Ranged vs melee thoughts

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@BrosephBrostar

You can’t just reduce ranged kills by 50% by lowering ammo by 50%. As a ranged class you can only shoot freely because you have the confidence that you won’t run out of ammo. If you remove that confidence by making ammo more limited the ranged play style collapses. Not knowing whether there will be an ammo crate around the corner or a chaos spawn means the only smart decision is to only shoot when you absolutely have to, but that’s how melee classes play already. Without a complete redesign of how the game works any changes will either effectively do nothing or remove ranged classes from the game.

If you actually look at the stats I don’t even see what the big deal is. Right now my record for ranged kills in one game is 399, mainly because of two hordes spawning near supply crates. Even considering that and the fact that the party also had pyro and waystalker in it, the ratio of ranged kills to melee kills was 57:43. If it’s not acceptable for a party with 3 ranged classes to have a 10 point ranged slant how much is?

its the devs fault for leaving this as it is for the first month of release let alone not addressing it in beta where it first became obvious. i suspect they got sidetracked byt eh whole power issue.

Continuing the discussion from Vermintide 2 - Patch 1.0.5 - Patch Notes - Updated & Hotfixed:

@Fatshark_Hedge

In order to maintain a close-combat focused game

that’s the issue right there, it is not a close combat focused game and it never has been , there is not supposed to be any “ranged class” even sienna is meant to heavily use melee

but they have left the game in frankly a broken state and people are now expecting it, and who can blame them?

your first paragraph i think actually describes perfectly where ranged is supposed to be , its meant to be a powerful but limited resource you make a decision to use knowing you risk needing it later.