As long as they leave my standard basic pattern shoota and slab slugga alone I'll be fine. If those two items get nerfed I accept full responsibility because I was racking up about 40+ kills per 5 minutes using them. I don't even play Orks unless there is a campaign, that's how bad the Space Marine base is.
I'm guessing it was either falling short of the AoE, or the little wall bit was protecting him from it. since you can't see through the explosions, and he wasn't stood there when the reaper ran through, I'm guessing he rolled away and decapped from the other side?
Here is a thought, if devs continue nerfing everything/one beside LSM the new players(pshhh if any) will just roll in the LSM faction while the vets (and the others) will just give up because there is a human limit to how much BS can founders and paying players take from the "new-uber-so-totally-not-a-nerf" patches and updates. At some point they will cross the line and new cosmetics won't appeal to the vet player base and the "uber" waaaggh and war packs are.....something you would burn to the ground and blow up that ground. IF this nerfest still continues players will just join the faction which there are more benefits to them than the others. And two major things are important to any player in this kind of game: 1.winning. 2. having a good time. And when everyone is LSM....who you gonna fight against? The nids?
