Trickster is Completely Non-Viable and Unfun
So I was actually getting excited and hyped up for the mid-chapter release since Trickster was finally going to get the attention he needed and the buffs that he deserved to make him a competent, viable and fun Killer to play as.
But then the mid-chapter releases and there's changes to his kit from PTB to live, and these changes are what killed any and all excitement and enthusiasm I had for the Killer, and any potential hope that he was actually going to be a decently balanced one.
The worst thing I could've imagined happened: Trickster's ammo capacity got nerfed.
On a Killer who needs to get up close to you and have precise aiming on a constant, and isn't even guaranteed to hit you most of the time with their Power if you're a good Survivor, his ammo capacity, probably the single most important thing about his kit, got completely gutted from 60 knives to 44 knives.
Now Trickster runs out of ammo faster and, on top of that, getting Main Event is going to be much harder, chases may end up taking even longer depending on the Survivor and Trickster's 1v1 and 1v4 potential has just gotten worse than it was before the patch.
This, this is an awful change that will put Trickster back into the bottom tier. It doesn't matter that he only requires 6 hits to injure a Survivor, he's going to be constantly reloading at lockers, potentially giving up chase, wasting more precious time by needing to reload more frequently, and this just makes him feel too clunky.
And if not for that change that makes him weaker, then the change to his ammo capacity add-ons, which are actually now some of the single worst add-ons in the game by a mile and a complete waste of your add-on slots, and the firing speed bonus you get when repeatedly firing knives being nerfed, on top of a lot of the OTHER massive nerfs he got, really just screwed him over.
Trickster was only a decent, at least upper middle to low high tier Killer, on par with someone like Pyramid Head, back in the PTB. Now, now he's back down with the likes of Clown, Trapper and Legion.
Great work, BHVR. Completely fantastic work making him worse than he was originally. Really great work on this masterpiece.
I'm never playing him again.
Addendum: I'll also like to point out that these changes will simply hurt both the casual and competitive experience for the Killer. He'll not only play more frustratingly for the casual player base due to constantly having to reload over and over again, but he'll simply be too clunky for the competitive player base for that reason, and the reason that no matter the skill level, you will run out of knives far too frequently, leaving you with no Power and thus no pressure on the Survivor.
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It truly is terrible what they did to him especially for console players who are already handicapped playing him with a controller. All he needed was a buff to his movement speed to about 112% and he would've been fine. SMH.
112% is just Tier I NOED and it doesn't do much for him.
I would've preferred he just get a 115% movement speed and infinite hold on Main Event or just not receive the PTB-to-Live nerfs he got since that'd never happen. While I originally thought that the PTB changes were good, I've come to the realization and understanding that they were not what he needed.
The problem that the development team has is that they went and changed a whole bunch of things when the two solutions to making him a better-playing Killer were slapping them across the faces. If there's two solutions and one of them is more complicated than the other, but both lead to the same result, wouldn't it be preferable to just go with the easier solution?
The current Trickster needs to just be flat out replaced with something else. This new Trickster is an abhorrent mess of a Killer and he's arguably worse than he was originally. Somehow, that's a possible thing to do.