So Arty seems like a great Idea, but poorly executed. I bought him because I figured he would be pretty fun. He is so outclasses by everyone its stupid. So here are suggestions and such on him.
Weapon- Right now his weapon is garbage. The main one. The Aug seems like its okay, but his main weapon needs it’s damage increased 3x where it is right now. A single shot inaccurate gun with damage lower than other machine guns in the game just doesn’t cut it. Yes, it is inaccurate. Have you tried iron sites from far away trying to shoot people with multiple rounds? That gun should be dead on every time as a 1 shot gun. I should be able to 3 or 4 shot people with this gun. Makes up for the 1 shot idea. Always get outdone by anyone with a auto because of how weak it is.
Weapon Idea- Look I was in the ARMY and was part of a Artillery unit. If you call this guy Arty then lets make him that way shall we? Give this guy a sniper rifle and stop screwing around. If he truly is Arty then let him stay ranged the right way
E- This guys E makes no sense. He is Arty and should be far behind everyone else scoping out the scene and taking people out from afar. Give this guy a sensor to detect enemies that he can throw. Better yet a great Idea would be to have his E be some sort of sticky sensor he can put on friendlies that will show enemies in a AOE through walls and such, but ONLY ARTY can see those people and will have to tell his team where the enemy is. This is a good risk vs reward and goes better with his kit and idea. In real life you have forward observers(scouts) who give coordinates to the ARTY who then rain down hell on them. This would be the same thing. I know this isn’t real life, then don’t call a Merc ARTY! I would say let him have 2 sensors since 1 person can easily just run up and die fast.
Health- No idea why ARTY dies so damn fast. I have been playing Skyhammer and never die as fast as I do with ARTY and they have the same health?!?!?! Like whaaaaaaaa? It’s like ARTY has 0 armor protection or something. I don’t get it. Would make sense if he had a sniper rifle and such as I mentioned earlier.
ULT/4- The arty ult is a cool idea. I would go a different direction with it though. Make the AOE 3x larger than it is or even bigger. Then make the rounds that come down random in that area and if it hits directly then dead if not then splash damage. Fire For Effect in ARTY is self explaining. How small it is right now just doesn’t do it justice to me. If you go the super large AOE route make the shells a lot larger too since it won’t be a 100% for sure hit. Just an idea and it sticks true to ARTY in real life. Or you can have 2 different fire modes for his ARTY ult. One could be Pinpoint Fire which is what you have now and have a alternate for FFE(Fire For Effect). This would make the AOE huge and the rounds larger, but as i said before splash damage and direct hit stuff to make it more interesting.
I will continue to play ARTY even if I am near the bottom every game. I am sure you guys will make him better so I am going to stick with him. When I was playing Skyhammer I was always near the top. So I know it’s not me. Could you guys look into ARTY and see if there is something messed up with his health? Like he is taking more damage than he should or something is bugged? Just seems to die soooo fast compared to everyone else I play with. Thank you!
Thanks everyone!
