Give Arty Some Respect Yo!

(Party_With_Arty) #1

Seriously most people don’t like arty cause they don’t understand the ideal play style around his design. I crush teams on the daily with him. His ability is perfect for taking out long range campers or clearing an objective. You just gotta be accurate with it. And his primary weapon load outs are some of the biggest health melters in the game, but gain you gotta be accurate to take the cake.

(Haki) #2

I gotta say I do enjoy him more since the recent Stark changes.
Also I always enjoy having ammo packs instead of station, since you can shove your ammo up your teammates without them running away :smiley:
I just can’t get used to his artillery strike, it’s a weird thing to get used to.

(Sir_Slam) #3

I’ve done some mad work with arty, can confirm he’s a good pick.

I like him as a back up to skyhammer. If they get the EV repaired, I don’t have over a minute to wait for another air strike.

HERE COMES ARTY

(Thai-San) #4

The only negative point about Arty is that his ability is useless indoors. But that aside I’d take him any time over Skyhammer. Especially on Chapel Arty is my favorite. But I played Stoker yesterday for the first time (thx rotation) and I love him at least equally to my angry, Chinese friend. But those two don’t compare really well imo, even thou they are both supporters.

Arty will always have a warm spot reserved in my heart. He isn’t my third most Merc for nothing :wink:

“I kill you old school!”

(Apofenas) #5

People underestimate him, yes. In good hands any merc can be used well.

Arty has some serious issues though: his main advantage is defence on 2 maps with EV. You may see 3-4 arty in team stoppinh EV every meter and flooding map with ammo packs.

Everywhere else - more than one arty is a very rare picture. Recent buff of burst rifles made him a bit better, but overall on other maps he’s just another skyhammer with burst rifle.

I like him cause i like burst rifles. But in doors i’d rather take Stoker or even Skyhammer because their ability is just better there.

I got him with begginer’s pack. He’s worth his 30k. But i wouldn’t get him after i got Kira and Stoker.

(watsyurdeal) #6

Honestly the recent buffs to him have made him actually quite spammy, it’s super easy to just launch strike after strike, his role seems to be constant pressure. Which actually makes sense considering Stoker is better at area denial, Skyhammer is best at raw killing power (burst damage), and Kira is just the most versatile, her strike is very under rated.

I’d argue he could use some more tweaks in terms of how he does his job, instead of hitscan laser he should just get a dart or something that marks the strike.

(Party_With_Arty) #7

Honestly Arty is my main merc that being said, I feel he doesn’t need any more tweaks unless they want to make a dress tweak for better hipshot accuracy. But even then I like the dress how it is you just gotta ads alot. And like Watyurdeal said his ability is amazing for team suppression. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled in a triple or quad feed with a well placed double arty strike on the enemy team. And it’s cool down and overall ordinance delivery is 100 times faster than skyhammer. Half the time I get kills with artys abilities it’s because the enemy is too distracted to notice they’re sitting on a lased spot and by the time they see it it’s already too late. Unlike skyhammer who’s ability I rarely get killed by since you can see and even hear it coming a mile away.

(Party_With_Arty) #8

Driess**** fuggin auto corrects

(HoopleDoople) #9

With burst fire rifles once again a popular choice, Arty isn’t in that bad of a spot. The only buff he desperately needs is a better way to call in strikes. He’s the only fire support that is basically required to expose himself to enemy fire to use his ability on them. And to make matters worse his laser charging can be interrupted by enemy fire. I’d love to see interrupts removed from his laser or better yet the laser could be instantly activated.

Arty will still have the problem of being weak indoors but this doesn’t bother me too much. Not every merc needs to be a balanced option in every situation. The devs just need to make sure when designing maps to leave sufficient sky over key locations.

(CCP115) #10

He’s my most played merc, and I’m not too sure why.

His weapons definitely are better now, but of course anyone can destroy him at close range, assuming equal skill.

Personally I don’t think I’ll be complaining about Arty anymore. He definitely isn’t the strongest merc, but he’s fine. Still useless indoors though.

(Vinos) #11

If Splash Damage hadn’t nerfed Dreiss to oblivion, I might have cared for Arty more.
And they decided to buff Skyhammer’s airstrike beacon instead, which makes Skyhammer better than Arty in all meaningful ways.

(bizarreRectangle) #12

Arty’s amazing. ARTY PARTY has actually been going around for a while. I don’t know why everyone’s disappointed how he isn’t good at indoors, it’s quite obvious and he’s still good. Every character needs a weakness. I’m fine with his artillery designator, although less flinch would be nice. I find it more dangerous throwing molotovs than activating a laser far away. I don’t really NEED to expose myself to enemy fire.

(Apofenas) #13

In doors Arty is pretty much even to Skyhammer or Stoker in terms combat without abilities (assuming they have load outs with same weapons), but those 2 can use their primary ability and Arty can’t. Out doors without EV involved, which is 14 out of 16 game situations, Arty is just same Skyhammer with air strike spreaded onto 3 parts, yes with arty you may make mistakes but overall it’s pretty much similar ability. Would you spend 30k credits for a small advantage over free alternative?

Arty needs some bigger advantages. Like arty being able to deny area for 5 seconds similar to molotov/orbital laser. Or at least ammo pack advantage like bigger ones that can be used multiple times, or faster recharge, or ability to drop 2 at once, or simply more of them. With that, i’d even buy Arty for 50k.

(XavienX) #14

It’s just hard for me to predict where the enemy is going since the radius of his Artillery Strikes are no where near Air Strikes.

(Venokk) #15

Oh, I’ve given him my respect alright. I respect the MVP on the enemy team that gave me a headache on the last objective of Chapel…Seriously, Arty is so good in pro hands.

(Drcipres) #16

Since the burst rifles changes, I have to test the stark ar, maybe now is better than the br 16.
But coming to the main discussion, he and kira might get a indoor utility in the next update