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  • Hey! As someone who is #4 with the amount of slinger played I thought I could share some of my thoughts regarding the matter. Obviously we'll see with the PTB how bad it actually feels like, this is just speculation.

    Huntress was already stronger than slinger. Giving him a delay to scoping makes the mechanic closer to huntress making him even weaker because

    1. Even if you connect your shot, something might go wrong during the reel (someone blocking, enviroment being a ######### or even that friggin bug that causes the chain break faster for no reason)
    2. You can only shoot once before reloading
    3. Your range is limited to 18m
    4. You can't down over pallets (yes you can play around a lot of them but that often requires specific positioning vs just throwing a hatchet while survivors are locked in the animation)

    When huntress lifts up a hatchet, her movement speed is moderately slower. With these changes, they are planning to increase slinger's speed. How is this getting rid of the zoning people find annoying? What's the difference between faking a shot or just walking with the damn scope up if it's not gonna punish much speed wise?

    In my opinion, they should have just added a penalty to canceling your ADS. Would have solved everything without killing pretty much the only strong point slinger had. Tracking and shooting with the ADS feels absolutely terrible. If that's the only way we're able to shoot from now on, I'd rather not. Quick scope was the only way around the stickiness.

    This combined with the fact that survivors will have a better head start to chases just feels.. pretty harsh for a mid-tier killer with like 6% pick rate in red ranks (this is an old stat but I doubt it's changed much). I do understand that people found him annoying to go against and it's nice they listen to their community. I think it's wild he only got nerfed without any compensation. Maybe the new add-ons will help? They did only mention slight buffs though.

    BUT let's see how it actually feels like to play before judging too much. I'm bit afraid, but trying to stay positive! :D

    in The Deathslinger Nerfs are a disaster. Comment by Anaxandra
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