I desperately hope we can get a melta gun. I think it would be a cool short range version of plasma gun for zealots. We have 2 of the 3, surely there’s more of us out there that want a meltagun
“By bolter shell, flamer burst and melta blast”
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I think we should get an Ogryn-sized meltagun, that way all four classes get access to superheavy weapons:
- Veteran’s Plasma Gun
- Zealot’s Flamer
- Psyker’s Voidstrike and Trauma Staves
- Ogryn Melta Gun
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This is sort of the problem, at least to my eyes.
In Darktide, the biggest, scariest, meanest things are stuff that in Tabletop terms, are just big infantry, things like like a Chaos Spawn or carapace armored Ogryn aren’t even considered proper Monsters. Most everything else is essentially a Guardsmen or Cultists equivalent, T3 W1 with a 5+ or 6+ sv.
Against such targets, in tabletop terms, Meltaguns are abysmal. Yes they’re very powerful individually, but when you’re killing and wounding on the same dice rolls as a Plasma Gun but only have half the range and rate of fire (and a quarter the optimal target range where Meltas get extra bonuses) they’re terribly inefficient weapons unless arrayed against big targets with lots of wounds and strong armor saves. There isn’t anything in Darktide for Meltaguns to really shine against, no Traitor Russ or Soul Grinders or Daemon Princes that would require such weaponry.
Translated to Darktide, would a Plasma gun limited to Short Range and with half the rate of fire really be any fun?
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Well I am coming from the perspective of someone who recently got into 40k because of darktide so I’m a little ignorant to some of the considerations you bring up.
The way I see them working is like a plasma gun but shotgun version. Now I know there’s some debate on whether they act like a blowtorch laser beam or a blast. But from the space marine game the meltagun in that is a cone blast in front of you and I just think it would be fun to have essentially a shotgun for zealot that does something similar to plasma gun just in meltagun form. A slower heavy weapon that’s good against bulwarks and crushers. I know the balancing and stuff is a big thing to keep in mind but at the end of the day I just want my “bolter shell, flamer burst and melta blast”
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It’s a video game. The original Space Marine game did a good enough job of making it unique and fun to use. I don’t see why similar liberties can’t be taken here.
Also comparing any ranged weapon to the current plasma gun is a futile effort imo.
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