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The Mercenary features a flexible selection of ability trees that let you adapt to almost any situation. |
¶ Overview
| Vitals | |
|---|---|
| Health | 420 |
| Armor | 5 |
| Energy | 200 |
| Movement Speed | 2.90 |
| Weapon: Rifle mk. 2 | |
|---|---|
| Damage | 44 - 52 x2 |
| Range | 15 |
| Attack Speed | 0.30 |
| Magazine Size | 60 |
| Weapon: W34 Python | |
|---|---|
| Damage | 146 - 166  |
| Range | 15 |
| Attack Speed | 0.75 |
| Magazine Size | 30 |
| Weapon: EM-25R | |
|---|---|
| Damage | 424 - 565 x6 bonus vs massive |
| Range | 30 |
| Attack Speed | 7.43 |
| Magazine Size | 5 |
| Strengths | Limitations |
|---|---|
| - Able to handle most every situation - Tools to stall zombies - Mobile and has good self-healing |
- Struggles against Tier 2 zombies - Railgun requires careful handling |
¶ Unlock Requirements
| Enlisted | Warrant Officer | Comissioned Officer |
|---|---|---|
| 170000 XP | 180000 XP | 130000 XP |
- Requires Bear Claw decal (100% PMC Campaign win), Cyber camo (PMC Survival win with bonus mission), and Snow RA camo (2-4 player T1 PMC Survival win)
¶ Learnable Skills
Soldier skills are basic, general knowledge and proficiency at your profession. They range from simple physical fitness and weapon proficiency to battle drills and warrior tasks.
Each point increases Fitness, Dexterity, and Mechanical skills by 2, and 10% faster reload/unjam time.
| Level | Skill | Stat Gain | Reload/Unjam Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perform self-aid | 2 | -10% |
| 2 | Light Filter, Automatic Mode | 4 | -20% |
| 3 | Improved prone | 6 | -30% |
| 4 | Rifle butt, Improved Automatic Mode | 8 | -40% |
Marksmanship is your ability to accurately fire, reactively fire, and focus under stress.
12.5% critical hit chance to deal extra damage on each auto attack. Critical hits are only half as affected by the targets armor.
Each level grants 4 Dexterity, Equals To:
+ 8% Ranged Damage
+ 4% Attack Speed
+ 1 Weapon Range
| Level | Critical Damage Multiplier | Dexterity |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2.5x | 4 |
| 2 | 5.0x | 8 |
| 3 | 7.5x | 12 |
| 4 | 10.0x | 16 |
Unlocks additional gear for the mercenary and improves skills with weaponry
Level 1: Unlocks Binoculars and Disarm
Level 2: Unlocks Stun Grenade
Level 3: Unlocks Smoke Grenade and Gask Mask
Level 4: Unlocks Steady Aim and Self-Nano with Soldier Skills 1
| Level | Weapon Range Bonus | Attack Speed Bonus | Damage Bonus |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.75 | 2.5% | 8% |
| 2 | 1.5 | 5.0% | 16% |
| 3 | 2.25 | 7.5% | 24% |
| 4 | 3.0 | 10% | 30% |
Packed with explosive magazines
Level 1: Unlocks the weapon
Level 2: Increases AoE radius and Weapon Range
Level 3: Increases Damage and more Damage vs. Armored Targets
- Cannot crit
Advanced portable rail gun specialized for clearing massive zombies
Level 1: Unlocks the Weapon
Level 2: Increases Range and Attack Speed
Level 3: Increases Damage and Double Splash Radius
¶ Auxiliary Abilities
A bright flash briefly paralyzes smaller zombies and disorients larger zombies
- 2 charges, shared with Smoke Grenade
- Stuns non-massive units for
3-5seconds - Slows massive units by 15% for
3-5seconds - Additionally, all units lose all regeneration, cannot detect cloaked units, and cannot cloak
Energy Cost: 40
Cooldown: 50 seconds
Steady your aim to fire extremely powerful shots at the cost of attack speed
-60%attack speed, 3x weapon damage bonus, and+4weapon range for 12 seconds- WARNING: Must Be Proned!
Energy Cost: 60
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Home-brewed special formula to keep you up when the going gets tough
- Heals
150life and cures severe ailments and poisons instantly
Energy Cost: 75
Cooldown: 60 seconds
Enable automatic mode to significantly increase attack speed
- Increases attack speed by
x2for10seconds - Does not affect EM-25R Rail Gun
- Improved Variant: Instead increases attack speed by
x2.5for12.5seconds
Energy Cost: 45
Cooldown: 30 seconds
¶ Additional Information
- The Mercenary can only have 1 weapon active at a time. He can switch weapons while reloading, but attack cooldown is shared between all weapons.
¶ MOS-Specific Skill Identifiers
Improves your ability to handle weaponry
- Reduces reload time of both W34 Python and EM-25R Rail gun by 1s.
- Reduces Battle Rifle reload and unjam time by 15%.
- Increase W34 Python damage against Armored enemies by 15%.
- Enables Rifle Butt ability while EM-25R is active if Soldier Skills are leveled 4.
- Substitutes Improved Battle with Improved Weaponry.
¶ Improved Weaponry:
+4%Explosive Damage+4%Additional Explosives Damage per Mercenary Skills level
Beat Nightmare Campaign with epilogue completion as a Mercenary.
Switching your weapon is faster than reloading.
Swapping weapons will grant buff for 5 seconds:
- Increase movement speed by
0.05 - Burst
additional shotafter swapping toBattle Rifle - Doubled
attack speedafter swapping toPython - Increases damage bonus to
Armored,MechanicalandMassiveby200%after swapping toEM-25R
Beat Boss Mode with 1,500 kills and 1,000,000
T1damage as a Mercenary.