Quite the opposite. Sluggas are the meat and gravy of Ork troops. It's vidya games that sometimes don't always represent it properly. Really hoping they nail the slugga/choppa combo down I'd love to play as one more than any Ork class probably.
Just seems like this would be one of those times to let the community decide how they wanna play. Lore wise it is even possible for larger number of shoota heavy factions inside the orks. Yeah Goffs aren't gunna but some of the other groups certainly have higher numbers of guns and better versions of them.
Well dis iz easy Kant hit tha broadsoide ova squiggoff but haz lotza bullets, so yer gonna hit sumfing soona or lata. no...datz silly
They said in twitch that slugga will have the most variety and options, to encourage more people to take them. Everyone can still take a shoota, but shootas won't be much different to each other.
I always thought the Sluggas would be close to the Bandit-manufactured pistols in Borderlands 2: - they look the part, for starters. - those things can get an impressive magazine capacity, at least 70 or 80 bullets. DAKKA! - that sound when they fire... a loud, low DON DON DON. I love that sound. - rate of fire is on the low side for auto pistols, but combined with the previous point, each shot really feels powerful. - damage... well they're still auto pistols, so damage per bullet isn't that high, certainly lower than Jakobs revolvers... but still nothing to sneeze at.
Actually, Ellison has said that they plan to let Shootahz, AND Sluggaz be the capture classes for da Orkz. Sluggaz have also been stated to have a much greater pistol variety then other melee equivalents, so who knows. Maybe we'll see Ork Pistols with low RoF and high damage, or low damage and high RoF.
It's the the same class, Sluggas and Shootas. It's the weapons they can take that makes it - Chan said that they wanted Sluggas to be the more used options when it comes to regular Boy classes, and the Shoota being more of a "Stormbolter"-like choice. The Slugga would have more options, but the Shoota would still have some.
It´s a very good idea from the devs actually this kind of asymmetrical class type from faction to faction. Large variety of sluggas and choppas would make interesting the customization of an ork. As for the shootas, I found myself in quite a trouble since I love the shotgun-like ork-ish weapons (speshul shootas and blunderbluss) and the kombi weapons that they made. Dunno if all this weapons could be used by an ork boy but I would love to see some of them in their loadouts.
