offsetcyan
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Short bio:
Arthur "Somerset" Arthington, from Somerset, is a British commando (maybe former). He wants to use the power of the patrons to make his unit important and useful in battle once again.
He has a fair amount of stamina and health, similar to Abrams.
Weapons
Somerset has two weapons - a Lee-Enfield rifle as his default primary fire, being able to switches to his Combat knife when the player uses their secondary fire.
This allows for Somerset to switch weapon ("it's faster than reloading!") at the expense of using a short-ranged, fairly low-damage weapon in emergency situations. Switching back to his rifle should be a slow operation.
Lee-Enfield Rifle
A bolt-action rifle with a 10-round magazine.
60 DPS starting, 22m-64m falloff. Medium-long range optimally.
Has a slow reload like Geist's revolver.
Combat knife
A long dagger designed for close quarters combat.
1.84x attack damage (so, heavy melee) starting, 2m-5m falloff. "Spreadshot" (i.e. the a swipe of the knife is an arc, like 60 degrees).
Has the same cooldown as a light melee attack.
Abilities
1. Bayonet Charge (30s cooldown)
Somerset mounts his knife on the end of his rifle and charges forward in a straight line, dealing damage (combat knife damage) and giving a bleed effect (5DPS w/spirit scaling, 5s duration -> 5DPS, 7s duration -> 8DPS, 8s duration) to players and NPCs in his path.
2. Ghillie Suit (62s cooldown)
Somerset throws on a rudimentary ghillie suit and gains (35% -> 45% -> 60%) bullet evasion for (3 -> 4 -> 5) seconds.
3. Unit Pride (42s cooldown)
Somerset shouts "For King and country!" at full belt, applying any buffs he has from active items or abilities to teammates in an (11m -> 15m -> 20m) radius. The buffs are shared for (5s -> 6s -> 8s).
4. Air Support (130s cooldown)
Somerset calls in air support from the Royal Artillery ("The Gunners") causing bombs with a 6m radius to randomly land within a (30m -> 40m -> 50m) radius for (14s -> 18s -> 20s). The bombs do 200DPS w/spirit scaling (like x2).
Prior art
This idea while original, during writing had inspiration from the existing idea for a commando:
Arthur "Somerset" Arthington, from Somerset, is a British commando (maybe former). He wants to use the power of the patrons to make his unit important and useful in battle once again.
He has a fair amount of stamina and health, similar to Abrams.
Weapons
Somerset has two weapons - a Lee-Enfield rifle as his default primary fire, being able to switches to his Combat knife when the player uses their secondary fire.
This allows for Somerset to switch weapon ("it's faster than reloading!") at the expense of using a short-ranged, fairly low-damage weapon in emergency situations. Switching back to his rifle should be a slow operation.
Lee-Enfield Rifle
A bolt-action rifle with a 10-round magazine.
60 DPS starting, 22m-64m falloff. Medium-long range optimally.
Has a slow reload like Geist's revolver.
Combat knife
A long dagger designed for close quarters combat.
1.84x attack damage (so, heavy melee) starting, 2m-5m falloff. "Spreadshot" (i.e. the a swipe of the knife is an arc, like 60 degrees).
Has the same cooldown as a light melee attack.
Abilities
1. Bayonet Charge (30s cooldown)
Somerset mounts his knife on the end of his rifle and charges forward in a straight line, dealing damage (combat knife damage) and giving a bleed effect (5DPS w/spirit scaling, 5s duration -> 5DPS, 7s duration -> 8DPS, 8s duration) to players and NPCs in his path.
2. Ghillie Suit (62s cooldown)
Somerset throws on a rudimentary ghillie suit and gains (35% -> 45% -> 60%) bullet evasion for (3 -> 4 -> 5) seconds.
3. Unit Pride (42s cooldown)
Somerset shouts "For King and country!" at full belt, applying any buffs he has from active items or abilities to teammates in an (11m -> 15m -> 20m) radius. The buffs are shared for (5s -> 6s -> 8s).
4. Air Support (130s cooldown)
Somerset calls in air support from the Royal Artillery ("The Gunners") causing bombs with a 6m radius to randomly land within a (30m -> 40m -> 50m) radius for (14s -> 18s -> 20s). The bombs do 200DPS w/spirit scaling (like x2).
Prior art
This idea while original, during writing had inspiration from the existing idea for a commando:
