u/Soapinator_17

Personally, as someone who has been playing since July 2024 so I've seen the game in all its phases and moments

Some of the nerfs feel outright evil and in a game where every weapon is supposed to be viable, they just feel outright to be the worse pick

Heavion has apparently lost its whole niche of being a higher damage "HEAVY" Hellion with more damage but worse ammo economy and handling, now it is a bastard child of the Hellion and Adjudicator and it's horrible at being either of them. It's just straight up a worse pick than Hellion entirely, just not worth bringing. And it's already been nerfed a lot in damage and RPM (though that was needed as it used to have 250 first and 225 second falloff with 100-ish rpm once too)

In my opinion a better way to nerf Heavion would've been to drop the first falloff back to 200 so it only one shots if you hit all pellets, hence still keeping its identify instead of being dead weight

And it isn't that hard to counter shotguns either, in my whole timespan I've mostly died to shotguns when I carelessly peeked corners or when I got flanked. That's the thing you're not supposed to blindly run into corners and think you can gun everyone down, and you're not supposed to be a one man army you're supposed to keep moving and/or have someone or yourself constantly checking your flank. Besides often times the corner is made of wood so people do realize they can shoot through it right? That has worked for me as a counter. And the time I played Vanguard (Kindguard rise up), if it's a right side corner they're also not as hard to deal with

Stunion is straight up gutted, like WHAT do you mean it now does LESS damage than the honor? It's just a Pederson device which doesn't jam but worse because Pederson has constant 50 damage all ranges if I am correct. At this point just use Union ALT or Honor stocked, it's straight up a worse pick now.

Personally I would've reduced the movement accuracy/speed, handling and/or ammo count giving it the same as the base Union, dropping the damage to 50, 45, 40 is just evil.

Ultimately, you straight up can NOT balance EVERY weapon to be fair, ultimately something WILL be unfair and more powerful than the others

What matters is that there's a counter to it, just like how Geist is a counter to shocktroopers, Jesse artillery is a counter to campers and shotguns were a counter to rushers and lancers. Shotguns were an integral part of the game and now it feels like that integral part is straight up gone

And no I am not a chudgun main, I gilded the hellion and equine and didn't touch them again. yes I complain about it when I die to it cause it's funny, unless it's those 2k hour Brigs/Lord's running Jaeger apparition with sawed off equine genuinely ruining the fun for people who are actually employed and have a life outside of the game

But honestly, Chudment, King slayer, even the crossbow in the right hands is just as annoying

And people do need to realize that you NEED to alter your play style, you NEED to adapt and adjust as required and you NEED to change your play style to counter others, everything is supposed to be viable yes but it is NOT supposed to be viable against everything

And the shocktrooper helmet nerf also makes them a lot weaker. It was there just so a volk in the backline wouldn't knock their shit off, and 100 is still a very damn long range, that's like already beyond the third falloff of most guns and I don't think anyone complained about that.

Some criticisms were valid, like yes Heavion was too powerful, and so was Equine but Equine's niche has been killed for the most part by the apparition rework since the annoying aspect was mostly pairing it with apparition so you never saw it coming

But there wasn't any need to straight up gut them, now there's no reason to pick them over anything else because some people don't want to adapt and adjust their playstyle and whine about everything

Speaks volumes about these people

Basically a support weapon based off of the Lewis Machinegun (this is the base, would be better to include the Anti Aircraft variant with 97 rounds) However it will be firing a heavier calibre like the HMG

150-200 Damage Heavy pen

30-50 Durable

(Numbers not concrete)

Due to the bulky nature of it, it can't be aimed but only hip fired when standing and hinders movement when fired while walking with bad spread and recoil.

However it can be mounted to any surface, or it can also be used while prone, where the recoil will be MASSIVELY reduced to being minimal (except there would still be camera shake and kick, statement subjected to change)

And it would also come with a backpack slot item which would be the deployable shield which would be half in size of the Grenadier emplacement, Heavy armor and chest height for mounting the gun, think of it as a mobile HMG emplacement support weapon.

This imo would give a lot more utility to shield grenades and teammates using directional shield and for the heavy tankdivers to be able to hold a position better.