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What the hell happened to Trickster?

DragonMasterDarren DragonMasterDarren
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I didn't think it was possible for changes from PTB to live to make me this upset but oh my word does Trickster feel like ######### now, the decreased knives needed to down and the better addons are nice, so are the faster main event activation, but my issues include

  1. Why were the max number of knives decreased from 60 to 44? i don't you quite realise how much of a difference 16 less knives makes, but it makes a serious amount of difference, you can no longer down someone with knives then not have to reload because you have plenty left, you have to reload every single time you down a survivor, just imagine if Huntress just randomly lost 2 hatchets out of her max total, that's what it feels like
  2. The decreased laceration decay is stupid, one Sprint Burst and a wall is all you need to go down from 1 knife away from being injured to completely fine and healthy, Laceration is supposed to feel threatening last i checked, all i felt was "welp, time to hide behind a wall and wait 10 seconds" the first time i played against new Trickster
  3. The main event changes fixed exactly nothing, faster activation? cool, but what is the point of making it have a 30 second activation window? at that point just let us activate it whenever, there's no point to it, plus the knife requirement? that's stupid, one of Main Event's best uses was to finish someone off if you happened to miss your last few knives, can't do that anymore for some god awful reason

All in All, i am genuinely considering dropping Trickster, he doesn't feel fun anymore, i don't want to have to reload every 15 seconds because my knives ran out, i want to be able to chase someone, down them with knives, and move onto the next person i see, plus, the changes didn't even fix the issues survivors had with him, if anything the faster downing power and main event time just means the survivor is dead if they're in the open faster, what was even the point of half of these changes from live?

Here are my proposed changes to make Trickster fun again

  1. Revert the decreased knives, that was a ######### idiotic move BHVR, revert it
  2. Let Main Event be activated whenever and remove the carried knives requirement, but make it take longer to charge
  3. Make Laceration decay rapidly once you exit chase, but make it decay very slowly while in a chase


Comments

  • GeneralV GeneralV

    What happened was that they turned an annoying killer into an even more annoying killer.

  • DragonMasterDarren DragonMasterDarren

    @GeneralV said:

    What happened was that they turned an annoying killer into an even more annoying killer.

    And one that isn't even fun to play anymore, i was genuinely sad and angry the first and only game i played

  • ShamelessPigMain ShamelessPigMain

    @DragonMasterDarren said:

    I didn't think it was possible for changes from PTB to live to make me this upset but oh my word does Trickster feel like ######### now, the decreased knives needed to down and the better addons are nice, so are the faster main event activation, but my issues include

    1. Why were the max number of knives decreased from 60 to 44? i don't you quite realise how much of a difference 16 less knives makes, but it makes a serious amount of difference, you can no longer down someone with knives then not have to reload because you have plenty left, you have to reload every single time you down a survivor, just imagine if Huntress just randomly lost 2 hatchets out of her max total, that's what it feels like
    2. The decreased laceration decay is stupid, one Sprint Burst and a wall is all you need to go down from 1 knife away from being injured to completely fine and healthy, Laceration is supposed to feel threatening last i checked, all i felt was "welp, time to hide behind a wall and wait 10 seconds" the first time i played against new Trickster
    3. The main event changes fixed exactly nothing, faster activation? cool, but what is the point of making it have a 30 second activation window? at that point just let us activate it whenever, there's no point to it, plus the knife requirement? that's stupid, one of Main Event's best uses was to finish someone off if you happened to miss your last few knives, can't do that anymore for some god awful reason

    All in All, i am genuinely considering dropping Trickster, he doesn't feel fun anymore, i don't want to have to reload every 15 seconds because my knives ran out, i want to be able to chase someone, down them with knives, and move onto the next person i see, plus, the changes didn't even fix the issues survivors had with him, if anything the faster downing power and main event time just means the survivor is dead if they're in the open faster, what was even the point of half of these changes from live?

    Here are my proposed changes to make Trickster fun again

    1. Revert the decreased knives, that was a ######### idiotic move BHVR, revert it
    2. Let Main Event be activated whenever and remove the carried knives requirement, but make it take longer to charge
    3. Make Laceration decay rapidly once you exit chase, but make it decay very slowly while in a chase
    1. They wanted to make Trickster less spamable. 60 knives is just unnecessary if you're using your knives economically, especially with the lower knife requirement to injure survivors.
    2. Laceration lasting for so long was unnecessary in the first place. If you're chasing for so long that the laceration meter begins to activate, you're doing something wrong and probably already lost the game.
    3. Main Event having a longer activation window is still an improvement over what it used to be. We take what we can get when it comes to BHVR (They were probably worried about it being possibly unfair if you could just hang onto it indefinitely until you found them in an area with no natural cover to be honest).
  • DragonMasterDarren DragonMasterDarren

    @ShamelessPigMain said:

    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/268645/what-the-hell-happened-to-trickster

    1. They wanted to make Trickster less spamable. 60 knives is just unnecessary if you're using your knives economically, especially with the lower knife requirement to injure survivors.
    2. Laceration lasting for so long was unnecessary in the first place. If you're chasing for so long that the laceration meter begins to activate, you're doing something wrong and probably already lost the game.
    3. Main Event having a longer activation window is still an improvement over what it used to be. We take what we can get when it comes to BHVR (They were probably worried about it being possibly unfair if you could just hang onto it indefinitely until you found them in an area with no natural cover to be honest).

    1.Trickster being spammable was what made him fun for me, plus, no one in their right mind uses the knives economically, because that took forever and was super boring

    2.Laceration going away almost instantly is not a ######### improvement over it taking a while, all it does is make a already weak killer even weaker


    EDIT: just realised this, the changes didn't even fix the issue of him being unfun to face, if anything they made him even less fun to face because if you're in a tight corridor or in the open you are dead even faster then before, all they did was make him less fun to face and outright miserable to play

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