Killers should have more Intel about their own Power.
Examples
Skull Mommy sees how many stacks survivors get with scans.
Trickster sees how many stacks he gets with knives.
Sadako has to try to remember for 4 separate survivors how many stacks a person MIGHT have out of 7 stacks.
Just my thoughts 💭 :)
Comments
Skull Merchant doesn't see how many stacks a Survivor has, though. It works like condemned in that regard.
Skully doesn't really see it but there is not many options…
Basically you care only about 1/2. You can easily track that in chase, but it can throw you of of survivor got randomly detected outside of chase.
That's definitely way more difficult for Sadako, where you need to care about range too, so you often can't be sure if it hit or not. (I hope it's range based again, don't play her much)
Showing stacks to her would definitely help her get condemned survivors more reliably, also because you would know what survivor to commit on to lock stacks...
Actually, with Sadako - unless this changed in a recent patch, I've found she can tell when she put a Condemned stack on a survivor because their name will flash white. Which is something that happens whenever a survivor's status changes (any killer power applied/lost, health stage change.) I haven't played her in her current incarnation, but that always used to be a tracking tool on whether my teleports had a survivor nearby.
(It is range based again, but the range seems longer than it was in her OG version.)
Though to the OP, I think in Sadako's case, the obfuscation is intentional and there to prevent focusing/tunneling a survivor on high stacks. Whether or not that's necessary, or should be a thing, I don't really have an opinion. Might have made more sense back when a survivor holding a tape passively gained Condemned, might just have been because they were initially super timid about her Condemned mechanic and on release it was near-worthless. But then again, we had some pretty nasty condemn playstyles back then, too.
Alright, good to know.
I don't really like her, mostly because of heartbeat feature (she has lullaby). Doesn't really matter her lullaby is subtle, when survivors can simply see it...
I will rather pick Wraith, or Skully if I want to be sneaky. Sadako is just a noob stomper. Her new skin is awesome tho...
Out of subject but what do the SM's (3) stacks & how to remove them (except to be hooked I guess) please ?
Thanks.
And about the subject of the thread, for instance The Plague can't see what is the state of the infection by her vomit on the survivor neither...
You cannot really compare Trickster with Sadako. When Trickster reached all his stacks he removes a Health State, when Sadako gets all the stacks, the Survivor is dead.
I add pig to the list. She should at the very least see her own boxes again.
I don’t know about Sadako. It would probably be not good, because she would always focus the highest condemned person out.
For skull merchant: I simply don‘t want her to get anything. I hate this character and I think her haste stacks should be removed from her kit. Current skull merchant got far too much stuff in her basekit.
She still has to chase them as an M1 killer. Injury them, chase again, get the down. It’s not hard to loop her. She has no chase, no anti loop and a horrible stealth power.