spray and pray

[-Major-]

well.... like 1% of the miniguns bullets regs, so it's pretty useless.

[CrashMan]

CrashMan. Good point about Minigun being a spray gun. But I do think some people are fighting to preserve this trait so it doesn't just become 'another auto'.

I don't think that'll happen if you narrow the spray.

When narrowed down, the Minigun's kill potential puts it in a class on it's own away from normal autos. It's really quite a death machine, which is why it needs a high start-up and reload time to balance it out. Whereas the other autos sit more in the "balanced" area with lower damage and speed, but also lower reload time and virtually no startup.

In short, yes. The Minigun would end up being an Auto, but it'd end up being the UBER Auto for berserkers.

[STM1993]

*^{Just testing my knowledge here, self-bink occurs when you have bink in the negative numbers. Self-bink means that a weapon becomes more wild and random-directional the longer you hold the fire button down}.

Correct. And self-bink only begins to take effect from the fourth bullet you shoot.

Ya, Minigun's self-bink is gonna be reduced, so it's not gonna spray that wide an area, but its fireinterval is gonna be increased, damage per shot decreased, reload only 16 ticks shorter and a much higher bullet speed. Of course, the boosting of the Minigun will be tweaked so if you use that 1.5 stats in 1.4.2, you'd be flying through the air.

I personally think that there are a few major flaws in the minigun. The most important three:

1. You CANNOT throw a nade while the minigun is shooting.

2. You CANNOT get up from a Prone while the minigun is shooting by simply pressing X again. You have to turn your mouse cursor to face behind you to get up.

3. Online, the minigun has a terrible bullet reg. If it is improved, at least it is still not as bad as it is now.

Minigun is actually a rather strong weapon, just underused and not practical in a practical situation for killing due to startup time and the boost and therefore can't be used like any other auto.

[Platehead]

And maybe the minigun can make it look like your base is packed   

Yeah it happened once, in kampf someone was spraying minigun up and down and our team was too scared to go in due to "too many mp5ers"

[Pie]

I like the minigun, a lot more than any other gun, simply because it is fun.

If reg is fixed it will be even better.

[JonWood007]

Minigun is rahter useless. I think it is meant to be a base camp suppression weapon. That is about all its good for, and even then, other guns beat it out. I think the start up time is the biggest reason why it fails. If you could burst fire (with a slight start up) it would be on par with the other weapons.