Should DB mercs be separated by factions?

(frostyvampire) #21

@Splicerrr said:

Officially all Mercs have their own backgrounds and stories. From Javelin’s release you know she’s testing for Ghostclip, and if you look closely on the Croztni you’ll see ‘Fletcher Arms Co.’ stamped on.

The Mercs all work for MercServ. They’re the ones who organise the contracts for the Mercs from Jackal and the CDA.

If we officially split Mercs across CDA and Jackal then matches wouldn’t make sense. CDA is always defending from Jackal attackers. But if they’re fighting for the highest bidder, it always makes sense :slight_smile:

It would be cool if there was 2 player models for each mercenary for both sides. For example, Stoker on CDA would have the gas mask, and a CDA logo on his suit, and the Jackal one would have a different mask, or no mask, with jackal on it, just some cool details and differences for each side rather than having the red and blue overlay on player models all the time.

It will make it really hard to recognize the mercs that way. Combine it with all the cosmetics and have fun getting sniped by Vassili because you thought it was a Skyhammer.

Other than maybe a bit of color change (I think enemies should always be red-ish and teammates blue-ish, instead of the current slightly lighter colors) it will be really bad, especially if you are a new player

(Xenithos) #22

@stayfreshshoe said:

@Splicerrr said:
It would be cool if there was 2 player models for each mercenary for both sides. For example, Stoker on CDA would have the gas mask, and a CDA logo on his suit, and the Jackal one would have a different mask, or no mask, with jackal on it, just some cool details and differences for each side rather than having the red and blue overlay on player models all the time.

The problem with that is it starts to become very difficult to recognise what Mercs you’re playing with and against. It’s very important that all Mercs have a unique and recognisable silhouette.

We already started encountering that problem with Jav/Nader/few other mercs. But yeah, I get it. It just sucks that we should be playing on higher end gear to fully appreciate the better “silhouettes.”

(Sytry) #23

@henki000 said:
No separation. Just corruption, money and power struggle. There could be more factions than Jackal and CDA. Perhaps SAS, organized crime and foreign intelligence in addition. You can pick your side, but that doesnt really affect anything more than if enemy team looks red or yellow and what happens in cinematics. You can swap your allegiance to different faction when game progress, it could unlock new missions. More factions could mean missions that have three teams or more clashing.

We need high variation of skins, so you never see same proxy on field.

I don’t see cs:go or tf 2 having more then two faction fighting each other. Mercs are fighting for money and they paid anyway for which side they are fighting.