Meet The Frogman

The Frogman is a class I came up with not long ago on the Valve forums.  It's kinda like the Pyro but for water.  Check it out.

Name: The Frogman
Health: 175
Role: Amphibious Assault
Run Speed: 90% (land), 110% (water)
Icon: Frog
Nationality: Scandinavian (Norway, Swedish, Finnish)

Appearance: Wears a black wetsuit with the team stripe down the side, team color flippers, team color scuba mask, black breathing apparatus connected to a yellow oxygen tank.  Icon on left bicep.

Primary Weapon: Spear Gun (1 round, 10 clips).  Fires a spear that sticks into an enemy.  As long as the spear is in them, they bleed for some damage every second or two.
Secondary Weapon: Pistol (12 rounds, 12 clips).  Just like the Engineer and Scout's pistols.
Melee Weapon: Flensing Knife.  A flensing knife is used for carving blubber from whales.

I know, not that fleshed out, but it's a start, I suppose.  Thoughts?

EDIT 1: Added appearance.

Well there isn't that much water in TF2's maps, so we'd need more of that.

No.

1. We don't need new classes in TF2.
2. Even if we did, it is a garbage class.

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I like the idea. It's not exactly new, but then again what is?
Sorry, just couldn't resist. http://www.teamfortress2fort.com/forums/t/CoupleofClassideas-18644.aspx

I like the idea but agreed, the class would beg for some maps that had more water.

One change I would make is give him much more speed than just a 10% boost in the water.

One attack he could have is to chain an anchor to you by shooting you with the speargun.  Maybe make this an upgrade to the class.  What this would do is cause an environmental death underwater.

Maybe for an upgrade weapon, he has an electric eel he throws on you that shocks you and if your health is low enough you die.

I would give him the SMG of the hunter as a secondary weapon, not the pistol.

I don't want to be mean about this, but people generally don't like it when you necro threads older than a month, just so you know.

I can understand it if it is a thread that is on page 985 and is about a topic that no longer has relevance but it seemed the thing to do id I am going to comment on a possible future class.  Didn't make sense to start a new frogman thread.

Actually, I think it's pretty cool sounding.

A water-friendly class that swims fast but walks slow and works best in areas like under the bridge in 2Fort - and even the new flagroom in ctf_sawmill.