Springtrap needs help.
Springtrap was released a year ago and bro some how got power crept literally the next anniversary chapter. Now that Jason is out and does basically everything Springtrap can do but better there’s almost no reason to play the guy anymore outside of either a love for the franchise, or because orbitals are just stupid satisfying to hit (which they are). He needs changes to make him worth using over Jason. This discussion is completely open for suggestions if you have any, feel free to go nuts.
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As you said, there really isn’t an reason to play ol Springy. Jason does everything better. My solution is not to buff Spring Trap, but I instead ask BHVR to stop releasing killers with such bloated base kits. Oh. And please nerf Jason. He’ll be fine even after his already bloated kit takes a hit.
I really just don’t wanna see Springtrap touched, cause he is like the last balanced killer we’ve gotten in two years.
DBD just suffers from the same issue that the overwhelming majority of other major games suffer from - Power Creep.
Hate it or love it, power creep is almost neccesary to some degree to keep a game alive and for people to keep putting $$ into it.
Watch as the Judgment is just a better Unknown. Actually I take that back. Please don’t make me summon that into existence.
I completely agree. Out of all the killers after Houndmaster, the only one that I feel like is decently designed and balanced is Springtrap. However, Jason does everything Springtrap does but better. Springtrap introduced ranged killers having map mobility, but his is objectively 10 times worse than Jason's. Not only is Jason able to choose any part of the map to go to, he gets easy information on any survivors completing any objectives such as gens or even totems (which is broken for hex builds by the way), and he can also come out of his power breaking downed pallets, and generally has less time given as a heads up to where he's appearing. Both killers have only one projectile at a time, however while Springtrap has to wait for his cooldown and turns into a normal 4.6 m1 killer, Jason often has easy access to more spikes.
In addition, versus Huntress (even completely ignoring map mobility), although he can't carry multiple spikes, like I said he has easy access to more spikes across the map and can even go into power to get one and easily return to chase, whereas Huntress has to completely drop what she's doing to go reload at a locker. On top of that, because of the angle that his spike is thrown, he can shoot his projectile over objects other killers like Huntress can't he can snipe across the map with almost none of the windup Huntress needs, and of course his projectile also travels infinitely further than Springtrap's axe.
At first, I thought the Jason complainers were overreacting and that he was just a bit strong. However, I have found over an annoyingly high amount of matches that Jason does not just have great map presence and pressure, he's also incredibly oppressive in chase, even more so in my opinion than a killer like Huntress how has all her eggs in the chase basket. He does everything every ranged killer in the game does but better in almost every way and makes it pointless to run any of them. Yes it's about power creep and how some of the other killers need to be buffed, but it's also about him being good at too many things at once and needing a change.
Yes. Let's fight power creep with power creep. That's gonna help...
Have you ever played a game that did this and it turned out well? I definitely didn't. Power creep usually only ends in the game breaking. Using power creep to fight it makes things worse.
What should happen is that Jason is nerfed. His cooldown on OE is way too short.
Nerf Jason, I want to play against more Huntress again.
The fact Trickster was reworked this year and power crept is even worse than the springtrap situation.