Differing perspectives on balance stem directly from differences in gaming philosophy

[Archon_Dagoth]

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Problematic how, exactly? Psyker has had an infinite exclusive resource baked into its identity since launch, and despite constant forum noise, that mechanic has never been touched. Veteran with the Lasgun weapons also has near‑bottomless uptime baked in, and nobody ever called that “problematic.” These are celebrated as part of their class identities. Hive Scum’s Pickpocket was the same kind of identity‑defining mechanic: not necessarily broken, but convenient, fun, and liberating. It let peo…

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Hive Scum not having to collect ammo pisses many people off and greatly disrupts other classes’ already established playstyle. So the entire change to Pickpocket is basically subjectively motivated, rather than something that’s based on objective truth. People simply dislike a class that can be special and different from everyone else, one that can be completely free of picking up ammo clips like everyone else have to. It provokes them psychologically. Psykers for example already have a much im…

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That’s an analogy I used to explain the pickpocket nerf to my friends even, Ranged scum will be as good as (current) gunlugger ogryn, or very similar. I don’t really care about Melee, so I only really see nerfs. I would agree but, the point of early criticism is to avoid said criticized thing from happening, if you see a tornado coming to your house you don’t need to wait untill you are 20ft in the air to start preparing for it. I agree if that were true, but in this thread and in multipl…

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Look, I totally understand why Fatshark is removing the ranged option from it; I can even see them altering it even more down the line. I’m not arguing against that. I get it. Appreciated! You don’t need a written guarantee (no pun intended) of infinite shooting to know what you’re buying. They released the class this way and marketed it through their own website, Gameslantern, and social media. They very clearly showed how the class and talents worked, and that is what people paid for. Th…

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