-edited by ownz

I enjoy non-coders throwing out ideas. They sometimes provide ideas I as a coder wouldn't have come up with since my thinking is to bound to the constraints SourcePawn inflicts upon me and thinking outside of the box is hard.

a race that allows you to take over other players's bodies?

wtf?

Who, me?




Well I'm thinking hacking-oriented, sure, but focusing more on what the character of "The Laughing Man" actually did in the anime overall, rather than specifically on the cyber-brain hacking bits...which he didn't actually do often...the Major cyber-brain hacked a LOT more than The Laughing Man.

My initial thoughts for potential skills/abilities/ultimates are:

"Eye Hack"
-Grants temporary full invisibility, but severely restricts movement and disables weapon use for the duration

"Delayed Action Virus"
-Targets the enemy player with the most kills and forces them to switch teams for several seconds before returning them to their starting team

"Anonymity"
-Chance to spawn with enemy skin (disguise)

"Remote Dummy" {I know that the Major used this one and The Laughing Man didn't, but meh}
-By operating a fake body remotely, the user escapes death (respawn)

"Cyber-Brain Hack"
-Hack into your enemy and shut them down (Freeze for a few seconds)


Those are just some initial thoughts I had after going back and watching a few episodes as of about two hours ago to now. I'll shuffle it into that race idea format I outlined in my opening post sometime later on and post the finished idea at that time.

Well if you count the number of people that the actual Laughing Man (Aoi) brain-hacked and physically controlled, you've got...Serano...and the lady running the "orphanage" he was laying low in (I count that one because he STOPPED her from messing with Togusa)...that cop at the conference...and that bellhop dude in the hotel. The rest were either brain-hacked by copy cats, or he was hacking them for some other purpose (the VAST majority of what Aoi did was Eye Hacking and computer/AI hacking to hide himself). At least in the anime this is true, I never read the mangas (I don't read mangas actually) so I'm not sure about if/how that would differ comparatively.

I'd have to go back through and count the number of times Motoko Brain Hacks people, but I feel like she did it more often...she did Eye Hacks nearly as much as Aoi, since she did the same kidnapping stunt Aoi pulled before. Hm...come to think of it, her Brain Hack total might be skewed because of the movies and 2nd Gig...I don't recall how many people she Brain Hacks in the first season by itself...possibly 0!