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.

  • FlihpFlorp@piefed.zipEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I use the heavy pen MG on squids as it takes care of so much, harvesters, hordes of votless, air craft

    I like the crank up the RPM on voteless. basically tap firing letting recoil kick up from the body, and just letting it rip into a crowd, mmmm amazing

    Against overseers and aircraft medium rpm

    and against harvesters i find the TTK with my aim roughly the same on all 3 firemodes so i set it to lowest so i can waste less ammo

    I feel like people forget you can change the fire mode after mission starts

    I love this gun it just packs a punch and the variable fire mode that you can change any time divers lets it flex between precision (for an automatic) and *AHHAHAHAH HAHAHAHAAAA" -Helldiver

    But alot of people forget you have 300 bullets between resupplys, and if you tap fire berserker heads, that is a lot of freedom to spread