More Backstory/Lore for Mercs?

(NuclearSharkhead) #1

For a game such as this I think it’s important to have more of a backstory for each Merc than just what they do for their team. I’d like to know more about the mercs I play as and how they fit in the bigger picture of the game’s plot : )

Like for instance do any of the mercs have relationships with each other? Which ones are long-time friends, rivals, lovers, etc? This would be really cool stuff to know and really bring the characters to life even more. Do you realize how many fanarts and fanfics this would potentially incite? When your playerbase has even more reason to fall in love with the characters that is when you know your game is solid in the long run.

This is definitely one of the things League Of Legends did right with their champions, providing backstories and making each of them interesting characters in their own right, not just on the battlefield but also story-wise.

This stuff is good to have because not everybody who plays the game will be super hardcore competitive, so it’d be nice to have something else to keep the interest there : )

(Vanta) #2

I think this is a great idea and will definitely draw in more players that love the whole story-line and lore to games, rather than just the typical players who just want to shoot some people.

(RedSerpent) #3

Fletcher x Aura inc, black shotgun crew

(NuclearSharkhead) #4

Rhino x Proxy awww yee

(Nail) #5

although W:ET had a good backstory I doubt anyone heard it, game worked out pretty good without though

(MissMurder) #6

All the Mercs have bios that we will be releasing over time. Some are pretty epic I have to say- can’t wait to share them!

(Rehoma) #7

The hype… THE HYPE!! -

(goldBracket) #8

LOL, should all mercs have their own history? :smiley:

As player do I more think of MY OWN history when I join the game. Like first I gave my sister a hug, so I learned how to trick the enemies for a cookie, Then I also watered the flowers so they did get a good environment to grow in the restricted pot, That gave me a lot of good experience of biological war. Then I was fixing a drawer at home and did get tons of useful skills for engineering. Somehow did I just pop up in some futuristic world and needed to go to war about a dirty bomb?

Just as an advice or actually an explaining thing: I’m just saying I don’t care about histories, I don’t even read the history about each vanilla map in ET. To help the team is IMO most important. The character stuff is for SINGLE PLAYER games where you run around and explore a world, for example wolfenstein the new order… <3

You can as well read a book if you want to explore a fiction world. Then you might also understand each person better and get a better understanding of the history. :slight_smile:

(NuclearSharkhead) #9

Can’t wait to see em!

(Thai-San) #10

[left][quote=“goldBracket;4092”]LOL, should all mercs have their own history? :smiley:
Just as an advice or actually an explaining thing: I’m just saying I don’t care about histories, I don’t even read the history about each vanilla map in ET. To help the team is IMO most important. The character stuff is for SINGLE PLAYER games where you run around and explore a world, for example wolfenstein the new order…[/quote]

But no one forces you to read their background story. If you don’t care: Just don’t read them. It wouldn’t harm the game in any way to deliver a bit more backstory… if it’s optional.

If you’d have to sit though hours of pre rendered story cutscenes to play a single match, yeah that would suck. If when there’s a button that says “more about the merc” with a bunch of text/audio files or even videos hidden behind it I’d love it.
It should be like Dark Souls: If you don’t care about story you don’t get to see any story at all. But if you do care there’s plenty of it in the game.[/left]