First power-creeps Slinger and Unknown AGGRESSIVELY - BUFFS NEEDED
With the First being released as an S tier ranged killer, the flaws of the lower-tier rangers are more glaring than ever.
The First can hit faster and more reliably than Deathslinger through walls with an easier-to-aim attack AND gets a compensatory movement ability to make up for his 4.4. The First also possesses a "infect-to-damage" power reminiscent of Unknown, but with faster M2s, no ability to cleanse stacks, an (again) much easier-to-aim attack which physically cannot be dodged if aimed correctly, and which activates a power state where he can damage all survivors (compared to Unknown's ability to maybe hit someone if it gets a perfect follow-up shot with its sluggishly slow and dodgable projectile within a few seconds of its power cooldown).
There are no longer justifiable reasons to keep Slinger and Unknown in low C tier. They need enormous buffs to come in range of the First's abilities. Slinger at least needs to be 4.6 and get an addon pass (and should probably have lower cooldowns as well). Unknown needs its weakened duration extended, the removal buffer window eliminated, its projectile speeds increased, and to always weaken on cleansing hallucinations (along with an addon pass, since it has possibly the worst addon selection in the game atm).
It is unjustifiable to keep the rest of the ranged characters this bad in a world where the First now exists.
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Yeah Unknown could really use some love, it takes so much time to go for M2 if you make mistakes. Time to kill needs to start being measured in DBD. I'd even take being 110 for a shorter ranged attack CD.
Unknown needs shorter cooldown on power on staring him down should last longer. So he actually has more time before weakend is removed.
Slinger needs to be 115 % and that's it.
Honestly if Unknown had an effect like dredge's nightfall, but survivor specific, that would be really interesting. Like if you are weakened your maximum view range gets reduced by a purple fog and you are oblivious, that would allow for a lot more "in character" stealth possibilities after you've secured your first hit.
I'd love for anything like that. I use the oblivious aura on the hallucinations coz I really enjoy the stealth playstyle they have
I just wish the projectile was more forgiving if even by a little
How does Vecna power creep Slinger? Slinger's power is nothing like his, it's more like Unknown and Krasue 3.0, where you need to apply a status effect first to damage survivors. except just like how Krasue was an improvement on Unknown, this killer is an improvement on both of them, AND you need to play 50/50s with dodging like Nurse.
Also for the record, Deathslinger isn't C tier, especially with the ADS animation bug still in effect. He's more like a low-mid B tier. In the right hands he's a monster
The First power creeps every ranged killer, but especially the really bad ones like Slinger. Slinger has to aim a very precise projectile with a very unforgiving reload and THEN needs to reel to actually deal the 2nd health state. The First is able to punish survivors at the same range FAR EASIER with a more forgiving attack that allows for lots of spam and lets him hit through walls. They both fill a "midrange ranged killer" slot but one is FAR better than the other.
And I absolutely despise this framing I've seen from people that terrible killers don't need buffs because "in the right hands" they're very strong. If the Slinger mains who made him a "monster" mained an actual A or S tier killer, they'd be on 200-game-winstreaks. Their dedication and skill is an outlier and shouldn't be the focus of overall game balance. I do not think we should be condemning entire characters to forever suck because "technically John Deathslinger, the greatest Slinger main of all time, would be too strong if the killer wasn't permanently confined to a wheelchair with a 100 second cooldown."
If you truly believe characters should be balanced around the top comp players, then go advocate for massive nerfs to the First, because he is far more powerful than 115 Slinger would ever be.
So, essentially don't balance around the person playing the killer actually knowing how to play the killer? That's stupid
Xeno, sadako, and especially demo, were heavily powercrept by springtraps better map traversal and and special attack (altho the cooldown could be a lowered more) and nothing has been done for any of them at all to make them stand out and keep up against the powercreep, so I doubt anything will happen for slinger and unknown for awhile until ALOT OF PEOPLE start talking about it, which is why xeno and sadako have yet to Receive buffs and changes, demo just gets nothing at all, even after this chapters release they get neglected
There will be soon no reason to play old killers because new killers are very strong and need way less effort to have the same results as old killers sweating as much as possible. I'd personally buff every killer escept for Nurse, Blight, Kaneki, Dracula, Oni, Billy and Singularity.