The evolution (and sometimes murder) of each killers balance-
https://youtu.be/6D1kZNdUrk8
Poor billy lol. It is nice to look back at all the old forms of the killers though being someone from 2016 so im glad otz did this video. Just hearing otz go on the billy tangent just shows how much they pretty much changed is insane. Addons are all very bad in his opinion (looking at you addon that involves a flashlight shining on you). Overheat is very punishing for no reason mostly (try it with 2 engravings sometime see how fast you overheat). And his general feel is just lackluster now. Other killers like nurse and old prayer bead spirit i completly understand their changes but holy crap billy got decimated. Theres just no reason to pick him anymore.
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I still love billy tbh. His charge time addons needed to be removed and he needed some penalty for holding his Rev too long
Yeah, the old risk/reward fir billy wasn't much + crack billy and the others were kinda insane
Yeah but what addons we got in their place...for lack of a better term is #########. Also yeah a billy holding the chainsaw forever obviously was very oppresive but right now you could overheat by just doing normal actions. Down a survivor chainsaw across the map break a pallet. Probably almost overheated. Not to mention the pov nerf. The animations being buggy. His chainsaw sometimes still has the glitch where itll whiff randomly. Like holy crap. Also idk most people liked the idea of just reworking his addons since billy could still be looped through windows around pallets ect. Basically in most cases people agree bubbas taken the mantle. And just generally theres better options than him right now. (Scalped topknot oni or bubba)
Bubba is a lot easier to play but I would say billy is still better if played well.
His addons are pretty weak right now but I do still like a lot of them especially his lopro chains.
I wish the overheat mechanic was done a bit differently. I’d say either just increase the amount he can use before overheating or make him lose say 25% of his overheat bar per down
Yeah for billy being the original like immense pressure killer onis just better strap infectious on oni and just get that 4 man slug in some cases. Otz pretty much said all billy needs is a change to his overheat so it doesnt literally overheat from you doing like 3 things (sometimes you can overheat with the engravings doing like 2 actions) and they need to revisit his addons again. Because holy crap if i see that flashlight addon pop up one more time. And definitely some major bug fixes. If they just did the bug fixes i feel hed be in a very better place. Its not even like their afraid to like with nurse fixing her bugs could make her busted.
I remember that in one of his streams the balance team dev told how unfair he felt that old Billy could feather with his chainsaw and then curve behind a corner to down a survivor. In those situations only problem was the old charge addons but otherwise it was one of the few techniques Billy could use in a loop to down a survivor with his power. It required skill from both the killer and the survivor and bad survivors deserved to be downed like that by old basekit Billy.
Everyone can make their own conclusions but I personally think this kind of development is quite concerning. The lack of variation in killers at high ranks is disappointing and nerfing balanced killers and releasing extremely weak ones is only going to make DBD even more repetitive and boring at high ranks/skill level than it is now.
Billy was one of my favourite killers to go against and now you barely see him (excluding the previous tome of course) at high ranks.