Most Annoying Mercenary/ Mercenaries And Why?

(Ghosthree3) #21

All of these except cooked nades can be avoided fairly easily and the nades have a much bigger cooldown than the sniper rifle shots.

(immenseWalnut) #22

Don’t have problems with any of the mercs specifically, the players using them on the other hand…

I actually get more annoyed with my own team mates (no ammo being dropped, useless snipers, body blocking shots, useless turret operators etc) than I do against good players rocking an annoying merc.

(GregHouseMD) #23

Hah! As if I would to airstrikes. Oh, don’t make me laugh!

Seriously, though. It’s not different. But it is. Sniping is cheap. Yeah, I said it. If some Fragger kills me fair and square, that’s fine, he deserves it. If he played dirty . . . well, if he didn’t play dirty, I’d have killed him first, right? Yeah. Nevermind. If you’re in my face and kill me, that’s fine.

Also, whenever a sniper kills me, I can’t help but imagine the player as this cackling, half-mad guy who thinks he’s way cooler than he actually is. I don’t know if I’m the only one, but there you go.

(Ghosthree3) #24

Nope, they’re definitely super pleased with themselves and think they’re the best in that moment.

(Serious Sam) #25

I agree with @Amerika that snipers are easy to avoid, the only exception being if you’re playing a beefy class. Running a jumping back and forth a bit will keep your head on your shoulders against all but the best enemy snipers, and once you get close you have a pretty significant upper hand unless they landed something against you. If a sniper can hit me while I’m bouncing around like an epileptic beach ball, it was most certainly not a cheap kill.

(Ghosthree3) #26

GregHouseMD never said they weren’t avoidable or performed well or won their team the game. In fact the opposite. The complaint was the frustration from when they DO headshot you, which while not too frequent, extremely annoying for a low risk action.

(Amerika) #27

GregHouseMD never said they weren’t avoidable or performed well or won their team the game. In fact the opposite. The complaint was the frustration from when they DO headshot you, which while not too frequent, extremely annoying for a low risk action.[/quote]

I find it really annoying to come around a corner only to randomly be shot in the head by an Aura/Proxy shotgun and die instantly. Or come around a corner by a teammate who didn’t know to clear out of the way when they saw a Fragger priming a nade and I happen to pass by at that exact moment - BOOM. Or to get killed by an airstrike you can’t see because half the time you have no clue they are coming due to the laser going under the ground frequently and the audio for it simply not playing. Or an airstrike/explosion that kills you indoors when it should not. Or being killed from an objective exploding despite being a long distance away. Or being killed around a corner because the lag compensation didn’t think you were around the corner yet. Or trading kills with a person (also due to lag compensation). And finally being headshot by a Vassili.

There is a lot of things can be annoying to players in this game and it will vary by player. The trick is doing what you can to minimize that annoyance and consider it a skill. There is a lot players can do to avoid some of those situations while others pretty much requires you to shake your head and move on.

(goodField) #28

Its not so much the Mercs that annoy me, than the players who’re using them :pensive:

Skyhammer, Vasillia, and Fragger.

Skyhammer, because I know that 90% of the people playing him are going to sit in a cooridor with him ADS’d or ADS-walk their way from spawn to the Objective.

Vaseline because of the same thing. “Its a Sniper, better set up camp, roast some marshmallows and wait for someone to come to my spawn point…”

Fragger, because they’re the Skyhammers who figured out how to change Mercs. ADS-a-Thon, featuring Micheal Ironsights.

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(Ghosthree3) #29

Yes those are all annoying. The difference is that those tend to put the killer at risk, if not by you then other people on your team. Vasilli can do it while being safe from pretty much everyone. He probably won’t kill as many, but the ones he get you had no chance of outplaying and no real chance of killing him. Add onto that its often an instant gib and it gets really frustrating, especially if you just ran out of spawn and now have 25s til respawn.

At least when Aura rushes you and kills you in one shot you were outplayed instead of picked off.

(Ardez1) #30

[quote=“goodField;26169”]Skyhammer, because I know that 90% of the people playing him are going to sit in a cooridor with him ADS’d or ADS-walk their way from spawn to the Objective.

Vaseline because of the same thing. “Its a Sniper, better set up camp, roast some marshmallows and wait for someone to come to my spawn point…”

Fragger, because they’re the Skyhammers who figured out how to change Mercs. ADS-a-Thon, featuring Micheal Ironsights.

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This gave me a really good laugh. :smiley:

(Amerika) #31

Yes those are all annoying. The difference is that those tend to put the killer at risk, if not by you then other people on your team. Vasilli can do it while being safe from pretty much everyone. He probably won’t kill as many, but the ones he get you had no chance of outplaying and no real chance of killing him. Add onto that its often an instant gib and it gets really frustrating, especially if you just ran out of spawn and now have 25s til respawn.

At least when Aura rushes you and kills you in one shot you were outplayed instead of picked off.[/quote]

Exactly how is Vassili always safe no matter where you are on a map? You seem to be using a bit of hyperbole here instead of how the game actually works.

(Ghosthree3) #32

He’s not always safe, he’s the safest. Especially as Attacker on first spawn. And if he’s not safe then you are not his victim, his victim is in a position where Vasilli is safe, to them he is fairly untouchable, this is not the case for anyone else. If anyone else attacks you you can immediately turn the fight and win on them. While possible with Vasilli at range it’s much more unlikely.

(Gwarh) #33

Every time I sucker someone with Martrydom I LOL in the RL at my Puter.

(Ravags) #34

Vassili. I’m not talking about those “xXEL1TE Sn1p0rZXx” 's out there who go 1/30 and complain that enemies are hacking, I’m talking about those hardcore competitive Vassili who randomly connect to my casual games and absolutely destroy our team. You can’t do anything against those guys because the minute you accidentally run into their sight you’re dead. Granted there aren’t many of them, but when one of them finds their way in to your game you can pretty much give up.

(Amerika) #35

I just can’t agree on that as it goes against all my hours of play both as and against Vassili.

(Impeccable Lemon) #36

I feel a lot of complaints about Vaseline would be solved if they made his snipers projectiles instead of hitscan, with just enough of a projectile speed that he needs to lead a target that’s sprinting perpendicular to him at far enough range.

(Ghosthree3) #37

Well this was never about what he is, this was about why I and some others find him the most annoying as per the thread topic. He annoys me for these reasons whether they are right or wrong.

(XavienX) #38

That doesn’t happen when you meet me :wink:

(elegantRoyalty) #39

running into artillery style spam thats either purely speculative or aimed at someone else annoys me.

But hands down winner is of course that vaseline , its not that his weapons are broken and hit regardless of where you shoot or the lack of any real way to get to him as he hides behind his team shooting through a narrow gap so you dont tend to even see him , its just that his so boring, theres no interaction its like “oh well you got all the skills necessary to click a desktop icon, grats i guess?”

(Serious Sam) #40

I dunno if it’s my own personal brand of magic (or hax, depending on how mad the other guy is), but I tend to be able to put the hurt on Vasilli from long range with my Blishlok ironsights. I’ve killed a few of the buggers on some occasions as well. Not terribly effective, but they are far from unreachable and even farther from unkillable.