Bhvr messed up the Skull Merchant and there solution is to nerf her into the ground.
Thanks Bhvr. Instead of thinking longer then 2 weeks about a real way to change the killer you press the "Nerf" Button so the Babies in the Community will stop to cry
Nerfing a killer completely because in one Situationen there to strong is not a solution but just dumb. Batteries of drones destroy themselves when they are empty and in the meantime the killer loses 1/4 of his power. Really good idea :)))))))))
Oh no wait I forgot she get's 1 Buff and one of her addon's become part of her kit. Can't wait to chase the survivor with a 3% haste until they vault one pallet and the buff is gone :D
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1 second to run into the zone, 1 to 2 seconds to hack it, 30 seconds of battery...
3% haste for 33 seconds
Throw down a drone at a loop and the survivor leaves 1 second after the zone activates...
5% haste for 1 second, and then back to 3%
Fun
Is it worth dropping chase to reset your drones for another 30 seconds of boost?
Doubt
These are barely nerfs. They only nerfed her 3 gen strat, which was the only strong thing she had to make her at least somewhat viable.
They greatly increased her chase potential and nerfed the 3 gen strat accordingly. She's now going to be better in chases and she'll still be able to defend gen, but not too over the top like now.
They probably knew and it was on the list of changes to be made.
The claw traps are 45 seconds and you can extend it to around 51 seconds with an add-on.
But why was the whole concept greenlighted?
Did no one think about how the community would react to a killer, whos only power is to 3 gen?
It's step in right direction but nearly not enough, her strongest tile will stilll be 3 gen defending, if you remove that this is literally the weakest killer in game. I am all for it, 3 gen is dumb, boring even for killer mains like myself i got bored after 20 matches doing this. However her chase need to be much much stronger, otherwise it's just a meme killer to play
they gave her nothing much if you had any clue how is she designed
My main fear is how hard will it actually nerf her pre-plan and set up strategy. I play SM now and I pretty rarely go for a real 3 gen but I do have fun playing her like hag (maybe like one Gen with a drone and 2 spread out at important parts of the map with 1 on hand to toss out during chase).
I'll wait til the patch to see how she feels, but I'm worried that (ironically) she might feel very slow n clunky after this since if you make a decent web it'll take a while to set it up again now that your drones are on a 45 second cooldown
You guys realize the whole '3 gen!' Complaints only started recently right? Like it was never a big issue people talked about before knight. If Plague was released today she'd get the same amount of heat for how good she is at 3 gunning.
This just isn't true but I agree she does need something more to compensate for losing 25% of her power up to 100% for 45 seconds.
Well it started to get popular once SM was released and everyone who wanted to 3 gen, used her to 3 gen. I mean, even top SWF streamers struggle against a SM 3 genning.
To be fair this is kinda hind sight 20/20
It's true that her power heavilly leans into 3 genning but that didn't mean it would have resulted in 45 minute games
In the ptb her 3 genning wasen't a problem at all with the cooldown on drones, if the survivors took out her 3 3gen drones at the same time she couldn't replace them all instantly.
It's always really easy afterwards to say how obvious something is
Fair enough
Cause bHVR play like normal people, not gamers.
My guess is they knew it could happen so when the feedback came in the course of action was clear.
The whole, "Sorry we cant release this chapter cause someone is an arse" I have only played SM once as 3 gen, didnt even bother with Knight. Its not the majority of players who are that scummy, even tho I camp and tunnel as I please. heh.