Name: Ronald “Roach” Chipanski
Class: Support
Health: 80
Speed: 410
Origin: Poland
Gender: Male
Roach always loved the tools of war, but was not the sort to take to the front line. Trained with multiple types of drones Roach was notorious for his infiltration of enemy territory with small robots capable of simple tasks. With the dangerous groups as well as radiation Roach’s robotic know how was quickly put to use in London.
Character: Someone creepy and devious. Antisocial preferring to remain by himself.
Abilities:
[Q]: Little Bugger: deploy a small drone which can walk up walls and complete objective. It is semi-slow and can only attack by a self destruct with a 5 second timer. The drone can both repair and act as a piece of C4. A blinking light appears when it it working on an objective.
[E]: Deploy Cover: Roach hides in a small camouflaged shelter that turns entirely invisible, but immobilizes Roach as well as giving him no sight besides his drone’s. The camo fails when someone shoots it, but will take a small amount of damage before it breaks. Roach can hit e again to leave, but it does take a moment where he is exposed.
Main weapon: Roach will not receive a main weapon and instead get a medium drone with a turret. This drone can be driven around the area acting very much like a normal player, but is of course shorter and can move straight forward faster, but is slow to turn. It has a gun (up to the dev’s on what sort) on a turret that lets it fire in any direction while moving.
Roach then will get a pistol and melee weapon as seen fit by the Dev’s.
I see this as a much better answer to infiltrating enemy defensive points rather than sending someone like Phantom who just kills everyone and aggravates the players because of his bulkiness, stealth, and offense. Roach provides a great tech centered character who could prove to be a great long term choice in both defense and offense by setting up his drones and swapping between them. Which ever one he isn’t using is a siting duck making it risky to have multiple ready. Also when a drone is destroyed Roach has to place another meaning if he wants to hide all the way at the other end of the map then his drones have to cross the ENTIRE map every time balancing out his hiding places.
His bugger drone provides a great recon option letting him spy on the enemy team giving his team options to attack better as well as taking out side objective while other players deal with the main ones.
His main combat drone acts as a sacrificial soldier who can go first into a fight to take fire and deal a small bit of dmg before the other players go in.
This also has a nice reflection to real combat situations where drones are used to scout out first and sometimes complete dangerous tasks. I think with Skyhammer’s combat bomber drone simple ones like these could be fantastic for the game providing a character who both fits the semi-scifi theme and focuses on tactical gameplay rather than rushing blindly throwing grenades and spraying bullets.