Skull merchant needs her second drone line back
I know BHVR has recently confirmed that her rework is coming, but I still believe she should get it back in the meantime.
Skull Merchant is considered one of the worst, if not THE worst killer in DBD, and this tiny little change would make her somewhat viable until she actually receives the rework - which, as far as I know, hasn't even actually been started, coding-wise.
Adding the second line back would make her considerably stronger in chase and general map pressure, which would complement her current power very well, since this would still be far from the old chess merchant when she got released.
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Couldnt agree more. I would even argue to say that if she got the second scanline and the stealth mode back, there would be no need for a rework. The problem back then was that she got random haste when a survivor on the other side of the map got scanned. And for god sake, I hope they do NOT listen to any of pixelbushes idea this time, the recall stealth was already horrible.
Recall stealth is significantly better as beforehand you weren't even stealthy as survivors would see the drone being placed and think "Oh they're right here." Now you can actually sneak up on survivors, trick them into thinking you're leaving mid chase, or force survivors off gens by thinking you are going to come to it by recalling the drone that was recently hacked.
Even if, there is literally no reason to ask for an extreme skill floor on a killer with literally no skill ceiling. I keep hearing Skull Merchant mains actually agreeing on her having one scan line and it is the dumbest thing ever. Skull Merchant is allowed to be more accessible, not every killer has to have a Nurse level of skill floor. And honestly I think recall stealth is also harder to play around, especially for beginners.
I never agreed with one scan line, I just think stealth on recall was an amazing buff. (Despite the fact she's still terrible.)
I'm still decent with her these days but it felt like a nerf to me as it went from a simple 1 click while focused on chase or the area you are going - to having to hold a button, break your neck, look away from your target or area you are going, and delete one of your manually placed obstacles just to get the same effect. Its much more tedious.
The stealth activation is way better but some reason people think it isn't. As you said earlier placing a drone giving you Undetectable did basically not much. Now you can literally get it by removing a drone you might have removed anyway. I said in few threads this was talk about time to time that you can just place few random drones that you might not really need and use those to activate the stealth when you want. Way better than placing a drone that the survivor can hear to gain it as you would still need to remove that drone at some point if it was placed in bad place.
Tedious, but significantly better.