Sucker

(PleasantWheat) #1

Medic

HP-140

Weapons

Machine pistols for Primaries

Heavy Pistols for Secondaries

Ability 1 Leech gun? (Most innovative name 2016 IGN)
A shotgun that fires a slug that deals a flat 36 damage with no headshot multiplier and disappears at the range the arnuld does 1 damage per pellet. Getting 2 hits with this gun gives you 1 charge of your second ability. (getting another charge whilst all having all 4 charges available will instantly heal Sucker for 30HP)

Ability 2 Healing blast
Fires a small aoe blast in front of the player that heals any teammates (to about the range a non-movement assisted, un-angled sawbones pack throw) for 50HP. Can hold 4 charges. Can also revive teammates. (Using this ability will heal Sucker for 30HP)

All the medics we have atm are more suited to kind of sitting behind the people in the front lines and healing them when need be. I wanted to have a medic that does their best work in the front lines. This merc is forced to fight to be able to help their team effectively.

Any constructive criticism welcomed, a good polish is always needed for something to shine.

(TheVulpesFox) #2

Well it seems very different. Would the blast also damage enemies or just heal friendlies?
Will Sucker have Defibs as well?
Interesting with the Leech gun. I thought it was going to somehow leech health from the enemy :confused:
It’s just so different I’m not sure what to think.

(Naonna) #3

Funny name. - A heal-for-damage is great, assuming the DPS and healing can be balanced so as not to make a merc un-killable. - It would need some testing.
Change ‘hits’ with the leech gun into ‘damage delt’ - Because there is no damage done for head shot multipliers, I don’t see the problem there. A possible change would be that after x damage, the second ability auto-triggered to drop a med pack on-hit. rewarding aggressive play rather than being a bit too late to heal yourself in a team fight. (This change also fixes the issue of doing a load of damage but forgetting to drop a med pack for a teammate and prevents greed similar to how sparks uses her med packs currently.

(PleasantWheat) #4

@TheVulpesFox

  1. Just heal friendlies
  2. The heal blast can be used to revive so no on defibs
  3. It does leech but not like how most leech guns work with a continuous stream at a constant rate. If you have seen Slim from Evolve how mine works is similar.

@Noanna

  1. I only chose that name because having the name Leech seemed a tad boring
  2. I don’t currently have a way for Sucker to heal themselves, hence the high base hp. I guess using the heal blast could give back a portion of health, similar to a small med pack.
  3. I figured having hits as opposed to straight x damage = y heals seemed a little more interesting considering the flat damage the weapon does.
  4. Cool idea will add it when my head stops spinning

(surgery is a bitch)