I liked it a lot, also, we saw again the chainsword bolt pistol loadout for apothecaries, I tought it wasn't on the plans after not seeing it on streams for months, also right now witouth the loadout system it might be no reason to play a tactical instead of an apothecary with a boltgun... I might have now a second class to play after sorcerer.
lol sadly as long as "tactical only" capture mechanics remain all the other classes are just support ... no matter how good you are its the "tacticals" who will win or lose a match in EC
We saw the Sorcerer get the ranged debuff, so I'm curious what Apothecaries will get in response to that
http://forum.eternalcrusade.com/threads/apothercarys-vials.47144/ @Djemo-SRB have made this topic about that.
Well, I forgot about that lol, anyway the point stands, in a combat situation there is no point to pick tactical over apothecary with a boltgun until they add the loadout system.
The Loadout system has little to do with it, I think. Sure, Tacticals will be able to get a variety of different guns, but that won't really matter for the Tactical using a Boltgun. I'm not sure it's a big problem though. Apothecaries can heal and shoot a bolter. Tacticals can capture points and shoot a bolter. Both of those jobs are equally necessary, and I don't see why Tacticals necessarily need to be given another in-combat thing to do. Also keep in mind action economy. Sure, apothecaries can heal and shoot during combat while tacticals can "only" shoot, but since time spent healing yourself and others cuts into time spent shooting, it's not exactly a 1+1 = 2 proposition. Every push that doesn't get a tactical to the end is a fail, so there is plenty incentive to be one.
Once the loadout system is in the game we should be able to choose perks, I don't think there will be many perks to make the apothecary more efficient with boltguns, on the other hand the tactical should have plenty...
They'll probably have some (it is a basic weapon, after all), and perks to increase healing will give them some nice self-heal shenanigans, most likely. You don't seem concerned about the Tactical's fate in the long run, and there's really no point in worrying about their current status (alpha is alpha ^^), so I guess there's no problem?