Heckler

ABOUT
Heckler is a bleed-based machine gun type tower. It's quite simple, they shoot fast and they inflict bleed on their enemies that stack to disgusting levels causing the decently high price.

Heckler is the first tower that is animated if the little recoil bounce counts. Heckler appears with a soldier type appearance from its shades of the grey army uniform and the emblem on their back. What's important to note about its design is that as it gets more upgraded, it becomes more specific, seeming more like a soldier for a snow mission, which makes sense for the color of the uniform. On its final levels, it's more of deciding how dark the color of paint you'll use is to color the walls with the blood of your enemies, 7A being darker or more designed for a night mission and 7B greyer and snow-like.

Heckler, in gameplay, is SCAR but it doubles down on the bleed gimmick at the cost of higher prices. Similar to how Heavy is just Rogue but late-game, Heckler is just SCAR but late-game and is the little in-between between Heavy and Rogue in raw damage. Similar to SCAR, it revolves around stacking tons of Bleed onto the enemy and slowly killing them. But, however, this is just at the start as SCAR could be considered better at its final stages as SCAR is better at dealing damage (heavily) there and is only slightly worse at causing Bleed. The range is a good start for putting the difference between them though, as while SCAR does more damage, it won't be able to cause as much Bleed damage compared to Heckler with a few extra studs out through the map. So while SCAR holds the advantage at the start between them, the longer the enemy is kept alive, the closer Heckler is to closing the gap and passing by SCAR. Heckler is at its best spaced near the start by this logic, not too far in so that its range reaches over spawn but the closer to the sweet spot, the better. Between, 7A and 7B, 7B is obviously better, holding the higher stats in everything other than Firerate which goes back to the SCAR vs Heckler battle. While Heckler 7B does lose in terms of price, you'd also have to understand that Heckler is a late-game tower and a few extra $300,000 doesn't matter much. What the heck man!

TRIVIA

 * Heckler is the first tower to have an animation

HISTORY

 * [4/15/20] Testing Notice
 * Heckler Testing Begins


 * [4/20/20] v1.8.1
 * Heckler added