HMG Carry Body Perk

Every merc in Night City has used an HMG and thought the same thing: "I want to take that home." Now you can.

HMG Carry Body Perk introduces Got Back — a new perk in the Body tree. At Pro level (Body 9+) you can invest three points into the Heavy Weapons perk tree to unlock the perk and become capable of carrying the Militech Mark 31 as your main weapon. Not a disposable chunk of scrap that vanishes when the mag runs dry — a real gun that lives in your weapon wheel, shows up in your backpack, and can be bought, sold, and crafted at every gun shop from Watson to Dogtown.

The weapon doesn't pull any punches: it features the full HMG animation state machine — carry with you the heftiness, the shock and the ability to tear apart whoever's on the receiving end. It will overheat if fired too long, as the Mk. 31 is prone to do, and uses Sniper Ammo. Enemies carrying HMGs will also drop Sniper Ammo when taken down, and any ammo left in a picked-up HMG is added straight to your inventory.

HMGs weren't built with magazine swaps in mind, so there's a custom reload sequence: when the belt runs dry — or you hit Reload — the weapon lowers, the autoloader exchanges the ammo box and the gun comes back up ready to roar. The whole cycle takes over 5 seconds, though, so try not to run out mid-fight.

The Got Back perk also bumps your Sniper Ammo capacity to 400 rounds, so you can carry an extra ammo box for extensive encounters. Gunsmiths stock extra Sniper Ammo too, so keeping your reserves topped off is never far away. Crafting specs for all five quality tiers — from Common to Legendary — can show up at vendors or be found in the world, letting you build the exact Mk. 31 you want.

You wanted to be the kind of person who carries a heavy machine gun around Night City? Now you have the means to do it. If you don't have the perk, HMGs work as they do in vanilla.

Localized in 17 languages. zh-tw translation provided by ApoKrytia.

PS: Also fixed the missing SFX for the Overheat animation.