I’m currently using Bushwacker as a secondary merc for when my team needs an mechanic, though I wanna try to use him more effectively. Anyone got any tips for him, especially for his turret? I can’t seem to do well with it besides setting it up as a distraction and flank enemies once they are getting shot at.
Got any tips for playing w/ Bushwacker?
Kalbuth1
(Kalbuth)
#2
2 ways : Turret as primary or you as primary.
First case : put the turret in some corner in the back of the path of the ennemy, they’ll come in and start be shot by the turret. You then come in and finish the job
Second : Put the turret somewhere near you/in your back, you go fish people shooting at them and they get finished by the turret while trying to finish you.
Other uses : warning system. Just put it somewhere you’re not but on a place you want to control. Listen for the “Frrrt Frrrt” the turret makes when locking.
Don’t deploy it in front of ennemies, it’s useless, it has less health when being built and will be destroyed easily without shooting a single bullet.
Once one of your traps have worked fine, CHANGE IT. Nothing is more annoying than dying to a turret trap, preparing the next rush with the counterplay, only to discover there’s nothing there anymore and dying to the same trap somewhere else. It’s pretty simple, move your turrets closer or farther away on the ennemy path, change the angle on the same entry point, etc… Having 3 or 4 positions for the same guarded area is super annoying.
Typically, for example on Chapel, be it O or D, I rush the garage behind the EV and place the turret there, in the back, and wait a bit to assess the situation while behind the turret. Usually you get 1 or 2 roamers here if in O, and 1 or 2 repairing people if in D. Then depending on ennemy placement, the turret will go either left or right of the garage, then back to the back (often in D when the offense realise I’m camping there and start looking for me from the alley in the back and fire through the windows), etc… I have 3 or 4 places there, even if it’s pretty open.
Relocating the turret is really helpfull.
XavienX
(XavienX)
#3
Adding to the post above^
Bushwacker basically uses his turret to block a passage way, therefore cutting off a pathway for enemies to enter, leaving less options for them so that your team could cover less places.
Rorkyr
(Rorkyr)
#4
Really usefull for me too. I love playing with engineers like Proxy (Mines ! Mines everywhere !!! :D) so, I wanted to play with Bushy but I don’t really know how to “use” him ><
I hope I can be a “Turret Master” soon x3 !