LMG seems > everything else?

[Greywolf]

Nice. Pure ownage right there.

Thank's , I'm just happy to find a style I like, I love big crit's and i cannot lie! love getting 8k's on forge eyeballs too

[Buruko]

This thread is exactly what the game is about guys, everyone will have their option and their play style. Is there a right way? Wrong way? Doubtful if you killin' and collecting your scrip and salvage it's a good day.

I use two load outs myself, one is an grenade lobber and LMG combo, the other a pistol and AR combo. I find that in skirmish situations, say 4~6 mobs, the AR and Pistol is acceptable, but when you get into a serious fire fight with like 10+ mobs you need some AOE damage lovin', plus the SAW can lay some impress spread into a group of packed in mobs or the few that get a lil' too close for comfort.

Is it an elegant play style like Greywolf's? No, but I'm still picking you the loot in the end.

[Crunchyblack]

If I can stand there and shoot, or move slowly and shoot, nothing beats my LMG.

However, once you need mobility the LMG becomes the worst weapon out there.

For nim I had to ditch my LMG and go for Mr El Diablo SMG.

You cant hit anything unless in aim mode, which makes you slow. Your reload time is more than enough time for mobs and especially players to kill you.

Its really all about situation. For situations where you can stand there and just DPS, a good LMG with extended mag cant be beat imo.

Once you get into a situation where you need to be highly mobile, are close quarters with people with shot guns, are long range fighting people with sniper rifles...well LMG doesn't hold up so well.

LMG is fantastic for the slow witted AI mobs though, since you can take down many with one clip, duck for the insanely long reload then drop the rest. That or sitting there on over charge wailing on a boss/crystal...LMG has its role for sure.

[Dikard von Doom]

Ok so heres the movie using my pistol :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GF9d5a4lAI

Sorry about the quality, made it in like 5min so its pretty atrocious, but gives a good example i think.

Edit: Fighting elite dark matter apc crew

Good fight. While I use different guns, I have a somewhat similar play style. Wish I could upload some vids from playing on ps3 but I can't afford the tech. :/

[RIPPER]

DETENATORS for me specifically GROUND AND POUND I have yet to see someone take a monarch out faster than me with an lmg six shots to a monarch with my set and that monarch is down
Just thought I'd leave this comment here lol I won't be back

[Greywolf]

Is it an elegant play style like Greywolf's? No, but I'm still picking you the loot in the end.

Yeh it is kinda elegant, 6% dmg reduction on reload from pistol, 12% dmg reduction after a kill trait and 6% dmg reduction from cell armor trait, works out to be about 24% dmg reduction after a kill if i'm reloading, makes me a little bit tankier

[Skeptic]

I am an smg man myself I have yet to find one better than a blue but I do use and abuse the fire out of them when I get one.

[RegularX]

I really don't like LMGs. Accuracy isn't good enough so I stick to assault rifles.

Same here - Assault Rifles give me the range without soaking up huge amounts of ammo.

If I want to deal a lot of damage quickly a close range? Shotty.

[Genji]

SAWs are very powerful in PvE due to their high DPS. The downside to them is that they have very high recoil and do not handle very well in CQC. They also suck in PvP (if your opponent knows what he's doing).

Recoil? They have none. A fire blossom yes, if ya hold the trigger down. CqC, I want to love shotguns, the feel good and sound good on paper CqC, yet when I hit a hard grp I CqC with my LMG and do more dmg faster in their face.

[g1mps0r]

God this discussions is absurd, just run the dmg values and rate of fire through excel and you'll see that there is not a single weapon who is nearly nigh to the raw dmg of lmgs even if you consider weak spot hits with 1k dmg weapons like snipers and magnums. At point blank range dps wise it's the most op weapon ig. (dps NOT burst this is were shotguns shines)

Yeah you've spike damage but thats it. Your 4-8k hits comes only into play against enemies with tiny hitboxes/short time to shot at them. Against a Monarch for example there is no single weapon which is stronger than an saw. Even with hip fire you hit them with every shot and get them down in like a quarter the time you'll need with an pistol/sniper. Because you can easily strife around them in close quarter and do not get a single hit... It's just absurd one mag(85 rounds) without ever hit an weak spot brings them down to like 20%. Just hit a weak spot for like 1sec and they lose 20-40%. ;>

BUT and this is big.. against human enemies ar, pistols, sniper are they way to go. Lmgs have a way to high spray against them because

A. you can't get to melee range if you're hip firering.
B. Even with exploiting the reaim bug it's way more effective to empty an ar clip/shoot 1-3 times at the head with a sniper/pistol than waste like 20 bullets per kill with an lmgs.

But against Hellbugs there is no other weapon which is that effective, especially against monarchs..