Twitch, a Community Engineer

(TeuFort) #1

Twitch - Engineer

Lore: (Stick with me here, I’m tired and this is just padding)
Twitch has been flown into the containment war as a favor from the CDA to help further procedures. But if Jackal comes calling and is paying better, you didn’t hear that from us.

Abilities:
(E) Repair Nodule:
Reapirs generators, EV, etc.

Cool Down: N/A
Damage: N/A

(Q) N/A

Weapons: SMGS (Crotzni, SMG-9 and Blishlok)
Side-Arms: Machine-Pistols (Tolen, MP-400) and one Revovler (The S&W)
Standard Melee arsneal

HP: 110
MS / Sprint Speed: 400 (same as Skyhammer)

In the current build of Dirty Bomb, the two starter-characters, Skyhammer and Aura, introduce new-comer players to the basic ones and zeroes of an Assault/ Fire Support and Support player. A Community-Engineer, however, is still lacking. Introduction of such an Engineer based on SMG and solely-Objective oriented abilities would heavily encourage players to move in with the infantry and hopefully not lone-wolf.

(JJMAJR) #2

BS gimmick, but also too weak and boring.

Sky has 400 mobility paired with 120 health, and has a board wipe in a can. Arty (same stats) virtually has grenade spam. Both carry assault rifles, which are the best weapon type in DB at the moment.

So this idea is pretty bad.

I’d really like Turtle be the starting engineer for DB (because his playstyle is the truest to the role of an engineer) but that would de-motivate the developers from releasing him.

(TeuFort) #3

[quote=“JJMAJR;c-217671”]BS gimmick, but also too weak and boring.

Sky has 400 mobility paired with 120 health, and has a board wipe in a can. Arty (same stats) virtually has grenade spam. Both carry assault rifles, which are the best weapon type in DB at the moment.

So this idea is pretty bad.

I’d really like Turtle be the starting engineer for DB (because his playstyle is the truest to the role of an engineer) but that would de-motivate the developers from releasing him.[/quote]

At this rate I’m not even sure if they’re working on him. Not like we’d know, but at this rate you’d think further developments would have been made. Likely seeing Aimee-levels of overhaul to make the shield more compettive with the other Engineers deployables? From the KandyREW video it looks like it could only cover one person.

(Naonna) #4

… Please… I’ve posted so many times in the past: no auto-abilities for repairing, planting, or defusing. It reduces the skill cap of the game, lacks counter play given the lack of punishment if placed in a faulty way, and is just not fun to play against.