About Arty

(SlixFaz) #1

So exactly why does so many ppl think arty is a bad merc to play as? I personally think his really op my opinion but still his awesome

(Mr-Penguin) #2

Because his weapons are harder to use for most people and the strike really doesn’t have much killing potential if enemies are aware of the little red line.

(notmyname) #3

Only few people know how to use his weapons and make use of the A/S.

(avidCow) #4

He’s ok but he’ll never be great.

(SlixFaz) #5

I’m wrecking ppl with arty right now tho XD

(Northman) #6

While under rated for sure, he’s definitely situational.

For instance he’s amazing at Chapel, both offense and defense. However, he is very lack luster in Underground and the last half of Terminal. He’s still one of my favorite mercs though.

(Dawnlazy) #7

He is good in Underground on attack because he can arty the bombsite from afar.

(TheOrangePhantome) #8

IMO Arty’s fine but he’s not OP as you described him. And yeah the weapons he’s given are harder to use for a part of the DB players (even tho i still fin the dreiss fine but it is a bit harder to use i can’t lie). Even tho i don’t like Arty myself i dunno what it is about him that i don’t like. But his abilities are fine IMO.

(Terminal_6) #9

I just got my first autokick playing Arty, so he’s clearly very, very OP. I’ve seen a lot of people playing him lately (I think he’s on free rotation) and it’s pretty easy to simply step away from his artillery, and then hop back to whatever job needed doing (murder, most likely).

I don’t know what class you call Arty’s and Kira’s weapons, but the Dreiss is a divine instrument that gets me a lot of kills on both mercs. Sometimes I forget to use their abilities because the gun is so good. Don’t have much more favorable experience with AUG or BR-16.

(MercifuL) #10

Hes not OP and Hes not UP, just depends on if you can play him really well. They need to increase the dreiss dps then he will be better.

(Drcipres) #11

I usually get around 15.000 or 10.000 xp in obj mode if is an ev map, and his wepas are fine

(Grave_Knight) #12

It has more to do with his artillery strike and the Stark being not very good. Now it’s primarily just that the Stark isn’t very good (at least compared to the BR-16 which has the same DPS, faster reload, and more ammo in the magazine where the Stark just has a scope and 1 meter more range).

It might be possible he’ll be comp level good if they do add an indoor utility for his laser designator.

(RyePanda) #13

He is already the most efficient at destroying the EV (assuming you disable it, and it is repaired quickly).

(BananaSlug) #14

He should be better in destroying ev because now he is bad in this

(Frogteam) #15

Arty is the best at destroying the EV actually. He has the most reliable damage on it in the event of a fast repair. If the enemy team only repairs once every 60 seconds Skyhammer is better, but assuming they repair it within 30 or 40 seconds Arty will take it down faster due to his shorter cool down.

(tome_weng) #16

He should be better in destroying ev because now he is bad in this

Arty is the best at destroying the EV actually. He has the most reliable damage on it in the event of a fast repair. If the enemy team only repairs once every 60 seconds Skyhammer is better, but assuming they repair it within 30 or 40 seconds Arty will take it down faster due to his shorter cool down.

The fast cooldown is very handy, but he is still the only fire support merc that cannot disable it without having to wait another cooldown to hit it again. Both his strikes will take it down to about 20/30% meaning you’ll have to shoot it for the rest or hope there’s a fragger or nader about to finish it off. Also the targeting system’s still a bit dodgy making it hard to direct hit the thing, you can still do it by aiming at the front of the turret but if lots of people are pushing it it will sometimes be able to avoid them. For the most part I think his ablility’s fine but I do think it should get some sort of damage multiplier so he can properly do his main job as a fire support merc in disabling the EV.

(Frogteam) #17

To the contrary, Kira is rather bad at destroying EVs.

(tome_weng) #18

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he is still the only fire support merc that cannot disable it without having to wait another cooldown to hit it again.
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To the contrary, Kira is rather bad at destroying EVs.

I assumed she’d be able to with all 12 seconds of her lazer, it seems she can’t. I still think arty should be made better at destroying the EV if that’s through making him do slightly more damage or otherwise. His ablility seems to occupy the middle ground between skyhammer’s designator and Kira’s lazer however I find it hard to justify using him instead of either of them.