[ Merc Idea ] Railgun

(SweetGenocide) #1

HP : 90

Class : Fire Support

Gender : Female

Nationality : Swedish

Speed : 450

Backstory : Railgun joined the Swedish Navy Military, but after some months, she decided cause that role wasn’t for her, so she quited it, but before she got away, she stole a special military boat that had a railgun attached to it, and so she joined the CDA to get lots and lots of bucks.

NF - 17 Railgun : Railgun marks an area for her railgun to strike, after 2 seconds the railgun will hit the area, any enemies in the center will almost die instantly if they’re not in the center they will be fatally injured.

Ammo pack : Railgun throws an ammo pack that will resupply allies ammo.

Weapons:

  • Crotzni
  • KEK-10
  • Blishlok

Secondaries:

  • Tolen MP
  • MP400
  • Simeon. 7

Melee:

  • Beckhill
  • Cricket Bat
  • Kukri

Advantages:

  • Great outdoors
  • Can punish enemies for not being careful.
  • Great at running away.

Disadvantages:

  • Not that great indoors
  • The railgun instead of showing the marking area will do a loud sound (the sound will be heared at any range so basicly you can also make people think that an Railgun strike is about to come above them so they’re gonna retreat.)
  • When targeting shes vulnerable.

(Soooooo… What do you all think? xD)

(Brycko) #2

It’s Arty.

(SweetGenocide) #3

@Brycko kind of, but the explosion radious is higher, you cant have charges and it dosent have that much of a short cooldown

(Fyrix) #4

I was thinking of a similar idea. Firstly, “Railgun” isn’t really a good mercenary name, like come on… All of the Mercs have a name that’s similar to their ability but a play on words somewhat too.

My idea and differences were that the Railgun had 3 shots, reload after each one with a longer delay. The railgun has to charge each shot for like 2 seconds, so a delay between pressing mouse and firing. It’s deals 150 damage to players, 250 for headshots. The shot has EMP properties so if you fire it into a room, it will disable enemy electronics temporarily in a small radius once it hit a surface or a player.

(fluorescentUrchin) #5

savage

(SweetGenocide) #6

@Fyrix i didn’t want to make it like a how can i say, a railgun type of rifle because it would be like in Battlefield 4 and thats why i decided to do that type of Arty stylled merc

(Fyrix) #7

@SweetGenocide understandable, but we have too many Mercenarys that call sky-based support.

(Naonna) #8

@Fyrix Your earlier idea of a rail gun character that does 150 non-head shot damage to players makes snipers look like chumps: regardless of how much charge-up time there is: unless there’s some laser-pointer showing the ENTIRE enemy team where you’re aiming before the shot, it would be no fun to play against. Honestly, the emp on a hit scan-weapon would be a bit mean too: he’d just harass endlessly. at least phantom or thunder (pre-nerf/buff?) had to be within a moderate distance to disable deployables.

… back on focus, though, this character seems like an Arty with a hit scan-airstrike. Even if it was made to be a sweeping motion like a Skyhammer airstrike, I’m unsure how she’d be made different enough from kira to stand out, given the speed. Perhaps the weapons selection may encourage SOME people to play her, though.

(Fyrix) #9

@Naonna it is mean’t to make snipers look like Chumps. Have you seen railguns? Plus why would you want a sniper as a ability, you want something that deals damage and serves a purpose.

It’s so high cause faster mercs are harder to hit (maybe change it to 120 on second thoughts). You still have to charge for each shot and aim so you’re multi-tasking. The disable of electronics would likely be shorter and a small radius once it hits a surface.

(Dysfnal) #10

I definitely think it’s too strong, there’s kinda a reason that sparks’s revive rifle does 60 damage with falloff… Just a thought

(Dysfnal) #11

@Naonna would you agree?

(HunterAssassin5) #12

then it’s worse, an upgraded arty. case you didnt notice, no merc is a direct upgrade from another one, just alternatives with trade-offs. if this is “arty but with more damage”, then no.