I think something else needs to be cleared up as well: This right here? This is not a bike. This is an armored light assault vehicle, with a 360˚ ranged attack radius and a specialty in hit and run attacks. It does not look like a bike, it does not play like a bike, and it is not, and will never be, equivalent to a bike. So let's stop pretending that these assault units are somehow sidegrades. They aren't.
Exactly. Because the fairest thing they can do with the current approach is to create other guns and attachments that will be increasingly similar to but not the same as the things bought in the cash shop. This will sideline the sidegrades more and more and make their advantage less and less of an impact but nothing short of an exact clone will ever really eliminate the fact that somewhere/somehow this sidegrade can be exploited. Makes the pill easier to swallow but you gotta remember that tolerating is not the same as liking and ultimately you gotta make people like your pill if you want them to buy it, not just be able to tolerate it. Those of us who are already here are just people who have been prescribed this pill for a serious illness called "fanboyism". Other gamers will have to willingly choose to take it.
Take two every time he repeats the same lines like the company motto, that thing about being an elite soldier of the 41st millenium etc. Drink the full bottle every time the word "transparency" is used.
Have just made Vyper my first purchase in Rogue Trader. You have totally sold it to me with your post)) But seriously, you are 100% right.
Well, at least we know how the worst-case scenario would look like. But yes, the question whether exclusive mechanics (i.e. in the form of the exclusive 2-player attack bike) will be gamebreaking (or gamemaking, depending on whose side you're on) should be addressed in the next livestream. It' serious business if I ever saw one.
yes i'm more happy to have a 35$ bolter as only a skin variant for another bolter in the game that have an unique bolter sidegrade that become the "flavour of the month" for some strange gameplay combination of balance factor in the game.
