Merc idea: Venom

(GeekyNerd_FTW) #1

Merc idea!!!

Name: Venom
Nationality: German
Age: 37
Class: Assault
Health: 160
Speed:340
Backstory: not yet determined

Weapons:
Primary: K121 (default)
MK46
M4A1
Secondary: smjuth and whetsmen (default)
Simeon .357
De.50
Melee: beckhill combat knife (default)
Stilnotto stiletto
Cricket bat

Ability: gas thrower (yes I need a better name)
While using, user cannot sprint.
Gas thrower has unlimited ammo,but can be put away at any time
Does not need to reload
NO cool down time,so you can use at anytime

A very short range weapon which shoots out poison (like a flamethrower). Once an enemy is hit victims take 55 damage per second.

Let me know what y’all think :slight_smile:

(Naonna) #2

so… people will assume this ability needs no aim (think pyro from tf2) - COMPLETE with afterburn/poision. … since there’s no way to ‘put out’ poison, that may also be an issue. DOT also nullifies sawbonez’ health packs.

(sgtCrookyGrin) #3

wow, and I thought people couldn’t make Pyro even stronger :stuck_out_tongue:

(GeekyNerd_FTW) #4

@sgtCrookyGrin @Naonna really y’all think it’s over powered, I thought it wasn’t as he’s the slowest Merc(10 less speed than rhino) and you can’t sprint while using it, so I really didn’t think it was OP, maybe ideas to make it better?

(sgtCrookyGrin) #5

The problem Geeky is that DOT damage is very hard to balance in a game without health pick ups, it works in other games like MOBAs and TF2 because they have health pick ups or just easier ways to get said health. In Dirty Bomb, there is no health pickups and thus the DOT damage would have to be lowered to something miniscule yet strong enough to force you to back off. 55 damage per second is soo powerful, you can take down half of the mercs in this game in 2 seconds -_-, not only that, some of the medics in this game can not counter the DOT damage because of how their healing would work. In general, I like new ideas that could help add to DB, but the problem is we can’t add DOT damage unless we add health packs on the battlefield. So I’m sorry dude but this ability is something I do not encourage, I will however encourage you to think up new stuff and be creative yet think about how the game mechanics work so as to create a merc that won’t break the balance.