PSA to BMG users during Sieges

[Ominuse]

I play the Healer (or Tank/Healer hybrid when possible) in dang near every MMO/Coop game I touch, and this is quite possibly the first time I've been relegated to the Naughty Corner for it..

[crasher]

I play the Healer (or Tank/Healer hybrid when possible) in dang near every MMO/Coop game I touch, and this is quite possibly the first time I've been relegated to the Naughty Corner for it..

In this case BMG users are being told by the people they profess to 'help' that they're doing more harm than good.

Use the BMG for your own reasons, nobody said you couldn't.

Users were told it didn't 'help'.
Users were asked to cut back.
Nobody said you had to stop, and nobody claimed the authority to try to make you stop.

You want to be a healer and do good, fine.
In this case you're doing harm.
Claiming to be a healer under these circumstances isn't quite true.

As always, play the game your way, but dont claim to be healing when you're harming the people you claim to be helping. Just admit you know you're not helping, and continue to use the BMG.
I didn't tell you to stop.

[janzig]

In this case BMG users are being told by the people they profess to 'help' that they're doing more harm than good.

Use the BMG for your own reasons, nobody said you couldn't.

Users were told it didn't 'help'.
Users were asked to cut back.
Nobody said you had to stop, and nobody claimed the authority to try to make you stop.

You want to be a healer and do good, fine.
In this case you're doing harm.
Claiming to be a healer under these circumstances isn't quite true.

As always, play the game your way, but dont claim to be healing when you're harming the people you claim to be helping. Just admit you know you're not helping, and continue to use the BMG.
I didn't tell you to stop.

Explain to me again...because I'm slow... how someone using a BMG is a detriment or harmful to you or anyone else? I'm not talking about lag or the visual effects here, as I can see those being annoying, but not harmful.

Seriously, I really want to know what I am missing here.

[A s0t]

i level up weapons in the sieges. if some dude gets injured yeah ill bust out the bmg and go back to leveling weapons
you know how it should be done

[Peavstar]

Explain to me again...because I'm slow... how someone using a BMG is a detriment or harmful to you or anyone else? I'm not talking about lag or the visual effects here, as I can see those being annoying, but not harmful.

Seriously, I really want to know what I am missing here.

Your not missing anything lol just another person crying about something else it seems to me. Before you know it NERF the BMG lol. Either way no one has the right to tell anyone how to play there game so do what you want and if someone wants to complain pass them a box of tissues and move along lol

[vizibledog]

Its funny how BMG's were never a problem till Volge Sieges came along and started showing the points you get for healing. Now all of a sudden BMG's are blinding people and causing massive lag.

[Indra Echo]

Explain to me again...because I'm slow... how someone using a BMG is a detriment or harmful to you or anyone else? I'm not talking about lag or the visual effects here, as I can see those being annoying, but not harmful.

Seriously, I really want to know what I am missing here.

Because of the lag and the visual effects. You want someone to point out how they're being harmful by not pointing out the harmful effects.

If I can't see what I'm trying to shoot at and it's a Bomber, your healing touch may not stop him from killing me or I won't be able to see it coming and get out of the way. Or I might get run over by a Viscera and still fall down from it.

And it isn't helping you to spam fully healthy people and lag them out. That does harm to people because they uh lag out and can miss out on getting their 20k or end rewards if they cannot get back into the correct phase. It's not physical harm to the character but harm in other ways.

People spamming BMGs is going to happen but it would be nice if they'd consider looking for people that need healing and not fully healthy people that they can stalk.

Some BMGers are doing it to heal people-as someone said because that's the way they like to play. No one is criticizing anyone (I hope not) for using them like this. But using them on people at full HP isn't healing. Most of the time I can't even see drops for ammo that I need on the ground.

And as I've said, a lot of BMGers know that they get all the same drops as the players they've healed so this is a way to max out their drops. It isn't about healing for all of them. I'm not even saying it should be. It's just that a lot of them tend to try to empty the BMG into everyone, reload and just keep spamming, whether they need it or not.

But people are gonna do what they're gonna do.

What generally happens at Sieges when someone is BMG stalking you, is it lags before you know it. All of a sudden, you can't change weapons, and when you start to get away from the BMG-a long trail of blue follows you. The game goes into slow motion. I've had this happen 3 times now. Friends have been with me so I know when the Siege ends, but for me it's not over when it is for them. I have Viscera floating blue in mid-air. And things very slowly advance forward. It can take as long as 20 minutes after the siege has ended for it to end for me and for me to get the scoreboard and rewards. But my gun won't work and I can't do anything in the phantom siege that is going on.

And at times when the siege advances forward, I can have multiple BMG streams on me from different players, all hitting me at full HP.

[Indra Echo]

Its funny how BMG's were never a problem till Volge Sieges came along and started showing the points you get for healing. Now all of a sudden BMG's are blinding people and causing massive lag.

Actually, they've been a "problem" ever since people figured out they could use them in events (arkfalls and sieges) and get all those loot drops and a lot of BMG xp. BMGs were the one weapon type that could always get some weapon xp at arkfalls even when other weapons could not.

What took awhile was for a lot of players to decide to use them. I have friends and acquaintances that would never use them (one guy scrapped 2 orange ones) until they learned about tagging arkfalls. What happened was more people than "normal" decided they had a use. Prior to that even people that now use them all the time would never touch them. I know that I had noticed early on it was even possible to get keycodes at minor arkfalls by using a BMG (and I told others about this), when it wasn't possible to get them using other weapons.

Using a BMG has certain real advantages but there is a smarter and more helpful way to use them and still get what you want from them.

[SlimShady78]

Never lagged with the use or someone using bmg. Im on like a 4mb bb atm and unless my ps3 is a super duper extraordinary machine I really dont know where ppl see this "lag".

Also the effects in no way stop or hinder what you could or couldn't do if there was no effect. Maybe annoying for some but doesn't effect killing things.

[vizibledog]

Never lagged with the use or someone using bmg. Im on like a 4mb bb atm and unless my ps3 is a super duper extraordinary machine I really dont know where ppl see this "lag".

Also the effects in no way stop or hinder what you could or couldn't do if there was no effect. Maybe annoying for some but doesn't effect killing things.

Same here. I've never seen BMG's cause lag.