Congratulations BHVR on the epic fail Skull Merchant rework

skylustv

You guys really wasted time trying to rework this killer and now it's even worse to play against her.

• She still can hold 3 gens
• Drones are even more OP now making survivors lose health state/broken/slowed
• Skull Merchant can easily abuse of speed movement builds because of the drone stacks

At this point you guys should just delete this killer from the game or do a entire 100% rework of her power, this killer is totally problematic because of her drones.

NerfDHalready

@jesterkind said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3592922#Comment_3592922

You can absolutely loop around drones, and you can also disable them while she's occupied elsewhere too.

can she not replace a hacked drone? also how are you "looping" around a drone when you are zoned without giving her a hit?

jesterkind

@NerfDHalready said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3592948#Comment_3592948

can she not replace a hacked drone? also how are you "looping" around a drone when you are zoned without giving her a hit?

She can, but she has to both notice that one's hacked and walk back over there to replace it. She can't be everywhere at once, if everyone's taking care of drones it'll outpace her ability to replace them.

As for how you loop around a drone, the same way you loop while under the effects of Clown's gas, in my experience. Predrop and force the killer to break. It mostly is a tactic for when you're already injured, though.

UnusedAccount

@egg_ said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3592850#Comment_3592850

How does using a chase build make her any less dull to go against? It arguably makes it even more horrible

I'm guessing the only way people are allowed to play Skull Merchant is to run no-perks build then?

Oh who am I kidding, that would come off dull to Survivors as well.

NerfDHalready

@jesterkind said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3592949#Comment_3592949

She can, but she has to both notice that one's hacked and walk back over there to replace it. She can't be everywhere at once, if everyone's taking care of drones it'll outpace her ability to replace them.

As for how you loop around a drone, the same way you loop while under the effects of Clown's gas, in my experience. Predrop and force the killer to break. It mostly is a tactic for when you're already injured, though.

i see.

egg_

@UnusedAccount said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3592853#Comment_3592853

I'm guessing the only way people are allowed to play Skull Merchant is to run no-perks build then?

Oh who am I kidding, that would come off dull to Survivors as well.

Please point out where in my message did I say what one is allowed or not to do

Skillfulstone

I'll just leave this here...

https://youtu.be/vOliDIQxQlE?si=djj9Rfcgx7jtO7xX

Detailed breakdown of why Dull Merchant is still an issue.

Nun_So_Vile

something something something SM something something DELETE!

CLHL

It's hilarious how incredibly weak she currently is and yet how effective she can be. After the rework she has lost her oneshot, her wallhack addons, her permanent extra movement speed (because survivors where forced to remove her drones to repair), her free pallet breaker and her undetectable got way weaker... But you can literally mindlessly drop drones around the map and ignore the gens, you will win because most survivors don't know what to do. You keep getting random hits across the map because survivors don't even try to crouch walk before aproaching the drones and they keep trying to loop the main building even when you have it sunrounded by drones.

SweetbutaPsycho

@Xernoton said:

At this point, just delete her. There will not be another rework. They won't put any effort into changing her for a third time. But this killer is a disgrace. There are multiple killers in the game, that aren't all that fun to play against but SM takes it to a whole new level.

She is the low MMR killer's equivalent of Nurse in the sense, that a survivor has no counterplay as long as she doesn't mess up. Only, how do you mess up with SM? Set up drone and now enjoy the survivor either losing a health state and going down in a few seconds thanks to the extra hindered and haste effects or have them drop the pallet immediately to get to the next loop. In both cases you win and the survivor has no real play. They might as well be a bot. And you too to be honest. Because a bot would do the exact same thing.

For this killer to lose her reputation as the worst designed killer in DBD history (worse than old Legion), they would need to make her super fun and interactive for both sides. But they failed monumentally. Now she might be fun to play as (although I don't understand how, because you don't think about any of the stuff you do) but she is still by far the most excruciating experience for survivors. A good killer should be fun for both sides. Or at least not straight up miserable.

I give up on this killer and I know what I'll do the next time I have to play against her. Ignore the drones and go down in 20 seconds. At least that way she'll have me dead in about 2 minutes, which is shorter than the penalty for disconnecting.

Just imagine. People paying 11€ for a killer just for it to get deleted a year later cause the devs gave up fixing her.

An absolute PR dream.

skylustv

@Skillfulstone said:

I'll just leave this here...

https://youtu.be/vOliDIQxQlE?si=djj9Rfcgx7jtO7xX

Detailed breakdown of why Dull Merchant is still an issue.

Bvhr should watch this video