Throughout my 991 hours of playtime holy shit get a life I’ve seen many divers using the HMG at the lowest firerate possible, sometimes at 600RPM when just picking it up from a corpse or something, but people using it at 750RPM has been a VERY rare occurrency, at least as far as I could tell when I wasn’t busy surviving.

Obviously if you pick it up because you have no other option you’re going to go for the less uncomfortable setting, and if you’re trying to shoot down a gunship you won’t go Rambo with it, but other than such edge cases…

… what gives?

Why would you choose the ohfuckohshitohfuck stratagem and not use the ohfuckohshitohfuck setting when five hulks are chasing you (A.K.A. the ohfuckohshitohfuck situation)?
As far as I can tell THE appeal of the HMG is its insane DPS.

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    5 days ago

    I miss the ludicrous 1200RPM mode.

    No, it wasn’t very practical, but was practicality ever the point? Of anything in this game?

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      5 days ago

      I’m not sure about impracticality, I wasn’t aware the HMG ever had a 1200RPM option but I imagine it would be pretty satisfying to mag-dump an entire HMG into a bile titan in 0.3s and just fuckin’ GMod–toolgun–delete it.

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        5 days ago

        It did at launch, then they nerfed it in the dark days of early patches.