John Mercury is second worst?

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

my second choice after Toya was John Mercury, but he OP Broken, like, it got to where I was adding artificial difficulty just to make it feel fair. (have to kill 4+ guards at once with 3 crew, and Mercury has to be a regular attack)
I mean, at first I was just mopping the board with absolutely no set up, he tunnels under walls, hides bodies instantly, it seems like his only drawback is vertical traversing.

I am about to revive my 4th crew (5th including Afia) and looked to see who was worth getting and saw he was listed as 2nd worst?! Does this mean the others are off the charts insane?!?

[Aegix Drakan]

I would be curious to know why too.

Mercury is super versatile and one of my top picks for a mission I'm actually worried about.

That said, most of the others are really strong in at least one key way.

Suleidy's Cover seeds make impossible situations suddenly doable (I JUST swiped a mission objective from right under a Prognosticar's nose with it, shaving off like 15 minutes of work securing the entire zone so I could kill it). She is a must-have for me almost every time.

Toya's kills are really fast and you can basically bank one for later with his teleport (on top of calling acolytes into bushes for you to kill)

Afia's a very reliable assassin, and her time stop can't be ignored by Commisars.

Theresa needs setup and recovery, but both her blind shot and her sniper shot make dealing with some situations delightfully easy.

And Gaelle....Okay, I don't SUPER like her 90% of the time I take her on a job, to be honest. But the 10% of the time her cannon comes in handy, it's a godsend. (Like sniping a tricky target with Theresa, then loading her into the cannon so she can get shot up to retrieve it)

I have not unlocked the last two guys yet.

[PancorJackhammer]

Originally posted by 》Billynair:

I am about to revive my 4th crew (5th including Afia) and looked to see who was worth getting and saw he was listed as 2nd worst?! Does this mean the others are off the charts insane?!?

in my opinion john is the strongest of the base game. Basically all characters are good if you know how to use them. just pick who you like.

just some info to gaelle:
- she uses her cannon to carry corpses, which gives her no movement penalty.
- her firecrackers are a lure like toyas birds voice but throwable like pinkus coins making
them super versatile
- she can use the noise of guards shot into a bush as distraction
- her pull in ability is only limited by line of sight making it great to get others out of sticky
situations
- with the upgrade her melee attack is the fastest in the game (2.2s)

[Tricking Trapster]

My personal favorite is Quentin the Treasure Hunter. His fishing rod is simply insane, especially when combined with Gaelle. Gaelle gets a lot, LOT better when you unlock crew upgrades later. I'll not spoil why though.

[x_equals_speed]

If I had to rank them it'd go something like:

Suleidy
Quentin
Theresa
John
Gaelle
Toya
Pinkus
Afia

But honestly, Afia is great! The characters are all fantastic and are all the best at *something* It also depends a lot on your playstyle, if you don't care about getting spotted as long as you survive the resulting alarm you'll have a different favoriate to someone who wants to minimise loads to someone who wants to minimise time to complete level.

Also the combinations of them matter a lot. Gaelle can shoot someone to higher elevation. Quentin can bring someone from lower elevation up to his level. Between them there are places in the game that you can skip enormous amounts of difficulty by using them to move your whole team, which neither could achieve individually.

[Dice]

It's really a testatment to this games great character design, seeing how different peoples rankings are.
Toya and Quentin are borderline useless in my eyes with John, Zagan and Pinkus marking the top. Yet in this very threat, we see people ranking these characters almost in opposite order.
Really interesting seeing how different characters resonate with peoples playstyles.

[Aegix Drakan]

Originally posted by Dice:

It's really a testatment to this games great character design, seeing how different peoples rankings are.
Toya and Quentin are borderline useless in my eyes with John, Zagan and Pinkus marking the top. Yet in this very threat, we see people ranking these characters almost in opposite order.
Really interesting seeing how different characters resonate with peoples playstyles.

Yeah, I was just thinking that too. THIS is how you know you have a phenomenally balanced game.

[x_equals_speed]

Aye, I couldn't agree more.

[Burdpal]

Gotta' clean this place sometime!

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

Originally posted by Dice:

It's really a testatment to this games great character design, seeing how different peoples rankings are.

absolutely!
a few days ago I was forgetting to bring Afia with me since I was never using her, and I just realized now that I was using her almost exclusively for the past half hour. Suleidy as a forward attacker isnt much to brag about but indispensable as a support player, send someone in with their ranged attack and have Suleidy throw a bush on them, by the time their attack is done, they are hidden and the body is gone... so clean!

[Tommy]

in my last run, i almost exclusively used John. He is such a good character, and honestly, as a character rather than an assassin, my favorite.
so, this run i'm going to make him my last unlock. Nothing personal John, but I want to see a different strategy

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

Originally posted by Tommy:

in my last run, i almost exclusively used John. He is such a good character, and honestly, as a character rather than an assassin, my favorite.
so, this run i'm going to make him my last unlock. Nothing personal John, but I want to see a different strategy

my last mission I said to him, in my head, I cant take you my dude, you are too easy to use against them... hhahhahaa

[[BR1] 》Billynair]

well, after everyone kept raving about Pinkus, he was my next revive, and... yeah, I thought John was OP broken, but... Pinkus and solo clean up the whole with 1 finger, hahhahahah!!!

(except the Kills that require 2+)

[Andrewick]

I've discovered that my favorite combo is Theresa and Quentin. Sometimes, when it's about completing a mission without releasing the memory, I just grab the two, set them in a hiding spot, snipe one guy, retreive the shot with Quentin, snipe another guy, retreive, snipe, retreive and so on. Eventually the area is secure enough to Fortnite dance on the entire map and there's nobody left to raise an alarm. And at that point releasing the memory is just no longer a thing.

[Lady Neravin]

Originally posted by Andrewick:

I've discovered that my favorite combo is Theresa and Quentin. Sometimes, when it's about completing a mission without releasing the memory, I just grab the two, set them in a hiding spot, snipe one guy, retreive the shot with Quentin, snipe another guy, retreive, snipe, retreive and so on. Eventually the area is secure enough to Fortnite dance on the entire map and there's nobody left to raise an alarm. And at that point releasing the memory is just no longer a thing.

And paired up with Suleidys bushes, Quentin can get even closer, to make it easier to get the bolt back

[astallman]

Interesting comments .... my go to team has been Suleidy, Quentin, & Theresa. Quentin retrieves the bolts, and Suleidy lays down the cover if needed. I'm done with the game and DLCs ... and having the unlocked character amplifies my preferences (don't want to spoil the surprise if folks aren't there yet). LOVE how the replay value is primo with all the characters. John I hardly ever used ... just enough to satisfy the crew badges, but I'm going play around with him based on all these helpful opinions. Thanks!
gotta clean this place sometime indeed!
carry on mateys! RRRRRRR!