How do you judge your loadout cards?
Its usually a mix of the bottom three, perks rarely have any real difference, but may come into play in cards that I am indifferent about the weapon section.
Rarity is top, i.e. CW or Cobalts.
Within Cobalts Fragment>Shard.
Weapons are usually only if they are unique to that merc or different to other weapons in their class, i.e Grandeur SR/Kukri on Redeye, Katana on Phantom, MK46 on Thunder.
Perks usually only come into play when there are multiple ones that stack in augment abilities (That one Sparks card with Revivr perks, 383), or when they are just fun to mess around with (G41 Redeye, 343 Sparks, D83 Arty are all cards that I use to go ham with melee weps because the chopper/cricket bat and Quick Slash/Chopper/Beckhill synergise so well.
TL; DR Rarity>Skin>Weapons>Perks.
I miss the all 4 of them option. But If I need to pick… I don’t use anything but Gold, and it need to have the Swiss skin.
I would put it Weapons>Perks>Rarity>Skin, altough IMO with Fragger, priority are augments (perks) cause you know K-121 loadouts… … …
Same would be with Sparks, and maybe Fletcher
I’ll use an “ok” loadout as long as its rarity is cobalt otherwise i’ll just use the one with my favourite weapons which is usually gold/silver
@HonourBound how many times did you try for a Fragment Proxy?
Yours should be by skin, we all know you only use Fragment and refuse to use Bamboo except on Vasilli Bois.
I prefer a good loadout in bronze than a bad cobalt. That said i have my favourite weapon but i usually pick a certain loadout within the weapon i choose by looking at the perks. I usually don’t really pay attention to secondary and melee.
I usually go with at least bronze card for the pure try hard factor since they’re the best cards in general.
Then if the merc doesn’t require certain augments (Fletcher - Lock On, Sparks - Quick Charge/Get Up) I seek out the three loadouts that have my preferred weapon. From there I go with most useful perks.
Skins are a nice addition but I’d never choose a card because it’s blue rather than the one that has higher killing potential,survivability etc.
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TL; DR Rarity>Skin>Weapons>Perks.[/quote]
Objectively-wise this is…Stupid as hell.
Subjectively-wise you can do what you want and use what you want.
I go for Augments, Weapons > Rarity > Skin.
I have all mercs I play as the best Bronze, if there’s one. When I trade up and get the best silver, I use the bronze as materials and so on up to gold.
Weapons > Augments > Rarity > Skin
The exception is Gold Bamboo, which I only value more than Bronze. I hate both but if I have to use a skin I hate then at least it is Gold.
I only check Bronze and up. Iron is only there for trading up and lead may not exist as well (got 400+ cases).
So my usual way of valueing cases is:
- Weapon. Very important. I don’t play crap weapons.
- Augments. Also important, but I can live with a slightly less optimal configuration.
- Game mode. Execution requires different augments than Obj / SW.
- Rarity. I might play with a higher rarity if it looks nice and has playable augments. But chances are I usually go with whatever suits the playstyle for the specific game mode best.
Weapons >= Augments, everything else isn’t relevant for me. I happily use my bronze BL32 instead of my Fragment Cobalt A31 on Fletcher.
[quote=“SpectraBlitz;118899”]@HonourBound how many times did you try for a Fragment Proxy?
Yours should be by skin, we all know you only use Fragment and refuse to use Bamboo except on Vasilli Bois.[/quote]
Its by skin to an extent but it was 50/50 between skin and weapon so i just put weapon
This.
I go through all the loadouts and eliminate the ones with bad perk synergy to my chosen play style. Then I look for good synergies. Then I decide which loadouts are acceptable for each of the primary weapon. It’s usually pretty obvious which is the best loadout at this point, and what are acceptable loadouts on different primaries.
I just won’t accept a loadout card for medics that doesn’t have at least 2 medic perks.
Similar, I consider Explodihydron a must have for any class that it’s available on.
Voted for skins because Im currently using the D72 CW loadout for Arty despite hating the Dreiss. Why does it have to be so crappy but look so glorious at the same time?
Well normally I judge the loadouts in following order: Weapons, skins and then perks.
I consider all of these good loadouts that I am unwilling to trade in. Except Cobalt Fragger. that loadout is meh. Also Stoker. I havn’t decided on a loadout I like yet.
