yeah i understand and agree that the elites and dreads should have loadouts, but what i meant to ask about was how you would implement having several weapons at the same time.
would you have to change between the assault cannon and bolter with the mousewheel? or would one be fired with RMB and the other with LMB?
could it be a mix between those two? what about the wraithknight? it has one weapon on its shoulder and options to take one on each wrist in addition to a close combat weapon.

Probably RMB and LMB and pressin' da middle mouse button

Fer a dreadnought LMB/RMB wuuld probably werk da best. Parhaps 'ave a button ye press ta' eitha' use melee er ranged weapons. Loik, Q and E ta' switch between yer Left (Q) weapons and Roight (E) weapons on wevva' dey be ranged er melee [I realize Q and E wuuldn't werk, but it jus' be da thought uv it given dere locashun and relevance ta' left and roight]. Dat way ye cuuld krump blokes and shoot 'em gud if'n ye 'ave one handed ranged and one handed melee weapons. Middle mouse button cuuld werk fer shoulda' mounted weapons (given ye eitha' gotz only wuner dey both be da same fing). Mayhaps uze a third button ta' switch between shoulda' mounted weapons

But yer roight, dis gets complicated given ye'd want a set pattarn wut werks fer each faction

Ye probably want all aimed abilities such as guns and wut not attached ta' yer mouse so ye don't getz no disconnect between aimin' wit' da mouse and den pressin' a button ta' fire da weapon

i like the idea but with more Branches, people should Choose what the hell wanted to be (like an actual MMORPG) i was never into warhammer 40k lore until my friend gift me EC before the launch, but my impression before playing was, i will start as the normal soldier and from there i will evolve into the heavy/sniper/healer/melee, but when i saw that i could be everything... it was idk idiotic? that was the only thing i hated from PlanetSide2. The diference here in EC is "just play and unlock weapons" instead of "this is my character A he is focused in melee fights and box fights, etc, etc"

Progression branches
Special Perks/abilities for every class with the choice of "choose 1 of the 3" permanently, until you buy special rerolls, etc. (thats why i like the advancement tree of the Chaos, even if is small they have such "customization" until you unlock everything.

Figured equipment wuuld be most uv dat, perks cuuld also be added in. I fink dat wevva' yer melee, ranged, a loota, er wuteva' shuuld jus' be based on yer equipment.

Perks cuuld jus' 'elp ye try and focus in one area ova' anuvva', such as melee and ranged, but I don't fink it shuuld force ye ta' be wun ova' da uvva'

I like the idea of "prestige-ing" a character, I'm level 6 everyone now and finding it hard to be motivated to play.

But I don't want any extras for it apart from cosmetics or titles. Perks or more advanced gear or loadouts would be too hard to balance and give an unfair advantage. Power creep rears it's ugly head.

Just give me a shiny for get back to rank 6 again and I'd be happy.

Dear god...no prestiege please. That has to be my most hated thing in games the use it. Imo they just need to let people have a subfaction choice for each loadout. Considering we aren't getting subfaction bonus soon it would be simple enough to lock the original sub choice for future bonus purposes. If those never come then at least I could have my goff slugga and a blood axe kommando.

I like the brain storming!! My opinion on it is that depending on how well and how much XP you have currently in a match it should Unlock the next tier up.

Also you really underestimate how bad people want to play as other classes. Everyone and their mothers would want to be a dreadnought! (me included)

right meow we only have a simple progression, with few tiers tied to Ranks (advancement tree) i will love to see 3 type of trees:
1-Class Tree, from the 4 factions perspective: Tactical - Assault - Support, then you specialize between those 3, tactical could go for idk Veteran or Scout or something something, and those 3 could branch it more.
2- Faction Tree in this case the Advancement tree but for every character of that faction, and there should be only reasearchs like equipment, medallions, special customizations for tanks etc.
3- and the Rank Tree, here maybe let you choose the Elites or special weapons depending on your rank, and of course having more than 6 ranks or a Skill tree for the class you choose, letting you obtain diferent powers like idk you are an Imperial Fist if you stand still defending a point you gain bonus armor or damage mitigation something like that but you need 4 points in the skill tree, etc (something like the old World of Warcraft talent tree)

I know this sounds more of a Mmorpg but still men