MERC Captain

"'Uh oh.' - Unit Description"Captains are the most deadly unit the MERC has to offer, they are very deadly and can easily ruin your day. Sporting 3 corpus, a Journeymen Tac-Bar and the "Hero" trait, which makes them invincible for a few seconds after losing a corpus and allows them to regenerate health, though it is unsure if this regeneration applies to enemy NPCs. Captains are usually seen wielding rifles, SMGs or revolvers, and can sometimes have a deagle as their sidearm.

They only show up 3 times in Station Fortress, trying to stop Sanford and Deimos from getting to the Sheriff.

Captains also show up in arena mode, as a boss in the infinite mode of the foundry stage.

Appearance
Captains wear a darker MERC uniform, an officer hat with an orange stripe, an orange vest, a pair orange heavy pauldrons, black gloves with an orange palm, aviators and a cigar.

Strategy
Captains are a huge threat, their Journeymen Tac-Bar makes them very hard to kill and the hero trait will allow them to attack you while you can't attack back after they lose a corpus. Captains are usually always moving around in combat, which makes them a bit harder to hit.

Melee can be a good option for dealing with captains, as you can keep them stunlocked and easily break a corpus, though they can break out of that stunlock and they will be invincible after they lose a corpus. Howevr, when they are invincible, they can still be knocked down, so jump kicking and dash attacking them after you break one of their corpus is a very good way of making sure they can't fight back until they're vulnerable.

Using weapon sweetspots can also work, but due to the fact that captains are fast and always moving in combat, hitting them in the sweetspot can be difficult, and the captains will be shooting back at you while you try to line up a shot.

Screwdrivers and weapon hilts will always break a captain's corpus and will completely ignore their invincibility, so you can save those to use against them.

Trivia

 * In older versions of the beta, captains had the same old uniform as the other MERCs, a gray cap, red heavy pauldrons and no gloves.
 * In even older versions, captains had a lip instead of a cigar.
 * It was speculated before the game came out that sarges were going to be removed from the game and that they would be replaced by captains due to both of them being "too similar". This ended up not happening.
 * In old concept art captains were called sarges, while sarges were called captains. They also had the ability to boost teammates around them, and when they died, their teammates would suffer a huge drop in morale and failure in coordination. They also didn't have an officer hat, or gloves and were shown having a lip and a cigar at the same time.
 * Captains and Sarges use the same voice as the Massive Origin, instead of using the MERC voice like other MERC units.