A merc with a Smoke Bomb

(heavyRaven) #1

Hey guys! I thought it would be a really cool idea to have a Merc at some point with a smoke bomb ability. For those of you who play/know competitive level counter strike, you know that smokes are vital to teamwork, and a properly executed smoke grenade can really help out your team… maybe an engineer class?

(Guilte) #2

There already is, he’s just not released yet.

(Mr-Penguin) #3

His name’s Redeye.

(heavyRaven) #4

well shit

(HunterAssassin5) #5

don’t fret, i think i read somewhere(cant find where tho) he won’t be getting in the game at all. if so, its probably because he’s not team-oriented enough. he kinda smokes an area and gives himself a scanning ability to see through it to snipe people, not to hide himself being on the point and doing point stuff.

(omegaskorpion) #6

Actually delopers said that all the old merc will come back one by one, after rebalance.
(mercs left to be released: Stroker, Phoenix, RedEye, Thunder, Tutrle, Aimee and Phantom)

Not team orienteded enough is pretty much bulls.hit, since mercs like Fragger and Nader are purely to kill people, with team or without.
Redeye, seems to be just as kill hungry as they are. Also, that smoke can help team to cover objectives and blocking corridors so i dont realy see problem here.

Also if he wasnt going to come back to game, then why would we have hes avatar in the forums?

(heavyRaven) #7

Actually delopers said that all the old merc will come back one by one, after rebalance.
(mercs left to be released: Stroker, Phoenix, RedEye, Thunder, Tutrle, Aimee and Phantom)

Not team orienteded enough is pretty much bulls.hit, since mercs like Fragger and Nader are purely to kill people, with team or without.
Redeye, seems to be just as kill hungry as they are. Also, that smoke can help team to cover objectives and blocking corridors so i dont realy see problem here.

Also if he wasnt going to come back to game, then why would we have hes avatar in the forums? [/quote] I’m excited to see that there are so many new mercs planned…
And the thing about fragger and nader ( i’m a fragger main, don’t know much about nader ) yeah their ability focuses around killing things… but I think their utility is primarily bomb defending and setting up for bomb plants… nobody can clear out a room quite as well as fragger. I’d imagine red eye would be similar, sure he may have an eyepatch that can see through smoke… But he can either use his grenade in a way that will guarantee him kills, or use it as a utility for his team, so I can see it working pretty well.

(HunterAssassin5) #8

hmm, i guess wherever i got my info from it was dubious. never said it was solid anyways, and the thing about not being team-oriented was a random guess off the top of my head, so there.

(LANshark) #9

look at dome (based on blockout) with large, open areas and long sight lines. Redeye could potentially smoke an area to limit the other teams sight in an area so his team could move through safely.