FPS Hero

[Legacy]

hmm, since i dont really want to create this hero... would it be cool if we had a hero who was permanently in first person mode?

[residente]

It would require a strong computer to play it tho, and he culd have some mad advantage and some disadvantages, we dont know now, but it could be unbalanced in some way

[Midknight]

Hmm, some kind of "facing" mechanic that gives him a long range of vision but only in the direction he's facing. Being in first person, he's less limited by the screen size and he could potentially see a target in front while still keeping an eye on his immediate surroundings (as opposed to a hero that has to change his screen focus on a further opponent and isn't keeping track of his immediate surroundings. Also, his ult should be a global Time debuff for everything to simulate "bullet-time" mode. Possibly give him strafing ability to let him fire while moving. That's what I've got for now. I'll let the idea percolate for a while.

[Legomancer]

I'll brainstorm some passives and abilities:

 

FPS sees everything in fps. His vision range is increased by 15 units in a triangle in front of him with 5 units at its widest.

 

FPS's autoattacks are skillshots by holding A and clicking in a direction. The faster you click, the faster his attack speed. FPS cannot move and attack.

 

FPS's autoattacks gain a slight homing ability and projectiles move faster.

 

FPS sends a rocket over terrain in a line. The rocket reveals fog of war in an area around itself and has detection. Slow movement speed and destructable.

 

FPS blinks backwards a number of units. (like reverse impact dial)

 

FPS gains increased movement speed and turn speed when enemy heroes are nearby.

 

I'm thinking it could be a Thor hero who fires rockets as an autoattack.

 

FPS gains spell damage from autoattacks based on his int

[Legacy]

Well... I dont really want to create this guy incase i ballz him up so who wants to?

[Midknight]

Hmm, How about some kind of sniper. Not locked into FPS all the time but he can "deploy" into a sniper position and gain superior battlefield vision at the expense of mobility and you go into FPS mode which gives you targeting options based on a hit-box system (ie. hit their leg to debuff move speed, hit hand to debuff attack speed/attack, hit their head to insta-kill if their health is below a certain percentage). His rifle has a clip so he gets a certain number of shots as fast as he can click, but after that he has to reload.

[WhaleTits]

that....

 

 

THATS BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[Midknight]

Ok, I've refined it a little more and here's what I've got, mechanics wise. Fluff and formatting can be added by someone who gives a damn.

 

Primary Stat; Int.

 

Heroic Active: Sniper Deployment - Locks you into FPS mode and immobilizes you. While in this mode, you gain an extended vision field in a cone in front of you extending 20 units, 7 units wide at the end. Fire a shot with left mouse button and reload with right mouse button. You can fire up to four shots in succession but then must spend 3 seconds to reload. Attacks in Deployment mode deal (20% Int) bonus damage. Takes 1s channeling to begin or end Deployment.

 

Ability 1: Called Shots (passive)- When in Deployment, aiming for certain hitboxes on the target can have extra effects. Rank 1) Legs: Reduces MS by 20%. Rank 2) Arms: Reduces Attack Speed by 20%. Rank 3) Lower Body: Stuns for 1 second. Rank 4) Head: If target is below 15% HP, instant kill.

 

Ability 2: No Scope - When not in deployment, you gain strafing for 10-15-20-25s. You also gain (5% attack speed / 100 Int). 20s CD starting when effect ends.

 

Ability 3: Diazepam Dose - In Deployment, hitboxes are 8-12-16-20% bigger. When not in deployment, you gain 10-14-18-22% crit chance but your attack speed is reduced by 3-5-7-9%. Lasts 10s at all levels. 50s CD

 

Ultimate: Bullet Time - Globally debuffs Timescale of all units (friend and foe) except this hero by 2.5% every 0.25s, capping at 20 stacks. Effect lasts 6-8-10s. When you score a Kill or Assist in Deployment Mode while this ability is active, you gain 5% Timescale for 3 seconds, capping at 4 stacks. 120s CD

[Banzaiguy]

What a cool idea. The only problem would be that allies have shared vision so you can pretty much just abuse him as a scouting tool.

 

Also, FPS mode was actually TPS.

[Midknight]

Maybe take vision off for him when he goes into deployment? Also, I think it'd be better for it to be an actual FPS mode. The mouse wheel can be z-axis to move the camera forward and back to get past doodads that might be in the way.

[Legomancer]

My only fear for his Q is that it would lag the game like hell. Maybe each hit should have a percent chance of cause a debuff (35% chance for movement speed/25% chance for attack speed/10% chance for stun/ 5% chance for instant kill or maybe attack does true damage/25% chance of no debuff)

 

Then his E could increase debuff chances by 1/2/3/4% each

[Aellectris]

How exactly do you "aim for certain hitboxes?"

[Midknight]

My only fear for his Q is that it would lag the game like hell. Maybe each hit should have a percent chance of cause a debuff (35% chance for movement speed/25% chance for attack speed/10% chance for stun/ 5% chance for instant kill or maybe attack does true damage/25% chance of no debuff)

 

Then his E could increase debuff chances by 1/2/3/4% each

 

Possibly...

E-Rank __ 0 ____ 1 _____ 2 ____ 3 _____ 4 __

 

MS -------- 35% --- 36% --- 37% --- 38% --- 39%

AS -------- 25% --- 26% --- 27% --- 28% --- 29%

Stun ------ 10% --- 11% --- 12% --- 13% --- 14%

Head ----- 5% ----- 6% ----- 7% ---- 8% ----- 9%

None ----- 25% --- 21% --- 17% --- 13% ---- 9%

 

But then, with the design philosophy of moving away from randomization of effects, It probably wouldn't be done this way.

[zeeeend]

I think this games happens way to fast for someone to play it fps whilst rest can see from above. I mean big ass teamfights drake/jackson/toxi/rory/rancor will even be hard for a player with viewing from above what will a fps see ?

I think balance problems will be vision:

How will smokescreen(not thats its used often but still) affect him ? How will visual effects effect him like toxi's cloud or rancors nukes.

Will he be able to see anything if there are 2 micro's lvl 16 ingame or will he just see gigantus 70% of the time.

How will he be able to shoot vorpals legs or gara's or nulls ? rather hard since they have none.

How will he spot a burrowed hero ? burrowed heroes(brine,bio,unix) are flat on surface meaning he can't see them at larger range if he's small due to the angle.

How will he be able to shoot uphill ? you can target something because you have x/y sight of them. But in fps you will have the z range factor blocking you x/y range you otherwise would have i.e. shooting from river to mid.

How will los blockers work ? Since he will have a straight line view losblockers will block his los even when he has allies behind them.

 

The only way fixing this is only give headshot bonus +30% dmg and silence. Make his snipemode ignore doodads, losblockers, visuals like ulti's.

And even then this will be a insanely hard hero due to positioning it would require. But i like it since there aren't many skill heroes left.

[Legacy]

Okay i created a fps hero and hear name is Ghost.Sarah.