Community Manager
Support is better now with the paddle nerf. All in all though, I can't say they're in a good place. The primary issue with support is the combo ammo/health box simply provides too much utility for a single class.
I REALLY enjoyed the challenge to drag revive players though. I think that woke a lot of players up to how much more useful it is over just rezzing someone in the line of fire. I have had more drag revives, though it is diminishing.
Aside from reworking all the classes, I'm still of the mindset that the passives should be an ALWAYS instead of unlocking with score. Unlocking parts of the training path with score just makes play unpredictable because I'll get used to it in a match after I get it, then start the next match and oops I take extra time for everything again and have to adjust my play, then it unlocks and I have to adjust my play again, rinse and repeat every single match.
LMGs need almost an across the board accuracy buff, though that's not support specific I guess. The tradeoffs to an LMG should be mobility, and when all weapons are available there is almost no benefit to LMG use because most of them are SO inaccurate. An LMG should be a strong area denial device. Currently they're just another weapon in the pile and DO NOT fill an area denial role.
Suppression also needs to make a fast and hard return to classic styles. An old use of LMGs was to simply spray the ever living crap out of a sniper and keep them suppressed so that your team can advance on their location. Now you just get shot in the face because even if you are hitting the sniper in the head they suffer no accuracy or vision penalties.
ALMOST FORGOT. Change the darn button to pick up another persons kit. MAN it's annoying when I'm trying to drag someone but I instead pick up their kit, my kit, their kit, repeat forever until they die because I CANNOT CLICK THEM to rez them. Super annoying.
LMGs need almost an across the board accuracy buff, though that's not support specific I guess. The tradeoffs to an LMG should be mobility, and when all weapons are available there is almost no benefit to LMG use because most of them are SO inaccurate. An LMG should be a strong area denial device. Currently they're just another weapon in the pile and DO NOT fill an area denial role.
I think the main issue is that currently, the upsides don't really make up for the downsides. You get bad ADS time and usually terrible hip fire accuracy, supposedly as a cost for increased ammo. Except increased ammo in and by itself is not a wild upside: it's not nothing, but I don't often find myself having to shoot 3-4 people in a row without finding some cover for a 2 seconds reload. Each time I pick up an LMG, I'm thinking I'd be better off with less bullets but better stats.
Could we make the larger magazine attachments cheaper, like a lot cheaper? If increased ammo is going to be the thing for LMGs, it needs to be accessible. We already have a big downside for bigger magazines in the form of massively increased reload times, and in some cases time to ADS and mobility penalties, saddling them with massive increased points on top of that is just not useful.
I also think LMGs suffer from a lack of useful suppression mechanic (even if just for them). What we have now is incredibly weak. The fact it does nothing to a player at full health is telling. There needs to be some reason for having the capacity to fire machine gun-style and putting a bunch of bullets out there, or a good, quick AR with 30 bullets will just be better alternative.
