Are there any servers offering a more sandbox playstyle for people to try out new mercs or learn the ropes of faster movement? I wanted to try out a medic but my teammate wouldn’t stop bitching about my obviously lacking playstyle.
Or is it just a matter of train, rinse, repeat and getting a thicker skin?
If you play the tutorial and open the developer console type in “switchmap obj_[map name]” (or something similar to that) you will load that map and play alone on it. Downside: You can only play Fragger, Sawbonez and Proxy on those maps. But it’s good to learn the maps/jumps/movement/positioning.
I hope that helped 
You can do it from the main menu, and you can try ANY merc, any map and any weapon. Even the unreleased ones.
does this still work? i tried it a few days ago and always respawned inside the tutorial map.
@jubilantBeam Yep, still works! Make sure you typed the name of the map correctly - and make sure it’s the map’s file name, and not the common name for the map (ie. Bridge, CanaryWharf, Map_6, Trainyard, Victoria, Whitechapel)!
i watched a video recently saying if you type “switchmap OBJ_Underground”, it would bug out, kill you, leave a clone of you in your place of death and then respawn you.
I still feel like this thread needs to pursue the idea for future plans. I mean, EVERYONE wants to test out mercs before playing them right? Rotation. But that’s for using them against others and in limited supply and also depends on whenever A player joins, DB tries to keep the mercs split between the three roles (Assault, Support, & Medic) but I still feel as if you don;t want to play against anyone, there should be a sandbox option with a user interface to easily change mercs around and test out different weapons with different abilities ( A little bit of mix and match for some fun.)
@Konsubo I agree, players can make minigame maps, put them on steam workshop