I've got it almost maxed out, honestly without any real coordination it sucks to play as. You end up primarily shielding yourself, your melee is mediocre, and unless you're using the multi melta you can't keep much off of you if you're in heavy stance to actually have a decent rate of fire but then you've got no range so you need to hope the party puts a stop to shit pelting you from across the map. The tactical and vanguard do better with the melta rifles due to the maneuverability and melee than the heavy with the multimelta and it's kinda pathetic. The heavy bolter doesn't do enough quick enough with so much shit blocking shots even post patch. About the only way I've found it to not be annoying to play as, is if you've got at least the purple heavy plasma incinerator because a no charge shot of that can kill stuff at your feet and if you get used to the firing arc you can do a lot at distance with fully charged shots after the patch.
Yeah the bots in single player/offline are atrocious. They don't do jack shit half the time, and when they do engage the enemies they do almost zero damage. It's really noticeable on the bosses and as you go up in difficulty with operstions. Also since the enemy AI is designed to go after player controlled characters, that means everything hard focuses on you. All the time.
Heavy, if you don't have good teammates and/or are running solo(like me), is a fucking chore as you go up in difficulty. Which is pretty much the issue across the board with the game. So my advice is use the melta. Its the best weapon because it let's ignore pretty much all of the games janky ass mechanics and retarded balance choices. And even if you do have good teammates the melta is still the best because of its busted stagger/stunlock potential and hoarde clearing. Add in the heavies perks that give it ammo on kills and you're unstoppable. Sucks shit on bosses though.
Well, we can't fuck that!
Abhumans with animal features can be neat, they just shouldn't cater to coomers wants.
You say this like /tg/ isn't going to turn whatever species of abhuman into a desirable sex object, regardless of your design principles.
I hate to tell you this, but beastmen being axe'd from AoS and banished back to "The Old World" set off a bunch of furry coomers whining about their favorite faction(that no one else played or bought anything for) due to GW "screwing them over" after not getting a new release for them in 15 years. Beastmen always catered to coomers.
People will sexualize literally anything, what matters is whether or not you cater to it.
Have they? I know a handful of Beastmen players, they're not like that at all.
Feign an interest in furry shit around them, they'll start talking about furry shit. Couldn't tell you if it's because they want to be the beast men, fuck the beast men, or whatever, but it's disgusting. It's worse than percentage of space wolf players who are furries.
Its the same with female space marines/custodes. The second a female custode was confirmed I saw hundreds of "uwu muscle mommy" posts all over reddit. The faggot trannies screaming for this shit are all degenerate coomers that want their fetish to be the mainstream. The real womam feminist types dont give a fuck about warhammer, its exclusively trannies and coomers too deep into AGP. Its really irritating that being interested in autistic shit nowadays puts me in close contact with AGP freaks. I thank god I hate anime.
Not really. Level up the melta rifle with the tactical or vanguard instead. Especially tactical so long as you're high enough level to start getting the bigger damage bonuses with your auspex from perks you can beat substantial no problem with a green melta rifle, get a purple data and then beat ruthless with a purple melta rifle. The class perks do a hell of a lot more for your than the weapons do(if you've got something green with strength 6, having a relic with strength 12 doesn't mean you're doing twice the damage). You won't have the same ROF with the melta rifle as the multi melta, but the fact that you don't need to be in heavy stance means you aren't moving at a fraction of your normal speed so it's easy to get out of the way of shit.
Does it not have regional match making? I though I remembered picking a region, but maybe not...
I think this is pretty dumb, personally. Kinda defeats the purpose of even having weapon tiers. Particularly when substantial and ruthless nerf your damage, health, armor and dodge/parry windows anyway, thus gimping a lot of the bonuses you get from perks.
