I am aware of the changes to ranged weapons before but they still feel lacking though. The heavy bolter for example has an atrocious shot spread and the spin up salvo just takes too long to reach max fire rate. In my experience enemies get close to melee range before I kill them with most ranged weapons. In that case then I'll just go full melee then since at those ranges melee weapons are more effective.

I think the heavy flamer deserves some love too. I think it is just overshadowed by other ranged weapons. And it the medium range in it's first skill makes it easily outshined by other skills like the grav gun's channelling skill. Again, like my previous statement, the enemies just get to my melee range before I can kill them.