Im a little worried about your attitude
This is a crazy oversimplification as most of these weapons are good/most likely will be good with Skittari talents other than maybe vigilant/braced autoguns and maybe chainsword (although I hope these get a buff). You think people don’t use the las pistol, one of the best weapons in the game rn?
Pretty dissapointing amount of melee weapons.
Been playing a lot of Bret Longsword FK on the side recently, and while it’s never happening here for lore reasons…
if only 
8 total w the class weapons. How that’s a little amount?
where crusher
I NEED EVERY WEAPON ON EVERY CLASS. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE GIANT PICKAXE FROM OGRYN ON MY ZEALOT!!! ee
No, this is actually true, as hard as it may be to believe.
In my region, you rarely see players using the Laspistol in Auric or Maelstrom missions.
About 99% of Veterans run either a Bolter or a Plasma Gun, with the occasional Helbore or Bolt Pistol user.
If you think I’m exaggerating, I could literally record myself repeatedly checking mission lobbies and make a video to show you.
what statement does that make about las pistol specifically. I go entire weeks at a time not seeing veterans with power sword 6 in auric, does that mean its a terrible weapon? infantry auto columnus is also extremely good, basically only limited by ammo existing as a concept. shredder is the only mobile stagger-rod on ranged that doesn’t shoot clouds, with built in run and gun. not wanting to play with the arsenal in the game isn’t the same as it not being usable.
though braced autos have been total slags for a while and need buffs, that I’d agree with. even the best of the braced auto experience is hopelessly downgraded auto pistol but you have some cleave. wooo that means nothing anymore with how much hitmass they buffed mid-enemies and scab elites with, like it actually doesn’t.
Looking good. It’s pretty cool that Skitarii will be sharing Plasma with Veteran, especially since they have their own plasma weapon in the Cavalier (presumably FS decided to have the regular Plasma be shared to save time and resources and/or they couldn’t think of a role for Cavalier that would justify it being different to the regular Plasma) and having a new explosive mark sounds interesting.
Hopefully this won’t be the only time we get a new weapon release outside of new classes this year since we’re all very much starved on that front, Veteran ought to get a new unique ranged/melee of his own now that he’s sharing Falchion and Plasma. I can think of some popular candidates for such an occasion 
Also the odds that the BR autos get touched up this patch is in the like 85% range. No balance changes since Secrets of the Machine God.
I’m a gamer
You heard Aune buddy. Better pick up that attitude or else… 
Perhaps I explained it poorly. For me, the Laspistol is an S-tier weapon, and even the Vigilant and Catachan are A+ tier.
What I’m trying to say is not so much that weapon balance is bad, but that the overall game balance is. Because of that, the average level of players participating in Auric content has become noticeably lower over the years. Naturally, those kinds of players can only rely on overpowered options, which results in a situation where, in a large number of matches, you end up playing with people using almost exactly the same builds and weapons.
Smite and Gold Toughness builds essentially refuse to engage with the game in the first place, but even aside from that, it’s not particularly fun to play every match with people who only use Plasma Guns, Duelling Swords, and Power Swords, and it doesn’t create much variety from one game to the next.
Darktide has so many weapons available, so why do most players only use three or four of them?
cool mechanics on the paired swords and the power sword and i hope some of this will make it to base classes one day too. these are the kinds of mechanics the community has been asking for since day 1 honestly, don’t keep em locked to one class please
the arc rifle looks like it’s going to be the new inferno staff paired with a smite psyker, i’m not looking forward to the meta this will cause. ranged dominance meta paired with smite…
also losing exclusive access to the plasma gun will make veterans mad i think
Surprised they’re getting access to all of the autoguns.
100% added to make the autoaim worth picking