Phantom Provides Too Little to the Team (Also some stuff suggested)

(umberInlet) #1

Atm, Phantom is only good for getting kills by himself. He’s more like an Assault class than anything else. Unlike other Spec Ops mercs, he does not provide any sort of information regarding enemy location (unless he’s using Voice chat or something). So, I’ll suggest some changes to him.

  1. Give him a new ability. This ability will have 20-30 second cooldown. Once activated, it will send out a short to medium range wave in front of Phantom that’s about as wide as his FoV. This wave will detect enemies and reveal their body figure, even through walls. This can be seen by teammates as well.

  2. Remove his cloak shield as a cost to this new ability. With the use of the second ability, he can be more careful about the targets he selects, rather than charging head first at the enemies with his katana.

  3. Have his cloak be fully depleted once he gets out of cloak prematurely. It would make the cloak less spammy.

  4. Slightly increase the cooldown of the cloak ability(?). Not really needed with the last 2 nerfs, but idk.

Any thoughts?

(aRagRappy) #2

yeah the biggest with phantom is definitely the lack of utility of what a recon is supposed to add to the team. Though the amount of active frames on his katana after the stab is ridiculous.

I personally would instead recommend something like changing the power attack on the katana to have a longer wind up and a longer recovery time before you can attack again to make it more for executing someone you snuck up on instead of charging people with it. Instead using the lighter slashes to fight someone directly.

probably also reduce the shield strength but making his cloak harder to spot when he isnt sprinting to focus on the stealth aspects of him rather than charging people.

While also giving him the ability to mark a target or two and track their movement for 5-10secs for him and his team. Possibly also adding increased headshot and melee damage to marked targets for him and if he kills with a headshot from his pistol or the katana execution it would also instagib marked targets. Would be nice if they also gave him suppressed pistols for secondaries for this.