Huntress is balanced. Her Add-ons are not
Huntress is a Killer that makes me so sad because she’s incredibly well designed and balanced in her base kit, but a lot of her add-ons make her feel awful to play against.
The real fun ones are the Babushka, Infantry Belt, Iri Head and worst of all the ridiculous Exhaustion add-ons. I hate to say it but Huntress needs a Billy level rework to her add-ons to make them not very strong because her base kit is fine and doesn’t need much to be effective
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Imo her only problematic add on is Iri Heads and that’s only if combined with the infantry belt.
I really hope they let her keep the exhaustion add ons but I know they won’t due to all the survivor complaints. Any skillful shot you make just gets ignored with a tap of the E button otherwise. Really takes the fun out of playing her.
I fear that she will get the nurse treatment.
Half of the reworked addons will be useless and she will get a slight rework (read: nerf) to her basekit.
Literally her only bad addon is Iri Heads. Everything else, including exhaustion ones, is perfectly fine.
People seem to forget she's a 110 killer when commenting on her addons. You can forcer her to waste multiple loops by just not giving her LoS. You can literally do this by running in circles around a lot of short loops even. The time you waste by doing so is worth far more than your ultra-mega-giga-clutch DS you were planning on... sacrificing to the floor when the servers decided you pressed it too late anyway, so is it really that bad?
10 second cooldown after every shot, needs to reload at lockers 5 times to get all of her hatchets, addon that makes her 115 % but removes the ability to throw hatchets, 3 bp addons that hinder her, let's go!
Xbox Huntress main since she was released. Therefor i play her mostly without any addons as her basekit is still balanced and strong at the same time. Which can change on whatever map and/or surv caliber you get.
The only thing i would change is the IRI/+2 combo (because having only 1 IRI isn't the problem) and make Berus Toxin a yellow and Flower Babushka and Venomous Concoction purple addons. Everything else would just be a forced rework. Imho.
Add in some Bugs and we are ready to go!
Throwing an axe lurches the camera forward and forces a fatigue for 5 seconds. Sometimes the camera doesn't actually correct after this due to a bug. ETA on this fix is 2022.
Most of her addons need to go. Double wind up is just like Billy's insta saw, iri head is iri head, exhaustion addons were fine when exhaustion recovery happened also while running, but now they're obsolete
hm yes, being able to use your ability without needing to plan it a year in advance, and not even getting an instadown for your trouble is totally the same as being able to press m2 for like a second to bypass both health states. I concur.
also, how TF are exhaustion addons obsolete? she's 110. you gain absurd distance by just not camping pallets vs her, and they are essentially there to move the "deadhard for distance" and "lithe away from a god loop" situations from the equation (honestly the main reason they're considered strong) and 4/5 exhaustion perks can easily be used before getting hit if you know she has them?
If your complaining about huntress'(Or clown's) exhaustion addon then you rely on Dead Hard FAR TOO MUCH.
Remember this is coming from a persons whose main survivor is david and my main Exhaustion perk is Dead Hard.
I prestiged Huntress to level 3 with all perks and got spend all add-ons and offerings. Now I play her without add-ons and she is good anyway.
Exhaustion add-ons is convinient but nothing special. It is more interesing to bait dead hard by holding charged hatchet.
Iri head is so useless. Once you bring iri head survivors dc and give up without trying to play.
Belts are awesome.
My favorite add-on is Glowing Concoction that let you see the aura of survivor hit with hatchet for 5 seconds. So much sick shots I did with this add-on. Shame it's very rare.
Worst add-on that should never exist is Pungent Phial that make you see auras of lockers. Who would need to reload with hatchets in stock? Even if you need to reload, you always have no problem finding lockers. And its quality is rare. If this supposed to help to beginners it should be common at best.
The rest of add-ons is good but it doesn't really change gameplay.
The whole beef around Huntress does often seen to come down to survivors feeling entitled to press E to invalidate her hatchet throws.
DH is essentially a third health state against Huntress. It’s one more hatchet you need to throw. A good survivor won’t waste the DH until the hatchet leaves your hand.
You can try to bait it out but this puts the power in the survivors hand and has you relying on them for a mistake. Thats if you’re in an open area too, a lot of times with Huntress you only have a very small window to make the shot before the survivor goes behind an obstacle in which case you just gotta throw.
Some perks just aren’t good against certain killers. Iron will vs Plague, self-care vs Legion, Object of obsession vs stealth killers etc Dead Hard vs Huntress with specific add ons is one of them. It always seems to be the strongest perks that create that feeling of entitlement.