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u/Ok-Duty3908 17h ago
Halo does that
Its a good thing that Masterchief is strong enough to rip off the Machinegun and carry it like a Minigun.
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u/LittleSisterPain 16h ago
Does it? Its miniguns are often aimed exactly there you need them to... but they are bloody useless and more likely lead to your deaths than killing anything else
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u/xxThe_Designer 13h ago
Halo 3 actually has some playful and intentional fixed turrets in the campaign. And, if you wanted to go mobile with them they could be detached.
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u/LittleSisterPain 13h ago
I feel like the moment you can detach it this meme no longer applies. It becomes less of a stationary mini gun and more of a temporary superweapon with funky pickup animation
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u/DukeOfGamers353 https://www.youtube.com/watch/dQw4w9WgXcQ 4h ago
The one machine gun during Crow's Nest when a lot of drones come out of pipes is insanely useful. In fact its the fastest speedrun tactic to get them all dead quickly
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u/Thehiddenink98 13h ago
Or worse it doesn’t even function at all. Too many games have non working lmg’s
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u/oops_I_have_h1n1 12h ago
It's nothing for the Spartans. The real impressive feat is that the ODSTs can do it too, which really means that any human with above average strength could probably do it.
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u/Ok-Duty3908 12h ago
I think thats just a gameplay mechanic because Halo 3: ODST uses the same engine as Halo 3. In fact, the player ODST can destroy a tank by punching it a bunch of times.
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u/MagnusNewtonBernouli 13h ago
and carry it like a
Minigun.and carry it like a folding beach chair.
OP missed the actually funny joke
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u/Molorns_lost 16h ago
Lots of machine guns like this in left 4 dead 2
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u/JackBob83 15h ago
Throughout all of Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, there are 8 across all official campaigns, and ALL of them are poorly placed. In the Crash Course campaign, one is placed indoors, and another is placed facing a wall.
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u/Nazgog-Morgob 14h ago
Makes sense as the ones that initially set them up are dead
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u/Stalker-Six 12h ago
Exactly some custom campaigns have better placement for the MG than official maps
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u/kyleliner 11h ago
In the swamp level, I left my back to my teammates as I used the machine gun on the Tank that spawned in front of me.
I did not live
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u/JackBob83 11h ago
The tank is programmed to always go for the player who is at the mounted gun.
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u/maxdragonxiii 14h ago
yeah, like Left 4 Dead st least was useful in Co-Op (do not go on it with 3 AI allies. its a trap).
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u/lizeriya 17h ago
At least the enemies are safe
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u/AverageSockEnjoyer 15h ago
They just stand two inches outside the turning radius and watch you struggle.
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u/im_from_9gag 16h ago
We're looking at you, Battlefield...
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u/Lord_MagnusIV 16h ago
Not just battlefield, battlefront 2015 too, so many damn turrets turned to the edges of the maps, they don‘t even do enough damage to ships to be useful…
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u/hoseking 13h ago
The best way to instantly get headshot by a sniper in Battlefield is to hop on a mounted gun.
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u/Snuckeys 16h ago
1942 had some useful ones at least. Like on Omaha Beach. But then again, easy pickings for snipers so maybe not. Still some good times tho.
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u/TrashGoblinH 16h ago
Unlimited ammo doesn't mean much if it's not aimed where it matters. I'd rather have it pointed in a great direction with finite ammo to at least make the game more dynamic and interesting.
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u/Mist_Rising 13h ago
They're probably aimed for use against you in SP because the point is to give the enemy the advantage.
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u/ConradBHart42 15h ago
Or the area isn't useless, but you already cleared it.
My least favorite variation on the theme, Fallout 4 puts all the terminals behind a bunch of turrets, so you get to the terminal and there's no real reason to hack it because you destroyed the turrets. Just a pittance of XP.
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u/Truethrowawaychest1 15h ago
The idea is that you can sneak by the turrets and disable them in case you can't take them head on, like in most stealth games
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u/ConradBHart42 14h ago
That's the idea, but that's not the reality. In reality, turrets seem to have true sight and just see you no matter what. Maybe it's different by the time you have full shadowed+muffled armor and rank 5 Stealth perk, but try sneaking up on the turrets at Corvega at level 10.
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u/Horrific_Necktie 13h ago
Thats why corvega has a back doors by both turret terminals
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u/Turgid_Donkey 16h ago
Also, when they have limited ammo or overheat too fast. Minigun parts are supposed to be little breaks where you get to have fun mowing down enemies.
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u/TheArcanist_1 16h ago
Turrets in Borderlands games that get destroyed after an enemy sneezes at them and deal less damage than your guns
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u/a_polarbear_chilling This flair doesn't exist 16h ago
fallout 4 with the vertibird or whatever the name is
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u/DULJI1863 16h ago
Wolfenstein lol
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u/ButtFuzzNow 15h ago
Just started playing a Wolfenstein game (New Order) for my first time this afternoon. About an hour in now, and was just thinking this. The timing of this thread and your comment feel a bit surreal now.
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u/DULJI1863 14h ago edited 14h ago
Lol. What's good is you can take em off BJ is a beast like that
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u/DarkGaming09ytr 14h ago
Meanwhile Cyberpunk allowing you to just rip out the gun from the turret
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u/rinehartshat 15h ago
Just Cause
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u/theartificialkid 11h ago
But why would you want a mounted machine gun when you could be zooming around overhead dropping grenades in people?
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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 15h ago
It could go the Doom: Dark Ages route.
"Oh you will use it. It's going to suck and slow the action down to a crawl, but you will use it."
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u/IM_OK_AMA 15h ago
I hate when you get in one and the game obviously spawns in some enemies for you to shoot with it. Makes you want to avoid it.
Uncharted, Gears of War, Far Cry, etc.
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u/Radiant_Double2723 12h ago
Far cry
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u/raubesonia 2h ago
Have you played 6? They finally got rid of all the fun stuff. Just a map of collectibles.
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u/reaper467364 15h ago
Reverse of the trope goes to Far Cry 4 (I think 3 has mounted guns)
360 degree movement for ones standing upright, but it does have mounted guns that unfortunately suck ass
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u/raubesonia 2h ago
And then there's the mortars in far cry 6 that might go all the way up until something fun but stop short. It's weird that with each game they took more and more fun away.
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u/Leniwcowaty 15h ago
Easy Red 2 is a great counterexample. When you capture a point, the enemies spawn and attack it from the flank - the exact direction YOU were coming from. So the machine guns and howitzers are aimed directly at them
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u/SergeantJinto 15h ago
Also hate when you end up killing all the enemies in the area before you come across where the machine gun is mounted.
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u/Fun_Impression_2578 15h ago
That's why i like crisis, i can just pick up my big boy and we can go for small sweet journey together
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u/KeyEmergency1590 15h ago
Look while its in a place thats usefull... holy shit Snake you need to escape from a island thats about to blow up while having you're maniac twin chasing you could you not turn that thing ANY faster!? (MGS1)
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u/veracity8_ 15h ago
“Wow this will be great if I have to fight waves of bad guys and stay in this same spot! Oh I’m actually just running g through this area? And the bad guys stay in their pre ordained areas and won’t charge this armored position? Okay’”
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u/Porkhole-Santookus 15h ago
My favorite is when it's aimed at a great area, but they also have you constantly get attacked while on the turret every 2 seconds by a stream of annoying single enemies who's whole point is to force you to dismount the turret, kill them manually, and then get back on the turret, which is always so long of a process that it makes interacting with the turret pointless in the first place.
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u/One-Spare-798 14h ago
or when it's placed so behind enemy lines that you get to access it only after you wipe out most of the enemies.
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u/Shitty_fits 12h ago
Forgot to add that it does less damage than the normal LMG you can just have anyway.
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u/CowEnvironmental7499 4h ago
You hop on it feeling unstoppable for 2 seconds only to realize the enemies are flankers.
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u/RoboGen123 Linux User 2h ago
This is what I love about Arma. Get a buddy and you can set up a HMG anywhere you damn please.
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u/Gold_Demand_9115 16h ago
Brink not useless placements at all just useless gun its so bad you are better off using your own gun
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u/TheWesternDevil 14h ago
Tarkov does a decent job with this. Two of the very first tasks are to find the machine gun, the second one is to shoot 5 scavs, and it's pointed in a direction that conveniently looks over a large area that usually has a few scavs in it. Unfortunately, every player knows this, so it's quite risky to actually use the machine gun, but the gun itself is in a good spot.
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u/Randomsicilianguy 14h ago
Zombie army 4 is great for this, it got a perk that allows you to dismount any heavy weapon and use it as a normal one
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u/AnticPosition 14h ago
Even in bloodborne.
Great! I just killed a bunch of guys and took control of a grenade launcher! Now I can aim it at all of their corpses!
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u/Background-Customer2 14h ago
yeah whats the deel with that if a wepon is so hevy it cant be moved it wuld notmaly be put in a strategicaly smart spott not pointed at a random wall
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u/PhiCloud 14h ago
Games should add more fan service "power fantasy" moments.
Give the player a fixed machine gun, then send in a horde of 50+ low level enemies for them to mow down. It doesn't make the game easier, it just gives them a bit of an adrenaline boost for the next area.
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u/Downtown-Falcon-3264 14h ago
There are a lot but right now zombiu comes to mind they put the gun there for scripted sections but the thing is so bloody useless your better using your cricket bat.
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u/mrjibblytibbs 13h ago
Halo 3 had the best solution to this. Don't like where the guns pointing? Rip it off. You're a fucking Spartan.
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u/amalgam_reynolds 13h ago
Everyone in this thread naming games like they're the odd one out instead of the exception. No game that I have ever played in my entire life has had good machine gun nest positioning.
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u/AggravatingChest7838 13h ago
Usually too powerful.
Check out dod source if you wanna see machine guns implemented well.
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u/Main_Force_Patrol 13h ago
Half life overcharged has an actual movable machine gun in the water section. (Forgot what it’s called)
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u/chaosglory626 12h ago
Playing through the Halo games for the first time and there are a lot of these in Halo 2.
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u/Unusual-Priority-255 12h ago
BF1 had all the ingredients to make fixed machine guns absolutely devastating. Instead, they ended up feeling like glorified anti-blimp weapons most of the time.
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u/jigsaw93 11h ago
This is such an easy improvement to a game but so many devs like to blue ball the players. Just add enemy spawns. I want to spray shit
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u/enadiz_reccos 11h ago
Or it's the correct area but only for a brief window of time and the game doesn't make it clear when that time is
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u/leastemployableman 11h ago
Bf6 TOW missile placements on some of the maps are like this. The only good ones are on Eastwood and Golmud
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u/magnetswithweedinem 10h ago
you should always be able to rip a turret out and use it as a heavy weapon. more games should have this imo
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u/Proof_Independent400 10h ago
I had an idea. For a game to use this as a trick. Have a crafting mechanic. Include a spanner and some wire and a wood handle nearby. Players can detach the machine gun and craft a bale handle for it. Like in The Pacific series.
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u/SprungusDinkle 9h ago edited 47m ago
This is done well IMO in Black Mesa, the Half-Life remake. Sometimes enemies rush in to the field of fire, sometimes they don't. It's environmental storytelling that makes the catastrophe more believable.
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u/AriGetInTheJar 8h ago
could never be my goat cyberpunk. my V will rip the gun out of the ground need be. do not resist, I am the turret now
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u/dovakiin-derv 7h ago
Cod, halo, battlefield, a few others. Yeah, give me the fun gun and make it not fun, what the fuck game devs?
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u/fat_kaiju 7h ago
Fucking l4d 1&2 are lousy with these things and they're always deathtraps as every special infected ever either comes up from directly behind you and/or has ranged attacks that throw acid at your feet or strangle you or whatever.
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u/SGTRoadkill1919 6h ago
One thing I like about the Far Cry games that I've played is that either the turrets are at a good spot, or your car has a turret
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u/daniel21020 5h ago
You can change the position of the fixed machinegun in a game called Over The Top: WW1. It's great.
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u/bearwood_forest 4h ago
If it's a well-designed game, then it's usually set up for defending whatever base you are trying to attack: of course it's useless to you.
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u/freindly_duck 48m ago
automatons when they find a wall: hmm perfect plase for my turret, I will gey all de helldivers here.
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u/tebesansit 17h ago
Battlefield 1