Machine guns are never talked about in any of the updates but since we are nerfing gjallarhorn, ice breaker, and black hammer, the most popular pve boss killers, I feel this is the appropriate time to mention a buff for machine guns only in pve. So many guardians were excited when Xur finally sold thunderlord but more than likely they'd rather use rocket launchers in pve than machine guns. I've had Thunderlord and SGA since vanilla Destiny and I'd rather use a legendary rocket launcher. To adequately balance the heavy weapons, machine guns should be given a buff. Who uses machine guns while fighting crota???? SGA maybe for the oversoul but mostly everyone wants rocket launchers for crotas shield.. Atheon is good for machine guns in that you won't blow yourself up and atheon won't move around but he's still a bullet sponge for machine guns. A small buff like those being given to the scout rifles for pve would be great!!!
Also possibly a base stability buff for all machine guns.
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Rocket launchers are used more because the risk is low and the reward is high. Peak around a corner, fire a rocket, re-take cover, enemies take massive damage. Good machine guns probably have more DPS than launchers (less burst DPS) but the risk is much higher. You have to stay outside of cover until your enemies fall. In high level content with hundreds of ADS, that is generally not the best choice of weapon. They definitely need a buff in PVE to make the risk worth it.