Yeah, its almost like I’ve played the game with the Veteran on Auric, unlike the devs, so I know how useless a lot of the skills are, so all I had to do is actually put a moment’s thought into it, and voila, I made the Veteran better than it was in the Beta without making it overpowered, not like that would matter in a horde PVE game with no competitive mode anyway, but I guess every game is terrified of giving the players power and agency to actually complete the highest difficulties with the most popular class.
The Vet isn’t even the only one that drastically needs a lot of readjustments on the skill tree, but it took us two and a half years to even get the skill tree, and for the ogryn’s to get finished, so I can’t offer these in a manner that I actually expect Fatshark to take action on until like, eleven years from now. I’ve long since stopped playing the game, because of the abysmally glacial rate of updates, even GRRM finishes books faster than Fatshark adding things.
We had the 2h Force Sword/Power Sword in the game files since Beta 1. It took over two years for it to get introduced. There’s still no Melta gun. There’s still no longlas, no plasma pistol, just…six different kinds of autoguns. Great! Really makes me excited to play six different types of the same weapon, instead of having a melta gun.
Not to mention that I’ve been wanting to put a Tempestus Scion outfit on my Veteran since Beta 2, I’ve wanted a Sisters of Battle outfit, even just a Hospitalier version for my Zealot, but instead we get recolors and reskins of the same outfit, which still clip into other parts of other outfit pieces, or just float in the air without touching anything. Its not that Fatshark didn’t do a good job with the game. They did a great job. The level design, the art design, the sound design, the music, the gameplay itself, the melee gameplay feels incredible, its like they hit a 9.5-10/10 on every single hard part, and got a 0/10 on everything easy.
They just can’t maintain it, and can’t figure out how to follow what the community wants from it, which is to be a Warhammer power fantasy game. That means we want to have the option to dress up our characters like more than just…Kriegers. Where’s the Mordian set? Where’s Valhalla? Where’s a Tempestus Scion outfit? If they don’t want to give us SoB armor, fine, so be it, give us Repentia armor then! Its like they can’t figure out how to add anything, when all they have to do is literally load up Battlescribe and take a look at the tabletop rules, and start adding guns and melee weapons.
We’re an Inquisitor’s squad of rejects. There should also have been Skitarii, and Xeno troops too. That happens in 40k’s canon. I’d play nonstop if I could make a Tau or Eldari captive that’s working off some immense debt to Grendyl/Rannick for whatever reason. But then that reduces us to the same issue. How slow the game is to get updated.
I’m absolutely astonished anyone is still playing at all. Pleased, since its a good game, but just…done dirty by mismanagement.
