This is a proposed rework of the commando to make more than one build viable without significantly altering the perk’s overall power level. The right skill selection allows this commando to hit L25 with almost exactly the same stats as the current most popular commando build (you pick up 100% bonus damage with the pistol – not a huge buff).
Basic stats:
+1% perk weapon damage per level
+2% perk weapon magazine size per level
+2m cloak/health detection per level
1 zed time extension + 1 every 5 levels
Level 5 - Awareness
Adrenaline Junkie: Live in the moment! Zed time duration is increased to 4 seconds, and extensions can’t be used until fewer than 2 seconds remain in the current zed time.
Call Out: Give teammates the ability to see cloaked enemies as well as you can. They'll thank you for it!
Level 10 - Specialist
One-Hit Wonder: Send zeds straight from the cradle to their grave! Shots with commando weapons in single-fire mode deal 200% more damage against enemies with full health.
Autofire: Why be subtle? Do 20% more damage with Commando weapons using Full Auto or Burst Fire modes and 100% more damage with your pistol.
Level 15 – Weapon Handling
Tactical Reload: Be cool. Be quick. Reload faster with perk weapons AND look more elite while you're at it.
Multitasker: The zeds won’t stop, so why should you? Reload and switch weapons while sprinting so you don’t get caught.
Level 20 – Endurance
Fortitude: Hold the line: Increase your health by 50%.
Discretion: …is the better part of valor. Stay out of trouble with 10% faster movement.
Level 25 - Advanced Training
ZED TIME: Rapid Fire: When the world slows down, do more hurt: Do 3% more damage with Commando weapons and shoot 3 times faster with all guns.
ZED TIME: Professional: When the world slows down, you don't. Reload weapons at full speed - switch weapons twice as fast!
Comments on skills:
Spoiler!
Every Level: The only change here is that the health bonus has been dropped in favor of a mag size bonus. Mag size is such a fundamental part of the commando’s job as a bullet hose that any competing skill would be nearly indistinguishable. The health was removed to maintain balance but can still be acquired through the level 20 skill choice.
Level 5: These are team-based skills focused around letting the team notice and deal with enemies more efficiently. Both skills become more powerful with further levels in the perk.
Call Out already exists; it lets your team dictate encounters with stalkers, not the other way around. This becomes more useful as the cloak detection range increases.
Adrenaline Junkie is a new skill that makes zed time last longer so the team can pick the best targets (and eventually use their level 25 skills more). The restriction on zed time extension use enforces more efficient usage – no more wasting multiple extensions when quickly killing a crowd. It also provides the solo commando with a useable bonus. This skill becomes more useful as you get more zed time extensions.
Level 10: A personal perk that helps the commando specialize their role – do they double down on trash removal, or do they make themselves more useful against heavy zeds?
One-Hit Wonder is all about clearing trash as quickly as possible. The massive initial damage spike saves time and ammo with bloats, husks, and sirens. It also lets you get clots, gorefasts, and eventually bloats out of the way immediately – a one-shot headshot guarantees an immediate kill, not just a decap. The three nonobvious downsides to this skill are that even light wounds disable the skill, the fact that the AK doesn’t have a semiauto mode, and that full auto modes spit bullets faster in practice. A commando with this skill will likely use the bullpup instead of the AK.
Autofire already exists and is pretty straightforward. Reliable extra damage lets you help your team with heavy zeds. Also, you can use the AK. The pistol damage bonus is present to make this useable in early waves; it becomes a non-factor when the other bonus starts to kick in.
Level 15: Personal skills helping you find the time to reload
Tactical Reload already exists and is unchanged here. The bonus ranges from 11% to 53% for the commando, depending on the gun. This is obviously superior if you aren’t sprinting much.
Multitasker potentially opens up a huge amount of time for you to reload but doesn’t make it happen any faster. Weapon switching helps both if you get caught with the wrong gun out and if you want to reload both of your primaries. Particularly useful when kiting or things are busily going wrong.
Level 20: Personal skills designed to keep the commando alive. These synergize with the reload skills to some degree (tactical reload -> fortitude, multitasker -> discretion), but could work
Fortitude is the new home of the old +2% health/level. Easy to understand and easy to use. The better choice if you aren’t moving a lot.
Discretion helps you avoid getting hit in the first place. Good for kiting and large maps in general.
Level 25: The zed time perks already feel pretty much fine to me. If I absolutely had to make a change, I’d make Professional swap weapons at full speed as well (x2 -> x5).
Five skills were removed; usually because the skill would require a total rework to make it significantly more interesting than taking nothing at all. Comments on each removed skill:
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Nightvision has two major problems. The largest is that it isn’t useful in most situations – it’s easy to avoid dark areas on the current maps. The other (admittedly subjective) reason is that nightvision doesn’t work particularly well, since essentially any light source, flashlights included. It can’t compete with Call Out, and something balanced with it wouldn’t present a meaningful choice because they’d both be all but useless.
Large Mags: Having enough bullets to send a hail of lead downrange without reloading is so crucial to the commando’s role as a bullet hose that this would be very hard to balance against anything other than another skill that did the same thing.
Backup really just isn’t any good. The knife and 9mm can’t do anything the AR-15 can’t unless they get gigantic bonuses, and the AR-15 has a larger magazine. The skill would need to be totally reworked to make it matter anyways. The pistol bonus has been folded into autofire to make that skill useful in early waves.
Single Fire has been heavily reworked to be a viable competitor to autofire; one-hit wonder is the spiritual successor.
Impact has the net effect of letting you stumble every zed except scrakes, fleshpounds, and bosses. This is basically useless because those zeds are so easy to kill anyways – stumbling is only useful if you need to buy time against a zed. The next step in stumble power increase would let commandos permanently stumble scrakes from long range; clearly too much. There’s nowhere to go with this that doesn't add totally new stuff anyways.
TL;DR: Read the new skill layout and tell me why I misunderstand this game so fundamentally I shouldn't be even be allowed to play.
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