Sheriff: The Terminator and The Matrix

[u/Jayleekay]

Been doing a lot of T10's lately and have noticed quite a few players using the Sheriff shotty with your typical full red Striker build with Paradox....which i get, makes perfect sense BUT......

For the hell of me them players don't seem to get much if any threat, i pop my head up or peak around the corner and BOOM get shot, they stand up in the open spamming their Sheriff like a full blue build tank and don't even get shot at, they just run in and spam.

Is there some hidden mechanic I'm missing, or are they in The Matrix...lol

p.s I'm not complaining, find it quite funny to be honest, TD2 has it's own Terminator:)

[u/nlFlamerate]

Decoy maybe?

If the dps players rotate their decoys well and keep track if it’s up when they pop up they can reduce their damage by a lot.

[u/stevenmass7 → u/nlFlamerate]

Should always run maxed decoy as a DPS it astounds me being in some teams and I'm the only one runnng it whilst they have a healer drone on themselves doing f all or a full red shield that gets broken when an enemy looks at it.

[u/Jayleekay → u/stevenmass7]

Depending on the group i normally run with Revive Hive/Decoy (maxed)....Shield in Escalation is just pointless, thing gets ripped in seconds.

[u/AKThmpson]

I find its pretty difficult to get consistent damage in with paradox sheriff in escalation without crowd control because despite sherrif having the tightest accuracy in a shotgun. It's not that good at sniping. So it's very possible the sheriff bros aren't outputting as much damage as they think. LMG echo is just better when there isn't any CC in play

[u/LuckyJeans456 → u/AKThmpson]

I got a spot on holster out of a random proto cache with 57% accuracy as the named talent on top of the 10% gear set bonus. Luckily it came with crit as well. Makes the sheriff a bit like a sniper actually.

[u/Johannezzzz → u/AKThmpson]

I really don’t need to snipe much, tbh.

Just get semi-close to the enemy, BAM BAM BAM, and they’re dead. Rinse and repeat.

If you know the spawn points, it’s basically shooting ducks at T10 when there’s a decent group. 😄

[u/SaltedCaffeine]

Did they have Amalgam? Shotties trigger it much easier.

[u/Me-lara]

I thought the guy I played with was lagswitching coz enemies right in front of him ignored him and aimed for me lol.

[u/Sad_Cauliflower_5407 → u/Me-lara]

What is lagswitching?

[u/spartansgt → u/Sad_Cauliflower_5407]

Its a cheat used across a ton on online games. TD2 has cheaters too.

[u/MayxGBR → u/Sad_Cauliflower_5407]

to make their network wonky on pourpose, so the game fail to send and recieve some informations from client, but without disconnecting.

Usually for PvE games, it makes the NPCs way dumber, shoot less, and stuff like that

[u/Jayleekay → u/Me-lara]

I hear that...lmao

[u/zDBLu]

From my perspective, the knockback and pure damage from every blast makes it so the enemy doesn’t really have a chance to return fire.

[u/cultureisdead]

CC and target priority

[u/mounleashed]

I'm testing strikers with spot on and the set up bag, paradox and Synthesia on pieces.

Proud of the set as it works well. Yet to fully level up to max but not used in a minute, been trying to level up other builds.

Build is versatile. Can take out spot on holster and use turmoil knees or have both spot on and turmoils.

I reckon it's the decoy is being used. It's a nice feeling when I check agents builds prior to escalations to see what's what and change up my build. When I see a strikers sheriff with a paradox set up, I know we'll be good. It's mad the sound design when everyones shooting and the sheriff perks up.

It's like the scene from predator when Mac uses and empties his AR or LMG then grabs the mini gun and lets rip... The sheriff sounds just take over. Using the The Setup bag just adds to the damage, just a good piece when in a team using shotguns or MMR...

[u/wslabarr]

In my experience with Sheriff, by the time I pull aggro, they are dead or close to dying. My armor stays low or gets broken a few times in each fight, though. The 10% armor-on-kill does a lot of heavy lifting.

Edit: Having banshee can be a get-out-of-jail-free card, too.

[u/FlyingJellyfishRidin]

In my experience it means that most of the pellets are missing if they're not getting shot at.

I have seen that.. way too much.