Hi,
my hating here is horrible, i see that the game comes out “for good”. Ok, i download it. And WTF, Everyone play Proxy, the non so usefull merc in beta ? ok, let’s try it ! 1 shot, 1 kill, mines launch from 200 miles, diffusing btw in minus than 5 seconds ? what the fuck happens to this merc ? she’s to heavy now, any Proxy did i met kill me in one shot with Fragger or Skyhammer. How can this be possible ? you really need to nerf her !
The Mines, They’re pretty much like Fragger’s grenades, except you can hear and see them, theres even an augmentation that lets you see them better.
The Diffusing, Shes an engineer, they defuse and plant C4 faster than the rest.
Shotguns in general are really powerful, but you need to aim.
No nerfing, she is fine.
only thing i’d do with proxy is take away her SMG secondary and give her a pistol. SMG with a shotty gives her ridiculous close range damage with mediocre medium-long damage - BUT medium-long range damage that is easy to dish out because it comes from a low-recoil (in iron sight) high RPM SMG. By default I’d be happy to see her with sawbones’ starting pistol.
I think if you compare both Auras and Proxy’s base movement speed to other mercs, it may be a tad high. Not saying bring it to Sawbonez level but maybe something only just slightly about it.
She’s popular, that’s all. She very quick at clearing objectives, so I am not surprised that she is used a lot. I would instead slightly tune up the rate of clearing objectives like putting C4 in place, defusing or repairing of other mercs.
Do not touch her speed. She really need it. A slow proxy wouldn’t be good at all IMO. Shotguns need you to clear distances quickly to be efficient (especially with low HP), the secondary weapon is more useful as a backup, and she has to be able to rush at objectives.
When I started out I felt the same way about Proxy. Now that I’ve played a bit I kinda feel that she is fine. As someone already pointed out she is an engineer and (I might be wrong here) there is no other engineer merc atm wich kinda makes her stand out. I think that in time she will settle down a bit and you wont get servers full of Proxy only players.
As for her secondary smg I’d let her keep it. Im more inclined to agree with the guy who said the movement speed was slightly too high, the speed at wich she can close a distance is insane.