“The place’s my Neo-Volkite pistol, Warhammer 40,000: House Marine 2?” was my maybe barely ungrateful response upon booting the motion sport up after the earlier patch. “I didn’t even know what a Neo-Volkite pistol was till 5 minutes in the past, however now this complete sport is trash till I get one!.” As promised within the roadmap, the final large replace added a complete new Operations map, full with a gargantuan new pseudo-boss within the type of a hierophant bio-titan. It didn’t, nonetheless, give me my beloved pistol. It’s positive. It’s in now, together with just a few, much less Neo-Volkite updates to different weapons.
Patch 4.5 – which you’ll be able to examine in element right here, if my whimsical summaries aren’t fucking ok for you – certainly provides the Neo-Volkite pistol. It’s a brand new sidearm for the Assault, Vanguard, and Bulwark courses, and it’s described as “a strong thermal ray weapon.” As per the above trailer, it differentiates itself from different weapons by firing a steady beam of sizzling. I’m a giant supporter of any gun that makes me press the triggers much less, particularly if I’m already hammering the parry button like a maniac.
Alongside the pistol, there are additionally just a few tweaks to different weapons. These embrace:
Plasma Incinerator:
- Barely decreased quantity of warmth generated by regular and charged pictures for variations:
Grasp-Crafted – Alpha
Salvation of Bakka – Alpha
Gathalamor Campaign – Alpha
- Fastened a bug that will trigger a number of variations not producing warmth in any respect.
Bolt Sniper Rifle:
- Hearth charge elevated from 50 to 60 rounds per minute.
- Headshot bonus elevated from x2 to x2.5.
Occulus Bolt Carbine:
- Scope added
- Headshot bonus elevated from x1 to x1.33
Bolt Carbine (SMG):
- Adjusted harm falloff curve: Base harm elevated by 50% for the primary 10 metres, after that, the harm drops to the unique pre-patch worth.
Auto Bolt Rifle
- Max ammo elevated by 1 journal for every model.
There are additionally just a few bug fixes, however that’s roughly it for this one. We’re nonetheless due some new enemies subsequent 12 months, and primarily based on the right consensus that the brick spongehouses of Tzeentch aren’t all that enjoyable to battle, I very a lot hope we’ll finally get some orcs. House Marine 2 is nice, however god is aware of it might use only a crumb of levity.
In case you’re able to having fun with a factor whereas concurrently having fun with critique of mentioned factor (i.e. a functioning grownup), you may take pleasure in Edwin’s wonderful deep dive on the progressively restricted portrayal of the House Marine.
