10th Class Concept

Hello Development Team of FF

My name is Zenobius Iratoo

and my ingame name is Yermiah

I have been and played the Team Fortress series since it's inception

it may not be known to anyone else, but I am the guy who "created" the concept of what would become the Engineer class

I'm fully saying it, but, indirectly, I came up with the Engineer class

when QWTF was born, I was merely 5-6 years old loved watching my brother play, I never got to truly play in QWTF but my brother saw how much I liked watching him play that that he even took me to the first Quakecon and I told him of my idea for a class that he then put on a website and I guess that came true.

time went by and TFC went by, I suddenly heard that TF2 was released, I quickly went to buy it and I found it to be a wonderful game, then my heart instantly broke when the original team fortress guys who worked on it sold out and it became a sell out game with the addition of "unlocks....."

Then I saw, at the same time, a Source engine mod called Fortress Forever; as a guy who grew up with the Team Fortress series, Fortress Forever is by far a very innovative mod. TF2 is more innovative, but given how, in it's current condition, makes it a very unbalanced game compared to FF.

getting to the real point of this thread, I, Yermiah, would like to contribute to the Team Fortress series a second time and present a 10th class.

The Builder/Construction Worker

Niche: can modify the map by building structures to aid his team.

Class Stance: Defensive type

Counters: He Counters no class

Countered By: All classes that have at least an explosive (meaning except scout)

Base Health: 90

Base Armor: 90

Primary Weapon: Plasma Gun (similar to the Plasma Gun from DOOM) that deals 13 damage per hit at 50 rounds with 150 reserve ammo

Secondary Weapon: Single Barrel Shotgun with 50 reserve ammo

Melee: Hammer/Special Crowbar

Speed: 100%

Primary Grenade: Normal Frag

Special Grenade: Electrical Grenade - a special grenade that shocks anyone within it's radius.

Functions/Mechanics: Can build bridges/bridgeways, fortifications like sandbang covers and short walls called structures.

Structures are more susceptible to explosives and melee weapons. Explosive weapons and melee weapons do 1.25x more damage. sandbag cover walls are not as susceptible to damage from explosives but are still vulnerable to melee weapons. Structures have 100% invincibility from any non-explosive or non-melee weaponries.

Structures are built from two intervals, first interval is the base of the structure, which the Builder must choose whether to make a bridge base, or a cover base to make either a sandbag cover or short wall, each base costs about 100 metal to construct in 6 seconds, then the Builder (depending on the base) builds the final interval of the structure at 120 metal.

each structure has a health of 240; all structures have a length, and size limit and, unlike buildings, have no levels.

Resources: The Builder uses metal like the Engineer to build structures, this promotes teamwork in the sense that the Engineer and Builder have to work together to get defenses up.

Comments/Concerns/Questions are all welcome for this idea.