Captain shield pulse instantly downs players randomly for no reason

[IGN_Vera]

@EggFever

Captain fights at the end of assassination missions are way too easy and boring, most of the time they die within 1 minute max. The Karnak twins were a much more interesting fight fatshark please make assassination missions not boring, make them multi phase fights with interesting attacks or something

The interesting attack:

All jokes aside, Captains do need some lovin’

@zircuits

Finally, the problem with captains. The dreg captain iirc only has the crusher/shotgun combo while scab captain has crusher/sword and shotgun/pistol variants. I think they should be more unique from one another in terms of actual combinations and attack patterns, as well as more variation.

Firstly, remove the bubble knockback and replace it with faction-coded attacks instead. It’s ridiculous looking and buggy and this idea would be more thematic. Scab can throw grenades off his bandolier to knock players back and create a firestorm around him looking like a badass while the dreg captain could release pox gas to buff himself and nearby allies like the stank lord he is.

Secondly, adding more unique weapons. Dreg captain should be able to bring double axes instead of a melee and ranged weapon. With this, he chucks the axes out at players then charges melee twin speed towards whoever/whatever he ends up hitting twice to pick his axes up, then goes back to performing melee combos for a bit of time. He should also be able to leap towards players, and get a rager style tracking combo that eventually slows down and leaves him vulnerable. Scab captain should be able to take a chainsword that applies a bleed debuff to whoever he hits, reducing their toughness overtime, toughness replenishment, and mobility. A dreg captain could have a heavy stubber or a bolter while the scab captain gets a hotshot volley gun or bolter, both with some more utility and counterplay to players who rush them in their ranged state such as kicks or dodging/rolling away from the player while still shooting.

Finally, to further differentiate them, make the dreg captain’s shield and health an inverse of the scab captain’s shield and health mechanic. As the dreg captain takes damage, a shield bar slowly builds up, and once it finishes, the captain takes a knee, and pops the shield, building up a percentage of the health he’s lost until the shield is destroyed. It would function just like troll from vt2, with forced phases and no attacks being able to directly oneshot/ fastly kill them as you currently can with stealthlot and other builds. The scab captain should instead enter a light stagger state on shield destruction, allowing them to recover faster and get immediately back to swinging.

Could also have Scab Captain pop a smoke grenade, go invisible and do a stealth attack on a random player.