Please give us an option for free aim.

Hey, I'm playing Merc. I'm a little over 40 hours in so far.

The target assist system generally works pretty well, but I keep running into situations where I want to target a specific enemy, but it's surrounded by a bunch of adds, making it impossible to target that one enemy.

For example, if you freeze an enemy and blast it with the frag rounds, it causes additional damage. But sometimes, a different enemy moves close to the frozen one and the system decides to target the new enemy. Because they're close together I can't switch to the frozen one now and the window of opportunity to shatter it is gone.

I'm currently going through the sunken city of act 3, and there are these witches that summon the blue orbs. That's obviously a very dangerous enemy as it can one shot you if you're not careful about your positioning, and they also cast a powerful slow. So obviously, I want to take them out as quickly as possible. But they're always supported by a bunch of quick melee enemies who chase you around. Targeting the witches in these situations can be near impossible. So the only good way to deal with them is to fire a bunch of grenades into the witches' general direction while I'm being chased by enemies and the water orbs and hope that it kills them before I get caught out.

To be clear, I'm not complaining about this specific enemy. So far they've killed me once because I purposely walked into the orb to see what it does.

But when you're dealing with enemies who can one shot you (like many of the bosses too), the game needs to make sure the player is always in control.

Basically, the more difficult the game, the more polished the controls have to be.

So I think what would be helpful is an option to disable the target assist system. Merc is meant to play like a Twin Stick Shooter, and as is happens, that's one of my favorite genres. Which means, I'm pretty proficient in them and I don't need the aim assist. On the contrary, it's often a hindrance. So please give us the option to disable it.

I understand that something like this would land close to the bottom of your priority list for the development and that's fine. I'd be happy if it gets placed in the cue at all :)


Another little thing I would like (while I'm at it): I'm also a new player and understanding the economy and which items and currency orbs are important is complicated. I bought the premium stash tabs and the stashes for currency and essence have the little greyed out icons in empty slots. I think it would be helpful if you could press R3 on an empty slot to bring up a tooltip detailing what the item is meant to be. For example, in the currency tab, the top rows are reserved for the different Orbs. If I don't own an exalted orb, it still shows me the icon to indicate where exalted orbs will go if I stash them. Now, I'd like to navigate to the empty slot and press R3 to bring up the tooltip for exalted orb, so I can see what's supposed to be there and what it would do if I had it.