Here is a challenge for developers. Please try to play Orks for 2 weeks and share the feedback with us. Did you have fun? Since last patch orc community Has no fun. We can still win against pugs on occasion but if you take 2 organised teams Orks have no chance as We are outclassed in melee and outgunned. So Play Orks (if you find someone who is still willing to play them).
Pretty sure they play everything. Don't worry too much the metrics already seem to reflect a large drop in ork power compaired to the other factions. They know generally what needs fixing they just dont have the man power to solve all the problems right away.
Just because you're a developer doesn't mean you play your own game 24/7. Hell i even helped develope a friends crumby little 2d game. I only spent time working on 2d sprites and rarely even played the game than testing if certain parts of my work were going all wonky. Other than that, when you're the one making something, you don't really gain that special burning fervor you'd get playing with something that is new to you.
We have literally watched them.play on streams though. Like I don't see how you can think they dont when we have video recorded proof of them doing it.
Just because they record themselves for 1 play session a week doesn't mean they play it almost every day like we do. And by play, i mean not going through debug sessions and spending most of their time on the developers console.
From what i've seen playing as CSM against Greenskins they mostly need some sort of melta analog to counter enemy vehicles up close and personal. Other than that they seem to be doing pretty good... at least against CSM.
It's actually all the little things that when pile up, they make you want to smash someone in the head for being hummie. Another small thing is how we can't skip out grenade throw animation. So when in melee we just die, when all LSM and CSM are somehow always able to drop that grenade when they die. Our Rokkit launcha have wind up before shot which make no sence as it's fire and forget weapon. It doesn't lock on and orks are not doing any safety features. If you compare it to plasma gun which has rapid fire and don't need full charge to fire stun ball of death, our version is straight up worse. Not to mention it has no AOE what so ever and flight trajectory is less predictable then numbers for next lottery draw. We have no viable power weapon, Power claw got nerfed 2 patchs ago and is worse then power fist all around, We have no awnser to Power/Force Sword. Our wargear emphasises stacking Toughness which is nullified by power weapons when LSM and CSM stack armour. Without mentioned viable power weapon they have more survivability which we have no tools to counter. Our plasma is just better Dakka with more pen. No charged ball of death. Yet other races can have weapon that have armor pen, rapid fire, 1 hit kill long range aoe nuke and low charge time for it. Not to mention that heat from it is negligible. Plasma Cannon can fire 3 balls in the time i fire 1 rocket and reload. We have no melta equivalent. On defence on fortress maps we get Waaagh! which buries all our life conservation efforts and chance for victory with it. Did i forgot anything? So this is why Ork population is getting smaller and smaller. Matchmaking craze only adds to that. Edit: removed issues that looks fixed since last patch
I did remember few more little things: Our Kannon skill can't reload when braced All our Loota weapons sometime have visible barrel when aiming which obscure vision and make shooting while targeting impossible. A few patches ago our Zaap gun got targeting laser while charging like las cannon but huge light that light up and give our position away wasn't removed. Not to mention same light blinds us when aiming. Dok healing granades create huge screen shake when expire/destroyed and are alsoe easy to destroy by friendly fire or enemy.
