[V8.2 - Ground Combat] Machinegun belt too small

[IceShade]

Hi, minor bug. The machinegun belt size is currently 5. It makes the weapon rather useless. Should be perhaps 50?

[Chris]

It should be 5 bursts, though - firing a burst with the machinegun should only take 1 ammo, right?

But yes, we do need to update this so that it has 50 ammo or 25 ammo and each shot costs 10 or 5 ammo.

[behroozwolf]

Each burst currently uses three out of the five ammo in the clip, although I still love the MG 'cause it just seems to kill aliens better.

Also, I'm pretty sure that if a burst shot kills an alien, they don't 'die' and stop blocking the line of fire until after the last shot in the burst is fired. At least, I've been trying to use the MG as a room-clearer hoping to be able to kill more than one alien with a burst, and it always kills the first alien but hasn't yet killed the second alien behind that I'm actually aiming for. Maybe just bad luck.

[Chris]

Hmmm I'll look into this in a bit more detail then.

[Straker]

I suppose we are talking about the vehicle? It would make sense to me if it had the capability for many more bursts. As it is now, it has less "shots" than the rocket launcher vehicle. Compare this with the vehicles in X-Com.

[IceShade]

I am in fact talking about the Machinegun (M240 lookalike) carried by the soldier. It has a 5 round belt, fires 3 round bursts.. so it can basically fire once before it needs to reload.

I don't know about the vehicle machinegun. I like rockets.

[Straker]

I believe the MG vehicle can fire 25 times compared to 6 for the rocket launcher. I imagine those are bursts too. For personal weapons I prefer the M16 and a few grenades. They work better for me than machine guns or sniper rifles, at least as the game now stands.

[Sathra]

Yeah, the infantry MG has been like this for a long time. The MG Ferret is also really unbalanced. I don't even bother with the rocket one anymore.

[Straker]

Same here. I'm not too sure about grenades so far either.

[Sathra]

They're quite powerful I've found. Bit wary of using them though, after the crashes associated with them, but that's neither here nor there. As a long-range-ish weapon for the shotgunners they work quite well.