The Heavy needs a rework.

A well played HA will beat an Infil in a 1v1 every single time.

It comes down more to the players than anything

When im hunter cloaking and theres a heavy i know that if i dont burn his hp and shields before a reload im dead

When im playing a heavy ill wait out the cloak or fire early on hunters that are hiding

If its a stalker ill pull a secondary with a flashlight and know they cant burn all of my health before they die

Recon darts to know when someone is around the corner, throw an emp, and then enjoy your 900 hp vs his 500hp (no shield, no overshield, and a static'd UI).

As one of my friends put it: EMPs turn Heavy Assaults into Derp Assaults.

Every one of these counters works just as well on any other class.

People act like there's some kryptonite to heavies that other classes are immune to.

No, what works on "heavies" works just as well, if not more so, on other classes.

An emp leaves a LA with his 30 round carbine, that's it.

Strip those shields with an EMP and the heavies still has his large magazine lmg, rockets. In fact that large magazine allows the heavy to spray and pray and if I had to compare those two classes, the heavy is better suited under an emp condition.

As far as i know, HAs are not highlighted on my minimap. All opponents are shown, without out any class distinction. Do i have to constantly have 15 EMP nades in my pockets and to thrown one at each corner in order to hope for a fair 1vs1 when i'll meet the next HA ?

Or Devs should just add as an introduction to the game a warning : "Welcome. Our game is a fun and competitive one. But be aware of the fact that you'll randomly get wrecked by the single class who can temporarly negate their opponents' skill by pressing a single shortcut, ADADing, multi croutching, then escaping as fast as a rabbit. Enjoy our game."

I'll address only one issue in this thread at the moment ; claim about infil facing ha.

Idea however technically correct, is cringeworthy. Yes it does work, under assumption you ignore one thing called EMP shield implant. Which ha don't use at all, I mean seriously why would they after all use something that removes only threat to their overshields? Nah, that would be absurd.

Now after we're done with sarcasm. Technically it is viable when you don't run into one with EMP shield implant, yes. Then again if you rely solely on EMP nade, you'll die most of the time anyway. Why? Because throwin' said 'nade takes time, enough time-out from being able to fire bullets to get you killed by your to-be-target. Even if you assume only "perfect/clean" use of EMP nade, you get 4 of them at most. Since it's about 1v1 scenarios in this specific claim, you get 4 perfect ambushes let's say. Then what? This might work under assumption best you can do as infil is 4 kills per life. Not much.

However sole claim that infil can kill ha 1v1, yes it is possible. So is killing somebody with a teaspoon irl. On a less sarcastic side note, it is still possible albeit while accounting different factors as deciding ones.

Beat their human reaction time is best option, simply put kill them before the thought of mashing "save me lord" button sparks in their heads. Thing is, this claim isn't so much about infiltrator being able to kill ha anymore then. Since under that assumption any class can kill ha. But then you add latency issues yadda yadda...Ya it's technically speakin' still possible to kill them even under assumption of emp shield bust, and their overshield working, but thaaat that would be too much getting into details, and I already addressed what I wanted.

Thats why i said sh00t early

When i see where they threw the grenade from i shoot at that doorway so when they pop their head out theyre already taking damage

this is why HA needs the over shield removed all together

Heavy assault should be nerfed. First of all infiltrators with close range sniper can't one shot kill heavy assaults even if you hit them to the head. Also heavy assaults got best guns, rocket launchers, can use smg's, shotguns and have regular speed.. Thats most unbalanced class I have ever used. Heavy assault is my main class i got like 50.000 kills with it and my opinion is really negative about this class it should be fixed becouse it makes other classes look ****** against them. Thats why most of people use it. I don't know how to fix it but I can try suggest.

Remove adrenaline shield from heavy assaults

Make other shields to absorb lower amount of damage

Remove shotguns from heavy assaults

Decrease heavy assaults speed by 10%

Remove medical medkits and allow only restore kits to heavy assaults.


Not all suggestions should be used but few similars should be applyed.

Every time I run across this DQ guy in game, he's sitting in a parked Prowler shelling into a base getting cheap kills.

No wonder he wants HA nerfed...

Lol... No matter what you do to heavy aassult emp or headshoot with sniper becouse every time he can change to rocket launcher and 1 shot you. Than I play heavy assault I usually kill squads alone withount any problems thats how op it can be. Heavy assault can beat every single class and vehicle no matter if it is max or efs.. Why other can"t do it normally. This class is been called front line and it makes me laugh... How can front line be like that.. 3 heavy assault can capture base against 20-30 people. So if you guys are noobs and none skilled you shouldn"t even comment.

Once you play as ha you think it is well balanced class... Yeah beat everyone can"t be bad but once you use other class and you face ha you"re not gonna be happy unless that heavy assault is completely noob that can"t even pop shield against enemy. Even max feel weak against heavy assaults becouse of idiotic speed that heavy assaults got. Ha was my main class but I"am not gonna use it until they fix it. And by the way guess why all people using heavy assaults so much? Easy to answer becouse it is easyest and lowest skill cost class. I"am done.

When a cloaked Emps me through a wall i shoot at the direction hes coming from

Catch them every time with suppressing fire that they walk into thinking theyll have the advantage still...