again controlled bursts.

Short range- get up in their face and just lay into them with your finger glued to the trigger. If you're still missing your not close enough.

[Ghost06]

put a lead weight on the left-mouse button and pray people are idiots.

[Jaged]

My favorite chaingun tactic is drop your chaingun and loot a JH, or better yet, an all powerful lasher.

Don't put a lead weight on the left-mouse button and pray people are idiots.

ghost

[Zatrais]

Step 1: place enemy under reticule

Step 2: fire a burst til COF expands

Step 3: wait for the barrels to stop spinning

Step 4: see step 1.

Alternatly, at short range.

Step 1: place enemy under reticule

Step 2: hold and press fire while laughing like a madman as lead tears your enemy apart.

Thats bout it.

And yeah, TR's forte is medium range, where lashers are dodged and shotgun pellets are an annoyance. Try to do most of the fighting in the sweetspot range. Course whit experince you'll start to kick the jackhammers/lashers at close range aswell.

[Intruder]

Grab surge and standard Exo, and dance around the enemy with your chaingun at close range. You will be suprised how many people wont be able to keep up with your dance.

[Arakiel]

Hold down fire button. Mow things down. Don't worry about managing your reloads because you won't need to. Don't forget to cry about what a terrible weapon it is.

[Cease]

I recently picked HA back up again to test out the MCG. Its a decent weapon, but in all honesty it doesnt even compare to the Lasher or Jackhammer.

Let me repeat that. The MCG doesnt suck... its just not nearly as powerful as the JH and Lasher. The fact is the JH and Lasher kill people quick.... the MCG doesnt. It may kill people slightly faster than the cycler, but not by much. I've got close to 1k kills respectively with my NC Jackhammer monkey and my VS Lasher lemming, so I feel I've put in some seat time with all the HA weapons. Im aware of their strengths and weaknesses. I'll even say the Lasher is the hardest out of the 3 to get good with.

You can tell me the MCG is fine and thats your opinion, just like this is my opinion. Yes its a decent weapon. Its usable. It can kill people. But so can the Punisher, but I wouldnt spend an extra 4 Cert points to use it. Thats the question I'd like all the VS and NC to answer that say "The MCG doesnt suck." I'm not asking does it suck or not -- would you spend 4 cert points to get it(and dont factor in looting the other empires HA weaps)? I bet if you were really faced with that decision the answer would be no.

And thats going to ultimately be the issue. Many TR simply wont spend 4 points for a JH/Lasher looting cert. So all the HA users from VS and NC get to face off vs a TR army mainly equipped with Med Assault. Guess who wins?

Of course we have the Max Pounder, and its a beast. But its a Max... and it comes with all the limitations that Maxes do.

Needless to say its a tad bit discouraging because one thing the NC and VS have no shortage of is people certed in Heavy Assault. But hey, every empire has their time in the barrel. It's TRs time now.

Is this a whine? Nah, just an observation. It also reinforces my opinion that the TR cycler is one of the best weapons in the game.

[Cauldron Borne]

when ever I repair something (and being CE means almost all the time, or whenever I'm not mining), and I'm in TR territory some body is going to spray me with lead from a killo away. always happens, like the sun rising and setting. And it tickles. I can usually finish the repair and then repair myself, bust out the gauss I carry in my pack and cap 'em hehe

Demon's Dragoons: what the.......BOOM

[Spider]

hrmm I would pay 4 certs for the MCG, cease, I kinda like it

[Cease]

I guess I just suck with the MCG then. I feel I'm a respectable challenge with a Cycler in my hands. Considering the MCG is a rapid fire machine gun like the Cycler, I assumed I'd be just as respectable with it. But I guess I was wrong. I don't feel I'm any more effecient with a MCG than I am with a Cycler.

Oh well. I'm just going to drop HA and pick up the Max Pounder.

Originally posted by Arakiel
Don't forget to cry about what a terrible weapon it is.

Yeah, you're 100% right. The MiniChaingun can kill it's target in three shots. WTF are those people thinking.

ghost

PS: MCG = my most used weapon, but not any n00b that just buys the game can use it as they would the Jackhammer or Lasher.

[Winged_Nazgul]

Originally posted by Cease
I guess I just suck with the MCG then. I feel I'm a respectable challenge with a Cycler in my hands.

Don't feel bad. I came to the same conclusion with the Jackhammer. Now it's just me and my Gauss.

Gauss

[Ghost06]

Heh, nothing's more fun than surging around a rock to your enemies flank and suprising them with 2 slug-loaded blasts of boomstick .

That and the 12 frags you gloat about when you lob 3 clips worth of plasma nades 'round the corner into the the purple tide .