I love when I get to ravenously charge my enemies, frothing at the mouth, desperately trying to poke them to death. But, seriously, give them a bolt pistol. Trying to cuddle my opponent to death is ridiculous.
I agree this should be implemented. Lascannon is a VERY situative weapon, and without support you will be dead 100% even in mid-range combat.
Even on weapons like the heavy bolter a pistol would be great for when you overheat. It's not like they even do that much (Except the plasma pistol right now, but that's beside the point). Even when I do have support as a Lascannon player I'll still get tunnel visioned into the ground before my allies can deal with whatever is beating my face in with a chair. At the very least a pistol would let me have a chance rather than just sitting back and waiting for the spawn timer to be up.
We've got at least two questions on the subject for the live stream, I suggest that we all keep pestering the developers on this issue. Seriously, many heavy weapons of all races have downsides, the heavy weapon specialists all NEED access to pistols and the sooner this happens, the better. We should not take "no" for an answer and we should not sit quietly while the issue is ignored.
Didn't they already confirmed that it was buggy but that they would work on it. From what I recall it has never been stated heavies would NOT have a pistol. However, from a developpers standpoint, while they want to test features, weapons, stats, etc. No point in dedicating ressources to make pistols work on heavies for now, because they can already test pistols with other classes, and they still have other features to implement, weapons, etc. Notably, they work on ork animations because they want to have all factions in and all weapons in so they can start working on balance, at that point those that work on animations can then get to making pistols work on the heavies because the orks will be done, etc. They work with priorities in mind and though working self-defense weapon for heavies seems mandatory for launch, it doesn't seem like a feature that needs to be in fast for testing and tweaking as much as other weapons might be. I mean, heavies don't even have their ammo belts yet...but it isn't mandatory to test core features.
Ok, during the twitch stream Brent just gave a quick answer on pistols for fire support classes: This is planned, but currently not a priority. He didn't give any further information.
As long as it happens during alpha and not during beta or even post launch, I'll be happy to just know that pistols for fire support classes are still part of the plan ;-)
