I seriously do not understand the appeal of this class, I have tried it over and over - the ranged builds are boring, the melee builds are unsatisfying, the blitz’s are braindead - and it’s the only class whose voice lines can make me cringe. The hive scum is supposed to be a glass cannon, yet whenever I play as this class, I feel invincible.
This class does not take skill; I am tired of seeing that sentiment. The reason you see hive scum players getting cooked constantly is because every class has people who suck. Hive scum players are just the most annoying. It’s obvious when they blow up everything with the missile launcher then die in the most pathetic way imaginable. It’s easier to miss an ogryn who is left behind just getting caught out in the open by gunners for example.
Anyway, the main thing I hate about this class are the blitz. The missile launcher is completely braindead and functions like a hero shooter ultimate. Chem grenade is marginally better. The worst part, sometimes I will be fighting these enemies, and they will just disappear. The missile explosion won’t be visible, and only so many dead enemies can be on screen, so the enemies are just gone. It looks absolutely stupid. At least with the ogryn frag the explosion is so big you can’t see the enemies disappear. With the missile you can just see 10 crushers get sent to the shadow realm and make absolutely no sound or have any visual effects whatsoever, except for the muted “boom” of the missile going off.
The kiting is also very frustrating. This class basically will instakill everything. Left click 1 time, then instakill 1-2 ragers instantly with each swing, because of hyperviolence and rampage and criticals all going off. Oh yeah, I was talking about the kiting - if you’re playing with a hive scum they will instakill everything - until a pack of crushers shows up. When that happens, if they can’t just delete them with the missile launcher, this is where the stupidity begins.
99 times out of 100 they will then take out the needle gun and run away, just straight up run away with the needle gun until everything is dead. This will usually take 1-3 minutes. Usually at this point it’s likely 2-3 teammates will also be dead because of the hive scum just running away from every fight and kiting everything, never attempting to do anything that might put them in harm’s way. Like SpongeBob, when he was afraid to go outside and started talking to a potato chip instead of interacting with people. That’s literally the hive scum except he only talks to his needle gun and boom bringer.
Ok so, let me get this straight - hive scum players do not seem to like to play the game. They have a functionally infinite number of dodges, melee is extremely easy - if you say it’s not you are a bot. Where an Ogryn has to charge a heavy and swing to kill a rager, the hivescum just goes - “eh’”, waves their hand and like 2 die instantly from a light attack. They do not play as a team, always off by themselves. Never interacts with the enemies, never helps disabled teammates - not because they don’t want to but because they’re out of blitz and it would be literally impossible to actually engage with the enemies - lest they die immediately.
I understand every class can boil down to playing a flowchart but come on. Every time I get a hive scum player with the boom bringer in my lobby, I will debate leaving but usually don’t and regret it. The worst teammates I have ever had are hive scum players. I would rather have the ogryn who never sprints ever, the zealot who runs ahead, the psyker who smites all game - old camouflage vet sitting in the corner.
