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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#Destiny
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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.
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Well either pronunciation for gjallarhorn is accurate. It just depends on which Icelandic region you hail from. Look at that, a little education drifted your way as well, good sir
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Edited by Gravelord Nito: 4/2/2015 10:25:21 PMHey, look at me!
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You spelled Gjallarhorn wrong. :)
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It's a video game, let people call them what they want to. It's not real, as is your argument for everything else.
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I have the thunderlord LMG and a Gallarhorn (emphasis on the G)
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Edited by Ktan_Dantaktee: 4/2/2015 10:14:51 PMYeah; the only actual Heavy Machine Guns currently in the game are Thunderlord and SGA; all the rest are LMGs. Also, the UNSC HMGs the Chief used were a LOT bigger than the ones Guardians use. Just because you carry around a 90mm artillery cannon doesn't mean it's not a 90mm artillery cannon.
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Like the bit about mounting them on vehicles etc... RAMBO -blam!-ing carried one!!
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Who cares?! And why do you even care?!
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Yeah guys, they aren't 'Light Machine Guns'... Their 'Machine Guns'. But that's none of my business.
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Monte Carlo is ugly. There, I said it.
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LMG LMG LMG
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hhmmmm
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0/10 thread gives cancer
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I'm gonna call it a waffle maker, and there's nothing you can do about it. So if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go kill shit with Jolder's Waffle Maker.
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I agree HMGs. Happy machine guns.
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For master chief, everything is light
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And also if Jesse Ventura can rock a handheld minigun in the movie Predator guardians in Destiny can rock HMG's without a poossy tripod! So all y'all politically incorrect LMGer's can KISS MA D!
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My friend tried to tell me Payback SOS was an LMG because of the mag size of 64 -_- IM DONE
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Dumbest. Post. Today.
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Large machine gun - lmg I win
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We should call them "heavy rocket launchers" too, because they go in the heavy slot. (Procede to initiate palm-to-face docking procedure)
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It's a video game you can say whatever u want
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You really have earned my pole dancing chimp of the day with this post congratulations.
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Dude you go back to the "Destiny is a video game" point over and over. Yeah it is, so why should you care what ppl call anything in the game that isnt real life as you point out. Just play the game dont worry about the acronyms.
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Machine guns are typically mounted and lmgs can be carried. They probably used hmg because people get confused and call auto rifles machine guns. Really auto rifles are sub machine guns because they lack the range required for it to be called a rifle. Suros may be an auto rifle but fast firing guns like atheons epilogue are more akin to submachine guns.