New merc "Quake"

(BushWanker) #1

Class: fire support
Health: 120
Speed:410
Ability #1:A sound vibration that shakes the earth causing 100dmg per second for 7seconds to disable the EV, it can also kill enemy mercs, it is effective at maximum strength within 10m, and slowly fades out to 20m.
It has 1min7sec cool down.
Ability #2: ammo pack
Gender: male
Nationality: Dutch
Feel free to comment your opinions in the comment section down below.

(Naonna) #2

100 damage per second… you serious?

For 7 seconds of ‘no light mercs in this area, or they insta-die’ thus making our napalm thrower, Stoker, basically pointless in comparison, I say, please no.

Also, I like playing my light support characters.

See what the rest of the people think.

(Fyrix) #3

I actually quite like the idea of an earthquake. However the idea needs refining and to be more realistic for in-game.

(BushWanker) #4

@Naonna @Fyrix it would only deliver a total of 700dmg, not even enough to disable the EV.
It can also be used indoors.
But only on bottom floors.
@Fyrix I will release a revised version soon.
Probably lower the DPS but increase the duration.
Any other ideas for the revised version.
This man’s quote will be"if it ain’t dutch, it ain’t much".

(Fyrix) #5

More damage to EV than players might be interesting. However it’d have to be justified. Not to mention it can’t focus on EV considering that isn’t the only game mode.

Screenshaking and aim reducing effects would be good too.

(yesser) #6

i think making it as a health station that dammage ennemy nearbys could be better so it could get easyly countred if its destructible but still can do some work (that will also avoide the possebilty of making quake need to moving when using it )

(BushWanker) #7

@Fyrix yeah, I think the shaking effects would be really cool!!!

(Naonna) #8

Stoker does 40 damage per tick for less than ten seconds. Compare.

(BushWanker) #9

@Naonna , and skybro does more, u don’t use the Molotov to disable the EV, this you do use for that.

(Naonna) #10

Skyhammer’s damage is not sustained over a long period of time. Hardly a fair comparison, even with the cool down similarities between the proposed merc and him.

(Fyrix) #11

Like @Naonna said, they aren’t comparable. Skyhammer is a pure AoE character where Stoker would be a AoD.

(SweetGenocide) #12

Even tough i like the idea of a earthquacker or something like that, but the damage tough, also what does he use to create the quackes? Some sort of Seismic Thumper? Also does the earthquacker create loud noises when it’s used?

(BushWanker) #13

@Naonna , this would only do 700 dmg total.
Skybro has more in total.
In total skybros is more powerful.
@Fyrix
@SweetGenocide it uses a high pitched noise machine.
Like if you sing at a certain tone it breaks glass, this works similarly.

(Fyrix) #14

Be nice for a throwable deployable. Throws it out, causes tremors instead of placing it down.

(Dysfnal) #15

@Bushwanker as usual I’m with @Naonna on this one; it may be less damage than skybro, but the airstrike has centuries of warning time, audio and visual cues, is harder to use, and is more precise (as in low radius). You have to pay attention to more than straight damage output, you have to take into account counterability, this merc has none, you have to be a whole 20 meters away, double the radius of phantom’s EMP, which itself is quite massive.

(BushWanker) #16

@Dysfnal @Naonna @Fyrix @SweetGenocide OK, I’ve taken all your comments into consideration, and here is the revision version.

Health-110
Movement speed-410
Ability #1: throwable device(like stickies, but these dont stick)that cause hearth tremors causing 300dmg each.
You only have one and they have 30 second cool downs, but they have 0.5 seconds before they activate so that you can shoot it to counter"quake" making it not working.
If it gets shot there is only 10 second cool down.
It is only effective in 5m radius at full power, than slowly fades off to 10m.
It is only effective on ground floors.

Ability #2: ammo pack

(Dysfnal) #17

Better, perhaps still a bit strong, but you’re headed in the right direction here.

I would recommend a type of deployable like a med station, that instead of healing allies it damages enemies, maybe 60 damage per tick, as it would be destroyable and Stoker’s fire does 40 per tick. This might be a bit strong though (felling fire supports in 2 ticks)

(Fyrix) #18

I didnt mean throwable small devices. I meant a health station looking thing that you you can throw infront of you into a room or such.

(BushWanker) #19

@Fyrix @Dysfnal sounds like an interesting idea, could be useful on terminal, as long you can throw it.

(Dysfnal) #20

Oh my; you can’t let it work through walls… The terminal exploit would be real… Have fun attacking