There are about 300 left after their last fight with the nids is what I heard last, they are not all dead yet. And I assume that they wouldn't even be hard to create in game, just give them the imperial fist yellow with blood angel decorations and the checkered shoulder pad on there left.
Ah, sorry, confused them with Flesh Tearers. They got rekt. Lamenters though are suicidal enough to extinct soon anyway without the help of EC.
I kinda skimmed the article (sorry) but it doesn't seem to explain liquid flame as an option. I could easily have missed it. Anyway why can't the animation just be a solid fire graphic via liquid based propulsion with a preset graphic. Just make the fire a solid object that picks from something like 30 preset images for after burn (kinda like how valve does fire). That way it isn't as graphically intense as a gas based animation with transparency but works more like a more visually updated fire flower projectile from mario
And for many of us that's ok. The problem there is a human one, you and I are alright with that, but other people will lambaste that decision. I feel very confident saying if EC had started with a flamer using bad graphics, a lot of people would have complained with statements like "this is 20XX the graphics should be better" and other things like that (which they already do). It's a safer bet for marketing to not include an option than to include a scaled down version. There's also what role flamers would fill. I can think of several, but none of those couldn't be achieved with a unique weapon variant, and you're bringing in a mob clearing weapon for a game of elites. It's not a stumbling block so much as a validation, do we need the flamer over other things? For an actual opinion- I am pro-Salamanders, and I am also pro-flamer. But I can understand not prioritizing those things over other issues and content.
