Mech Arena - MD worth owning?

Yeah, all of this.

I did have one game with Deadeye (OUR Deadeye, not that fake imposter copycat piss-poor attempt at being the real Deadeye), where I chatted up the team before the game that I needed to heal two teammates at the same time, and it was glorious. We lost badly, so badly it was almost funny, but I had two mechs shadowing me almost the whole game, and I easily finished up most of that challenge in one game. You definitely need a cooperative and coordinated team to make the most of it, because most teammates I’ve seen are too dumb to know what to do with it. It also takes a very different strategy than any other bot, because its main purpose is NOT killing other bots. 

In fact I think I had one if the dumbest teammates ever earlier today when I was trying to rack up 70k teammate HP heals. I started tailing the guy from the start of the match, but the only time the idiot would get anywhere near me was to push me out from behind cover and into multiple reds’ line of fire. Before he essentially fragged me, which I’m sure he would have himself if he could, he’d stay just beyond the healing range. Yes, I made up a few new cuss words in that game. 

I did have one later on though, can’t remember the name of the map, but there’s a nice little nook to hide in next to the nearest beacon to home, and I tailed a guy in a Panther from the start. He was smart enough to see when I activated healing, and he ducked into the nook every time his health got low. I’d slip out and help soften up any reds coming up the hill at him with RPG’s, and then duck back behind cover before taking too much damage. He was a smart player who made great use of his barrier, and I kept him alive for most of the game; and when he got killed, he came right back to the same spot with another bot. I healed up over 40k HP just on that one guy. 

Unfortunately, even though you can get medals for healing, it doesn’t seem to count toward your mech standing or player ranking in the match, so I ended up near the bottom every game that I was working on that challenge. But it can be a fun bot in the right circumstances, those being where you have human teammates with at least half a functioning brain.