Edit: you guys are killing my battery! Stop replying! Just accept you're wrong and move on. No one is perfect, not even me(though I'm damn close if you ask my girl friend) it's okay!! And yes I'm aware this will get me even more responses. Prove me wrong and shush! Fiiiine! Be jerks. I've disabled notifications for now. Sorry for trying to help you people!
They are heavy machine guns! This is how bungie even refers to them, not LMG!
Edit: this has been very entertaining, thank you all for making this my most popular thread evar! Keep it coming!
But okay, to address a few points that have been made:
First "in the military a machine gun of this size is called a LMG blah blah blah." Well LA de dah! Good for the military! This is not the military, this is DESTINY, a video game, not real life.
Second: "in real life an HMG is mounted on a vehicle or some other stable platform!" Again, this is not real life, this is a video game! Our HMGs are mounted! They are mounted on our big burly space magic wielding guardians. We are strong enough and magical enough we don't need them mounted! Also as a side note I'm curious what people think of the machine guns in Halo that were mounted. Did they go from HMGs when they were mounted but when master chief ripped one off did it become an LMG?
Third, "what about just machine gun, as that's what they are called in destiny." While yes, they are just called machine guns and I applaud your willingness to compromise, they are indeed still HMGs. The heavy part is implied because they go into the heavy weapon slots.
And finally, the quote from bungie, and they obviously know more about their own game than you folks:
HMGs
· Improved HMG projectile networking.
https://www.bungie.net/7_Update-101---Patch-Notes/en/News/News?aid=12125
Keep it coming though, I appreciate all the responses even though the vast majority of you folks are wrong. :)
Edit 2: also, yallerhorn, not gallerjorn! And "a lot" not "alot" while I'm educating you guys.
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Why does it matter to you?
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lol they are lmgs if they were hmgs are mostly mounted because of the size and recoil. if they were then they would all have a perk that gives you -2 agility.
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Edited by HusYooDaddy: 4/2/2015 8:05:16 AMLol just now readidng the comments... you got schooled son
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Sorry what was that? Couldnt hear you over my LMG...
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Just because the weapon is labeled machine gun and it uses heavy ammo, doesn't make it a heavy machine gun, because that heavy ammo includes rocket launchers. Otherwise they'd be called heavy RPGs :)
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Incorrect an LMG is a mobile machine gun that can be fired on the go such as the guns we use or the SAW irl HMG are for gun emplacements like defensive turrets in halo or vehicle mounted machine guns such as the turret on a warthog. These are NOT mobile weapons because the weight/ caliber combined with the rate of fire and recoil
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Actually they label them "Machine gun" Point of reference - Destiny the game (have you played it?)
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Models are based on the m249 light machine gun. Therefore all light machine guns. Heavy would be .50bmg and up nothing in the game has that power.
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[quote]They are heavy machine guns! This is how bungie even refers to them, not LMG![/quote]ya idc its lmg to me and most people know it as lmg
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Do you know how impossible it is in real life to carry a heavy machine gun? Do you even know the difference? Hell, even the great Master Chief was limited to how he carried a heavy machine gun
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This guy gets it everyone hmg this lmg that mount this and that its a GAME you playing as a guardian i would like to think my bad ass guardian can handle an hmg
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Because videogames.
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For me it's either MG or HMG. It's a Heavy and it's a Machine Gun...so why should I call them a Light Machine Gun??
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Who cares?
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Stop telling people what to do! Nobody put you in charge lol
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You honestly don't know the difference do you?
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So many people on these forums worry about what other people do or say /facepalm
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Are you talking about the lmgs they call mavhine guns idk who cares
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I'm pretty sure they aren't big enough to be heavy machine guns...if anything they fall unde general purpose machine guns, like the real-life M-240B
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How about just machine guns, seeing as how there's only one kind of machine gun in the game
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Heavy machine guns are vehicle mounted.
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They are "light machine guns". Heavy machine guns are mounted or have bi-pod
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I just call them MGs
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Stop calling revolvers hand cannons.
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*grabs a lawn chair* this should be entertaining.