Just if you had missed their previous statements on the subject as it was several months ago.

There's absolutely no way, ever ever ever that there will be fate being sold. There will be no pay 2 win ever. Their words. 

The progression system as I see it is designed to use a tiered system which allows cross party play. The use of an experience which acts like a currency provides a means of boosting ones progress should there be a lack of story content or should the story become too difficult and you want to increase your progress to the point that mission becomes easier. It also provides gear upgrades on-demand for the price of completing a delectable mission - but at a cost of not being repeatable, allowing a player some choice.

While one (and some have) argue that it's easy to start charging money for this. They have adamantly said this will never happen. Multiple times and in multiple platforms and very publicly. While you don't have to believe them on this, it's what has been repeatedly stated. 

Guard. Their one of the enemies you need to plan for. Target certain dudesmen first to reduce their over-all punch. Wait for moments where you can draw some of their clustered mobbs out alittle at a time. 

I used to feel the same way, but they just require slightly different tactics to combat well. Also Personal Void Shield Generator is massively effective when going agaisnt them. As it buffers your Hp and refills your suppression bar too. 

Im currently running a 2handed Melee build, and loving it. 

So dont jump the gun to fast here, hate for them to cake-walk everything and we end up with a easy-mode game. Should be this looming fear that you may not be able to clear a mission, otherwise the grind ensues.  

Progression.

Loot boxes are not how you Progress.  I purchase schematics and craft my items so that I get the stats I want.   I farm XP a Glory to rank up.  Craft new gear every few levels.  The Tarot missions rewards are generally better, especially if you chose Eternal *whatever*, the one where you must not die.  Random is Random and I don't care.  It's all broken down or sold like every other ARPG ever.  Good loot does drop from the Boss level creatures.  I get multiple items, purples and greens,  often from them. 

I see your concern about selling Boxes or Fate for real money, so just say that.   Suggesting to scrap months of work because you hate caches is kinda of a non-starter.

Imperial Guard.

Ogryn Shotguns and Servitor Rocket launchers need to calm down.  Seriously.   Or give a longer indicator for that mega shotgun blast that strips 3/4 of my Suppression bar.

Loot.

The Uther Tarot system lets you chose the reward types.  If you want a sword then do x mission type.  I see where your going with this.  You know how it says you will get XP, Glory, Fate, Money on the mission description.  Maybe add field on the mission label that guarantees X reward item, even have an icon of it to tool tip.  It could be Armor, Weapon, whatever RNG based on your class or a fixed item type for endgame.

Loot is based on your level.   Gear Score is based on Items that you got at your level.   I like the idea of red missions giver higher quality rewards but they are still going to be at your current level.  Gearscore based rewards would not be reflective of your level but your currently equipped gear, which could be old.  Thus making Gearscore based rewards weaker than level based rewards.

Because this is a mission based game. The most time you will ever take on average is about 10-15 minutes before you are back at base. Just given their design choices having the loot at the end honestly has many advantages and is far more easily justified than an in game loot system.

Here's a few off the top of my head.

- Encourages players to play to end of missions. Keeps the focus on the completion of the objective rather than chasing of goodies. Which means when doing group orientated play there's far less people dropping in and out when they do / don't get what they want. Something many other ARPG's are plagued by. Rewards are given for a successful mission rather than killing something big. Which in my mind at least suits the 40k universe a lot more than killing a space marine then standing there for 10 minutes comparing their heavy bolter to yours. 

- Prevents allied players from standing still for 5 minutes every time they pick something up during combat (biggest one for me) it's a total immersion killer and leads to loads of frustration during group play. Currently everyone is focused on the combat at all times and everyone then looks at their gear at the same time, syncing activities for a smoother experience.

- If you did see a new item during a mission - your skills wouldn't necessarily suit it at all - in fact most of the time you can guarantee it wouldn't - often when changing item you need to compeltely redo your passive system and perks to suit the new weapon. That's not ever going to be a good idea mid mission.

- Lastly it encourages you to think about builds before entering a mission, looking into what can be done to +/- your abilities and then doing what's needed to max it out. The time it would take to optimise a build of a full character with 50 points during a mission to addapt to a new weapon would be 10+ minutes probably. Making builds is best done within the ship. 

Just to name a few :) honestly in my view it's the only way to do a mission based game. What you gotta remember is that this isn't a traditional ARPG with a continual flow of content and convenient town portals at your convenience. Which to be honest you either like or dislike! it has its advantages and disadvantges. 

2. No. Rebells are the only faction that is ok. Every other faction needs a buff or the game get's borderline braindead.

3. I hope for a balancing pass and weapon customisation as well. I hate it thet bolters are garbadge outside of dual wield bolt pistols. The bolter is one of the most iconic weapons in 40k... at least for me ^^.

4. All one handed melee weapons suck compared to twohanded weapons. I think this is a balancing thing.

5. Well the itemisation ingame make me go nuts sometimes. Droped a Signum in early levels with heat dmg, all damage and heat damage. Overs 22% on my build but i can't use it because some mechanic says its weaker then a item i find ranks later that has crap stats. This is the only part that makes the item system painfull. Weapons are delivered in dmg ranges and you can roll the stuff like you want it to.

6. Maybe the'll implement stuff via crafting. We'll have to see about that.

7. Just imagine that lootboxes are spoils of war. After we did our thing with purging all that runs arround we take the loot container someone forgott there in the corner and open it to get yummy extra pieces. I see those as extra rng loot. It realy wont change anything if those items drop in the level or not.

That's just my view on you case :).

Currently it's a way of displaying what you picked up during the mission, or the second screen can be quest rewards or from levelling up. This way of presenting is seen when games don't want you to access gear during a mission. It's just a means to display what new gear you got.

If you haven't played it - think of Vermintide. After a mission you roll some dice and you are given a reward based on the result. It's to make players look forward to the mission completion to see what loot they got. Not a loot crate system, it's just loot thats presented to you from within a container vs the traditional method of reward which is loot provided from within a chat window. The same goes for the containers you get after hitting a reputation point. It happens because there isn't an NPC who you talk to regarding reputation rewards, so the chatbox tradition is out the window and instead its more like the mailbox reward system. 

The devs said that there will no microtransactions that will give you ingame benefits so everything it's okay. *moves his hand* Those aren't EA's Lootboxes.

No sweat man - not saying that it's right or wrong but there are some advantages to the current system. 

The main difference is the mission based system I think. Most games let you play through a campaign in a really fluid way, after the early chapter you can return to base whenever you want. The main reason to return to base is often when you get some great items. But in this we return to base literally every 15 minutes anyway :D To me making gear choices before a "mission" which is a closed instance is quite comfortable, but obviously some will feel like they miss out on their in-mission rewards.

For bolter rounds - I think personally they are already used to a degree on the 4th ability and 2nd ability as a means to display different damage types. But I do think many weapons could have been done better, or at least made more interesting.
My personal preference is to have some class orientated skills rather than more weapon modifications. The upcoming weapon system in deathwing for eg looks nice on paper by making guns shoot faster, have more ammo, less spread etc etc. It's exactly what we have already with the (incomplete) crafting. But it's certainly possibly to use some more of these rounds within the game to create more interesting ability sets.

If I open the chest and frogger away or have enough movement speed I pick up nothing. Same thing if i kill a bigger boss that drops loot. if the boss is the last thing and i hop away or run away i mostly never pickup the droped stuff.

We have nothing with the implemented crafting and we don't know what we might get in the future. At the moment there are a lot of promises from the developers but right now I can't believe much of what they say.  The longer they keep silent the more frustrating it gets. If there is another client they could at least make a stream about it and show us what we get in the future and Im pretty sure the players would see stuff in the stream that isn't as good as it could be or overcomplicated or simply buged.

I think it's to early to say "Abandon all hope!" but atm it's getting more frustrating.

2)the guard units themselves are a little insane not gonna lie even though it all scales... But honestly if they were like this in canon.. cadia wouldn't have fallen XD 

5) I donno haven't had it bad so can't complain really 

Agreed to loot boxes.. that ain't fun ever :P

Oh and techpriest doesn't have an appearance section just isn't in alpha :)

I'm a huge fan of the bolter type weapons in this game for sure. And im going to agree with the Shotgun carriers aswell, though their the main reason i carry the void generator.

Since patch I've been using the Bolter over the Heavy, mostly for the aim shot. One of my builds pre-patch was a Heavy Bolter Jump Crusader that was all Boosters to Defence and Hitpoints. 

Now I'm fully Melee Build with speed boosters and i use the Bolter as a Solve the problem when it comes to range, or servo skulls. 

I'm going to start running my Steam Broadcasting when im playing so anyone can watch.