Why is the Salamander champion skin a sniper?

[shrimp]

Title says it all but I'm not gonna buy the skin just to leave a review there. Why the hell did the stealthiest class get a champion skin from a chapter that is not at all known for its stealth. Salamander champion skin should have 100% gone to heavy or vanguard, and Ravenguard should've got the sniper skin. My hope is eventually we will get a champion skin for every chapter on every class to even everything out.

[Khanjima]

iirc they said they had something else planned for the class Salamander was originally supposed to be, which imo was still stupid reasoning mind you

[Te'Kan]

yeah pretty lore inaccurate but whatever i guess. i will vote with my wallet and just not buy it. if it had been for a class that could use a melta weapon i would have considered it.

[Cassius]

I would have liked to see UM's champion pack be tacticool, and salamanders be Heavy, Sniper maybe be ravenguard?

[Chaoslord 87]

Originally posted by Te'Kan:

yeah pretty lore inaccurate but whatever i guess. i will vote with my wallet and just not buy it. if it had been for a class that could use a melta weapon i would have considered it.

Every Chapter does have Sniper/ Scout squads since every Astartes begins there once their training and genseed augmentations are deemed sufficient enough to be deployed into combat zones.

[Sherlock Holmes]

Originally posted by Chaoslord 87:

Originally posted by Te'Kan:

yeah pretty lore inaccurate but whatever i guess. i will vote with my wallet and just not buy it. if it had been for a class that could use a melta weapon i would have considered it.

Every Chapter does have Sniper/ Scout squads since every Astartes begins there once their training and genseed augmentations are deemed sufficient enough to be deployed into combat zones.

Agreed. People are saying lore inaccurate when they really mean they'd rather have something else: maybe a heavy, ideally with a flamer.

[Autoro]

Probably something tied to how on their homeworld, The Salamanders're the hunters for the civilian population. Not unheard of, but definitely missed opportunity to not at least go Tactical.

[Maximus]

The heavy flamer is literally already in the game, working. They only a needed a damn skin and it would have been a worthy, perfectly themed DLC for Heavy class.

But no, we just had a glimpse at the callousness of SABER's mindset instead.

[Shin]

It's because of the cape the Sniper has. They really wanted to add the drake skin cloak all Salamanders attain, and the Sniper as you know has one.

[Sherlock Holmes]

Originally posted by Maximus:

But no, we just had a glimpse at the callousness of SABER's mindset instead.

Yes, rather than them missing out on an opportunity, they chose the sniper class to troll or screw people. Come on kid, you're not that delusional.

[Majikkraptor]

Jesus, all astartes legions and chapters are capable of any specialization. Raven Guard have shock troops and White Scars have heavy infantry. The lore isn't as shallow and one dimensional as the memes.

[Chaos]

Because they are "funny" like that.

[Soji]

Originally posted by Majikkraptor:

Jesus, all astartes legions and chapters are capable of any specialization. Raven Guard have shock troops and White Scars have heavy infantry. The lore isn't as shallow and one dimensional as the memes.

thank you, i swear the most people engage with the hobby is black templar memes and luetin videos and they'll bring 'lore accuracy' up constantly.

[Chaoslord 87]

Originally posted by Maximus:

The heavy flamer is literally already in the game, working. They only a needed a damn skin and it would have been a worthy, perfectly themed DLC for Heavy class.

But no, we just had a glimpse at the callousness of SABER's mindset instead.

Heavy Flamer doesn´t exist in Game. You are referring to the Multi Melta.

[Thranduil]

Originally posted by Chaoslord 87:

Originally posted by Maximus:

The heavy flamer is literally already in the game, working. They only a needed a damn skin and it would have been a worthy, perfectly themed DLC for Heavy class.

But no, we just had a glimpse at the callousness of SABER's mindset instead.

Heavy Flamer doesn´t exist in Game. You are referring to the Multi Melta.

The Pyroblaster, which is basically the Flamer, is in the story mode. It wouldn't be that hard to convert it over and add it in as a weapon.

[Andysan]

Originally posted by Majikkraptor:

Jesus, all astartes legions and chapters are capable of any specialization. Raven Guard have shock troops and White Scars have heavy infantry. The lore isn't as shallow and one dimensional as the memes.

Finally someone says it.