New Merc: "Io" (or "Iona")

(Dr_Plantboss) #1

Name: “Io” or “Iona” (That’s an “i”)
Gender: Female
Nationality: Italian
Summary:[center]Io was in a dead end job, working in a pizzeria while doing experiments in the back. The call to come to London was just the opportunity she needed to use her inventions for something greater than insta-baking pizzas.

Medium speed and very powerful, Io carries the firepower to wipe out an entire team. She’s best at medium to long ranges.[/center]

Stats:

  • Class: Assault
  • Speed: 430
  • Health: 100

Primaries:

  • BR-16 Default
  • Stark AR
  • M4A1

Secondaries:

  • Caulden Default
  • Selbstadt .40
  • M9

Melees:

  • Kukri Default
  • Cricket Bat
  • Stilnotto Stiletto

Abilities:

Ion Cannon:

Shoots a beam of energy that does 50 DPS to infantry, and 20% more DPS to deployables/objectives. Turn speed is limited to 33% of your mouse sensitivity for the duration of firing. Great for disabling secondary objective/EV. Pierces enemies and deployables.

Max. Usage: 8 seconds Recharge time: 4 seconds for every second used

(civilRoad) #2

Very overpowered. 50DPS for 10 seconds is 500damage in 10 seconds, with only a 30 second max cooldown. Again, this isn’t some fantasy tech MMO. You don’t have giant laser cannons just sitting around.

(BushWanker) #3

So OP, in 50 seconds the generator on bridge would be gone.
Increase the cool down or lower the DMG than it would be balanced.

(Fyrix) #4

@civilRoad gauss Cannon’s are R&D military projects present.

500 DPS is extremely difficult to achieve without you dying yourself and having to maintain a line of sight.

This game is so fast, I don’t think you understand how quick things go on. It’s damage is buffed a little too much but squishier mercenarys have a speed advantage.

(JJMAJR) #5

50 DPS is a joke. Blishlock has 120 DPS, and no sniper rifle has that little DPS either.

The frame is also fairly bad; you can’t put Rhino’s minigun on it to make the character good.

And judging by the ability weapon’s role, that’s terrible news.

(Dr_Plantboss) #6

@civilRoad @Bushwanker Think about it this way; it will take you 1.6 seconds to kill even the lowest HP merc, and you have to maintain that constantly. It also can’t headshot. It also will take 4 seconds of constant fire to kill a Rhino. I do agree that the cooldown should be increased. COOLDOWN CHANGED

(civilRoad) #7

@Dr_Plantboss kk I see your point about the laser cannons. However, space-based laser platforms (contrary to popular belief) do actually exist, although not in the same magnitude of Kira’s OSR, but also weigh thousands of pounds. Thousands of pounds for one piece of equipment. That kind of technology can’t be packed into a handheld device.

(BushWanker) #8

@civilRoad its placed in the future.

My thoughts changed, I now stand behind IO.

(Fyrix) #9

@civilRoad isn’t that still the same for Kiras orbital strike. The range and power of such a small device is ridiculously stupid.

(civilRoad) #10

@bushwanker it’s placed in 2020. Everything in this game so far is easily within reach within the next four or five years.

@Fyrix Weaponized Space Satellites are not small devices. They’re enormous and way thousands of pounds.

(Dr_Plantboss) #11

I never said that it had a huge AOE. It’s a concentrated beam that is probably about the same amount of spread as the MK46.

(BushWanker) #12

@civilRoad things like refractive armor, or orbital lasers, right.

(Dr_Plantboss) #13

Or health stations, or nanobots, or revive guns…

(civilRoad) #14

@Dr_Plantboss @Bushwanker
Am I allowed to post links? Yes, there are materials currently being created called metamaterials that bend light in such a way that yes, it becomes impossible to see it while seeing the stuff behind it. It’s called negative Refraction

Orbital Lasers have already been created, but not in that magnitude yet. Easily achievable in the next 5 years if R&D developed all their time to it.

Tesla Coils are already a viable option for handheld long-distance electrocution.

Tiny robots are definitely a thing

Health Stations may be a bit of a stretch, but it’s quite easy to set up a station full of medical equipment.

So yes, easily within reach of the next few years.

We already have “aimbot”. Smart Rifles that don’t fire till they’re pointed to hit an enemy.

(BushWanker) #15

Links are allowed I think.
Another “Futuristic” impossibility is long range reviving.

(Dr_Plantboss) #16

[quote=“civilRoad;214482”] Yes, there are materials currently being created called metamaterials that bend light in such a way that yes, it becomes impossible to see it while seeing the stuff behind it. It’s called negative Refraction

Tiny robots are definitely a thing

[/quote]

I agree
BUT
Making a suit out of technology that can absorb shock & make someone transparent is still a far ways off.
And not nanobots like Phoenix’s.

(Fyrix) #17

@civilRoad no but a huge orbital laser won’t interact with one small device with pin point accuracy at the hand of a mercenary.

(civilRoad) #18

@Dr_Plantboss When phantom could take in an airstrike, definitely not. But at this point, he’s almost always visible, especially when moving, and the point is that it’s armor, it can take shock. The whole idea these R&D people are trying to do is make neg. Refraction armor for military purposes and snipers.

@Fyrix I’ll be perfectly honest rn, what Kira has isn’t achievable, period.

Nothing can travel faster than light and in order for that beam to hit the ground from the time it transmits the signal to the time you see it, it would have to.

However, yes, a device in someones hand can contact a satellite and tell it to beam somewhere, but it would take like 3-4 minutes for the laser to reach here.

Phoenix’s nanites aren’t exactly that high tech. The float through your blood and then stop you from bleeding. That could be as easy as making nanites that have a blood-thickening agent in them that they release when they enter the bloodstream.

Anyway, my beginning point was that a skinny merc with a giant laser cannon isn’t practical.

(civilRoad) #19

Also @bushwanker you realize defibrillators just pump electricity into the body to stimulate the heart right? Long range reviving is achievable. A tesla gun could do that. Getting a body struck by lightning could do that. etc.

(Dr_Plantboss) #20

It takes light from the sun (93,000,000 miles away) 8 minutes to get to us. It takes about 40 seconds to get through the atmosphere. A laser would be the same as this, probably about 40 seconds. Still a long delay to be sure, but not on the scale that you are talking about.

[quote=“civilRoad;214705”]
Anyway, my beginning point was that a skinny merc with a giant laser cannon isn’t practical.[/quote]

I quote myself for this one:

[quote=“Dr_Plantboss;214450”]
I never said that it had a huge AOE. It’s a concentrated beam that is probably about the same amount of spread as the MK46.[/quote]

This means that it probably is on a device about the size of an MK46. A 100 hp merc may be a stretch for this, but it’s not completely out of reach. We see Aura lugging around a health station and a shotgun all the time, and she doesn’t seem to be exactly slow.