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If you're using the HMG below 750RPM, are you really using the HMG? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Throughout my 991 hours of playtime ^holy^ ^shit^ ^get^ ^a^ ^life^ I've seen many divers using the HMG at the lowest firerate possible, sometimes at 600RPM when just picking it up from a corpse or something, but people using it at 750RPM has been a VERY rare occurrency, at least as far as I could tell when I wasn't busy surviving.

Obviously if you pick it up because you have no other option you're going to go for the less uncomfortable setting, and if you're trying to shoot down a gunship you won't go Rambo with it, but other than such edge cases...

... what gives?

Why would you choose the ohfuckohshitohfuck stratagem and not use the ohfuckohshitohfuck setting when five hulks are chasing you (A.K.A. the ohfuckohshitohfuck situation)?
As far as I can tell THE appeal of the HMG is its insane DPS.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I always use the MGs on the highest RPM. I assume most people don't because the recoil can be hard to control when under duress, and you can get into a loop of freaking out, losing control and missing all of your shots, dying, and saying "fuck it" as you lower the RPM. I've been there, but when messing around I found out how truly satisfying it is to mow down entire crowds with any of the MGs on the highest RPM.

Plus, if Sweet Lady Liberty didn't want me to send Freedom inducing lead at 750RPM, 900RPM, or the fabled 1150RPM, then the armourer wouldn't have put that option on the gun

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

I guess that makes sense, but in my experience, a lower RPM setting doesn't really increase the "duress accuracy", as I like to call it.
You still miss half the shots with a lower angle difference, but "almost hitting" is the same as "not hitting" and when you finally manage to wrangle the reticle onto the weakpoint you're aiming for you have a lower damage output.

Kudos for being one of us though, maybe one day I'll see you on the front