Experimental War Robot-115 "Reaper"

"Full metal everything."

- Reaper's default game-winning quote.

The Experimental War Robot-115 (EWR-115), callsign Reaper is a specialist in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Reaper is a combat robot designed and manufactured by the Coalescence Corporation.
 * Specialist Weapon: Scythe
 * Specialist Ability: Psychosis

Biography
"The product of a cutting-edge military R&D project to supplement Special Operations soldiers in the field, Experimental War Robot-115 was one of a single unit of advanced prototype combat robots running the most sophisticated AI software ever seen. After several politically embarrassing mishaps and budget overruns, the project was cancelled and most of the prototypes were stripped for parts. Fate had other plans for EWR-115, when years later it was discovered to have been stolen.  Reports of sightings of the terrible machine on battlefields around the world began to surface. No one knows why it fights or who, if anyone, is issuing its orders."

- Reaper's biography

Reaper, at least according to Prophet, displays signs of sentience and while running a diagnostic run was discovered to have had after market modifications that gave him orders from an unknown source. The orders were coming from a administrator level source and Reaper was unable to disobey the orders.

Prophet removed this coding from him and replaced it. After this, it was learned that a group who stole and modified Reaper were running an underground gambling ring paying out and betting astronomical sums over the machine's body count. Reaper arrived at the ring, unable to be shut down due to Prophet's removal of the captors' coding. Reaper slaughtered the ring members and after this became a free agent.

Transmission 645,624
+++Decrypt Success

Analytics: DNI, Safety Protocols

Tags: System Modification

Header Ends+++

"David "Prophet" Wilkes: Initiating access now, not gonna fry my DNI systems or anything?


 * EWR-115 "Reaper": Negative, Ident. Prophet, Code level access granted, active firewalls disengaged


 * "Prophet": Alright mate, lets see if we can't get rid of those safety protocols, interesting, same basic file structure as a... GI Unit. So behavioural limitations should be....yeah, there we go...


 * "Reaper": WARNING, Safety systems offline.


 * "Prophet": Easy tiger, file history on your core system is insane, file revs 646, 000. Who's making those revisions?


 * "Reaper": This unit.


 * "Prophet": Wait...what are you...you're saying this is recursive self improvement?


 * "Reaper": Confirm, 645,624 revisions, this unit."

- Prophet and Reaper while disabling security protocols

Specialist Weapon/Ability
Scythe: The Scythe is an arm-mounted minigun that fires rounds at a extremely fast firerate.

Psychosis: Psychosis allows the Reaper to create copies of itself to confuse or distract enemies.

Match Start
"Warning-- safety protocols disengaged."

- Starting line.

"Systems online. Power levels at one hundred percent."

- Starting line.

"Anticipation. Scanning for hostiles"

- Starting line.

"Force projection acknowledged."

- In response to Battery's "Project Some Force" line.

"Accessing files on 54i."

- In response to Seraph's "Fear the 54i" line.

"Ident: Prophet"

- In response to Prophet's "Systems Online" line.

"Neural training subroutines enabled."

- In response to Prophet's "Future of Combat" line.

Combat
"Terminated."

- Upon killing another player.

"E.K.I.A."

- Upon killing another player. "Stealth asset degraded."

- Upon killing a Spectre

"Mobile bomber asset destroyed."

- Upon killing a Battery

"Cybernetic organics degraded."

- Upon killing a Prophet

"Efficiency of ninety-eight percent."

- Upon getting a kill with the Scythe

Taunts
"Probability, P, of your favorable outcome, F O, approaching zero."

- Reaper's "Calculations" Taunt.

"Recommendation: Reconsider actions, return to basic training."

- Reaper's "Recommendation" taunt.

"Statistics indicate inferior tactical deployment."

- Reaper's "Inferior Opponent" taunt.

"Superior firepower, superior defenses, superior performance."

- Reaper's "Superior" taunt.

"Scythe spinning up."

- Reaper's "Spin Up" taunt.

"Admiration, not bad for an organic."

- Reaper's "Admiration" taunt.

Other Quotes
""Metabolize element 82""

- Reaper during its final transmission.

"Kill. Maim. Destroy."

- Reaper during its third transmission.

Trivia

 * The number 115 in the title EWR-115 is a reference to Element 115 in Zombies.
 * Reaper has some slight visual and audible differences from the organic Specialists, though they do not affect gameplay.
 * When taking damage, Reaper's HUD will flash with a red digital border rather than blood splatters.
 * Sparks fly in place of blood when Reaper is killed by bullets. There is also a distinct metallic clank when Reaper is killed.
 * Reaper's footsteps are noticeably mechanical and do not have a sloshing sound after emerging from water.
 * Before the 1.05 patch, Reaper's footsteps were also quieter than those of the other specialists.
 * When emerging from water, a type of air decompression is heard, as opposed to the normal deep breath taken in by organic characters.
 * When steadying a sniper rifle, robotic clicks are heard instead of the player holding their breath.
 * When shot, oil will leak from Reaper's body instead of blood.
 * Unusually, when killed by the H.I.V.E., Reaper will bleed instead of leak oil.
 * In the transmissions, Reaper's voice is more high-pitched than normal.