Zerk or custody?

[Vt]

I was once playing Brooklyn 10-10 at dsod, and 2 of my teammates went custody. My other teammate was using anarchist, with a crit shotgun build.
But he had 0 downs, so I said him to grab a med bag and he said no, just because he lose his berserker effect.
I accept anarchist is good, but is berserker really important than getting down once and going custody? Especially, when 2 of our teammates are gone? He could've just grab a med bag, and get downed once for berserker effect...
I think berserker has a problem to force players to play dangerous... or was it just a problem caused from player?

[spoiledtill2026]

what dose a ZERK effect do?

[Vt]

The lower the health, the more damage. Just means berserker in short.

[Lanxcapo]

depends on the build, if the one they were using needed to have near max zerk to hit an important breakpoint like say enough to one shot heavies i could see why they would risk it, since if they took the bag they would lose a mayor part of their fighting potential unless they rezerked which assuming that even if they had explosives or mollies to do so would still be risky

[ZE no-morph]

he though he can do it so why not

[carrot]

It's a risk/reward situation. A highly skilled player will ignore that doctor bag without a second thought, as they can consistently keep themselves alive, making more use out of the berserker. A less skilled one should take the doctor bag and just rezerk lest they risk just custodying.

On a sidenote, if they had no downs, then what good does using a doctor bag do for them? Anarchist can't take a health shot, so they would be losing the berserker effect for no reason.

[The destoyer of worlsd!!!]

Honestly, even with a gun that really desperately needs a damage boost greater than 40% like the semi-auto snipers, you'd probably be better off using a doc bag and regaining what you lost by deliberately getting kicked by a cloaker. Even if you can't do that, you regain the bonus next time you get downed and revived, at which point you'll still have one down left if you aced Nine Lives

Originally posted by rtcaor:

On a sidenote, if they had no downs, then what good does using a doctor bag do for them? Anarchist can't take a health shot, so they would be losing the berserker effect for no reason.

Almost certainly meant no downs left. You know, when the player's vision would normally go grey (I think the visual effect is bugged right now, though)

[Lanxcapo]

Originally posted by rtcaor:

On a sidenote, if they had no downs, then what good does using a doctor bag do for them? Anarchist can't take a health shot, so they would be losing the berserker effect for no reason.

i think they meant that they had 0 downs left, so black and white

[Mustard Seeds]

That's why I don't recommend anarchist or berserker setups, it encourages risky/reckless plays for a bit of damage, is only worth it if the person has the skill to pull it off, but most people in pubs don't and they end up being a liability later on.

If your team mate managed to not die and finish the wave/heist with you then there's no harm done, because depending on build having 1HK breakpoints are more important than a heal specially if running anarchist.

Selfish? totally, but that's pubs in a nutshell.

[xX_enzodu13_Xx]

you can still get teammates back by trading hostages

[The destoyer of worlsd!!!]

Originally posted by calculatortamer:

you can still get teammates back by trading hostages

They'd still return with full health, so unless the end of an assault is near and one knows it, it'd probably be better to just have them use a doctor bag. Not having a player around for a long time could be disastrous, especially if they're so good that they can afford to take the risk of instant custody on DSOD just to have an 80% Berserker boost

[PenPineAppleApplePen]

I prefer zoink