[Merc] Kat

(Rewolf) #1

“Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, so you should be proud!”

Background: Kat was born in Africa and had a promising future in studying Applied Sciences. Her home country got torn apart by Civil War however and now she had to learn to adapt and hide herself to escape her country. Mimicking several high posted rebel leaders she managed to flee and went to London, pre-Dirty Bomb time. It was here that her skills in mimicking and copying were of use as she began working in a famous Wax Museum in the city. Using her Applied Science knowledge she developed a revolutionary way of copying people their DNA to use for holographic displays or making wax statues. Creating a Needle Gun which used nanotechnology and wireless transfers she coudl inject a person and receive their DNA information to recreate the perfect holographic display or wax statue. After the Dirty Bomb attacks the Wax Museum was closed and once againg she found herself back in a war-torn place. This time, she decided not to flee again, but instead to fight. Using her own developed Replicate technology she enters the battlefield.
Kat wears a Needle Gun with a small computer on her wrist, which she can use in battle to either disguise herself as one of her enemies, or actually becoming one of her enemies.

  • HP: 100
  • Speed: 425
  • Class: Recon

Primary Ability: Holographic Disguise (Cooldown: 1 m 30 s)
“Now you see me, now you see you”
Kat fires her Needle Gun. When an enemy gets hit by the Needle it transfers its DNA information to Kat wrist computer. This allows her to activitate an holographic image of the person she hit around her. For the duration of 1 min her appearance changes to the enemy she has hit. The enemy who jhas been hit will get the message that he/she has been detected as long as Kat is copying him/her. After 50 damage the Holographic Image will stop working, making Kat appearance normal again

Secondary Ability: Copy Cat (Special Cooldown)
“I can do what you can do…only better”
Whenever an enemy is downed Kat can inject her Needle from her wrist gun directly into the downed enemy. This way she can tranfer the DNA information directly into her own system. Kat needs to download the information, which takes 15 seconds and after this she will copy/become the downed enemy’s Character + Loadout (inlcuding stats etc). This ‘disguise’ wil last until Kat is killed.

Quotes:
“You can call me Mrs. Ripley” (using one of her abilities)
“Guess who I am?!” (using one of her abilities)
"I’ll have what they are having!’ (using one of her abilities)
“You didn’t see ME coming, did you?” (Kill)

(HunterAssassin5) #2

femspy, is that you?

primary ability sounds interesting, secondary maybe a bit OP, i mean, even the perks and abilities? bit too much dontcha think? also sounds very troll-friendly.

but my question is, what’s her detection ability as a recon? far as i know, only assault classes can have abilities not geared towards directly aiding teammates, and the recons are supposed to mark enemies.

(Rewolf) #3

[quote=“TheRyderShotgun;105588”]femspy, is that you?

primary ability sounds interesting, secondary maybe a bit OP, i mean, even the perks and abilities? bit too much dontcha think? also sounds very troll-friendly.

but my question is, what’s her detection ability as a recon? far as i know, only assault classes can have abilities not geared towards directly aiding teammates, and the recons are supposed to mark enemies.[/quote]

Well, Phantom is a Recon and he doesn’t spot enemies as well…

And about the second ability, I can understand it could be too OP, though I believe that in the end being OP comes down to your own Tracking/Aiming skills. It would of course be possible to nerf the ability by, let’s say, she receives one less perk or the abilities she gains are reduced by 20 % or something? The general idea behind this merc however was that you could disguise yourself sneak behind enemy lines, get a kill on someone you wanted and then you could try that merc out yourself. There are enough players who dont have an Obsidian, Cobalt or even Gold card and this merc would give you the chance to at least play with one of them for as long as you can stay alive.

(HunterAssassin5) #4

Phanty’s a recon!? thats news to me. i mean, yeah, he’s Mr. Sneaky Spah, but absence of spotting made me think he’s assault. sounds dumb out loud, but it was satisfactory for me.
then again, he could call enemies out over VC…

well, maybe there should be a way to remove the dart, since it’ll become immediately obvious what’s going on if there’s no smoke and no little red snowball, and being able to do nothing(other than maybe committing suicide) may be a bit annoying.

and i guess the guy who got killed can call out the fact that someone took his identity to alert his friends to the fact, and dopplegangers never sit well with the originals, so when the guy respawns he can come back locked on to Kat.

well, i can understand nicking the person’s guns, so dont need to penalize ammo count. maybe say she’s not proficient with every weapon and uses any other weapon with less accuracy and wider spread, but she’s a spah, so of course she has to perfect her disguise and learn those weapons. also there’s that DNA thing.
abilities are another matter, however. its a question of where all those grenades, airstrike markers, and healing stations come from, and i’d rather not think DNA has anything to do with it. either case, say it has the same or increased cooldown.
health and speed…i dunno.

(also, with the right knowledge, anyone can try out any weapon, merc or gun in the game. no skins, tho)

(JJMAJR) #5

Phantom is an Assault class. Honestly, that’s all there is to him.

He’s listed as Recon, but there’s no doubt that he’s an Assault class.

(Rewolf) #6

For me a Recon class means being able to scout for your team by either detecting enemies ala Vassili/RedEye or sneaking behind enemy lines ala Phantom.
Anyways, as an updated version of this merc I would suggest she can ‘take over’ an downed, but it takes time in which she is vulnerable and open to fire. Also she’ll receive a 25 % extra cooldown time on the abilities.