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Cabowse
6 years ago

Legend Concept - BRASS ( Calculated Commandant )

 

This amazing art concept was found on Art Sation by Vladimir Lozovoy, after seeing it I was inspired to make this Legend Concept.

BRASS

BRASS (Real name: Vincent Dormwood) was a captain within the IMC for many years, he was one of the best strategic minds that the IMC had on their side. When the battle of Gridiron ended the Captain began to lose faith in the cause and tried to defect by setting up a meet with an old contact from Vinson Dynamics. Vincent's increasingly suspicious behaviour attracted the ire of Commander Scryer who used his stealth tech to spy on Vincent from the shadows. Vincent went to the meet on Solace and before he even knew what was happening Scryer appeared from behind the contact and pierced his knife through their back. He confronted Vincent and cut off his hands as penance before subduing him and put him on a ship for transport back to the main fleet. Before he could be incarcerated the ship that he was being transported on was attacked by an unknown group. Vincent was captured by a rogue group of simulacrums working in affiliation with Vinson Dynamics. Knowing that Vincent was the key to striking a blow to the already wounded IMC he was medically treated and his damaged body parts were replaced with a state of the art cybernetic system. After years of travelling and fighting with the simulacrum group Vincent decided to go it alone to try and track down Scryer, but through months of planning saw that maybe he could get Scryer to come to him by joining the Apex games.

Passive: Personal Guard - While reviving a team member Brass can aim and hip-fire his currently equipped weapon using his shoulder mounted arms. Brass can also hip fire weapons while healing.

Tactical: Tactical Adjustment - Brass will very quickly strafe 4m in the direction he is moving. Charges 2 - Cooldown - 15 seconds.

Ultimate: Superior Firepower - Brass uses both equipped weapons for 12 seconds, but is limited to hip-firing. Charge time - 200 seconds.

Notes about abilities:

  • Tactical Adjustment can be used during Superior firepower.
  • While using Personal Guard Brass will fire in 3rd person.
  • Hip-fire accuracy for Snipers & Pistols is increased by varying amounts during Superior firepower & Personal Guard.
  • Hip-fire accuracy for Shotguns, SMG's, LMG's & Assault Rifles is decreased by varying amounts during Superior firepower.
  • Reviving an ally works on a toggle during Personal Guard, you must press 'switch weapon' to cancel.
  • Using Personal Guard while also using Superior firepower will end Superior Firepower prematurely.
  • If Superior Firepower is ended prematurely, the seconds remaining will be converted to ultimate charge. 

Notes about Legend

  • Brass has a very Germanic sounding accent.
  • Brass has quite a cold personality but does have a sly sense of humour, generally gets on quite well with Wattson, Caustic and Bangalore, dislikes Octane and Mirage.
  • Hates people asking him to do party tricks with his arms.
  • Often forgets that he is no longer part of the IMC.
  • Will bark orders rather than suggest like Revenant, occasionally will double back and apologise unlike Revenant. 
  • Will talk about weapons in a nostalgic way when pinging them.
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  • Cabowse's avatar
    Cabowse
    6 years ago
    @Smashdragon2000 Thanks Smashdragon!

    The artwork was created by an artist called Vladimir Lozovoy who has a bunch of amazing work on Artstation.com, I browse Artstation to give myself ideas for potential legend concepts and this one caught my eye!
  • Athens_Shield's avatar
    Athens_Shield
    6 years ago
    @Cabowse Definitely much much better and a bit more balanced. Might be nice to add environment interactions with his tactical. (This could be where the developer probably be taking things over) If he is running passed buildings/street lamps and the such, his arms grab onto it to increase the what I am assuming you mean by strafing is quick turns. (Never understood where we came up with strafing in apex when it means: attack repeatedly with bombs or machine-gun fire from low-flying aircraft.)

    Also his passive is in the right direction but needs more I feel. Lifeline for example has the quick rezz, shield in front, and can use shields/heals faster. Being able to attack while rezzing is what I feel an AMAZING addition and GREAT counter play for thirsting but still he's vulnerable for standing still so definitely balanced already.
  • d-tazmaniac3's avatar
    d-tazmaniac3
    3 years ago

    My friend came up with some tweaks to the abilities and lore If you want to look at them. 

    Real Name: Vincent Dormwood
    Title: Calculated Commandant
    Previous Affiliations: IMC, Vinson Dynamics
    Age: 43
    Lore:
    Vincent “Brass” Dormwood was the youngest commanding officer aboard the IMC flagship, The Vindicta. Born into a wealthy and militaristic family, he was raised as a soldier. No one of the crew members aboard ever saw him smile. With a blunt personality, little humor, and a cold demeanor, his prowess gave him renown throughout the entire galaxy. The only man he ever dared to call friend was an IMC Pilot by the name of Scryer. The Vindicta, and by definition both him and Scryer were present at the battle of Gridiron. After many of the IMC ships retreated, Scryer was furious. But Vincent, cold as ever, began to feel his heart changing. After the war ended, Brass secured the ship with as many of his crew as he could and escaped with it to Gaea. Scyer, furious at Vincent’s betrayal, went to the planet. The two fought but Vincent was bested by Scryer’s small force of pilots. For his crimes, Vincent was left to die, with his hands cut off and almost unrecognizable. Vinson Dynamics and their medical advances found him. Giving him a new face and four new arms, they offered him a position as a mercenary. Longing for a life of command, the company gave him a new ship, The Mandatum, and he went to find lost IMC soldiers to fight alongside him. Briefly, Vincent offered protection to Jackson Williams and his sister, Anita, which Jackson turned down. Now that whispers of a growing threat have reached across the galaxy, Vincent joins the games alongside his ship to deliver justice as a new man alongside his former soldiers.

    Abilities:
    Passive: Helping Hands
    “Your time is not done yet! There is a war to be won!”
    Brass is able to hip fire while reviving. Brass is also capable of faster reloads and weapon swap speeds (this effect stacks with weapon stocks). Brass is able to jump up walls and leap father off of them when performing a wall bounce. Brass is able to take small healing items (syringes, shield cells, and ultimate accelerants) while firing, however, they take longer to apply (Internal Cooldown for revive portion: 7 seconds)
    Tactical: Resolve
    “Get up, Dormwood, you’ve been through hell before”
    Brass uses his arms to stabilize his currently equipped weapon, reducing recoil and bullet spread when firing from the hip. Using this ability when holding a grenade will decrease the grenade’s travel time and increase its throw distance (Cooldown: 15 seconds)
    Ultimate: High Command
    “Three locations marked by High Command, standby for missile landfall!”
    Brass marks three locations with his neurolink and calls in three bombing runs from The Mandatum, damaging and concussing anyone caught in the blast. (Cooldown: 220 seconds)

  • Zulkiers's avatar
    Zulkiers
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    Ok, so as of his August 2022 edit, my reply refers to this portion.
    "
    Ultimate: Superior Firepower - Brass uses both equipped weapons for 12 seconds, but is limited to hip-firing. Charge time - 200 seconds.



    Notes about abilities:



    Tactical Adjustment can be used during Superior firepower.
    While using Personal Guard Brass will fire in 3rd person.
    Hip-fire accuracy for Snipers & Pistols is increased by varying amounts during Superior firepower & Personal Guard.
    Hip-fire accuracy for Shotguns, SMG's, LMG's & Assault Rifles is decreased by varying amounts during Superior firepower.
    Reviving an ally works on a toggle during Personal Guard, you must press 'switch weapon' to cancel.
    Using Personal Guard while also using Superior firepower will end Superior Firepower prematurely.
    If Superior Firepower is ended prematurely, the seconds remaining will be converted to ultimate charge.
    "

    Here's my reply.

    The Ultimate is... ok... but could use a much shorter cooldown/charge time than 200 seconds (3m20s). No longer than 100 seconds preferably (1m40s).
    Or buff it a bit to make the extensive charge time worth it.

    Previous reply's "High Command" would also be cool, but doesn't really put the many arms to good use. And it would be worth the extensive charge time, or should be anyways.
  • Zulkiers's avatar
    Zulkiers
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @Athens_Shield Strafing in gaming is side to side movement to try to keep someone from shooting you. Evasive Action basically. Or sideways movement in a helicopter.
    The bombing reference lets me realize what it is for an airplane to strafe, because otherwise it's very difficult or impossible for an airplane to strafe.

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