Minigun

[Mr.Morose]

Okay, I've been thinking for quite some time now and I've gotten to point where I will speak out about the  . This weapon, I believe, is the least used one of all time. And for very good reasons, too.  I mean, ask yourself (I know a lot of n008 hackers used this gun back in 1.3 as a "super" machine gun but these ?'s are for 1.4):

- How often do you use the ? Me: about twice outta my 225+ matches
- How often have you gotten a kill with a ? Me: maybe 5 max
- How often have you seen someone else use the ? Me (in 1.4): 2
- How often have you been killed with a ? Me: *zilch

I don't mean to *insult (can't think of the right word) all those players who use the , not at all, but, I mean, how successful are you guys with this gun, because I look like a n008 with it.

The weapon is balanced, I guess-ish (because it would be too powerful if we gave it more), but it is also unbalanced at the same time because of it's unusefulness. I don't consider myself as new to the game and I'm more than a decent player, so I don't think it's lack of skill, but I can't seem to find why I find the so useless.

Correct me if I'm wrong (politely please, I'm sensitive lol) but I think the should be either revised or chucked.

[a-4-year-old]

enough with the emoticon already.

I never use it because i never get/got any kills with it, ive been killed by chainsaw more often then minigun, and i rarely see anyone use it.

It isn't really a competitive weapon, sure there are advantages to masses of bullets flying out, but it's a total spray weapon unless you crouch or prone with it.

[SirJamesaford]

how often do i use it -  once cuz i clicked the wrong gun
gotten a kill with it -  never
been killed - once but i had no health when i ran into the fool
how often have i seen ppl use it - maybe twice

I say chuck it but it wont happen.

[mxyzptlk]

Use? When I'm feeling lucky.
Got a kill? One or twice.
been killed? maybe once.
Seen people use it? not much.

[#38]

- How often do you use the ? When 1.4 first came out i was like OMGXEYESIMRPVEOEMTNS, and started to "practice" with it for like 2 days believing all i needed was a little getting used to..... then never again
- How often have you gotten a kill with a ? Me: i'm assuming you're not counting against bots, so i'd say maybe 2, both from almost 0 distance.
- How often have you seen someone else use the ? on the first day when i was using it (and sucking with it) people also got encouraged and started to use it. but other than that pretty much never
- How often have you been killed with a ? Me: i don't think ever...

[JohnB]

I play R/S and i often see in teamchat "Anyone wants to have minigun?", and noone answers...
When i got it i just sprayed up and then a Socom killed me.
The recoil is very hard, i often drop it on beginning and use law/socom/knife in this round 

[Bunney]

- How often do you use the Minigun?
Never, only when I'm REALY bored..

- How often have you gotten a kill with a Minigun?
Maybe 10-50 on a server full with bots..Zombies/Boogies..(when bored.)

- How often have you seen someone else use the Minigun?
1 time, he just walked to me and started shooting like hell on me, a Major, and he was on my team to...

- How often have you been killed with a Minigun?
Zero.

In my opinion they could better get lost of the Minigun and take an other weapon instead...

[NinjaGimp369]

- How often do you use the Minigun?
When I feel like a MINIGUN SURF!

- How often have you gotten a kill with a Minigun?
Like 2

- How often have you seen someone else use the Minigun?
1 every 10 games

- How often have you been killed with a Minigun?
Once. Can't ever forget that....

[Madchal]

the Realmode minigun isnt made to be good. It's made to be fun. to surf around with or maybe just boost yourself for the flag for a last desperate attack towards the flag when time is running out.

[ChromedGun]

+ How often do you use the Minigun?
When I feel like having some cover when cappin' the flag, as the entire team is a bunch of m79-noobs who seem to have quests of their own ._.

+ How often have you gotten a kill with a Minigun?
Hmm, maybe 10 or so but mostly cuz i Minigunsurfed with the flag and they tried to rush through the bullets

+ How often have you seen someone else use the Minigun?
Tricky one. Maybe 5-9 times. Can only say 2 of those knew how to use it.

+ How often have you been killed by a Minigun?
Too often ._. usually when I'm low on health and tryin' to rush for a healthpack or two someone pops out from nowhere and starts spraying the whole screen...



Well, the minigun aint the best of the bunch. I dunno how you would be able to make it better but still not having it as a overkill-weapon. Lower the recoil and shorten the startuptime, then it'll be better. Damage is kinda okay but range isn't.

[Valorman]

Imo they should just throw this useless piece of shit away. all it is good for is minigun surfing. they should replace it with a revolver or something, I dunno.

(I know the revolver and minigun are 2 different types of weapons.)

[mxyzptlk]

OR...

They could actually make it useful.

[Xxypher]

I only use it when I accidentally click it
It has horrible loading time for how slow it takes to start it up and how bad its accuracy is...
Not balanced to me...

I saw, speed up loading time a little, that should balance it out

[sai`ke]

Too many people with a minigun = lag =

[The Specialist]

The XM-214 Minigun is terrible because it has such a low rate of damage per bullet.  But it is necessary considering how high its rate of fire is.  Also, it hard to actually kill other players with it because of its one second delay start-up-time to fire.

Also, the minigun causes a lot of lags in the server when other players use them.  Thus, making it an unpopular weapon.

[mxyzptlk]

So, one solution would be to make it more powerful - much, in my opinion- and lower the firing speed.

[a-4-year-old]

I hate it because it takes forever to even start killing someone, then again, every other gun takes ages to kill something so it is pretty "balanced"

[Carlitos]

i never use minugun... oh wait! i used it back on 1.2.1 for like, a week?