So i play eldar as often as i can (cant say main since i play off peak hours) and when i played this weekend as an ork...holy crap was it easy. Main thing i had to remember was that 1/2 of my body stuck out before i could see an enemy through a door. And not to try shooting over a railing without bracing. But other than that orks are by far the easiest faction. They either have the best weapons or weapons that are coomparable and the most hp and they take reduced headshot damage. I will say that orks have hands down the worst support in the game but if they needed a good support then the ork team messed up their assault. Its by far the noob friendliest faction (everyone spawn a shoota boy and rush and you'll take the point from 99% of enemy teams). On the other hand if one person doesn't play their role correctly as an eldar it can cost your team the game pretty early in the match. The trick to fighting eldar can be broken down into a few simple bullet points. 1. Keep your transport moving. The longer it lives the more likely you are to win the match. 2. If it seems like only a few eldar are at your point its because they are ALL at another point. Eldar pugs play in mobs because its required to bring enough firepower to bare against a point. 3. IGNORE THE HAWK. Get your group into the building as fast as you can and that hawk is just another eldar out of position to stop you. 4. Keep your head on a swivel. Scorpions are easy to spot as long as you arent just staring at a wall while capping a point. 5. If you think its just 1 or 2 eldar attacking your point then there is already a striking scorpion behind you. See point 2, eldar like to keep their transports moving so usually the eldar will be coming in from atleast 2 different entry points and the first eldar are there to say "abra cadabra, look over here everyone." while the SS checks your prostate. 6. IGNORE THE HAWK. He is there to keep you incover and slow your progress while the eldar's transport gets there.
All I'm saying is, if you saw someone using an OP item or character, chances are you're not going to want to play against it. And as I've said twice now, my main beef is with the Swooping Hawk's Lasbalsters. Bit difficult when there are 3 of them hiding in the rafters shooting you to pieces with their rapid fire sniper rifles (and yes, I will keep calling them that, because that's what they are, or at least feel like on the receiving end)
i am not defending melee in particular , its just that putting in game the best ranged race isnt the best idea ever hawk have low dps , on top of getting 3 shoted by bolters , i dont see the problem really
Maybe against a bloter, but an ork shooter? Not so much, unless I'm doing something VERY wrong that isn't being made clear
ork shoota has better dps than the bolter for the same accuracy because of scope , on top of that you have 60% less ttk against eldar than they do against you with headshot resistance and raw stats its virtually impossible to lose as orks against eldar at the same skill level , if you get destroyed by eldar you need to train your aim
Lasblasters...you do realize that virtually no Hawk uses Lasblasters becaue they are useless, right? The most common weapon you will see good Hawks use is the Hunters Mark unique. It deals about as much damage to you as a Boltgun does to us (60 vs 40, 360 vs 230, 3-4 headshots/kill) with similar range-steps, identical ADS and recoil(None), worse hipfire(2.0 vs 0.7), no scope, slower rate of fire (0.20 vs 0.18 delay), and 1/5 the clip-size(12 vs 60). You know, how most people die to me? I fly and land on a ledge behind them. Then I shoot them in the head which is commonly enough to drain the armor. From this point, it can go two ways. A good player immediatly takes cover or turns around and forces me to retreat. This is rare. A bad player either ignores me completely and starts reacting after the second shot, at which point they are technically dead already...or they panic and shoot widly in my direction, not hitting a single bullet. Either way: they die and they deserve it.
And what exactly is it that would make you retreat anyway? And how many people do you know that can react to the first shot fast enough? I certainly can't react within 0.2 of a second. Yeah, but they have smaller clips. An Eldar SH have weapons with a 50 sized clip
