Make proxy a standart 'free' merc

(artfulSedan) #1

A team without a proxy is like a bycicle with the rear wheel missing, you might get forward but it’s really slow, anyoing and you might hurt yourself. why don’t you add proxy to the free mercs that everyone has from the beginning since a sapper is so essential to this game.

It would make sense, you get a free field ops a free sapper and a free medic. Each one is fairly easy to play and you have to try to fuck up helping your team.
People would be frustrated at the beginning of the game or leave it because they have no sapper… seriously it’s neraly impossible to win this game if the enemy has one and you don’t.

(Nail) #2

Proxy was free to try for over a week, if you CHOSE NOT TO UNLOCK her, so sad, too bad, you lose

(artfulSedan) #3

Uhm you didn’t get the point. I wasn’t talking about putting her in the rotation, i know she was in there and shit hit the fan when she left it. I’m talking about giving her permanently to all players.

Also i didn’t CHOOSE to NOT unlock i didn’t got the money (how dare i, i know you probably bought every merc in this game how could i dare make a point about helping to reduce frustration).

(Eox) #4

Perfectly understandable suggestion, that I also suggested myself. Though I think that at the end allowing new users to pick their two starter mercs from a list would be much more interesting. Also adapt the tutorial to cover every characters from that list.

I’d suggest the following list :

  • Aura
  • Skyhammer
  • Proxy
  • Fragger
  • Vassili

Very simple. You can pick up to two (obviosuly the two that matches your gamestyle), and at the end you may have very diversified teams from start.

(artfulSedan) #5

A pic option would be cool.

I would like all 5 standart mercs (aura,skyhammer,proxy,fragger and vassily) to be aviable as starters once there are enough other mercs. They fil in the the main combat roles with medic,field osp and sapper beeing the most important. people could also test around with the different playstyles and grind for mercs that also fit in these roles.

I know that atm those basic roles are nearly the only ones aviable so i just suggest: give us the proxy for free.

It’s not even that I’m greedy or soemthing, no i want to pay money for this game so i can show my support but atm there is litarlly NOTHING i want to buy.

And yeah like a said a game without a sapper is no game.

(shreddedbullet) #6

[quote=“Eox;13968”]Perfectly understandable suggestion, that I also suggested myself. Though I think that at the end allowing new users to pick their two starter mercs from a list would be much more interesting. Also adapt the tutorial to cover every characters from that list.

I’d suggest the following list :

  • Aura
  • Skyhammer
  • Proxy
  • Fragger
  • Vassili

Very simple. You can pick up to two (obviosuly the two that matches your gamestyle), and at the end you may have very diversified teams from start. [/quote]

I agree, those mercs are a good basis for the free starting mercs. Since the game is very team oriented and it doesn’t have the diverse roster that of MOBAs, they need a balanced free pool. Otherwise it would be mayhem. Though once more mercs are introduced they can take and add mercs to the free pool that are similar in abilities but different mercs, to add variety.

(GildedDark) #7

I’m with @Nail on this one he’s right. Proxy was free for a little over a month and if u chose not to unlock her it’s your fault. I for one chose to buy her ASAP cause she’s my fave merc so far. If she was free their would be major mine spam like there was when she was in rotation.

I do agree that being able to pick your starting mercs would be nice but picking both wouldn’t work because some people would pick Fragger and Vassili who can’t support their team with ammo or health. If it was mandatory for skyhammer to be picked and then the second slot was open for whoever that would work because one out of two could assist the team by keeping hungry guns fed.

(INF3RN0) #8

Tutorial mercs should have been aura+proxy.

(artfulSedan) #9

[quote=“saucyPattern;14017”]I’m with @Nail on this one he’s right. Proxy was free for a little over a month and if u chose not to unlock her it’s your fault. I for one chose to buy her ASAP cause she’s my fave merc so far. If she was free their would be major mine spam like there was when she was in rotation.

I do agree that being able to pick your starting mercs would be nice but picking both wouldn’t work because some people would pick Fragger and Vassili who can’t support their team with ammo or health. If it was mandatory for skyhammer to be picked and then the second slot was open for whoever that would work because one out of two could assist the team by keeping hungry guns fed.[/quote]

WHat with your people thinking we didn’t choose to unlock her? I wanted to unlock her because she was so good damn essential. But since this game is a huge grind and you gained 100c per match back then yeah. SORRY that i do other stuff to than grinding all day n night for a merc in a beta I’m so sorry.

Would you please stop insulting people who don’t have the money or don’t want to spend cash on freakin timesaver packs?
bloody hell!
Take you golden spoon and stick somewhere.

(Szakalot) #10

Youre fast to take insult, saucy said ‘its your fault’ and people throw a high school drama.

Chillout a little; you’ll get your girl back!

(ev1ldarks) #11

The only problem I see is that, with the actual merc rotation, there is no engy in the free mercs, so newcomers can’t discover all the flavours of the game ^^

Hoping that they will add, for the game release, a third free merc that would be, for example, an engy ?

(artfulSedan) #12

I just dislike some ignorant t**** undermining my arguments by throwing insults around without any justification.
I tried to unlock her and i try at LEAST to help make this game better and REDUCE frustration, so that mroe people will stick to this game, buy things, and the developers can pay their rent, while SOME people just call other effectly noobs/idiots without helping to devlop anything!

What did you achieve with your post? NOTHING! you just said:" Proxy was in free rotation, you should have bought her, NOOB! "

you didn’t bring any argument why proxy shouldn’t be a starter merc, you just called me an idiot and that’s it. Please enxt time you make a post please think first, if you are actually helping the discussion. I have nothing against people providing arguments infact that’s what i want but atm i have jet to her one AGAINST my point.

and since when is h e l l a swearword? Do we live in the 16th century?

(B_Montiel) #13

In my opinion, since bushwacker is released, I’d prefer him as a free pool merc. It’d sound rather logical :
Aura : Light health pool, fast, medic, shotgun
Bushwacker : Medium health pool, medium speed, engineer, smg
Skyhammer : Medium ‘to high’ health pool, rather slow, support, assault rifle

That would make a good all-rounder pool with all the necessary classes for any team with 3 different gameplay (bishlock aura loadouts aside).

To me, strictly talking on weapon usage, aura and proxy are a bit too close. That’s probably what stopped the devs from putting two light mercs on free pool and turn the overall game into a massive light class fest.

(sinKrin) #14

I agree with the points made by B. Montiel. Making Bushwhacker one of the rotation mercs would also give people a chance who might be put off by the price tag to ‘try before you buy’

(ev1ldarks) #15

Exactly, definitely missing an engy free merc, and bushwhacker would be better than proxy ^^

(soothingDay) #16

At the moment, you rely on having someone on your team who has paid to unlock an engineer either through money or the in-game credit system (neither of which I have a problem with - the game needs to and deserves to make money). However, it makes it hard to avoid the pay to win arguments against the game. I just think there needs to be a more balanced selection in the rotation/free mercs pool or the developers need to stop communicating that this is a truly free to play title, because it will just lead to a lot of disillusioned players when they find out that the guys on the other team who paid to unlock a crucial class that is unavailable to them have a massive advantage.

(artfulSedan) #17

I don’t really care which Sapper we get as a starter just give us one!

And while i agree that the game deserves money, i wont buy timesaver packs. Gimme customisation, skins ,effect stuff that doesn’T affect the game but looks cool.
Give me better cases which can be bought via cash and only contain cards for one merc (bronze or higher). I would buy stuff like that. I bought armor and other things for every Planetside 2 faction.

But i will not pay for something i could also get for free aka a timesaver pack.

So atm I’m trying to provide feedback to make this game less frustrating so that more people will play it and more people will pay money for it. Win win :3

(SchwaD) #18

I share artfulSedan opinion.

An engi should be available as free merc! Take proxy and aura will be a stupid idea, because they are in many ways similar (fast, shotgun, low hp).

From my point of view, following mercs should be free for new players:

Sawbonez + Proxy
or
Aura + Bushwhacker

Or like I also told in another post, how about giving every new player the possibility to play every merc for free for some rounds (special item to activate?) and after that he will get some money and can choose 2 of them to buy with a tip, that its recommended to take an engi.

(ev1ldarks) #19

I’m very curious about the criteria they used to decide the free and non-free mercs ?

(Rimmorn) #20

“Those weren’t free yet” seems to fit.

Edit: Thought you meant the rotation, nvm.