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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I'll still say lmg or heavy or machine gun, cod habit lol but I am going to start saying missile launcher to see how many people get pissed haha.
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Op is a fgt
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So rocket launchers are heavy rocket launchers? So shotguns are special shotguns? Special sniper rifles?
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Little machine gun
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I just call em Machine Guns...
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They are LMG's though. Heavy machine guns are mounted and too heavy to carry around.
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[quote]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?[/quote] That would still be a heavy machine gun, don't be a twit ._.
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Lack of imagination is what leads to never ending debates. Yes, in Destiny they are heavy machine guns. Why does it REALLY matter at all? I mean, we pick up gun, we shoot it. It might have a name, but that's about it. People make things a lot more complex just for the sake of a debate. I doesn't understand
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OP is a douchebag
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Brain cells are lacking with this one!
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I've been calling these things heavy machine guns from the start. Haha.
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Didyouseedatdidyouseedat
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So if the military calls their weapons to what they are designated by after years and years of production, their labels can be changed and written in stone by a video game company and you adhere to that? I really hope you are not an adult because thats just sad. And most of the machine guns in destiny are in similar size to real life ones. You should look at real LMG's sizes and compare it to the ratio to guardian's LMG's in destiny. And master chief rips them off because he friggin feels like it and can utilize it. It doesnt change the name whatsoever. I hope you are not those people who think call of duty is the same as the military just because its in a videogame but stylized.
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Man, Thunderlord is a beast LMG
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By that logic calling a machine gun a heavy machine gun . Heavy because of it being in the heavy ammo slot. Would you not call a rocket launcher a heavy rocket launcher. Or is it just double standards
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Lol, ⚡️magical enough❄️
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i for the life of me don't get how they edit edit edit entitled i'm right and you're not posters keep getting so many replies it's like people just want to argue with them for saying such crazy things we call them LMGs because they are exactly that. some may also call the suros an assault rifle since it actually is bungie likes to invent their own words for things and not link anything to current military wording assault rifle = auto rifle revolver = hand cannon LMG = heavy weapons or heavy machine gun i have no idea why they do this. heavy machine guns typically start around .50 cal and no person is going to be packing and shooting that
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Can't you just say machine gun?
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My favorite LMG is Deviant Gravity
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If bungie called the hunter's knife a "sharp, pointy thingamajig" would you be an idiot and call it that or would you, like 99% of human beings, call it a knife? I think you'd call it a knife because you recognize it as one by its general form and functionality. Therefore, these machine guns, no matter what Bungie may call them, are Light Machine Guns to regular people who know what they are talking about in real life.
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I don't care
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This reminds me of those threads that got pissed caused people were calling them "clips". I have a feeling that everyone will realize that, just like the clip/magazine argument, nobody cares.
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You're a -blam!-ing loser.
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So what's Rockets' gun them? A RRRHMG?
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As far as the weapons themselves go, machine guns in Destiny are closer in size to modern mounted/bipodal weapons (M60 and the successive M240) than to squad automatics (such as the M249). Therefore, they would be properly classified by pre-Golden Age observers such as us as Heavy Machine Guns.