Merc idea - Nitro

(Demonic_Muff1n) #1

Name - Tanya Connors
Gender - Female
Age - 26
Nationality - American
Class - Engineer

Health - 80
Speed - 430

Weapons:
Primary - Kek 10, Hocfir, Crotzni
Secondary - Caulden, M9, Seldstadt 40
Melee - Beckhill combat knife, Cricket bat, Stilnotto Stiletto

Abilities:
Motion Tugs - Motion tugs are devices which can be placed down in a certain area and can restrict enemy movement by 20%. Each tug has a radius of 15 meters and is active for 30 seconds and has a cooldown of 35 seconds. Tanya can only carry one tug at a time.

Turbo grenades - These grenades can be used to boost allied movement by 15% and has a radius of 5 meters. Each grenade has a cooldown of 15 seconds and can carry up to 2 grenades. these grenades can also be used on herself to boost her own movement.

(jubilantManatee) #2

Nice to see you brain storming.

My though is that a blanket speed boost for friendlies could not be balanced.

Imagine all of the warping Proxy/Aura/Sparks!

It’s pretty bad now, when a 200+ ping player takes proxy and rushes… I often see them on my screen rubber banding or stuttering away in a very untrackable manner when being fired on.

I think merc speed is a very big balancing factor, and anything that increased speed cause massive problems.

(yesser) #3

make the percentage an amount would be better cause with the percentage slow merc will not be really fast and fast merc would be TOO fast . and do the turbo grenade stacks ?

(Demonic_Muff1n) #4

@jubilantManatee the thing is the turbo grenades can allow slow characters like rhino, thunder and etc to be able to run from firefights. but yeah i totally agree with u thats why i tried to make the percentage as low as i could cause if i put it at 20% they wouldve been way too fast. @agileBeetle no the turbo grenades do not stack cause that would cause major balancing issues.

(Naonna) #5

the self-speed boost is… hm… I’d have to see testing: good in concept. (Until we have a proxy-speed Thunder… spooky…)

(Dysfnal) #6

Did anyone notice the fact that this merc is kinda slow without the speed boost? Same speed as Pheonix, right? A health boost might be deserved

(HunterAssassin5) #7

tugs:
the flashbangs do that currently, rather rage-inducingly. dont think it’ll be a good idea to have another merc with a similar ability

turbo:
because we all want 483 movement speed proxies everywhere, dont we?

(Naonna) #8

@TheRyderShotgun - doing my work in my absence. I’m so proud.

(Dysfnal) #9

@TheRyderShotgun what about aura? She’d be even worse…

(HunterAssassin5) #10

i think aura and proxy have the same movement speed.

(Dysfnal) #11

@TheRyderShotgun They don’t, aura has 470 proxy has 450


(HunterAssassin5) #12

well…shit.