Hol’ Up - Scratched Mirror Myers got buffed
All stealth killers now have the Undetectable status effect when they are in their stealthy states. This includes Tier 1 Shape.
Undetectable status effect removes your stain and makes you immune to aura reading. But most of all - **it removes your terror radius**.
That means that Tier 1 Myers no longer has a terror radius at all. That also means that he NO LONGER NEEDS MONITOR AND ABUSE.
So now, Scratched Mirror Myers builds are no longer down a perk slot as they do not need to take a mandatory perk to make the build work. Monitor and Abuse can now be replaced with something else entirely.
Happy Halloween all you Spooky Myers out there!
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I'd say use play with your food as substitute
Yes, but no, now spine chill is reliable counter to him
Shape used to be immune to Spine Chill at EW1 as part of his base kit, practically making him the only truly undetectable killer. Now, since he has the Undetectable status, sure he doesn't have a TR at EW1 anymore, but instead, Spine Chill can detect him. Basically he lost an important advantage, and became conformed to the new standard for stealth killers. I see a decreased usage of OoO in the future, but a major increase in Spine Chill.
So T1 Myers AND spine chill got buffed? I'm only seeing positives here.
Yay scratched mirror Myers is the closest thing to a actual horror experience on this game.
Any buff for that is good.
However, Myers is now susceptible to Premonition and Spine Chill. Which are non-teachable perks.
It's a sidegrade. You get a perk slot back but in return survivors can use Spine Chill against you. It's a fair tradeoff. And not everyone runs Spine Chill so there's that.
Trading a near non existent terror radius and full detection immunity for 0 terror radius isn't a fair trade imo.
Good point, I forgot about that. But wouldn’t you say an extra perk you can choose is better than having a perk viable against you?
One of the main reasons you'd hardly ever see Myers without Monitor and Abuse is because it wiped out his EW1 Terror Radius. Pair that with the Immunity to Object of Obsession, Spine Chill, and Premonition, and he would always be able to sneak up on survivors in the early game for some stalking. He also moves slower in EW1, so his immunity to detection perks was necessary, but more than that it enabled him to run the really great Scratched Mirror build, which consistently ensured in intense match full of jump scares.
Now that Spine Chill is the "go to" perk for countering all stealth killers however, we're going to see more usage from it, and Shape will be hurt the most by it due to his slow movement speed, and the fact that it completely counters his Scratched Mirror build. It's a tough Call... On one hand he doesn't need to use Monitor and Abuse anymore, and this change means more survivors will be opting to use Spine Chill in place of other more meta perks. On the other hand, it Hard counters Shape in comparison to the other stealth killers, and makes one of his best builds useless.
There are no perks to counter Spine Chill, so any perk you choose in place of M&A would have to help you compensate for the lack of ability to sneak up on survivors for stalking in the early game... Atm I can't really think of any.
I am glad to see that specific build no longer require a Perk.
"Required" Perks are bad anyway, like how Brutal Strength was just incredibly good back then and a viable choice on any Killer but the Nurse.
But beware, for he has a new weakness now: He's no longer immune to detection Perks.
Its a downright nerf for a killers whos dependant on getting ambushes on UNSESPECTING survivors.
The others can just cancel their stealth and go happy hunting. "Normal" Myers needs to get that unsespected ambushes.
As for mirror myers? Spinechill hardcounters that playstyle now.
Spine chill and premonition work on tier 1 Myers now when they didn't before so its actually a nerf
No that's a nerf, EW1 myers lost its immunity to premonition and spine chill, while only making it so he doesn't need moniter and abuse. That's more of a nerf than a buff.
M&A wasn't needed for Scratch Mirror Myers. Before I could always hear his breathing before ever hearing the heart beat and this was before M&A was a perk. The zero terror radius does not make up for the loss of detection immunity. With Spine Chill coming into meta to counter Prayer Beads Spirits, Myers just got weaker. Just in time for Halloween.