The devs just mixed up their assets with the Orks! It all makes sense now, why they suck in melee and have the highest ranged K/D of any faction.
Now all they need to do is give the Ork Lootahs jump-packs. (Courtesy of @bossjesse) Because we all know if it's one thing this game needs it's flying heavy armored autocannons!
For just one day I'd love to see the chaos that would be heavies with jump packs... It would be glorious.
They don't suck in melee though But yeah, the orks always had the best ranged weapons for whatever reason
View it more as internal balance. The LSM were all fairly equal, because the classes are fairly equal. Lootas are an extreme because our other classes are disadvantaged compared to their equivalents in other factions. Everything the orks have the others have better versions of, except for lootas. Well, Havocs are better but lootas are an improvement on devastators and dark reapers at least. That's just on the weapons though, as the lootas suffer in some areas, namely: * Hangs in the air for the longest time compared to any other class when jumping over a railing. * Is the only class in the game that can be, sometimes, shot at while they're behind cover. * Has the slowest turning rate in the game It's no surprise that the ork lootas provide most of the kills for their faction. Nerf the melee classes for CSM and you'll see havocs skyrocket too. What was surprising was that a shootadeffgun lead the kills for the loota. There is no such weapon, so I assume they mean the basic dakka deffgun since no uniques were listed. Should probably be the ace dakka, as I've a hard time seeing how the worst heavy weapon that uses bullets in the game could be the top killer.
From the twitch we know they're actually worse than eldar and chaos in melee, while simultaneously toasting them in ranged. I know orks lore wise are a melee fsction, that's the joke lol
