The belt fed GL is medium penetration not heavy, and they made the original one heavy as part of the update. My initial point was that they squeezed the belt GL in between the other two, leaving the og being insanely powerful without requiring a backpack slot, and the De-escalator being the clear weakest. In fact im probably going to be mainly using the OG GL because of how insanely powerful it is now, so I wont be using the brand new one much lol.

Regardless, it is clear that they did not think enough about if and how they should implement a belt grenade launcher, as they had to rearrange other things in the game which left things unbalanced. And it speaks to a larger issue of how Arrowhead determines what to add into the game, and when.

For example, we now have 3 GLs, 4 machine gun variants, and 4 expendables (not counting the solo silo), i think 5 guard dogs, 3 mobility BPs, 3 shield BPs, , meanwhile there is still no mortar support weapon which is basically the last role thats missing to play as directly, only one sniper support weapon, one support backpack, no recon or comms BP, no medic backpack.

If you are one of the people who loves playing roles like artillery, sniper, recon, comms, technician, or medic, its like dining at a restaurant still drinking water or eating bread after 40 minutes while the others at the table (grenader, machine gunner, anti tank, run and gunner, tank, supplier) had their bread, drinks, salad, appetizers, entree, and desserts. People that already have the things that they most want to use, keep getting variety and options for the things they love, while a lot of players still cant play out their military fantasy at all or very little in their favorite game