In Space Marine 2, a weapon is particularly popular among the community. However, the next patch is supposed to make the weapon a bit worse.
Which weapon is it? The melta gun. It is a thermal weapon for short distances that plays somewhat like a shotgun – but instead of shotgun ammunition, the melta gun fires flames.
You can use the melta gun on the tactician and the scout. Additionally, the multi-melta is available to you when playing the destroyer.
The melta gun has various strengths and is highly valued by the community for this. It can stagger opponents with a single shot, deals decent damage, and is very effective for add-clear due to its spread effect.
However, another strength of the weapon was not intended according to the developers. Therefore, the next patch is supposed to remedy this.
A peculiarity of the melta gun was just a bug
Which strength was not planned? As the developers mentioned in a Q&A session, the melta gun is currently benefiting from a bug (via focus-entmt.com). This bug allows players to heal beyond their actual health (keyword: overheal) when they eliminate opponents.
How will the weapon be nerfed? Since the overheal effect of the melta gun was not planned and is just a bug, the developers want to fix the issue in the next patch.
Developers have initial plans for balancing updates
Are they nerfing the fun out of the game? No! The developers have not announced any nerfs for the melta gun. They only want to patch the bug – even though that will already make the weapon worse.
If you have played Helldivers 2, you might be concerned that the developers will go overboard with nerfs. In Helldivers 2, even the head of the game believed that they would patch the fun out of the game. This was considered a problem for months and has now been addressed with a major update.
The team behind Space Marine 2 apparently wants to take a different approach from the start. Rather than announcing nerfs for the melta gun, the developers announced that they will be revising the enemies. These feel like bullet sponges on higher difficulty levels, and that is the main issue with bolt-type weapons. Therefore, the developers are testing how they can adjust the enemies so that bolt weapons feel better.
The next patch for Space Marine 2 is also supposed to include an adjustment of the AI companions. While there was a reason for them to act quite passively, the developers are still dissatisfied with the bots: The bots in Space Marine 2 are intentionally bad so that you feel better.
