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Skull Merchant Rework

KnightOfSumeria1 KnightOfSumeria1
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I think reducing her drone count to 3 would be good. Also giving each Drone a specific task.


Drone One aka Hunter goes patrolling towards each generator, and if it sees a survivor with it's scanner like how it is right now then it will stop and try to expose any survivors within its range.


Drone 2 aka Leach, if a survivor is in Chase, the skull merchant can deploy its drone to put the tracker device on the survivor, kind of like how the singularity does but with only one survivor. And just in case if the skull merchant is in Chase with two or more survivors you can choose which survivor you want to pick similar to how the aliens tunnel system works when it has the little markers to pick. The little tracker on the survivor shoulders will work the same way as it does right now in game for chase.


Drone 3 aka Fort, where it's basically a base kit bamboozled but instead of having to vault or giving vault speed you can send your drone to block a window for 10 seconds, again same way how xenos markers work to send a drone off.

I would say give the drones 2 and 3 maybe a 24-meter range to be able to be sent out.

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  • Nos37 Nos37

    Before a complete rework, what if we try some small changes?

    You know how Skull Merchant cannot place one drone near another?

    • When a survivor disables a drone, the Skull Merchant should not be able to immediately place another drone in the same spot; the exclusion zone should linger while the survivor who disabled the drone has the claw trap.

    If she wants to trap the same gen again, she'll have to commit to chasing and downing them, making them fast vault a pallet, or wait out the long claw trap time. It actually rewards survivors and incentivizes them to disable the drones, in turn rewarding the Skull Merchant with speed for chases. To further incentivize her committing to chases,

    • Skull Merchant should only receive the bonus haste while in chase, so she doesn't use the speed boost to patrol the 3 gen more easily.

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    To make this change apparent to the Skull Merchant player, the drone appears lying on the ground where it was placed after the survivor disables it.

  • KnightOfSumeria1 KnightOfSumeria1

    @Nos37 said:

    Before a complete rework, what if we try some small changes?

    You know how Skull Merchant cannot place one drone near another?

    • When a survivor disables a drone, the Skull Merchant should not be able to immediately place another drone in the same spot; the exclusion zone should linger while the survivor who disabled the drone has the claw trap.

    If she wants to trap the same gen again, she'll have to commit to chasing and hooking them, making them fast vault a pallet, or wait out the long claw trap time.It actually rewards survivors and incentivizes them to disable the drones, in turn rewarding the Skull Merchant with speed for chases. To further incentivize her committing to chases,

    • Skull Merchant should only receive the bonus haste while in chase, so she doesn't use the speed boost to patrol the 3 gen more easily.

    That's a great idea too

  • DaddyMyers_Mori DaddyMyers_Mori

    Why another Knight copy/paste? Just go play Knight...

  • KnightOfSumeria1 KnightOfSumeria1

    @DaddyMyers_Mori said:

    Why another Knight copy/paste? Just go play Knight...

    It seems like that but its not really because the Knights guards inflict different effects and all guards can chase survivors.

  • DaddyMyers_Mori DaddyMyers_Mori

    @KnightOfSumeria1 said:

    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3514364#Comment_3514364

    It seems like that but its not really because the Knights guards inflict different effects and all can chase survivors.

    So this Knight from Wish...

  • KnightOfSumeria1 KnightOfSumeria1

    @DaddyMyers_Mori said:

    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3516333#Comment_3516333

    So this Knight from Wish...

    Hmm. I'm not sure what Wish is exactly but I'm guessing it means a worse version of knight. But I'd argue that these changes would actually make her better than the knight because unlike the night skull merchants drones will not give survivors any haste status effects from guard flags. Plus, I think fort would be a really strong drone because it blocks windows and windows are very powerful imo

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