These Skull Merchants nerfs are horrible, and a horrible practice
So, let me explain the issues with the skull merchant changes.
Removal of Stealth Mode: This means that using the drones as traps is practically impossible. The outline, + the one scan line being visible when being nearby means no survivor, besides absolute beginners, will ever enter her scan line outside of chase ever again. This means that chase merchant is her only playstyle.
Te one scan line. This means survivors will get scanned 50% less. Just put that into perspective. Her power in addition to being useless outisde of chase, now is 50% less effective. Sure, you could make a point about lasertagging so its not quite as bad, but its still horrible
Imagine if it took double the time/amount to reach maximum level infection on plague. Oh and also plague can't infect objects anymore. That's practically what they did to skull merchant.
Also, the things you nerfed didn't address the problems with her at all. The seemingly random undetectable, still there. Chase Merchant who just invalidates loops? Thats now the only playstyle. Whats even the point in having the radar if you can only use drones against people you are currently chasing.
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Now this proctice is bad as well. I get the nerfs. You want to rework her (good), but you don't want her to be as unpleasent to play against until the rework (also good). But this is not the way to do it.
Imagine if inbetween the announcemtn for a twins rework and the actual rework attempt they just made it so victor can't down people. Imagine if before the overdrive introduction for Hillbilly they just made the chainsaw take double as long to charge for a few months.
All you are doing is killing the playerbase so that when the rework eventually does come, no one is left to play the character. This is not a smart way to go forward. Please actually adress the problem points. I don't even disagree with the hindered and haste changes, tho they also seem too extreme too me. But the rest is just like, jeez. You made her by far the worst character in the game.
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