The Singularity: The First Killer With No Power
After playing the PTB as the The Singularity with no power after day 1 when people figured out EMP's, I was sure the devs would see how completely unplayable the killer is and fix EMP's. Their solution? Reduce chests by two and increase the recharge time a bit.... Even though common sense may tell you that would barely make a scratch in this blaring issue, that utterly baffling decision to allow special items to be held in addition to regular items has made the nerf have absolutely no affect whatsoever. There is now absolutely no reason for a survivor not to pick up an EMP as soon as they get the chanve as the decision of whether to hold on to your item and get an EMP when you need or to get an EMP asap and come back for your item later is now nul and void. This frankly absurd decision combined with the joke they call a "nerf" to EMP's has made the live version of the game even more unplayable as The Singularity than he was in the PTB. A miracle I'm sure only the BHVR gameplay design devs would be able to accomplish.
I have played this killer all morning and have managed to win 1 of 15-20 games (for reference I have been playing killer since 2016 and rarely get less than a 2k). Even the most uncoordinated, unskilled team can gutter stomp the Singularity by the mere fact that with EMP's being in their current broken state, he is essentially the first killer to have absolutely no power whatsoever. In the past killers have been released where this claim has been made before (The Twins with holding Victor hostage, The Plague by not cleansing etc) but in every previous instance, the method of preventing the killer from using their power still applied some kind of penalty to the survivors. The Singularity is the first killer to have no power AND the survivors suffer no penalty for preventing his power.
It has been quite a widely discussed subject that 2023 is likely to be the year DBD dies and doesn't recover again this time due to the lack of any new content apart from the same formulaic chapters that have been around since release combined with horrendous game balance, and with this latest example of a killer with so much promise being completely neutered by game balance, I won't be surprised if this prediction ends up being true.
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This new killer is an absolute train wreck.
They should just open the gates at the start of the match... it would makes their survivor biais look more honest.
The map for this killer is litered with brain dead tiles that has vaultable walls everywhere... a 2nd floor gen adjacent to a vaultable window (garden of joy's bad design! Less goooo)
And they allowing survivors to unhook for free if killer tries to pressure survivors away from the hook... wow!
A message from the management that anyone other than a nurse is a killer that is not worth using
Uhhh you're just completely wrong stop spreading misinformation please, Spirit and Blight are available too.