Combat drugs that is
I'm not sure if this has been discussed before or not. A quick search didn't turn anything but I didn't look very hard so if this has been done before, then I'm sorry.
Anyway, I had this idea this morning. How about various combat drugs that provide various benefits for a short period of time? To balance them, they could have drawbacks too. I suppose they'd work like a "weapon". You select them, and "fire" them to use them. Perhaps they'd come in syringes and the "firing" animation would be your character injecting them into his arm... I'm not sure.
Here are a few ideas for combat drugs I came up with:
Speed/ close combat enhancing drug:
A mix of synthetic adrenaline, amphetamines, aggression amplifiers and god only knows what else. The affected soldier has lighting fast reflexes, increased strength and is driven to psychotic fury.
Advantages:
Movement speed is dramatically increased. The character can jump further/ higher, and all close combat weapons receive a bonus to their damage and rate of fire. The stamina bar doesn't drain as fast. Also, when double tapping the forward button (e.g dodge) the character performs a huge forward leap that can be used to bring them into striking distance of an enemy almost instantly.
Lasts roughly 30 seconds.
Disadvantages:
Chaos with ranged weapons is slightly increased, as the drug causes trembling and shakes in the user. The character is still perfectly capable of hitting targets up close, but shots from long range are much more difficult.
The comedown is a bitch. After the affects have worn off, the character's movement speed begins to rapidly decrease until they're moving at only half of their original speed. In addition, they suffer from vision problems (Imagine really bad motion blur).
The comedown also lasts about 30 seconds.
Health/ invulnerability drug:
This drug is comprised of a massive dose of painkillers as well as enough stimulants to keep a character fighting with wounds that would normally incapacitate them. It doesn't last though, and the side effects are severe and often deadly.
Advantages:
Instantly increases the health of the user by about 200 hitpoints, even above the normal maximum.
Disadvantages:
The character begins to rapidly loose health. The health loss continues until the character has lost about 230 health. This takes about 30-40 seconds. The player can use this drug no matter how much health they have at the time, but if they have less than 30 points of health they will die of an overdose before the effects have worn off.
Accuracy/ stability enhancing drug:
This drug suppresses the user's heart and breathing rate, as well as reducing the slight trembling that disrupts a gunman's aim. This drug allows a sniper to nail that perfect headshot, or a gunfighter to aim precisely even on the run.
Advantages:
Dramatically reduces chaos with all ranged weapons. Recoil is slightly reduced as well. When using guns with scopes, the scopes do not wobble or tremble like they usually do.
Lasts 30 seconds.
Disadvantages:
Because it lowers a user's heart and breathing rate, players cannot move as quickly while the drug is in effect, and the stamina bar decreases more rapidly as well.
Well, that's all I can think of for now. Post comments, criticisms or any other ideas for combat drugs that you may have
I think that combat stimulants is an excellent name.
