Classes & backgrounds

1. The Sentinel

Class Overview:

The Sentinel is a resilient warrior focused on defense, protection, and crowd control. Sentinels are experts in fortifying positions, shielding allies, and withstanding massive amounts of damage. They excel in front-line combat, using their formidable defenses to hold ground and protect their team from harm.

Role: Tank / Defender

Primary Attributes:

• Strength: High - Determines melee damage and the ability to wear heavy armor.
• Endurance: Very High - Increases health, stamina, and resistance to debuffs.
• Willpower: Medium - Enhances ability to resist mental and psychic attacks.

Skills and Abilities:

• Shield Wall: Create an impenetrable barrier for a short duration that absorbs all incoming damage for the Sentinel and nearby allies.
• Fortify Position: Increases the Sentinel's armor and health regeneration while stationary. Allies within a certain radius also gain a defensive boost.
• Taunt: Forces nearby enemies to focus their attacks on the Sentinel, reducing damage taken by allies.
• Unyielding Resolve: Grants temporary immunity to crowd control effects and significantly reduces incoming damage for a short period.
• Ground Slam: Slams the ground with a powerful strike, creating a shockwave that knocks back and stuns enemies in a radius.
• Guardian’s Vow (Ultimate): Temporarily grants massive damage resistance to the Sentinel and creates a protective aura that absorbs a portion of incoming damage for all nearby allies.

Higher-Level Powers:

• Indomitable Force: When health drops below a certain threshold, the Sentinel gains a significant boost to damage resistance and regeneration for a short duration.
• Reflective Shield: The Sentinel’s barrier now reflects a percentage of blocked damage back to attackers.
• Anchor of the Earth: The Sentinel becomes immovable for a short period, dramatically increasing defenses and taunting all enemies in the vicinity.

Starting Vehicle: The Bulwark

A heavily armored, all-terrain vehicle with reinforced plating and a deployable shield generator. The Bulwark represents the Sentinel's role as a defender and protector, providing a mobile fortress that can withstand enemy fire and protect allies on the move.

2. The Reaver

Class Overview:

The Reaver is a melee-focused damage dealer that thrives on chaos and close-quarters combat. Reavers are brutal, agile, and relentless, using their speed and ferocity to overwhelm enemies. They can inflict massive burst damage and debilitate foes with bleeding wounds and debuffs.

Role: Melee DPS / Berserker

Primary Attributes:

• Agility: High - Increases evasion, critical hit rate, and attack speed.
• Strength: High - Boosts melee damage and the ability to use heavy melee weapons.
• Vitality: Medium - Increases health and stamina, allowing the Reaver to sustain in prolonged fights.

Skills and Abilities:

• Blood Frenzy: Increases attack speed and damage for a short duration, stacking with each successful hit. However, it also gradually drains health while active.
• Sever Artery: A powerful strike that causes enemies to bleed, dealing damage over time and reducing their movement speed.
• Whirlwind Assault: The Reaver spins with their weapon, striking all enemies in a radius multiple times with a chance to critically hit.
• Savage Leap: The Reaver leaps to a target location, dealing massive damage on impact and stunning enemies caught in the blast.
• Crippling Strike: A targeted attack that deals heavy damage and temporarily reduces the enemy's damage output.
• Fury Unleashed (Ultimate): The Reaver enters a berserker state, significantly increasing attack speed, damage, and critical hit rate while becoming immune to death for a short period.

Higher-Level Powers:

• Rage of the Fallen: When health drops below a certain threshold, the Reaver gains a significant boost to attack speed and lifesteal, healing for a percentage of damage dealt.
• Bloodbath: Each critical hit restores a portion of health and extends the duration of Blood Frenzy.
• Blades of Wrath: The Reaver’s attacks have a chance to unleash a spectral blade, dealing extra damage and ignoring a portion of enemy armor.

Starting Vehicle: The Ravager

A fast, lightweight motorcycle with spiked wheels and a reinforced front end for ramming. The Ravager is built for speed and aggression, allowing the Reaver to close the gap quickly and hit enemies hard. It can deploy a short burst of nitro for rapid acceleration, ideal for hit-and-run tactics.

3. The Scavenger

Class Overview:

The Support Scavenger is a versatile battlefield engineer and resource provider who excels in helping teammates survive longer fights. They use a mix of gadgets, supplies, and clever traps to keep allies in fighting shape by providing health, ammo, shields, and buffs. They are equally capable of debuffing and controlling enemies to give their team an edge in combat.

Role: Support / Healer / Tactical

Primary Attributes:

• Intellect: High - Enhances gadget effectiveness, ability potency, and resourcefulness.
• Agility: Medium - Improves evasion and gadget deployment speed.
• Endurance: Medium - Increases stamina and resistance to debuffs.

Skills and Abilities:

• Supply Drop: Deploys a crate filled with health packs, ammo, and basic shields for teammates. Each ally can collect a set amount of resources, refreshing every few seconds.
• Healing Drone: Sends out a small drone that automatically heals the most injured nearby ally over time. The drone can be upgraded to provide a temporary shield once healing is complete.
• Ammo Cache: Deploys a portable ammunition supply that replenishes teammates’ ammo for a short period. The cache can be upgraded to include grenades or special ammunition types.
• Electro-Net: Throws an electrified net that ensnares enemies, slowing their movement and reducing their damage output. Allies who attack trapped enemies deal bonus damage.
• Tactical Overwatch: Sets up an automated turret that targets enemies attacking teammates, providing covering fire and reducing enemy damage near the turret's range. Allies near the turret gain increased damage resistance.
• Field Engineer (Ultimate): The Support Scavenger deploys a temporary field station that automatically heals and restores ammo for all nearby teammates while reducing their ability cooldowns. The station also repairs vehicles and mechanical units over time.

Higher-Level Powers:

• Enhanced Supply Drop: The supply crate now includes advanced items like energy shields, temporary buffs for movement speed, and rare ammunition types that deal elemental damage.
• Overclocked Healing Drone: The healing drone now heals faster, provides a stronger shield when healing is done, and can be directed to specific allies by the Scavenger.
• Reinforced Ammo Cache: The ammo cache now provides explosive or armor-piercing rounds, allowing allies to deal more damage to tough enemies and vehicles.
• Combat Repairs: Allies within range of the Support Scavenger’s gadgets passively regenerate health and armor over time, even when not interacting directly with the gadgets.

Starting Vehicle: The Medi-Wagon

A mobile support vehicle designed for quick resource deployment. The Medi-Wagon comes equipped with a deployable supply station that can heal nearby allies and refill their ammo, making it perfect for hit-and-run support tactics. The vehicle also carries a small turret for light defense, allowing the Scavenger to provide cover while supporting the team.

4. The Nomad

Class Overview:

The Nomad is a survivalist and ranged combatant, excelling in long-range engagements and mobility. They are highly skilled at navigating the wilderness, tracking enemies, and using natural elements to their advantage. Nomads are masters of hit-and-run tactics, capable of dealing significant damage from a distance and avoiding close combat.

Role: Ranged DPS / Scout

Primary Attributes:

• Dexterity: High - Enhances ranged accuracy, critical hit chance, and agility.
• Perception: High - Increases detection range, tracking ability, and critical damage.
• Endurance: Medium - Improves stamina and resistance to environmental hazards.

Skills and Abilities:

• Sniper Shot: A powerful, long-range shot that deals increased damage based on distance from the target. Can pierce multiple enemies if lined up correctly.
• Camouflage: Blends into the surroundings, becoming invisible to enemies for a short duration or until an attack is made.
• Tracking Mark: Marks an enemy, increasing damage taken from all sources and revealing their location to allies.
• Rapid Volley: Fires a quick succession of arrows or bullets at multiple targets, dealing moderate damage to each.
• Windrunner: Increases movement speed and evasion for a short duration, allowing for quick repositioning or retreat.
• Eye of the Storm (Ultimate): The Nomad’s senses become heightened, dramatically increasing critical hit chance and damage while granting the ability to see through walls and environmental obstructions.

Higher-Level Powers:

• Phantom Strike: Attacking while camouflaged has a chance to critically hit and stun enemies.
• Hunter’s Precision: Sniper Shot now ignores a percentage of the target’s armor and has a chance to apply a bleed effect.
• Fleet of Foot: Windrunner’s duration is increased, and it grants temporary immunity to slows and stuns.

Starting Vehicle: The Strider

A fast, lightweight off-road vehicle with enhanced suspension and stealth capabilities. The Strider is designed for speed and mobility, featuring a silent engine mode to avoid detection. It's perfect for quick getaways, reconnaissance, and engaging enemies from a

distance.

5. The Technomancer

Class Overview:

The Technomancer is a hybrid class combining elements of magic and technology. They manipulate energy, hack old-world devices, and use a mix of cybernetic enhancements and psychic abilities to control the battlefield. Technomancers excel in crowd control, support, and high-tech offense, making them versatile and unpredictable in combat.

Role: Hybrid DPS / Support / Controller

Primary Attributes:

• Intelligence: High - Increases ability power, hacking success rate, and gadget efficacy.
• Willpower: High - Enhances energy regeneration, resistance to mind control, and the potency of psychic attacks.
• Agility: Medium - Improves evasion and casting speed.

Skills and Abilities:

• Arcane Pulse: Sends out a burst of energy that damages and knocks back enemies in a radius.
• Hacker’s Delight: Hijacks enemy drones or mechanical devices, turning them against their owners for a short period.
• Energy Shield: Creates a barrier that absorbs damage and reflects a portion back to attackers. Allies near the Technomancer receive a portion of the shield’s protection.
• EMP Blast: Disables all electronic devices in a radius, stunning mechanical enemies and revealing cloaked units.
• Overclock: Temporarily boosts all the Technomancer’s abilities, reducing cooldowns and increasing damage or effectiveness.
• Digital Ascension (Ultimate): The Technomancer taps into the remnants of the world’s digital network, becoming a conduit for raw energy. This form grants increased power, faster cooldowns, and the ability to teleport short distances for a limited time.

Higher-Level Powers:

• Quantum Leap: Teleports the Technomancer to a target location, leaving behind a clone that explodes after a short delay.
• Electromagnetic Field: Enhances EMP Blast to deal damage over time to all affected enemies and reduce their resistances.
• Nanobot Swarm: Releases a swarm of nanobots that heal allies or damage enemies over time, based on the Technomancer’s current needs.

Starting Vehicle: The Arc Runner

A sleek, hovercraft-like vehicle with advanced sensors and energy-based weaponry. The Arc Runner can cloak itself for stealth missions and deploy electromagnetic pulses to disable enemy electronics. It represents the Technomancer’s affinity for technology and their ability to control and manipulate it in novel ways.

Background Classes

The player can choose from the five main classes, but they can also select a Background Class based on one of the five factions in the world. Each Background Class represents a different faction and grants unique advantages and disadvantages, further customizing the playstyle of each character. The Background Class doesn’t limit the player to a faction but represents where their character originated, influencing their strengths, weaknesses, and their relationship with the world.

1. Survivor Background (Faction: Survivors)

The Survivor background represents a character who grew up among the remnants of humanity, living in small, tight-knit communities. Survivors are adaptable, resourceful, and focused on keeping themselves and their allies alive in the harsh, post-apocalyptic world.

Advantages:

• Adaptability: Increased resistance to environmental hazards (radiation, toxins, extreme weather).
• Resourcefulness: Can scavenge supplies from fallen enemies or abandoned areas, gaining extra crafting materials and consumables.
• Communal Aid: Receives a minor healing bonus when near allies or in groups, emphasizing teamwork and survival.
• Survivalist Training: Reduced food and water consumption when exploring the wilderness.

Disadvantages:

• Technological Deficiency: Slower learning curve with advanced tech-based items or gadgets, making it harder to fully utilize them.
• Unarmored: Reduced access to high-tier armors compared to other backgrounds; relies more on mobility and resourcefulness than defense.

Unique Passive: Community Resilience: When health drops below a certain threshold, gain a temporary boost to stamina regeneration and damage resistance for a short duration.

2. Deserter Background (Faction: Deserters)

A Deserter background means your character originated from lawless, cutthroat individuals who profit off the destruction of the world. They are skilled in underhanded tactics, ambushes, and making quick, ruthless decisions for survival.

Advantages:

• Scavenger's Instinct: Increased chance to find rare loot from enemies or in hidden caches.
• Ambusher: Deals bonus damage when attacking from stealth or ambushing enemies.
• Black Market Knowledge: Access to exclusive gear and items from hidden merchants (black market), offering illegal or banned tech.
• Brutal Efficiency: Reduced cooldowns on finishers or "fatal" attacks, allowing them to execute weakened enemies faster.

Disadvantages:

• Distrust: Reduced starting reputation with NPCs from other factions, making it harder to gain their trust or access certain missions/areas.
• Reckless Nature: Reduced defense when engaging in prolonged battles or when outnumbered. They’re better suited for quick, decisive fights.

Unique Passive: Dirty Fighter: Critical hits have a chance to apply bleed or poison effects, making even basic attacks dangerous over time.

3. Miner Background (Faction: Miners)

The Miner background represents someone who grew up underground in technologically advanced, self-sufficient settlements. Miners are experts in crafting, technology, and resource management, often prioritizing defense and sustainability over raw power.

Advantages:

• Master Crafter: Significantly increased crafting speed and success rate when creating weapons, armor, or traps. Can repair items without needing a workshop.
• Underground Knowledge: Increased movement speed and stealth in underground or cave-like environments, making them adept at navigating subterranean areas.
• Tech Expertise: Reduced cooldowns for tech-based abilities or gadgets (traps, turrets, drones).
• Defensive Fortifications: Bonus to health and durability of deployable defenses, like barriers or turrets.

Disadvantages:

• Surface Discomfort: Slightly reduced combat effectiveness and slower health regeneration when fighting in open, exposed environments like deserts or plains.
• Fragile Morale: When morale drops (e.g., due to losing companions or being heavily outnumbered), it’s harder to regain composure, leading to debuffs in prolonged battles.

Unique Passive: Underground Tactician: While in enclosed or underground areas, gain increased trap damage, stealth detection, and movement speed.

4. Imperial Background (Faction: Imperials)

The Imperial background reflects a privileged upbringing in the luxurious, well-fortified enclaves of the rich and powerful. Imperials rely on wealth, influence, and superior technology to dominate, often viewing the outside world with disdain.

Advantages:

• Wealth and Influence: Gain access to exclusive, high-end gear, vehicles, and weapons from Imperial suppliers. Reduced cost for upgrading equipment.
• Noble Command: Increased starting reputation with NPCs from any faction, as many fear or respect their Imperial lineage.
• Luxury Combat Gear: Equipped with top-tier, durable armor and weaponry from the start, granting them higher defense and offensive stats.
• Powerful Allies: Ability to call in NPC reinforcements or automated drones during difficult missions.

Disadvantages:

• Arrogance: Lower effectiveness when scavenging or crafting, as Imperials are used to having things provided to them. They cannot craft high-end gear on their own.
• Isolationist: Decreased effectiveness in wilderness survival, such as needing more food and water to maintain health when outside their comfort zones (luxurious settlements).

Unique Passive: Imperial Guard: Gain a small, constant damage shield that regenerates over time when out of combat, representing their superior equipment and training.

5. Signallist Background (Faction: Signallists)

The Signallist background comes from a fanatical cult that worships the mysterious Signal. Characters with this background tap into the strange, unknown powers of the Signal, but at a cost. They are feared by others but possess powers no other faction can access.

Advantages:

• Signal Affinity: Enhanced damage or effectiveness when using abilities that involve energy manipulation, psychic powers, or anything related to the Signal.
• Cult Tactics: Gain unique abilities that cause confusion or fear in enemies, such as mind control or psychic attacks that bypass armor.
• Signalist Technology: Access to experimental, unpredictable gadgets and weapons derived from the Signal. These items often have unique effects or buffs.
• Zealotry: Increased damage or power when fighting against multiple enemies, as their fanatical drive fuels their abilities.

Disadvantages:

• Signal Corruption: Health and stamina regeneration are slightly slower, as prolonged exposure to the Signal has affected their body and mind.
• Feared by All: Reduced reputation with all other factions, as Signallists are universally despised. Some NPCs may refuse to interact with the character at all.

Unique Passive: Signal Empowerment: Randomly gain a small boost to a random stat (damage, defense, speed, etc.) during combat, representing the unpredictable nature of the Signal's influence.