Please, Deathslinger only needs small buffs
Better than Clown but worse than Legion, please welcome......Deathslinger!
Oh lawd was I disappointed when he was released for real. No buffs? Seriously?
He doesnt need a full blown rework like Freddy.
Four very small, but ever so significant buffs.
1. The harpoon actually does damage upon a hit. Deep Wounds is only applied if the survivor struggles free. If you swing and miss, the survivors escape without Deep Wounds.
2. Fix his harpoon size ffs. Its too small. It can pass between two survivors healing its so small. In what world does that make sense? Sure you can hit through the shack, but what good does that do you? None, youll still suffer a four second stun.
3. Replace his terrible pink addons. I would change the Branding Iron, to allow Deathslinger to drag survivors over dropped pallets.
4. He should have his range increased significantly, and replace the Deep Wound addons with range addons.
Somebodys bound to complain about 1 I know. But...Huntress can still get faster downs, and its wayy easier to hit a hatchet than a harpoon. And Huntress isnt OP.
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DeathSlinger is not even in the ballpark with Clown and Legion. Maybe if the Singer player is bad, sure it can seem like that, but any competent player will dominate almost every chase they take with him. I think he's fine as he is, especially considering his weakness, maps, are being fixed.
If you want to see someone who is absolutely nuts with Slinger, I suggest watching OhTofu and you'll see his full potential.
They actually need to increase his terror radius, combined with the quiet beginning of his music its way too easy for no skill hook campers to get cheap shots at unhooking/unhooked survivors. I hate this killer probably more than Freddy and the doctor now, takes no skill ,just a lack of decency, to dominate matches
I agree with this although I wish dragging over pallets was a feature in basekit.
Give him a 32m Terror Radius and a sound cue that tells Survivors he's about to fire in advance like Huntress... then we can talk about stuff like reducing his reload, reducing his hook break stun and making him 115% speed.
But his current off-brand stealth Killer vibe and near unreactable shot has to go.
The only thing he really needs changed is his UR add ons, they are pretty terrible for UR add ons, but to be fair a lot of killers have really trash UR add ons that need some serious love (Looking at you Iri Family Crest...)
Ultra rares might as well not exist anymore with how trash they are now
He is brand-freaking-new. He really doesn't need any buffs. There are other older killers in more need atm. He is very easy to play. He has a tiny terror radius, enabling him to get much closer to survivors, thus he doesn't need a longer range. He also doesn't need a bigger harpoon either. He shoots an undodgable quick shot if you know what you are doing. It stands to reason that requires some skill in accuracy. I don't know much about his add-ons, and many ppl have said they need love, so that may be legit. But his base functionality seems fine. A good Deathslinger is pretty deadly.
After seeing how player adapted, im on no buffs train with him. He's pretty strong. The one thing he lacks is pressure but that should get changed with the next update.
Should that mean that injured survivors get downed by the second harpoon shot or do you still need to hit them to down? If second, I agree with 1) if first, hell no!
If talking about buffs, I would be talking about counterplay as well. There is no at the moment. He needs definitely an audio cue when he starts aiming. The minimum time to aim and the maximum speed of the projectile doesn't allow dodging. With dedicated servers, you already got hit when the message arrives you that he starts aiming... and you cannot run a whole chase looking backwards.
"Worse than Legion" nice joke... ;)
Not new anymore bud. Survs know how to demolish him now
I'd say he's just below Demo. The TR shenanigans and quickscoping makes chases fly.