IDEA: Create your own unique merc

(BrightIs) #1

Firstly I haven’t played the game for a year and it seems a lot of work has been done and it has improved. So well done SD.

Sorry if the following has already been discussed.

I thought of an idea which is to step away from classes, allowing more tactical and personal choices.

Enable players to create their own unique merc. This could be either a separate game play mode or to accompany the normal ones, whereby a player chooses which abilities and weapons they want. They could be abilities and weapons from those mercs who are unlocked or not.

In addition the player can choose the appearance of their merc, to resemble themselves if they wish or add clan uniforms etc.

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(Erkin31) #2

On Tribes ascend, they initially offered a system of mercs like in Extraction.
After some time, they chose a system more open : you choose your armor, weapons and packs.

The advantage of this system is that it offer more depth, but the mercs system permits to have a real identity for each mercs.
I also think that is more complex to balance the game if it’s totally open.
The merc system could allow Splash Damage to integrate unique gameplay mechanics (imagine a dodge system or a double jump).

(Bangtastic) #3

well this reminds me of the system section 8: prejudice used it, great game kinda halo meets titanfall before it was cool and the respawn system was the most entertaining I ever saw in a game …but nobody played it, and gfwl ;(.

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I think this isnt possible how SD emphasizes on mercs as unique characters.

(k0k0nat) #4

“NEIN” on this.

Yes, this feature would be great and fun on the first time.
But after a while, there would be 1-3 combinations that are the best and “new meta”, so that everybody expects a class having the best combination which is “XYZ” and not YXZ.

People get flamed for picking “weak” combinations etc.

The outcome would be more or less the same merc system we have now.

(DJswirlyAlien) #5

didn’t Brink have this system?

(INF3RN0) #6

I think we need restrictions on some things in order to maintain balance and have the whole merc system make sense to begin with, but I do think there should be a weapon pool per merc appropriate to their balance ofc. If SD was serious about LoL rune style perks then that might create some more uniqueness to a play style too.