Enough With The Disadvantage Add-Ons
I don't understand the fascination with add-ons that reduce the power's effectiveness and give a small boost to BP gain. The disadvantage that you gain from using these usually far outweighs the small amount of BP you gain in return. I'm especially confused by the decision to change one of Demogorgon's addons to one of these, especially when his addons are kinda meh overall. The devs said in the update that they're changing the addons to make the lesser used addons more appealing, and then they made one of the changes a straight downgrade to the addon?
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But it also gives Demo something he desperately needed: A way to destroy your own portals you don't need anymore
I would be OK with them... if they had another, different significant upside.
Like Scratched Mirror. It full on disables gaining stalk and tiering up but gives BP. BUT it also gives the strongest aura reading in the game so it is an interesting trade off you can make. Vanity Mirror could also be really interesting if it didn't make Myers slower (seriously why does it make him slower?).
If all the farming add ons did stuff like that I'd honestly love them. As it stands they're just terrible and pointless. At least Clown's farming add on is harmless.
should just work as hags traps honestly...
but yes...it does help on that front
I don't feel like Scratched Mirror falls into this category, cause it isnt nescesarily just making your power worse, it's completely changing the playstyle, which I think is fun. If Myers had an addon that have him bonus BP for stalking, but he stalked survivors slower as a result, that would be an addon that falls into this category.
I don't think Rotten Pumpkin is going to be quite as bad as it initially appears.
One of Demo's problems (as mentioned earlier) is that it has a limited amount of Portals and they cannot be recycled unless sealed by survivors. If survivors never destroy portals that Demo placed in bad spots, those portals effectively become useless for the remainder of the trial and Demo is left with a permanent disadvantage.
Rotten Pumpkin would now allow Demo to set up a few key portals and regularly warp to them from wherever it is without needing to worry about the entry portal's placement (since it would get auto-recycled by this add-on). Used strategically, Rotten Pumpkin could provide a huge boost to Demo's cross-map mobility.
You could even work around its drawback by just saving one portal in reserve to use exclusively for warping to anywhere else in your portal network. Portals only have to be a minimum of 8m apart, that's not a huge distance to cover when moving away from a "key" portal that you don't want to recycle.
Every killer has some addons which dont get used. So having one addon which gives you a handicap is not that bad. There are enough other addons.
The only issue I have with these addons are ones like speed limiter or padded jaws that completely neuter the power in return for some additional bloodpoints. There's no reason to run those addons (well speed limiter can help with adept leatherface because of chaser emblem).
Clown's Party Bottles is just extra bloodpoints for extra particles. Not useful in anyway, but I enjoy running it because I enjoy the confetti.
Demo's Rotten Pumpkin does give demo the ability to clear his own portals something he can't otherwise do. While this might seem like negative, it basically creates an alternative playstyle with common rarity.
We should get more meme addons like Clown and Demo and less like Padded Jaws and Speedlimiter.
I mean... they are similar.
Scratched Mirror gives a downside, a BP boost, and an upside.
These things give a downside, a BP boost... and that's it. If they all got buffed to also give an upside, it would be fantastic.
Like... take Trapper's Padded Jaws. If those things made it so disarm and escape times were doubled but Trapper couldn't yoink people out of traps and Trapper hitting survivors freed them, they'd be quite interesting. A playstyle shift instead of a flat downgrade.
Or this new one... if it allowed Demo to also target Generators but put his ability on cool down at the start... you could argue that that'd be too close to what Freddy does, but it would be an interesting trade off.