"Why do those guns just look like normal earth glocks?" Our Senior Editor, Robin says, as I show him a video of me blasting enemies with my Hive Scum's 'Dual Stub Pistols'. They might not look like the most 40k weapons ever, but they do play to a particular fantasy, i.e. I am John Wick, an unstoppable bullet storm gun-fu-ing my way through Tertium Hive. I'm a stimm-hopped gunslinger sprinting and sliding at 30mph as I splatter the walls with heretic brains.
Let me explain: Darktide's new Hive Scum class is rather good. Or at least, it was rather good. It's still pretty good, but in the preview build I played (before Fatshark understandably nerfed its ranged capabilities) it was hands-down the best ranged class in the game, power-creeping Veterans so hard that Creed was likely spinning in his grave, or whatever mint-condition packaging Trazyn put him in.
