Is there an Underslung MCG yet?

EVILoHOMER · 2013-03-08, 05:35 AM

I said I wont be coming back until it is in and I'm sticking to that. I think their weapon design of make them all similar is pretty stupid and makes for one bland gun game. I mean in Planetside they all felt unique to each other, even the factions did because their main weapons had a different play to them. In Planetside 2 they all feel the same, they all look the same, they all play the same, heck even the Shotguns look like Rifles and sound like silenced rifles. Remember when the Jack Hammer sounded menacing? Now you can't hear the frigging thing, if I'm killed by it, it's like being shot by any quiet weapon in the game, it has no distinct personality.

For me the MCG is about running around and gunning, Higby even said that himself in a Gamespot video playthrough once. I asked a question to Gamespot and they asked him, he said "yeh those people don't tend to" or something along those lines. That was a response to me saying how I don't want to take cover with the cover. If I wanted to do so I'd use one of the other many many bland rifles in the game.

So give the MCG some personality, make it underslung, make it useful and let people who want that play style to have it. Back when I last played in December I didn't take cover anyways, I didn't see many people who did, usually it was just spawn camping lol.

Anyways, if it is in then great I'll come back, if not I stand by my principles.

ChipMHazard · 2013-03-08, 05:47 AM

Nope, hasn't changed.

Pella · 2013-03-08, 06:01 AM

Never will either.

HA is rubbish anyway.

Koadster · 2013-03-08, 06:08 AM

T-ray said it wont be back to underslung. It had a issue where if you were crouched behind something it would just shoot the wall. Id still rather a underslung though. The worst thing of all is they were too lazy to even change the depot icon!!! Like come on!

ChipMHazard · 2013-03-08, 06:24 AM

He doesn't care about taking cover

Baneblade · 2013-03-08, 06:26 AM

Originally Posted by Koadster

It had a issue where if you were crouched behind something it would just shoot the wall.

So they won't make it underslung because it will be... underslung?

Figment · 2013-03-08, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Baneblade

So they won't make it underslung because it will be... underslung?

Yep.

Sledgecrushr · 2013-03-08, 07:55 AM

Lol.

EVILoHOMER · 2013-03-08, 07:58 AM

I don't use a chaingun to crouch behind walls, a little variety in the gameplay of the guns would have been nice. If I wanted to be a pussy and camp behind something, I could use any of the other bland weapons that all look and play the same.

Oh well, I'll continue not to play then.

moosepoop · 2013-03-08, 07:59 AM

they can still make an unnderslung variant. call it the behemoth.

Silent Thunder · 2013-03-08, 07:59 AM

I do have to say it's really weird to play/not play a game based soley on one weapon's appearance. I mean I can count a dozen reasons right now that people might be turned off by Ps2, but a single weapon not looking the way it was promised isn't among them.

Satanam · 2013-03-08, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by Silent Thunder

I do have to say it's really weird to play/not play a game based soley on one weapon's appearance. I mean I can count a dozen reasons right now that people might be turned off by Ps2, but a single weapon not looking the way it was promised isn't among them.

I felt the same.

Well, I'd rather using underslung Mini-Chaingun, although this new one looks nice. But I'd love to use underslung again, it's one of the main charms about this weapon. Too bad they won't have it back, almost every MCG user want it to be underslung. About the crouch thing, why don't they just fix this crap?

MrMak · 2013-03-08, 08:31 AM

This is probably the second silliest reason to quit a game i have ever seen.

The first one being people quiting Team Fortress 2 due to the existance of lime paint or a speciic hat or something along those lines.

As for it being undersung? It is a bit bland in function aswell isnt it? Why not make it function more or less like the Heavy's miniguns in Team Fortress 2. It spins up and starts fireing but you can only walk when doing so. To compensate give it insane firepower. From what ive seen right now its just a fancy looking lmg. just liek the Jackhammer is a fancy looking shotgun.

Satanam · 2013-03-08, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by MrMak

This is probably the second silliest reason to quit a game i have ever seen.

The first one being people quiting Team Fortress 2 due to the existance of lime paint or a speciic hat or something along those lines.

As for it being undersung? It is a bit bland in function aswell isnt it? Why not make it function more or less like the Heavy's miniguns in Team Fortress 2. It spins up and starts fireing but you can only walk when doing so. To compensate give it insane firepower. From what ive seen right now its just a fancy looking lmg. just liek the Jackhammer is a fancy looking shotgun.

Forever slow Mini-chaingun users would be bad. You wouldn't be able to keep running with your mates, and you would be an easy target, even though you'd be using a devastating weapon as you said it would have way more firepower.
I'd say it would be useful if they just decrease a bit the TTK and balance it to be higher ROF. And underslung would be appreciated as well.

SturmovikDrakon · 2013-03-08, 08:44 AM

I don't think they'd have a problem if they had made the barrel at held at waist-level, just above most cover in this game, 'cause this

really was too low

Something like this though

Would work fine I think, with that upper grip being somewhere on the side instead

Just... not the shoulder-fired cake-mixer we have now

I could go on a rant again about making that one of its drawbacks for its low mobility but high ROF, high damage model... but it's no use I think, SOE doesn't want to experiment with unique weapons