>if you carry a heavy weapon, that also means you should carry

>>31117487
Simple.
>EVERYONE SHOOT THE FUCKER WITH THEY BIG GUN!
That's why.

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>>31117685
But why the padding when Heavy Weapons Guy characters are typically already super big dudes, which is an acceptable concession (since a big dude might get big from carrying such heavy stuff all day)

>>31117487

Because video games a dictated by gameplay rather than logic you moron.

>>31117849
Because a big dude gets shot and goes down like anyone else.

Unless they use their natural gifts to lift some armor to go with it.

This isn't even that strange of a concept irl. Swat units and counter terrorists groups wear armor like a mother fucker because they deal with small arms and have such a tactical advantage in overwhelming numbers, firepower etc.

But if you are referring to straight up warfare then yes its good to go light as the ranges and caliber go dramatically up and the biggest or strongest (not alwaus the same) guys in SOF and light infantry units are the ones lugging the most shit like antitank weapons, mgs, etc. The elite units not the ones conventional units that troll the new guys with the biggest guns on patrol.

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even worse: games where the machine guns are absolute garbage

see: Battlefield series, Payday, MW series

for some fucking reason, they invariably:
>do less damage
>have more recoil, and
>are less accurate

compared to normal assault rifles. that's not how it works, you fucksticks.

>>31117953
But everybody gets armor. Why does the heavy weapons guy get more armor than everyone else? Why not just up-armor everyone, or give it to the high speed low drag oper8ors who are gonna be flanking under the machine gunner/explosive firing man's indirect or suppressive fire from cover?

>>31117972
Game balance > realism unless the game itself strives for realism

>>31118000
Well for swat or police units they got a LOT of extra coverage (or the turret gunners on convoys) and some even have shields.

The other guys engage while the guy with the armor and heavy weapon suppresses the target.

However in video games most of thr characters have health bars, meaning the big guys with heavy armor are basically damage sponges for muh difficulties.

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>>31118064
but why
does the guy carrying the most armor
also carry the most dakka

if there's some kind of limit on what an average person can carry, wouldn't more armor mean less dakka?

>>31117972
Properly kit'd m249, m240 and UK disagree.

Besides, the bipods kinda make battlefield lmgs monstrous

>>31119442
If it didn't immobilize you so much, every other class in the game is worthless. Just slap a 3.4x sight on and you have a near infinite range death ray

>>31117487
This is why I liked Alien. The guys with the smartguns are actually less armored.

>>31118233
Normally they do carry less dakka.

I'm saying for video games they give them more dakka because the developers are noguns who think guns are light or that the characters are some superhuman.

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>>31117972
Check arma, in meme multilayer modes people only use lmgs because they make them properly. If it was like that in all games then they'd be shit.

>>31117972
Machineguns are AMAZING in Payday 2. Pretty much the only gun I will take into Deathwish games likely to go hot.

>kilograms

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