Shotguns are only really used by scouts, therefore I think we won't see them except in Ork hands perhaps. In melee within bases or at command points perhaps useful. But since City Warfare most likely won't be included (due to performance issues) shotguns in general wouldn't have much use.

Besides, Bolters have even more efficiency than Shotguns since they drill into armor / flesh and then explode inside. Shotguns are more useful against weak targets or really veeery close combat. In basic it's a melee ork killer or in hope to hit an eldar somehow

Thanks for the comments it really shed some light on my question and my thought on it was since the scout is part of the space marines that it would be avalible, and plus since their is going to be upgrades for weapons and their will be melee in this game that it would be useful, case in point vs. orks in close combat

Chainswords, Energy Swords, Energy Fist, Hammer & Shield, there are weapons.... for melee

But I get what you mean, though we will have to see how "regular" combat will look like anyway I think before worrying about Weapon Types.

Who knows maybe a scout class will come into play? But i do agree i am interested on how this is all gonna play out and fit.....

Probably though the only appliance really I see as scout for is counter-sniping. But since the Chaos do not even have any sniper class I doubt there will be much sniping in general.

I see sniping, etc. coming as an add-on but not at start. So for a later point sure why not, but not at start ^^

Also a good point, Start with basics first right? but also if they but morale in the game if your in a squad ( Which would be interesting) Snipers are good for that xD

Yeah, only very strong downside with snipers.... Most if not all battlefields are open field.... So yeahhhhh.... ^^

xD sadly

i hope they create some city maps in favor of other classes or weapons...

I hope so too but main issue seems to be performance and such because Cities are ways tighter and narrower and richer in details... I think we can look to jungle areas for close combat. Think of the Dawn of War 2 Intro.

After all we were more or less already promised to have many different kind of planets and such. So probably one of them also will be a hive world or so ^^

Do they already have a running copy of the beta or is it still in progress?