Upgrading Mercs

(TheKennyL24) #1

It might be a bit of a dumb question,but here it is: Does it pay off to upgrade mercs past bronze or silver loadout cards. When you’re bronze you get three augments. For example: Skyhammer,one of those augments is that blast radios of the airstrike is increased by 10%,now if you upgrade to Gold or even Cobalt,does that maybe increase the blast radius ? How do Gold and Cobalt loadout cards affect mercs and gameplay ?

(PowerReef) #2

Gold, silver and cobalt aee all cosmetic and are the same as bronze cards in terms of augments and weapons, however there usually is 1 or 2 cards only available in gold or cobalt but in my experiences they usually arent that good

(Yak) #3

Not anymore, bronze has all the same loadouts as the higher rarities. It’s all cosmetic past bronze now.

(Amerika) #4

Yeah, in the past, Silver had one unique loadout and then Gold had one unique loadout (and you could get the silver loadout in gold too). Then with the Kira/Rhino patch I believe, where the store allowed you to buy Bronze cards directly, that was changed to where every card in the game was Bronze.

This was done to avoid any pay2win issues even though, at the time, there was only one unique card amongst the mercs that was considered extremely good. And that was a Sawbonez you could get at Silver or Gold that had Crotzni, Get-up, potent packs and mechanic and a bat.

But due to the flinch changes and revive mechanic changes many see his cards with Focus as being the better option now. Gotta love constant meta changes.

(TheKennyL24) #5

Thank you all for answering ! Now I don’t have to spend that hard earned money on silver loadout cards,bronze is enough.

(Backuplight) #6

Eventually you get to a point where you have a bunch of credits sitting there and the potential for a shinier card comes along and steals it.