What I think this event has shown us about the objective specialist mercs

(KangaJoo) #21

As someone who about six months ago used to play this game on a top 2 NA team, I’ve noticed that a lot of pub players like proxy but she’s pretty useless against people who know what they’re doing. I think her small player model and relatively fast movement make it so noobs have a really hard time hitting her so she can run around without getting punished in a lot of public servers. Also, noobs tend to have really bad situational awareness so they just run straight into her mines.

That all changes when you start playing against decent players, though. Sure she’s small and kinda fast but for people with good aim she’s still easy to hit and her low HP means she’s gonna go down real fast. Factor in that her mines are basically useless against people with good situational awareness while bushwhacker’s turret and fletcher’s stickies are very useful even when players are paying attention to them means that there’s really no good reason to use proxy against good players.

tl;dr: she’s easy to pub stomp with but sucks against players that know what they’re doing… At least that’s how it was six months ago. Haven’t played much recently.

(frostyvampire) #22

Proxy isn’t OP. The reason she is the most popular is because:

  1. She’s cheap (20k credits less in price)
  2. She is really pretty (the prettiest merc in the game) and as far as I know, guys like pretty girls
  3. She requires much less skill to use than other engineers, you just need to place a mine and noobs usually don’t check for them so it’s easy kills

The run and place and shoot mine strategy (whatever you call it) is not cheap, you end up wasting a mine and you miss a lot of shots before hitting it, especially if you have a loadout with shotgun + deagle and until you manage to hit it, you will lose over 50% of your health. Yes it kinda sucks that Proxy is able to use the SMG with the best fire rate even though she is a shotgun merc which kinda screws up the difficulty of hitting the mine but it’s still not good.

Short:
Proxy is easy to kill noobs with
Proxy is a good starting merc and doesn’t require as much skill as most other mercs
Proxy is cheap and also pretty

(bmsclonix) #23

Fact that she’s cheaper makes her more played, but also, the event calculates the statistics based on servers with 12-16 players where good teamplay is something rare. Ofcourse, you can counter a proxy fairly easy with good aim and good awareness.
But no teamwork on populated servers means chaos, and chaos, yes chaos is where proxies shine! >:)

How many times did you die due to a mine triggered by a clumsy teammate? :confused:

(AnonOmis1000) #24

[quote=“bontsa;177142”]@Randomdeath You do understand the obsidian has to be actually made now? I fail to see how that was unclear; people play 5 weeks to “decide” (or be oblivious of the event) the most played merc, then devs make skin for that merc.

So, so sad stuff doesn’t immediately, right now, at this moment, appear out of thin air.

E: Nvm it looks like you finally even. Only after gettin’ threads locked by mods.

@AnonOmis1000 As others have said already, stop bashing yourself. Enough people will do so in the internet anyways so instead appreciate yourself. Self analyzing is different story altogether and something people should be doing.[/quote]

cant see much reason to appreciate myself, but this is getting off topic and I’m sure none of you care that much about me. Not that expect any of you guys to. I’m just some prick on the internet.

(AnonOmis1000) #25

[quote=“Randomdeath;177143”][quote=“bontsa;177142”]@Randomdeath You do understand the obsidian has to be actually made now? I fail to see how that was unclear; people play 5 weeks to “decide” (or be oblivious of the event) the most played merc, then devs make skin for that merc.

So, so sad stuff doesn’t immediately, right now, at this moment, appear out of thin air.

E: Nvm it looks like you finally even. Only after gettin’ threads locked by mods.

@AnonOmis1000 As others have said already, stop bashing yourself. Enough people will do so in the internet anyways so instead appreciate yourself. Self analyzing is different story altogether and something people should be doing.[/quote]

man, was it impossible to make the cards for the last 4 mercs? or at least notice that proxy has lead for 80% of the week and make an obsidian there???[/quote]

Why waste time and effort making cards that will never ever be in the game?

(TheGreatHoundini) #26

I must admit that after working through Fletcher’s stickies and seeing that now they are unable to kill any normal-sized Merc even if you stick one directly onto them…Those throw-and-forget mines that can insta-gib are looking pretty attractive.