This idea randomly came whilst in a game with some Phantoms and I started to think about the how the founders’ cards look very different from the standard loadouts as far as the way the merc’s look.
The idea is that maybe SD can make certain cards akin to the founders that change the look of the mercs entirely, albiet only cosmetic. I want to reference aspects of the merc’s heritage or life history, so there is no consistancy on everyone. I will give some examples of the direction I feel it should go with a few mercs as examples.
The loadouts do not differ from the current or future lot, and everything is just cosmetic. Feel free to add your own views of what might work for characters I did not list, or what you think may work better for what I’ve listed.
Retro Phantom:
Player Skin: Classic Black/Dark Blue Ninja Outfit
Primary: Random SMG - Painted Black w/ Midnight Blue Highlights, maybe metallic reflective shuriken star shapes.
Secondary: Random Pisol - Same as above
Melee: Replaces tactical katana w/ traditional Katana, Wakizashi, or Hollywood Ninjato | Other knives w/ Tanto’s for beckhill, and Kunai for stilleto]
Retro Redeye:
Player Skin: Young Redeye w/ black Hair and facial hair. Black and green night ops Vietnam era SAS outfit and possibly Sunglasses, maybe w/ red tints instead of black or grey - Possibly a field eye patch sorta like the Punisher in this pic
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Primary: His gun is already pretty retro as is, but the colors should compliment the outfit]
Secondary: For the 1911/Caulden, using the original government model with A1 style hammer would suit the time period
Melee: Maybe a machete, bowie, or ka-bar to replace kukri, beckhill, and stiletto respectively
Retro Kira:
Player Skin: Hybrid of white and pink Yukata with a cherry blossom motif, and light samurai armor replacing where her tactical gear and vest would be. She’d sorta look like a kendo student in the end, and can finally “Kimono over to your place” or at least barracks
Primary: Cherry Blossom Motif on the guns, whites, pinks, and blacks and greens where needed
Secondary: [See above]
Melee: See Phantom for the other knives, the look of the cricket bat can be replaced by a wakizashi, which is the shorter companion katana that samurais carried
Retro Skyhammer:
Player Skin: Kilt ala William Wallace Style with hybrid bagpipe player motifs, and blue face paint in some pattern, maybe even druid
Primary/Secondary: Won’t comment on the colors for this as it will confuse everyone, but I Presume kilt patterns might work.
Melee: Dirk for Beckhill, Bagpipe pipe for cricket bat, and a Sgian-dubh for stiletto - these all having Gaelic runes or something to accentuate the Scottish heritage
Retro Turtle:
Player Skin: Ottoman Style outfit like these dudes that fought Dracula, or something like you see in whirling dervishes [spoiler]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D-XBd6MYMuI/hqdefault.jpg[/spoiler]
Primary/Secondary: Maybe alot of blues, whites, and metallic gold as a reference to the Ottoman sultanate and structures that use those colors.
Melee: If he ever has a sword equivalent, it would have to be the Kilij or the Schimitar, but a mace or a dull variety of the swords mentioned could work for the cricket bat. For the Bechhill, maybe a very short Yataghan, and for the stiletto whatever those small curved ornament knives are called.
Retro Nader:
Player Skin: Twin blonde pony tails, and a mix between an Oktoberfest outfit, with viking motifs and Brynhildr/ or Viking horns of course.
Primary/Secondary: ?
Melee: Viking Battle Axe replacing something…naturally.
Sawbones:
Player Skin: Cajun alligator hunter, based on his accent and sometimes ambiguous ethnicity, with some medical stuff thrown in. See Troy Landry.
Primaries/Secondaries: Lot’s of greens, tans, and swamp colors. W/ whites and a little blue on a bandage pack or something, maybe a side fanny pack or whatever that’s called.
Melee: Alligator leather patterns on standard knives
Retro Phoenix:
Player Skin: Goose from TopGun basically with majestic mustache, and some medical symbols here and there, and of course a matador cape with Phoenix the animal motifs.
Well the Phoenix one is more of a joke, but you never know.
Retro Aimee:
Player Skin: Parisian 60’s beatnik in a coffee shop is all I can come up with.
Retro Fragger:
Player Skin: IT Developer, glassses, buttoned up pants and white suit. Basically this guy [spoiler]http://www.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/2015330/rs_1024x604-150430115952-4d9f353d88174d81f376a73c8bb8e809660d18c0.png[/spoiler]
Hope you enjoyed this, and hopefully some of these might be a reality sometime in the future.
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