As a shootah who is inclined to use the orks variant of the melta bomb for anti-vehicle and anti-spammy lord of melee *aka every support character in the game and assaults.. and shield bros.. and all of the eldar even the dire avenger who can STILL outmatch an ORK in melee with their toothpick of a butter knife. *keep in mind i play a shootah who has absolutely no capability in melee now that the pokkit-rokkit was snubbed of the useful list into the never going to be used again forever list* As you can see. orks still have ALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT of problems... and balancing to get through! Which i don't mind TOOO MUCH *twitchy eyes* but the melta bomb is a huge tool for anti-vehicle players. As I've noticed the melta bombs seem to work flawlessly for all other races, being dropped in a second, having a fairly believable and balanced AoE when the bomb goes off causing efficient damage to the player/players/vehicle/construct it is places ON, or BY. The ork... melta bomb... dose not. Placing the bomb is a not an easy task. its not even a task at all it is a career! a career with a dead end horrid pay, horrible bosses and coworkers that cause depression over the amount of Venini happy pills it takes just to LEVEL YOU OUT!. AND THAT IS JUST TRYING TO PLACE THE SUCKER! When its "placed" you have one or two situations. 1: The bomb RUBBER-BANDS BEHIND YOU, or on your feet *and trust me before you say LAG* is has nothing to do with lag it happens in the garrison too. When the bomb is behind you or on the ground at your feet you roll back and look at the distance between the bomb and the tank... if the tank isn't on the move that is. Its about typically a foot. maybe even less..... so as in any OTHER melta bomb by any OTHER race. you could turn away and expect dmg to still be done. even just a little! right? EHHHHHH WRONG!!! Thank you for playing tonight on! ORKS ARE STILL BROKEN AS @#$%! The game show that everyone wins! Unless youz a ork. Because SPERRRRRRZE MARRREEHNZ!!! KEHOOOOZ! an ERRRDLAAAR! 2: This is the rare situations where the melta bomb actually sticks to the tank!!! Your heart is racing because you have been chased around the tank by a warlock/apothecary/sorcerer because support classes should alwase be the best fighters!! AND supporters! AND ranged combatants! AND!!.. your bomb just blew up! YAY!!!! *gets killed by mass Right mouse button melee spam* because orks suck at melee right? stupid lore GTFO this is EC! Anyhow. your bomb exploded doing some dmg to the tank, now you get to do it all over again with situation 1: probably going to happen 70-80% of the time. Also the dmg/area of effect on the orks melta bomb is well NONE EXISTENT!! SM places melta bomb = half the room looking like all the players were thrown into a bloody snow globe in the hands of a clinical masturbater! Yet when i place my melta bomb down and thustly get killed by a right mouse spamming support class or should I say DEMI-GODS OF EC. My body bleeding out over my own melta bomb, watching it explode in a fury of eruptive anger! ZERO dmg dealt to me, to the demi-god support class as he continues to right mouse button spam melee into a wall. nothing. Why is this so, I chased down a tactical with my knuckles once when he placed a melta bomb down, i swear.. just LOOKING at the melta bomb he placed.. it didn't just kill me! it kicked me down two ranks, stole my sandwich i was keeping for lunch, uninstalled EC form my computer, and donated my computer to goodwill only for the tactical to receive the receipt so he could get a tax reduction. Essentially all I ask developers.. is that you... Also i would like my sandwich back.. Thank you~ c:
and donated my computer to goodwill only for the tactical to receive the receipt so he could get a tax reduction I lol'd To piggyback on your post Drox, all our grenades feel weak or lackluster. Our main ANTI-PERSONELL grenade is more of a stun grenade than anything. Which is of course if they dont notice the gigantic flying blinking stick. I get it we use stikkbombs but everyone elses grenades are tiny pebbles that are hard to notice in the fray. Ive tossed one at a braced motionless marines feet which just made him mad really. The newest bug is my favorite though. You can;t even throw the thing at all! Even standing still out of combat im over here breaking my G key and primary mouse button and hes just holding on to it.
When placing the bomb, always 1) be at least 3 feet from vehicles and 2) aim at front or end part of tracks from the side, which gives you 4 reliable corners to place it. Haven't figured out how to reliably place bombs on Wave derpents so if anyone knows, pls share. This all being said, I agree its a gamebreaking bug and needs a fix.
just chiming up, i do the same on my shoota and how difficult it is to even put the thing on vehicles is insanity building, not to mention 0 aoe for when it bugs haha.
Also, do we have to mention the bloody thing won't stick to moving vehcles? That's why I also always carry around a trukk, so that, if the first time doesn't work, the other 4 or 5 tries will get the job done.... Meanwhile a melta bomb plus gun will melt my trukk in 3 secs...
Yeah, i know its a bug, *that seemingly only effects ORKZ!!!!!!!!!!!!....* But i hope for fixes soon!
It was the same way before orks were in game. So they know how to fix it. Lsm and eldar also used to have melta bombs that didnt stick and didnt always do damage. Kinda weird though since you would think the item would just be a reskined melta bomb and the code would have been the same.
Yeah, until that's fixed the only real way I can destroy tanks is to punch them with the Klaw, and that's so darn slow I'm dead the moment someone gets out of the tin can to shoo me away. I've gotten pretty good about dancing around a rhino as I punch it to use it for cover, but there are limits. And of course that last punch almost always puts me on the floor crying for medical attention. Getting our melta bomb fixed is just one of the many things we need to give us anti-tank and fortification options. Personally, I hope deff rollas are the first on the list when vehicle customization comes along.
well if they know these problems and have had these problems why do they KEEP having them? I support the game a lot i really do, but its hard to try to talk about it to people outside the game when there is always a step forward, but two steps back somewhere.
