Anyone adjusted well to the new Deathslinger? What are your tips?
Played a few games with DS, and of course, quickscopes aren't a thing anymore, so I had to predict their movement while ADS as well as ADS early to mitigate the delay. Aiming is a bit sluggish, all I had to do was wait for the survivor to come into my crosshair as they're moving side-to-side. Anyone can offer additional tips?
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What's there to say, he's exactly the same but with more limits. You make predictions the same with added forced delay, you chase and reel around things the same.
The biggest difference other then having more sluggish gameplay is that you have to keep an eye for wiggling on all survivors not just the good ones since they can see your ADS easily and don't have to think too hard about when to dodge anymore.
About every guide or tips from before still apply the same. Ofc except the cool shots through super tiny holes, those are as good as dead if the chased survivor isn't completely and utterly blind.
I play Plague and Nurse now. Deathslinger is 100% nerfed, it may not be the end of the world as most of us Deathslingers would have you believe, but it's certainly clunky enough that coupled with the Terror Radius nerf, his Killer fantasy is ruined and steers like a 91 740 Volvo Turbo.
Also what Kebek said, trick shots through holes are dead. The only way they'll happen now is if you're playing against literal potatoes.
I'm a terrible Deathslinger, my aim stinks, so I was bad with him before this change. 🤷♂️ I do notice now though that his very slow turning speed while aiming comes into play more often since, when you could fire from the hip, you could be turning at a normal rate while walking and then pop off a shot. Now you have to kind of already be pointed in more or less the right direction and hope you can time the shot when the survivor crossing the sight. It also seems to make it more difficult to swivel while going around a corner or a loop.
tips?
stop using him and play huntress or trickster instead.
no, i'm serious, he's just boring, clunky and unfuno right now, no reason at all to play him.... :(
aw man, even though he was weaker than huntress even before the nerf, he was fun to play as, but i can say that he was definitely not fun to play against hahaha. its so sad that spirit and nurse didnt even get nerfed this badly but deathslinger did smh
There's nothing to adjust to, nor is there a reason to play him over any of the other ranged Killers. What baffles me the most is that in a single update, they've made such an amazing change to Plague and as a result, they've made her much less clunky to play, but somehow they thought giving that same unresponsive feel to Deathslinger was cool.
Don't play him. That's literally all I can say.
He's just not worth playing tbh.
I hate the new ADS, sure, but much to my surprise, it was the terror radius change that has made him useless. Survivors can just hold W as soon as they hear it and with your limited range and slow movement speed, by the time you catch up to them gens be flying.
Imo DS was already weaker than huntress before his nerf. Now I can only hav fun playing him against potatoes or casual gamers. If less people play him in future, maybe the devs will hav a look at him again...
Who is this Deathslinger character? I heard they deleted something but wasn't paying attention.
He needs to increase the ads camera speed horizontally. Even if you have to increase the aiming time. It at least added to the comfort in the game.
To me he didn't change much, but something that I found useful is to "pre-aim" before turning a corner (for example at shack), so that the survivor won't have time to react.
How ironic when Trickster came out everyone was saying to get good with him play as huntress instead. Now everyone says use trickster instead of slinger. How the tables have ######### turned
Yes. play Huntress he's not worth your time and efforts.
Playing Trickster and Huntress instead helped me a lot :-)