well, so far we haven't heard people complaining that space marines are sexist because there is no female space marine...
eldar guardians ARE NOT IN THE GAME and making IG free to play on the space marine faction all but removes the numbers advantage orkz have. while i think making them f2p would work balance wise--the more factions that have a f2p option, the less of an impact that will have on the game and the numbers in each faction. The ork faction is going to (as it should) HUGELEY outnumber every faction--give space marines an IG f2p option, and not only do you add a shitton of players to that faction, but you also take a good number of F2P ork players away and put them with the IG, thus removing the advantage the F2P deal gives to a faction.
i know that feel. rest assured they will be one of the fast follow up factions in expansions if the game if its successful enough, so you wont have to wait too long till you can play them.
If you're talking about if a Guardsman can survive being shot by an Astartes bolter in the 40k universe itself, then no. A bolter is designed to be able to pierce some of the toughest armor and then explode with a force that can knock out vehices. A normal human in a flak jacket, or even carapace armor, is not going to shrug off a single near detonation, let alone a direct hit. If they are lucky and it doesn't kill them (which is usually pretty messy, think of exploding fruit or water balloons), a bolter shot is still definitely going to put them out of action for the rest of the fight with very serious injuries.
considering its one of the top factions considered popularity, they will be added. no businessman is stupid enough to leave out a race that might cost him a lot of profit.
that stands for the whole game. the line between failure and success here is very slim, we can only hope for the best. so far we have no proof that well known balance practices will be used/ lore bending and well known overused game mechanics, so its still open. untill i know more precise info about it ill be careful with my expectations, since the alpha vid didnt show us anything really concerning what matters the most: how the classes feel and how the weapons feel.
We don't know what is in the game, the Devs didn't state any Class. There are only some hints, but even if we see an terminator model in a Dev Video it doesn't mean we get it. Alpha can be completely thrown into the Bucket and done from new. It seems to the Most lore is nice as long as it fits their point of view, if lore states something different.. it gets shoved aside. No Tornadium not every Lore Source tells us the Guard get obliterated by one boltshot if so they do it to every Eldar and Every Ork Boy too, no the Flashlight isn't useless and no Aspect Warriors aren't that much harder than Guardians, they just kill you faster than you can hit them. The Imperial Guard is what holds the Imperium together for Thousands of Years, they are holding the Line against any Enemy mostly without Space Marine help since they only arrive if the Guard can't handle it which is quite rare compared to the Times they CAN handle it. There Aren't billions of Space Marine for the Task of protecting every Planet in the Imperium, saying that the Guard is absolutely chanceless against any other Enemy is the bigger lorebreak since they have Chances against every other Regular except for Space Marines which are the real Lorebreakers in this Game because they are too OP for the other Factions Infantry-wise. If you want to play meatgrinder Marine, play Space Marine on Easy. I'm out for today.
