5. Myers changes
For Myers, I think his rework is overall looked upon pretty negatively by the community. A good portion of Myers players choose to waste an addon slot on Tuft of Hair just so they can have the old Myers experience. Without yet another possibly complicated rework with a brand new power, I think the easiest thing to do is just make Tuft of Hair the base kit Myers.
In this case, in comparison with old Myers, he still would have gained the ability to switch between Stalker and Pursuer mode, the limit on stalk per person still would be gone, stalking to gain Evil incarnate will still be way faster than before. It would still be a noticeable improvement from old Myers without destroying his identity and turning him into dash slop.
Of course, he will be objectively weaker, as even with the large lunge he will no longer have a dash or the ability to break pallets with his power. To mitigate this, a couple addons could become at least partial base kit.
- Make J. Myers Memorial partially or fully base kit, increasing pick up and hook speeds by 20-40% in Evil Incarnate
- Make Lock of Hair base kit, allowing for even more flexibility in Michael's kit
- Because downs will probably take longer since Evil Incarnate won't be as powerful, either increase Evil Incarnate's duration by 20s or make it similar to Judith's Tombstone where Myers gains another 20s of duration after hooking a survivor
Comments
Community hates his stalker identity to be gone.
I would like to see those two modes which can be swapped:
I'm not sure where you're getting this from, but I recently realized a lot of people hate Scratched Mirror now. Because Stalker mode by default gives you 4.2 movement speed, and with an addon you move at 4.4 (as fast as a ranged killer or hag), it is infinitely easier and more viable than it was before. With old Scratched Mirror Myers, you were the same speed as survivors and could not increase your movement speed, the only thing you could do was run an addon so you could actually lunge at all. This change unfortunately transformed a cute, meme play style for jump scares and entertainment that I loved into a more "viable" option that people inevitably started using to more effectively camp and tunnel when team have no comms.
Even more than that, I'm not sure where you are getting the information that old Tombstone Piece Myers was beloved and should return. Tombstone Myers was the biggest complaint about Myers for years and was incredibly unfun to go against. Spending the entire game away from the killer and just sitting on a gen all to immediately get permanently removed from the match is not exactly interactive gameplay. There's a reason people hate the Condemned play style of Sadako.
To make it more clear, I wasn't talking about 4.4 Myers being fun and beloved but the og mirror Myers, which by the end you admitted is true. Tombstone Myers was the most played and I actually enjoyed the terror of this playstyle and many people did too. The complianed about part of Mikye's kit was the og double iri before the nerf. Where it took twice as long to fully stalk people for you to be able to stay forever in tier 3 and have permanent option to mori. That was complained about and i believe those were justified. At least those playstyles were mroe diverse than todays dash-slop myers with his pallet drop cancel mechanic.
Agree. Just lose the dash and the glowing knife and we're good.
If you want to go further, give MM the "Haste when unseen" ability from 2v8, but i'm just spitballing. the key is lose the dash and go with Tuft style. the rest of the update is great.