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Heavy Clip: What is it good for anyway?

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Mysterious Medic:
While I was thinking about the upcoming balance changes, it reminded me of the heavy clip change a while ago. Is heavy clip actually optimal at anything anymore? How the hwacha works means it can do mid-ish range without heavy clip anyway. It loses on heavy caronade to lochnagar or charged. Light caronades don't do much shatter damage anymore, and with heavy clip is not enough to destroy a balloon. On gatling you're better off using lesmok for range or greased for short range. The only thing I can think of is minotaur, and that gun isn't really good enough to utilize it either. At this point it's basically a dead ammo. I miss sniping components with caronade and I know they won't bring it back, but they need to change something to make it viable again. Maybe lessen it's clip reduction? I fear that if the lochnagar changes in dev app go through, loch will go the way of heavy clip and be only somewhat effective on one gun. Does anyone have any suggestions for making heavy clip useful again?

Edit: Not sure if this should be on Feedback and Suggestions, but I'm not really suggesting anything anyway, just starting a discussion.

Daft Loon:
Heavyclip banshee has some use actually getting the max range out of that gun.

Heavyclip mines are no worse than standard mines.

Omniraptor:
I have to disagree about heavy being better than charged on heavy carronade.

Kamoba:
Heavy ammo in my opinion is not a good choice anymore...

Before I would give buff gungineer heavy clip on a Gatling to allow effective mid-range shooting while keeping good damage, choosing greased or lesmok only based on situations (IE Lesmok vs Squids.)

Now?..
When playing with pub crews it goes to the Hwacha gunner to replace their lesmok, or the heavy carronade gunner, which I advise then to use if they're struggling with Loch.

That's only in pub crews....
Which is a pretty crappy niche for an ammo in my opinion..
"Okay so we have this ammo which is not good at much, but it is a better choice for newbies in some situations."

While other ammos have a use of.
"This ammo is THIS, other ammos do not compare! Bow to the greased Gatling, cower in fear at charged merc, and tremble in awe at burst Artemis!"

While heavy ammo sits in the corner and cries.

Erom Gary:
I sometimes use heavy clip on gatling. Not because of the increasing range, but preferrably I find it useful to keep a steady and consistent stream when firing it.

When firing a gatling with either greased or normal ammo, alot of the bullets will go missing and not hit the armor because of the jitter. Most of it will hit a gun/engine nearby shielding the armor, fly into balloon or completely miss the target.

I find it pretty effective onboard a squid due to the high speed, which makes firing a gatling much more difficult when using greased or normal ammo.   

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