How Jake Muller will work in Mercs

Mercs is confirmed for RE6 (YAY!) but I have to wonder: How will Jake (and probably Wesker if he's unlockable) work in Mercs? Will you just jump around and attack enemies with super-powered melee attacks? Seems pretty imbalanced compared to those who have to shoot enemies. Of course I'm not exactly sure how power Jake will be.

It'll basically be up to the player how he would be used. Jake can use both guns and melee. If his melee is overpowered, then you can pretty much expect melee spamming.

I sure hope you won't be able to melee spam....

Melee Spamming. Sounds funny. Expect that Jake will more focus on Melee Attacks than Shooting Guns.

Wesker and Krauser had their own powers in the previous installments but they were balanced in Mercs.

Hopefully he's balanced between Melee and Guns.

We don't even know how the game plays yet, do its too early to say anything. Maybe everyone will have an equal amount of Melee attacks as Jake, we don't know.

Maybe. I sure hope that's the case. Cause just like his father, he would probably be overused too.

Mass Distraction wrote:

Wesker and Krauser had their own powers in the previous installments but they were balanced in Mercs.

Krauser was balanced? In RE4? Everyone else was, but I think Krauser was overpowered. Max health, second fastest running speed, extremely powerful bow and arrows, super powerful kick, and the special move that insta-kills everything, including boss enemies. His only weakness is sometimes space in his inventory.

Still wicked fun to play as though.

He was balanced to a point. You didn't have full control of his super speed and plaga arm.

Examples: He was fast but couldn't speed dash like in the story and you couldn't use his arm all the time or as a shield.

On a side note, his bow wasn't nearly as powerful in Mercenaries 3D as it was in the RE4 Mercs.

Mass Distraction wrote:

He was balanced to a point. You didn't have full control of his super speed and plaga arm.

Examples: He was fast but couldn't speed dash like in the story and you couldn't use his arm all the time or as a shield.

On a side note, his bow wasn't nearly as powerful in Mercenaries 3D as it was in the RE4 Mercs.

Ah. I'm probably going to be getting Mercs 3D today.

Mass Distraction wrote:

He was balanced to a point. You didn't have full control of his super speed and plaga arm.

Examples: He was fast but couldn't speed dash like in the story and you couldn't use his arm all the time or as a shield.

On a side note, his bow wasn't nearly as powerful in Mercenaries 3D as it was in the RE4 Mercs.

I didn't notice. His melee's are so excellent though. I own with Krauser in Mercs 3D.

And who is Jake? Is this the guy that was supposed to be Steve Burnside?

Spike991 wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

He was balanced to a point. You didn't have full control of his super speed and plaga arm.

Examples: He was fast but couldn't speed dash like in the story and you couldn't use his arm all the time or as a shield.

On a side note, his bow wasn't nearly as powerful in Mercenaries 3D as it was in the RE4 Mercs.

I didn't notice. His melee's are so excellent though. I own with Krauser in Mercs 3D.

And who is Jake? Is this the guy that was supposed to be Steve Burnside?

Yeah, he was Albert Wesker's son. The so-called Wesker Junior

Am I lost or was Jake announced to have powers like Albert?

NiteKrawler wrote:

Am I lost or was Jake announced to have powers like Albert?

Not really, he was just meant to have inherited his blood and abilities. No word on what those said "abilities" actually are.

Mass Distraction wrote:

NiteKrawler wrote:

Am I lost or was Jake announced to have powers like Albert?

Not really, he was just meant to have inherited his blood and abilities. No word on what those said "abilities" actually are.

Nobody has said anything about inheriting Albert's abilities at all have they? I have only heard that he inherited the blood. Obviously Jake was born before Albert even had any powers.

NiteKrawler wrote:

Mass Distraction wrote:

NiteKrawler wrote:

Am I lost or was Jake announced to have powers like Albert?

Not really, he was just meant to have inherited his blood and abilities. No word on what those said "abilities" actually are.

Nobody has said anything about inheriting Albert's abilities at all have they? I have only heard that he inherited the blood. Obviously Jake was born before Albert even had any powers.

They said it in an interview at some point. My guess is that they only mean combat abilities, not actual virus given abilities. They could've just used the word "inherit" rather loosely.

If you look at the trailers he does seem to be doing moves that arent quite possible to do as a human. Hopefully he wont have the same powers as Wesker. It ruin it for me.

With what everyone was saying about Jake he'd be too old to have been born while Albert Wesker was infected, right? But if he is Wesker's son and he does carry the same blood type maybe it would be possible that somewhere down the line(if he was born before Wesker injected himself) that he was also given a special virus? Not willingly per say but possibly administered without his knowledge, at least until things started to change within him.

Anyways on the note of 'balancing' if they have him combine melee with firearms that would be pretty cool. But I haven't seen Jake really use guns as of yet. Boy I feel out of the loop here.

I'm sure he does not have any powers. If he did, he'd be more than some mercenary.

NiteKrawler wrote:

I'm sure he does not have any powers. If he did, he'd be more than some mercenary.

Well, he has to take an injection of some serum to stay alive, similar to Wesker. And his blood wouldn't be all that special if he was born before Wesker injected himself. Unless he already had special blood. He would only have to take the injection if he had that virus in his blood.

However I thought Wesker lost all desire to mate and lost any semblance of courtship emotions when he came back to life.

I'm pretty sure Jake has super powers too, especially since each character is supposed to have a different kind of gameplay style.

RaviorStygian wrote:

Well, he has to take an injection of some serum to stay alive, similar to Wesker. And his blood wouldn't be all that special if he was born before Wesker injected himself. Unless he already had special blood. He would only have to take the injection if he had that virus in his blood.

Albert had special blood even before his infection. That's why he was one of the Wesker Children, he was one of the few who were compatible with the virus.

Besides, if Jake had been born AFTER Wesker got his powers he would be 15 at most. Does he look like 15?

Mass Distraction wrote:

RaviorStygian wrote:

Well, he has to take an injection of some serum to stay alive, similar to Wesker. And his blood wouldn't be all that special if he was born before Wesker injected himself. Unless he already had special blood. He would only have to take the injection if he had that virus in his blood.

Albert had special blood even before his infection. That's why he was one of the Wesker Children, he was one of the few who were compatible with the virus.

Besides, if Jake had been born AFTER Wesker got his powers he would be 15 at most. Does he look like 15?

Hm, good point.

Mass Distraction wrote:

RaviorStygian wrote:

Well, he has to take an injection of some serum to stay alive, similar to Wesker. And his blood wouldn't be all that special if he was born before Wesker injected himself. Unless he already had special blood. He would only have to take the injection if he had that virus in his blood.

Albert had special blood even before his infection. That's why he was one of the Wesker Children, he was one of the few who were compatible with the virus.

Besides, if Jake had been born AFTER Wesker got his powers he would be 15 at most. Does he look like 15?

Not special blood, but compatable.

And really? Wesker's son? Really? What is this some soap opera now?!

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Mass Distraction wrote:

And really? Wesker's son? Really? What is this some soap opera now?!

I rather like how RE's plot is like that.