Regression with Boltgun

[fbolduc]

Issue Type (Required):

Weapons

Issue Description (Required):

The Boltgun has always opened Bullwark shield prior to the penance patch. Now the Boltgun does nothing.

Steps to Reproduce (Required):

1. Equip Boltgun and shoot Bullwark shield.
2. Bullwark unaffected.

Reproduction Rate (Required):

Constant (100%)

Platform (Required):

PC - Steam

[weeping.moon]

Part of the bulwark mini-rework.

@FatsharkStrawHat

Bulwarks

• Added a slightly faster light stagger animation.
• Removed possibility to spawn big packs of Bulwarks as patrols, reduced amount that can spawn simultaneously as roamers.
• Removed the “force field” in front of Bulwarks that allowed them to block hits/shots that didn’t look like they would be blocked by their shield.
• Increased health by 33%, and set lower stagger resistance during attack animations.

@FatsharkStrawHat

Increased stagger threshold for Crushers, Bulwarks, Plague Ogryns and Chaos Spawns.

[fbolduc]

Yeah, a rework is fine, but I can’t believe they intended to nerf the Boltgun. I mean, opening Bullwark shield was THE thing the Boltgun did that no other gun could. And now it can’t, so it’s just like any other gun.

All the iconic weapons s*ck, but knives and revolvers are better than anything else. What is it with those game designers, they hate 40k or what?

[gpkgpk]

Yeah it takes ~4 shots to stagger bulwarks and make them drop the shield (varying by rang some?), not great. Obviously the angle is not nearly as wide as before, but they could have kept the bolter vs shield the same.

[Antilus]

i reacted like this at first, but now it takes very little to shoot him on the open side, if you aim at his nipple you stagger him in 2-3 shots now and do damage as a bonus