Talk:XM814 Heavy Machine Gun/@comment-178.3.89.71-20120507234113/@comment-88.71.34.242-20120509120739

okay, so the Arms Assault can keep this up for almost exactly 30 seconds so the damage remains the same, Sub MM can keep it up for 40 seconds, doing 3877.02 damge, slightly less than Arms Assault. The Survival Rifleman can keep it up for 238 seconds, doing 13086.81 damage with rapidfire and 10206.06 damage.

And for 10 minutes of constant usage(With regeneration pauses, so the Arithmetic mean) i got 14555.52 damage for Assault, and 7131.334 damage for Marksman. Survival Rifleman does 19697.697 damage without rapidfire, and 25257.55 damage with rapidfire.

As you see the Survival Rifleman outclasses even the Assault in the long run(believe me, this wont turn for Assault with more time) but when it comes to short damage bursts the Marksman can come close to the Assault, with the right terrain he can even do more damage.

By the way, with one Arc Reactor the Survival Rifleman can keep this up for 16 Minutes straight, so probably when you keep him near an Engineer with energyregen buff he can keep it up for the whole game as you wont keep focused fire triggered the whole time. will do the same calculations for DPS Rifleman too.