Merc finally has a unique feel, here's how I think it can be refined

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#1

So I’ve played a few games as the new Mercenary and on the whole I like the direction it’s going. I love that Merc has finally been freed from the shackles of being some discount BD sidekick. Managing resources and earning your money is also quite thematic to the class.

There’s a lot of room here to refine Merc to be fairer to the player, since wins are a little tough to get right now.

Here are my suggestions for tweaks:

- Grant Mercenary brilders at the start of the game.
This seems like the quickest fix that can be applied. Right now you’ll be lucky to achieve a successful block every night, and you’re at risk of being attacked so you might perish before you even get a chance to earn enough brilders to protect yourself. 3 or 4 seems a relatively fair starting point.

- Give Merc a high risk means of generating brilders quickly
Outlined in my previous point, generating brilders can sometimes feel sluggish and RNG dependent. My proposal to combat this is as follows:

New Day Ability - Stock Up: Pay 2 brilders to upgrade Stand Guard to ‘Rebound’. Each player hit by Rebound will generate 3 brilders.

Night Ability - Rebound: Prevent and kill everyone visiting your target.

Bringing back Merc’s rebound gives the player means of being more disruptive in order to reach 8 brilders quickly (at the risk of BD executing them if caught) or as a means of generating last minute brilders lategame when there are less chances to miss a rebound. It also fits the Merc thematic of doing small end protection jobs, and then using the funds earned to pull off bigger and more dangerous jobs.

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#2

If we give him 2 starting Brilders then we should also make him require 10 Brilders to win

#3

In addition to that I think he should have ways of losing Brilders that are not by choice. For example death and occupy attempts could both remove a Brilders. That way he can’t just AFK once he gets the 8-10 he needs

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#4

Although I do like new merc I feel they could have made this a new class entirely and bring back contracting for merc. This would allow more classes to be introduced into gameplay and could possibly help with claim space

#5

old mercenary would be nothing but uneeded swing, sorry to burst your bubble

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#6

Some people think that’s the case and I’ve heard other people say they liked old merc better

#7

the problem with contracts is that if they’re on anyone from the main factions then the game just swings massively in that faction’s favor

it’s not a matter of opinion, it’s objectively unbalanced

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#8

I liked playing as the old Merc but it almost always negatively impacted game quality.

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#9

Make it 2 brilders per rebound, or reduce the number of uses as if he prevents one visit it is +EV for him to prevent them

#10

That’s the whole point

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