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New (unofficial) merc: Mercy (Overwatch)[message #356523] Mon, 21 January 2019 21:50 Go to previous message
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Because I still inexplicably like wading through tons of other game's soundfiles to rename and use them out of context, we now have yet another merc: Angela "Mercy" Ziegler from Overwatch. Somewhat following the lore, she is a brilliant medical researcher and field medic. After spending several years in UN relief efforts, she has now joined AIM, bringing along her superior medical and limited combat abilities.



Considering she is about the only Overwatch character who often has no need to personnally fight an entire game, she thus gets the lowest marksmanship of all AIM mercs by far (even at MERC there aren't many worse contenders). So you have to decide whether you want to make the effort to train her, simply use her for indescriminate suppressive fire or just leave her patching up the wounded in previously taken territory. Her gear kits somewhat reflect that - the "Hospital" kit has no gun, but about every medical equipment you'll ever need.
She has a rather positive outlook and is a pacifist. Due to sound file selection, she has no buddies or hatreds yet - that might change in the future, but I'm not that hopeful.
As seen in the video, she heavily uses additional dialogue. Of special interest will be that she comments every time she bandages someone - there was a wide variety of files to choose from, thus using her as a field medic will yield many unique sounds (it also makes sense as her Doctor trait and individual background gives her an impressive bandaging speed).

https://i.imgur.com/YwZ4YIT.png

Note that since all of the fuckton of characters in Overwatch mostly have about the same amount of dialogue, this serves as a proof that we can create new mercenaries from Overwatch characters in principle. As that game has 29 full voiced characters and is likely to get more, that is quite the reservoir to fishing in. You don't even need to own the game, as helpful people have already uploaded the dialogue for each character in youtube videos. It is notable that most of these characters have a nationality and a personal 'stick', which can be good or bad for our endeavour. My notes on whether that is feasible and sensible in individual cases:
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As you can also learn from the video, I've finally used the Max Payne 1 sound files calu kindly gave me. The tonal difference to MP3 is striking - Max in MP1 is a brooding man on a downward spiral, Max in MP3 is a violent thug swallowing in self-pity spouting one-liners. Those one-liners sadly often fit the game better than 1's long musings, additionally many lines in 1 come from scenes with background noise. That meant I didn't get to replace many lines, though I got to add many, many lines of additional dialogue. Also, Max has buddies and relations now:


  • He knows Turtle back from his cop days in the NYPD.
  • Igor made quite an impression on him. Considering the nature of Max' russian acquaintances, one has to wonder whether Chechnya was the only foreign action Igor saw...
  • Throughout the game, Max essentially paints every woman he meets as saints, prostitutes or killers (sometimes several choices at the same time). It's easy to see him putting those he's attracted to on a pedestal, like Mercy, Fox and Mouse, which... can get a tad creepy, as seen in the video.
  • He hates Vinny. It would be bizarre if he didn't.
  • At some point, he was doublecrossed by Bruce "Skitz" Bonner. Look, I'm grasping at straws here, and if I can make a connection merely by initials, I'll do it :-)
  • Just like Shepard, he's doesn't think someone who had a psychotic breakdown from the stress of delivering mail can be relied on in a battle situation, so Postie is on his bad list.
  • Just as he sees some women as saints, others are seen as evil killers for whatever reason, which Sara will find out.
  • He's the first merc to specifically hate chaotic Buns.


This is built upon r8648 & GameDir r2458.

You can get the archive containing Mercy, Max Payne, the Ryder twins, Lara Croft and Cmdr. Shepard from http://kermi.pp.fi/JA_2/Mods_v1.13/Flugente/Additional_Mercs/.

Also, of minor interest, this posts kinda serves as a "I'm still alive and all that, no need to send an extraction team to Bavaria" post. Though I don't have and won't have much time for coding in the future...

[Updated on: Mon, 21 January 2019 23:45]




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