Merc Name: Etsijä
(fin. tracker, i couldnt think of better name so im gonna refer to her as Tracker)
Class: Recon
Health: 110
Speed: 410
Profile:
Back in the days when she lived in Finland she used to be animals hunter. Using modern-technology tracking device let her easily hunt enough to not only survive but to earn money. But that wasn’t ENOUGH for her. When she heard about Dirty Bomb attacks, in desire for bigger earnings, she instantly came to London and soon after became famous sniper (among other mercs of course, there were no other people left who could know about her existence).
Back in the days she used to use her Tracking Dart Gun to hunt wild animals… Now she uses it to hunt her enemies.
Ability:
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Tracking Darts Gun:
Tracker can use her Tracking Gun to mark enemies with Darts. This weapon shoots very quick burst of 4 Darts which when hit enemy shows his contour, even trough walls (wall-hack). The contour stays visible for about 4-5s and is visible by whole your team. Also after marking there will be icon over targets’s head of his class (medic, engineer etc.). Despite the fact it shoots 4 Darts you can track only 1 enemy at a time (why?): quick burst makes it easier to hit moving targets or even prefire them than standard slow single-bullet firing rifle.
Tracking Gun can shoot only 1 burst of darts per use and has cooldown of 20-25s between uses. Also enemies hit by Dart will get special HUD warning about being tracked. The contour effect cannot be taken off before end of duration: it will dissapear only after dying but not after being knocked-down (you can also mark fallen enemies).
Weapons:
Primary: Dreiss AR (main), Grandeur SR, PDP-70
Secondary: Empire-9 (main), M9, Caulden
Melee: Kukri (main), Beckhill, Cricket Bat
She cant use bolt-action sniper rifles to not make her ability useless, because it would be easier to
instantly kill enemy than hit him with tracker and also she would be camping too much.
Summary (Usage):
With her Tracking Darts Gun she can mark major-threat enemies like Assaultiers and Flankers or supportive like Medics making them easy target for your team and force them to either fight uneven battle or to flee and not helping their team. As she has only fast-firing DMRs her role is to push enemy together with team rather than camp back (like Vassili >8[ ). After marking enemy she can also wait for him to leave cover and instantly shoot him without need to pretend his moves. Unlike standard spotting devices this one also lets you know where merc is facing, his pose and even which merc he is letting you and teammates to choose strategy on kill him.
However even after spotting in the open enemy can still charge and fight as he is already obviously visible even without contour. The same goes for known enemies positions (like campers, Rhinos or stationary-machine-gunners) where spotting isnt really needed. Also it lets spot only 1 enemy unlike Vassili, Aimee and RedEye 's abilities which already are usefull by letting evenly accurately know where enemies are.
(The only little exploit with her i can think of is with smoke grenades: you can shoot enemies marked by RedEye or randomly shoot trough smoke to make your life WAY easier)
