let’s be honest they are just plugging holes on a sinking ship. using the material from the same ship they are on.
If that’s what you believe, then do so, I’m not gonna argue further with Doom sayers
Have you tried the MkVId recon lasgun with “infernus”? (the blue, fast firing one with increased mobility stats). That’s the one you want to use. +Crit chances and +dmg vs Maniacs
It’s sitting in a place between the laspistol and the shredder autopistol in terms of vibes and performances. You will struggle against maniacs and carapace, much like the laspistol, but have the benefit of a mild horde clear, which the laspistol doesn’t provide. You have more precision, range and boss damage than with the shredder autopistol, and can also use it quite effectively as a substitute to the shredder on a gun psyker build (which I do) due to the high rate of fire that will trigger the brainburst feat very consistently
I back you up on the mgIV infantry lasgun which is performing way lower than the laspistol and tbf is currently just terrible. I could see it as the M1 Carbine of the game (higher mobility, faster rate of fire, lower dmg per shot than the other two infantry lasguns) but the mobility stat is currently bugged (I posted about this a couple months ago), so as of now it has the same slow mobility as the mgIa and mgXII. Plus the damage, even with infernus, is… abysmal… It’s currently more a water gun than anything else
Hey thanks for the tip, I’ll check that out bro.
Takes them 2 months now to tweak some numbers?
Too busy counting money and whomping up new monetization schemes…
pretty much. they are happy with the IV drip speed they are on right now
I’m happy the las pistol is in the game, although I wish it could be wielded with a melee weapon. I want the Lasgun to be in this game, and while the recon variants suck the “classic” lasgun feels great (at least the MK 7). It’s still a laser pistol and commonly used weapon across almost every Imperial Guard character.
However on most other things I am in complete agreement. Really the only “basic” melee weapons I would like to see are the combat knife (my straight silver) and MAYBE the Catachan Sword. Having a ton of different variants for these basic weapons and non for the iconic weapons feels bad, especially as most of the iconic weapons are in a bad place at the moment.
As many other people have mentioned, the Auto Pistol is far more atrocious. The Auto Pistol is one of the weakest weapons in all of 40k. I honestly think it should be a trash tier joke weapon, and it being one of the strongest ranged weapons in the game right now feels incredibly stupid. A group of heavily arrmored Maulers show up, and you’re telling me an auto pistol is better than a bolter against them?
Why should any weapon be trash? I think there are some problems with a couple weapons still but everything should be usable. You’re a bunch of super soldiers cutting through mountains of enemies on your way to the finish line, you could beat enemies up with a pipe and achieve that with fun gameplay (and the ogryn does).
There’s also plenty of worthless trash in those weapons, like catachan sword which could use a buff far more than any power or chain weapon. The special literally gets you hit 90% of the time and whiffs, cleave targets take like 12 damage. Nothing actually decent about it.
This is great. Thanks for reminding me to that day.
@FatsharkCatfish Suggestion to you Fishtank Inhabitants:
Have the Shield be usable with every other one-handed weapon as a separate equippable slot, it’s functionality being that it replaces special attacks for the shieldblock.
That would make it possible to roleplay the Bullgryn and several other Ogryn variants from the Tabletop. Otherwise these Shield + Weapon combinations would all have to be their very own weapon, just like the gun variants.
Ideally yes every weapon should be usable but the problem comes down to the weapon selection FS chose doesn’t align with either the 40k fantasy or the sci fi fantasy. There are lots of dumb additions, and unless you’re a ganger I feel most people would like it more if the Recon Las played like the Auto-Pistol. No one plays the Auto Pistol because it’s cool, besides MAYBE if you’re trying to run a ganger vet or classic chainsword + auto pistol preacher, but just because it’s broken.
Also you bring up an absolutely excellent point. The Catachan sword has no good niche and is a pretty trash weapon, alongside the Vet shovel. There were no real good reasons to add it other than it was probably low effort.
(Also do the same thing with 1 handed melee and ranged weapons)
Hey this post got flagged and Fatshark is going to take it down.
Gotta love this forum/community.
Best game company ever.
that is the reason why FS stopped all comms. Simple things that you say get overhyped by community and then you endup with not meeting expectations. One sentence by CM exploded into essay on how shields will work…
Needless to say the overall game code is not in great shape (see last few patches and hotfixes fixing things that hotfixes broke, not to mention amd bugs that never got fixed).
With such a bad dev practice making any change can have catastrophic consequences. That is why you never leave codebase to junior to manage, because then you will get 1000s of lines of code that is not needed (there is lib, sdk or existing pattern in programming language that resolves the problem junior is trying to solve)
The only hope for this game is xbox port, which hopefully will be game engine cleanup to remove all the horrible turd that got accumulated over time.
It’s also not just code, but some of their designs either scale poorly or they’ll leave themselves open to a lot of debt from design if they are wanting to update some systems down the line. Map conditions is one of them.
true that. the badness scales in every dimension 
they have literally shot themselves with a foot many times.
Another example are cool tattoos, I did not play the challanges for them, but what is the point if you dont have shirtless option? I was away for whole time when shirtless bug was on, but by following the community it seemd everyone like it.
Instead of embrace the bug and make it a feature they patched it.
I magine if a big fish would bite on that and made fluorescent tattoos in a mtx store. OMG ppl would throw cash at them
They have money mine here and they just kill it by having bad decisions everywhere
We already know that shirtless sets were planned even before the bug.
The bug shirtless was taken out cause it didn’t work with thr rigging
Yes it should.