There have also been cases of ordinary humans surviving headshots. There was a soldier in World War 2 who had taken a rifle round just below his eye. They left him on the battlefield after the battle, thinking he was dead. A couple of days later, he walked into camp, very much alive.
One thing I despice in games are "twitch gaming". This is for example CoD or Battlefield. YOu die so fast to other players that you don't have time to react which means you often get kille by people you don't see (it is kinda like dying to a spy in TF2 but more aggrovating, cause CoD players often are assholes) SO I hope they don't have THAT in game.
Of course that can happen but that's certainly an exception not a rule - that's a big difference, 99 guys out of 100 die when shot in the head and this one who survived wouldn't be able to continue fighting after getting wounded anyway. That's why I acknowledge the sole fact of existence of luck\randomness in games but I wouldn't like EC to become a kind of magic world where such things happen on a daily basis if You know what i mean.
Slow - yes (a charging mechanism or sth like that) Innacurate - why should weapons like lascannons be less accurate than others eg bolters? They operate in semi auto so the recoil doesn't matter here besides it should only depend on the player's skill if he can shoot accurately or not. How do you imagine this situation, like the lascannons would have curved barrels or something? That would be ridiculous and extremely frustrating, your efficiency in battle wouldn't depend on your skill but only on randomness in such situation - that's the stupidest thing I read on these forums. And speaking about CoD, maybe it's just you're a weak player, that's why you die so quickly? Maybe it would be better to accept this fact instead of calling other players assholes and asking to nerf everything to make your life in game easier? And if you think they really are assholes you should quit playing this game imo.
The problem with Cawadooty (and Battlefield) is, as already stated above, the aspect of "Twitch Gaming" - there literally is very little you actually can do once someone sees you and you don't happen to see him, so you either go sniper and camp, run around like a rabbit on steroids and hope that if you run into someone, he has his back turned on you (or you start trolling with a Close-Combat rocket launcher, but that's another story). Imho this effectively makes the game heavily luck-based, for even though you can of course somewhat predict where the enemy may or may not be, all the "1337 N05C0P3 SKILLZ" in the world won't help you if said enemy pops up in your back. This of course is true for many other FPS games, i. e. you are pretty much screwed if a spy or a sniper in TF2 has you where he wants you to be, and things don't look better in Wolfenstein ET, but in both games you usually still have a chance to fight back and turn the tables - something which is unlikely to happen in twitch-based games unless your opponent has a painfully bad aim.
If the guns will be powerfull enough you won't see that. I'm afraid though bolters and this class of weapons will be close to useless, tac marine class in general may become just an unwanted but neccessary stage in getting to better ones like havocs or terminators, that would be sad.
