#BuffArty

(CCP115) #21

Welp, I played Arty for a few matches straight. Still in need of a small buff to his strike, and a small buff to Dreiss, but that’s about it, he is one of the mercs that is incredibly hard to play, and if played well, is incredible.

Thing is I have never seen anyone play Arty well.

(MasoN) #22

i love arty now as ive learnt to aim for the head! however i still feel that arty could do with atleast 1 full auto weapon e.g the AK that skyhammer uses! plus maybe instead of the kinda weak arty strike,you get a dumbfire RPG/SMAW with 2 rockets that 1hit direct impact like naders laucnher ? its just an idea but tell me what you think :smile:

(CCP115) #23

An RPG merc is planned, I think. And I am pretty sure that the M4 is OP.

Arty needs a slight buff, so just a little increase in radius or something, without needing explodydendron or whatever.

Then the Dreiss itself still feels weaker than many other options.

(Natemajor) #24

I thinky arty is fine bras #Keepartyexactlythesamebecausehe’sfine

(MyPingIsHuge) #25

[quote=“Ardez;34331”]#BuffArty

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My bad. : (

(CCP115) #26

Prepare for flak.

He isn’t fine. It’s hard to pinpoint why. He is decent, but compared to the other options… he’s lacking.

(Kalbuth) #27

Prepare for flak.

He isn’t fine. It’s hard to pinpoint why. He is decent, but compared to the other options… he’s lacking. [/quote]

That’s it. It is not bad by itself. I just keep seeing the clearing job done by Skyhammers/Kira correctly, while I spam areas with my arty strikes and get 1 kill here and there out of it. That’s not clearing, that’s a mere annoyance for the ennemy team.

BUT : They can’t overbuff it because his key differentiating point is his low artillery refire rate. If they overbuff that, it’s going to be a nightmare in game.
Really, to me, the killing blow is how the arty marker is cancelled all the time as soon as the ennemy is looking at me. I need to go all sneaky to have a go at a group, the time it takes nullifies the refire-rate and most of the time, everyone is gone by the time you get a sneaky angle.

(aneki) #28

To anyone that says Arty is fine. Play him in a 5on5-setup vs cookie cutter setup and come back here afterwards. Arty has only drawbacks compared to Skyhammer. There is NO reason to play him whatsoever when you can pick a merc that does everything he does, but better.

#BuffArty

(Frogteam) #29

Honestly I don’t have any problems with Arty, I come out ahead in most fights with the Dreiss. His artillery is very hard to use mid gunfight, but it’s clearly not meant to be used then.

His artillery can be very useful if you use it intelligently, like blowing out the secondary objective on the second part of Trainyard as attackers only takes 4 salvos which can be fired from over the wall, or for driving people out of cover by dropping it by the corner of whatever they’re hiding behind.

#Keepartyexactlythesamebecausehe’sfine

(Parmenion) #30

Arty is fine, he doesn’t need buff. I have all the mercs and my best is Arty with the Dreiss AR. Especialy on EV maps.

(MyPingIsHuge) #31

Dont you love when people post withouth reading the rest of the thread?

(apricotDinosaur) #32

Devs Confirmed they were “looking at him” in the stream today

(MyPingIsHuge) #33

That’s good to know, at least. Chinaman needs more powa.

(meditativePillar) #34

Skyhammer is flatly better than the rest of the ammo poopers.

(Ardez1) #35

They had mentioned in the stream they were looking at a rework for him. A big step over just buffing him as he stands currently.

(CCP115) #36

They had mentioned in the stream they were looking at a rework for him. A big step over just buffing him as he stands currently.[/quote]

A rework? Not only is that amazing but it is also kind of funny, the game has been in Open Beta for like a month.

(Gi.Am) #37

urgs, I hope he keeps his unique spot. And doesn’t become a Skyhammer clone.

(CCP115) #38

Is that meant to be a joke? Isn’t he already kind of one… to an extent.

(Gi.Am) #39

Nope they play very different (aside from the ammo giving). Skyhammer is constantly shooting and in the thick of the battle. being very selective with his airstrike (atleast on EV missions). While Arty stays in the back most of the time and constantly bombs campingspots and high traffic areas, while trying to get some Dreiss damage in inbetween.

My fear is, because people complain about the perceived weak damage of the artillery (not aiming at the right areas in reality) that they up the Damage/AOE and increase the cooldown to compensate. Which would imo take away his uniqueness and make him too similar to Kira/Skyhammer.

(Fuze) #40

Is that meant to be a joke? Isn’t he already kind of one… to an extent.[/quote]

Not really, no. Aside for dropping ammo packs, they aren’t similar. If they were, Arty wouldn’t suck. B)