Being able to adapt to the situation at hand, that is the trait of the Tactician.

Skills:

• Defensive stance: Increase your defense while slowing your movement speed
• Offensive stance: Increase your damage while also lowering your armor
• Runner stance: Run faster while dealing decreased damage
• Switch stances: Quickly switch between stances

Or, speaking in (not yet very balanced) numbers:
Defensive stance

• Level 1: 10% more armor, 90% of original movement speed
• Level 2: 20% more armor, 80% of original movement speed
• Level 3: 30% more armor, 70% of original movement speed
• Level 4: 40% more armor, 60% of original movement speed

Offensive stance

• Level 1: 10% more damage dealt, 10% more damage taken
• Level 2: 20% more damage dealt, 20% more damage taken
• Level 3: 30% more damage dealt, 30% more damage taken
• Level 4: 40% more damage dealt, 40% more damage taken

Runner stance

• Level 1: 10% more speed, do 5% less damage
• Level 2: 20% more speed, do 15% less damage
• Level 3: 30% more speed, do 25% less damage
• Level 4: 40% more speed, do 30% less damage

Switch stances

• Level 0: 40 seconds between stance switches
• Level 1: 35 seconds between stance switches
• Level 2: 25 seconds between stance switches
• Level 3: 15 seconds between stance switches
• Level 4: 5 seconds between stance switches

You switch stances by pressing your ability or ultimate key. The ability key switches forward (Defensive -> Offensive -> Runner -> Defensive...) while the ultimate command switches backwards (Runner -> Offensive -> Defensive -> Runner)

I learned a bit about HUD messages and arrays while writing this race and I hope someone else can learn something from my code aswell  

Todo:

• Add some visuals for other players to see what stance a tactician has. I was experimenting with some tf2 particles (red teleporter glow for offensive, blue for defensive and yellow buff banner for runner) but didn't like the outcome and possible confusion of those... and just using color.inc seems lazy

Changelog:

• Fixed stance switching with ultimate not initializing buffs correctly
• Adjusted Defense. Now goes 100%->90%->80%->70%->60% instead of 100%->20%->40%->60%->80%
• Added some randomness to FakeClients, so bots now switch stances

Rewritten part of the description

There's a cooldown on stance switching wich doesn't go below 5 seconds, so that's kinda pointless.. or do you really want to keep pressing for 5 seconds to switch ? The cooldown is there so you can't over-abuse the different stances, mostly related to offensive-defensive. If there was no cooldown a Sniper for example could shoot in offensive stance and then immidiently switch to defensive after firing until he had a new target, switching back to offensive a second before firing.

But I appreciate the idea 

I'm aware how fSlow works, but thanks . I'm still working on balancing the skills and I must admit the scaling on the defensive stance is something I was arguing about with a friend at 6 am so I guess I shouldn't have expected anything proper to come out of that. I'll check out how it plays when it scales from 90% to 60% later when I come home from school and upload the new version then (Hopefully with the bot timer added!)

So you just want to brainstorm a few possible uses for the push function? I made a closed source race wich uses a jetpack on the ultimate key, flying up while you hold down the key and stopping when you release it. Some other things that come to my mind right now would be dashing, leaping into a direction and charging up an attack. Use your imagination, dammit 

Sure matey, if I didn't want criticismn I wouldn't have made this race public 

I did some changes based on Ownz input. The max fslow modifier is now 0.6 (You become more slow as your armor progresses)


What? Where did I say something about lowering the armor on offensive stance? Isn't armor/damage taking the same (multiplying War3_DamageModPercent?)


Well, the Tacticians trait is his versatility. I tried to give reasonable buffs that would make someone want to switch Stances and consider all 3 stances as useful skills.


You run a CS:S server, right? I run a TF2 server, so very slow races like the Heavy really benefit from the Runner stance to get to a cap point, where they can jump into action and switch to defensive/offensive depending on class/situation.


And thanks for those, I appreciate all the input I can get


I'll see what I can tweak and then upload the next version soon. Seems to me the biggest difficulty is tweaking a race to be accepted on both TF2 and CS:S. This was coded with soley TF2 in mind and no regards for CS:S, so I can't say how well it works there. The point of the stances is not to just run around in one stance all the time though, if that were to happen that would mean there are some serious balancing issues. I can see how in CS:S players might only be interested in the offensive stance for the massive damage increase, allowing them cheap one-shot kills, but I guess the versatility of this race really only shines on TF2 where you can use the stances to counter your classes weaknesses aswell as enhance your strengths (Runner Stance gets a Heavy on the point, Defensive stance makes him hard to take down.)

well if their runnin too fast, lets increase damage towards em lol

Thank you for testing my race, I have analyzed and fixed this issue  . OP contains the newest version of the race

Is this on CS:S? I use a Hudmessage that is only visible on TF2, no idea what it does on other games. Guess I'll have to implement a game check at that specific code.

so people testing this race, how is it?