[quote=“GregHouseMD;29520”]I assume we’re talking about pubs here. In which case . . . people are free to play what they like. It’s up to them, and all you can do is politely ask them to play something else.
Based on my experiences both as and against Rhino, he’s less of a threat than most mercs unless he has a dedicated medic. Just pack some explosives, and go to town. Or grab Vassili - who incidentally is on rotation right now. Or just shoot him at range, with literally any weapon. If you’ve got the range, a handgun will beat Rhino. I mean that. Just don’t run up to him from the front ( or at all ), and you’ll be fine.
Vassili on rotation is probably not a coincidence. It’s annoying to those of us who don’t enjoy having too many on our teams. Of course, most of them won’t be very good, and are an annoyance at worst.
Bushwhacker’s turrets require a bit of tactical thinking. Just a little, though. Get behind the thing, or pop it from range. If you see Bushwhacker drop it in the middle of a fight, shoot it a few times - or kill Bushwhacker and retreat. It gets silly if there’s four of them, as you say, pointed at the objective. I’d suggest that if the enemy team is that well set up, though, then you’re probably not doing a good job of holding them back to begin with, and likely would’ve lost the objective in any event.[/quote]
Ofc we are talking about pubs, honest i tried competitive mode today for the first time, one of my team mates was a lv 5 guy with 7 hours of game that only played vassili the whole game despire me asking him to switch to something else, other were lv 7-8 with around 15 hours of game that mainly played aura/Skyhammer and could not hit a res, yes they could not figure out how to revive ppl. Not even CSGO silver was that kind of bad, not going to play again until i can do it with a full group of 5 ppl.
Leaving that behind the problem is not all 3 mercs on free week but them combined and in quantity, yes theres counterplay for rhino but you mainly can only do it with 2 mercs Nader and Fragger, i cant play those 2 all the time because i have to go medic as a lot of the time 1 am the only Sawbones of the team.
Vassili is a big problem on the hands of low lv players, they barely know the obj and have very little knowledge of the map or the way the game works, they end up just sitting in a useless spot being dead weight to the team, usually the team with less Vassilis win the game
Bushwhacker is atm the best eng, his turret do a lot of dmg but theres ofc lots of counterplay to it, not so many when the enemy team have 3+ of them placing the turrets near each other
tl;dr Individually those 3 mercs are strong, what make they broke is quantity and being on the hands of extreme inexperienced players
