Guide for all Dirty Bomb Characters

[MrPepperoni]

Welcome to Learn the Mercs. This guide will help you learn the inside and outs of the mercs.

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Arty


Arty "Call me Arty. And stay out of my way, OK? Dangerous for you."

Health: 120
Speed: 400
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Cost: 30,000

Abilities:
Artillery Spotter
Ammo Pack

Primary:
Dreiss AR

Secondary:
M9

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Hang on to your Artillery Spotter for when the EV is fully repaired. Nothing in the game kills the EV faster than a well-placed Artillery Spotter.
- Long jumping and throwing the ammo pack will toss it farther.
- Artillery Spotter ability won't go off when you are shot.
Aura


Aura "Aura the Medic, yadda yadda, heals the ill, shoots the healthy - are we done?"

Health: 80
Speed: 470
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Abilities:
Healing Station
Defibrillator

Primary:
Remburg 7

Secondary:
Caulden

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- You're the fastest class in the game. Use that speed as an advantage.
- Charging up your defibrillator will give your downed team mate more health.
- Save medics first.
- You can tell when the defibrillator is fully charged when there's a spark between each of them.
- A defibrillator can be used as a knife to finish off downed enemies
- A fully charged defibrillator can 1-shot an enemy from full health.
- The fully charged defibrillator does 100 damage.
- Always move your heal station. Drop it near your team, clear the choke point, pick it up and move up.
Bushwhacker


Bushwhacker "Anything mechanical I can fix up. Or, you know, utterly destroy. Depends, don't it?"

Health: 110
Speed: 410
Time to arm C4: 3s
Time to defuse C4: 4s

Cost: 50,000

Abilities:
Turret
Objective Specialist

Primary:
Kek-10

Secondary:
M9

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Your main objective is to arm, disarm, or fix objectives.
- Turrets can be used as an early warning system. When you hear it firing, there's an enemy nearby.
- You can put it up high that way people have a less chance noticing it.
- Don't put your turret in open areas. Use it in corners or hallways.
Fletcher


Fletcher "You get what you pay for. I am the best. So I cost more. This is natural."

Health: 110
Speed: 420
Time to arm C4: 3s
Time to defuse C4: 4s

Cost: 50,000

Abilities:
Sticky Bomb
Objective Specialist

Primary:
Ahnuhld-12

Secondary:
Empire-9

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Your main objective is to arm, disarm, or fix objectives.
- His stickies can stick to anything, including objectives. Use this to your advantage.
Fragger


Fragger "I do Crowd Control. I'm like a traffic cop. Just with a machine gun. And grenades. And I don't give out tickets, I…you know what, bad analogy."

Health: 150
Speed: 385
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Cost: 50,000

Abilities:
Frag Grenade

Primary:
K-121

Secondary:
Simeon .357

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Cook the grenade. That way people can not run away from it.
- Grenades can be used to flush out people camping.
Kira


Kira "Why won't people just see me for who I am, and not for the colossally destructive weapons satellite I control?"

Health: 90
Speed: 450
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Cost: 50,000

Abilities:
Orbital Laser
Ammo Station

Primary:
Stark Ar

Secondary:
Selbstadt .40

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- The Ammo station can be setup right in front of your team's spawn point, so that allies can top off their ammo supply as they head into combat.
- Hang on to your Orbital Laser for when the EV is fully repaired. Nothing in the game kills the EV faster than a well-placed Orbital Laser.
- The Orbital Laser marker can be equipped by pressing 4. This way, you can direct it and move it around the map.
Nader


Nader "If you need a lot of grenades in a very short time, I am your woman."

Health: 100
Speed: 430
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Cost: 50,000

Abilities:
Grenade Launcher
Martyrdom

Primary:
Crotzni

Secondary:
Selbstadt .40

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Pay attention to your surroundings, a single launcher grenade could help turn the tide of war.
- Save your launcher grenades for grouped enemies.
- If the EV has one or two shots left on it. Use your launcher on it.
- If you can't see an enemy Health Station. Use your launcher.
- Act as a supporting class and stay near medics, your grenade spam is important.
- If you can't clear a room for your teammates, run in and suicide martyrdom everything.
- Direct grenade shots are devastating, this is why grouped enemies are important for your grenades.
- If you can't get to the enemy, toss a grenade from your launcher in their direction. This will make them back off for a moment.
Proxy


Proxy "I'd tell you what I think of you, but there aren't enough asterisks in the world to print it."

Health: 90
Speed: 450
Time to arm C4: 3s
Time to defuse C4: 4s

Cost: 30,000

Abilities:
Proximity Mine
Objective Specialist

Primary:
Hollunds 880

Secondary:
MP400

Melee:
Cricket Bat

Tips:
- When defending, use your proximity mines on the objective to prevent enemies from planting or fixing.
- When attacking, after you plant a C4, use the proximity mine on the C4 to prevent enemies from defusing.
- Conserve proximity mines. Pick up the old ones and move them instead of dropping a new one.
- Your main objective is to arm, disarm, or fix objectives.
- Plant mines on anything and everything the enemy might walk over, such as downed players and ammo packs.
- You can shoot your mines to detonate them even when they haven't armed yet.
Rhino


Rhino "I've brenchpressed smarter things than you;"

Health: 200
Speed: 350
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Cost: 50,000

Abilities:
Minigun

Primary:
Ahnuhld-12

Secondary:
Simeon .57

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Your minigun is best used at short ranged chokepoints, but if you have to fight at medium ranges, shoot in short bursts.
- Holding right click can spin up your minigun. (But it will make you walk slower)
Sawbonez


Sawbonez "With one hand I save life, with the other I take it. Actually it's the same hand, but that don't sound as good."

Health: 110
Speed: 410
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse c4: 8s

Cost: 30,000

Abilities:
Large Health Pack
Defibrillator

Primary:
SMG-9

Secondary:
M9

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Throwing a large health pack on to your team mate gives them more health than walking over it.
- Charging up your defibrillator will give your downed team mate more health.
- Save medics first.
- You can tell when the defibrillator is fully charged when there's a spark between each of them.
- A defibrillator can be used as a knife to finish off downed enemies
- A fully charged defibrillator can 1-shot an enemy from full health.
- Enemies can pick up your heal kits! Be careful where you throw them!
- Long jumping and throwing the large health pack will toss it farther.
Skyhammer


Skyhammer "I'll bomb you back into, well, any age you fancy really."

Health: 120
Speed: 400
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Abilities:
Air Strike
Ammo Pack

Primary:
M4A1

Secondary:
DE. 50

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Your air strike acts like a grenade indoors so don't be afraid to use it.
- The cooldown of Skyhammer's air strike markers are reduced by 75% when used indoors.
Tips:
- Hang on to your Air Strike for when the EV is fully repaired. Nothing in the game kills the EV faster than a well-placed Air Strike.
- Long jumping and throwing the ammo pack will toss it farther.
Sparks

Sparks "Call me Sparks. I heal. I kill. Is ironic paradox. yadda yadda." Health: 80 Speed: 470 Time to arm C4: 5s Time to defuse C4: 8s Cost: 50,000 Abilities: Revive Gun Small Health Pack Primary: Tolen MP Secondary: Selbstadt .40 Melee: Beckhill Combat Knife Tips: - Save medics first. - Throwing a small health pack on to your team mate gives them more health than walking over it. - Enemies can pick up your heal kits! Be careful where you throw them! - Long jumping and throwing the small health pack will toss it farther. - A fully charged Revive Gun can headshot enemies. - The health your teammate gets depends on the charge of the revive gun. - Don't charge up your revive gun too long! It can overheat
Sparks "Call me Sparks. I heal. I kill. Is ironic paradox. yadda yadda."

Health: 80
Speed: 470
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Cost: 50,000

Abilities:
Revive Gun
Small Health Pack

Primary:
Tolen MP

Secondary:
Selbstadt .40

Melee:
Beckhill Combat Knife

Tips:
- Save medics first.
- Throwing a small health pack on to your team mate gives them more health than walking over it.
- Enemies can pick up your heal kits! Be careful where you throw them!
- Long jumping and throwing the small health pack will toss it farther.
- A fully charged Revive Gun can headshot enemies.
- The health your teammate gets depends on the charge of the revive gun.
- Don't charge up your revive gun too long! It can overheat.
Vassili


Vassili "I'm a sniper. I'm sniper-er than the other snipers. I'm the sniperest sniper there is."

Health: 100
Speed: 420
Time to arm C4: 5s
Time to defuse C4: 8s

Cost: 30,000

Abilities:
Heartbeat Sensor

Primary:
Moa Snpr-1

Secondary:
MP400

Melee:
Stilnotto Stiletto

Tips:
- Heartbeat Sensor only lasts as long as it's cooldown, so keep refreshing it when it gets off cooldown.
- Headshots instantly gib a player.
General Tips & Tricks
- Running with your knife out gives you a little bit of an advantage of speed.
- Running then Ctrl + Jump will allow you to long jump.
- When escoring an objective such as the EV. The more people that are on it, the faster it will go. This does not work anymore. EVs have a fixed speed now!
- When arming, defusing or fixing, you can move around a bit. Always keep movement going.
- Always finish off players. Medics can just run in and bring them back if they're downed.
- A melee hit on downed players result in an instant kill instead of wasting bullets.
- You can hop in the EV to use the mounted machine gun.
- Multiple people repairing do not stack.
- When revived you have a spawn shield that lasts for around 2s, but will be canceled if you use a combat/ability action.
- You do double damage with headshots.
- Always move. The whole game is about keeping movement.
- Don't stay on mounted machine guns too long. You're an easy target.
- Play the objective. You get more points instead of going around killing. If someone planted C4 to enable an area. Try to defuse or destroy it.
- You can get ammo from the ammo station by Kira even if they're on the opposite team. (Does not work with Aura's healing station).
FAQ
I'll add this to the guide even though it doesn't teach you much about the mercs but seems like a lot of people ask these questions.

Q: When do free mercs rotate?
A: Every 2 weeks.

Q: What loadout is the best?
A: Whatever you do best with. But there are specific loadouts people like to use.

Q: How do I get cases?
A: You can buy them in the store (Not recommended) or get them free from games (Randomly).

Q: What are the tiers for the loadouts?
A: Lead -> Iron -> Bronze -> Silver* -> Gold* -> Cobalt* (Obsidian is not obtainable anymore).
* Rarer bling but no additional augment strength.

Q: Is it worth it to buy cases or loadouts?
A: Don't buy cases. Buy loadouts instead.

Q: How do I join competitive?
A: You must be level 5 or higher currently.

Q: What merc should I buy?
A: It's different for everybody. Proxy and Bushwhacker are great engineers. Sawbonez is an amazing medic. Fragger and Nader are powerful attackers.

Q: What's the point of levels?
A: At level 5, you can join competitive. And you get a case each level otherwise it just shows how much you've been playing Dirty Bomb!