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Spirit Doesn't Need A Nerf, Only A Better Tell When She's Phase Walking

UberMorpth
UberMorpth Member Posts: 97
in General Discussions

Honestly the only things about Spirit I do find overpowered is some of her add ons primary being Prayer Beads and maybe both Yakuyoke Amulet and Wakizashi Saya, otherwise I think Spirit in concept is a fine and fun killer.

The main issue for me (and I imagine for some) is the fact is quiet difficult to tell when she's phase walking aside from some of the following:

(As a side note their is no in-game tips or anyway to know half of this stuff unless you gone against her many times which even I don't know.)

1: Her Hair Will Straighten Up

This is the most consistent way of telling but problem is you would have to be close enough to even notice this so maybe make it more obvious?

2: Her Glass Shards Will Glow

Not only can the be obscured or hard to tell from both the lighting of the map (Any very dark or overly bright map) and the cosmetics the Spirit is possibly wearing can obscure the glass shards on her body (Her Blight skin changes the color to a bright orange like color which makes it even harder to tell) So just increase the glow of the shards?

3: You Can Hear Her Foot Steps If She's Close Enough

If you can actually hear her footsteps at that point she's already close enough to where you can't really react to this and can get a hit on you unless your running Dead Hard, It also can be obscured by both terror radious/chase music or the phase walking sound effect or grunts of pains or gen noises so perhaps just make it more audible when she's phase walking like Wraith's deep footstep noises when he's cloaked.

4: The Grass Moves When She's Phase Walking

This one is true but think about this in a normal situation, you have to be at most looking around your feet or behind you for any grass movement likely during a chase which is hard to focus on (Or if your on a map with no grass at all then you only might have her foot steps to notice or else get [BAD WORD]).

I'm not sure what they could do with this but maybe during the phase walking you could see glimpses of her as if she was phasing in and out like an actual Spirit would? (Wraith kind of has a gleam look when moving so you can actually tell where he is if your being chased by him while invisible.)

Again I don't want Spirit to get nerfed in a big way, in fact I argue them reworking bad killers like Doctor is better but I feel these issues when combined together for the average to above average survivor going up against a Spirit makes the experience unfair or just un-fun. Me personally I can enjoy going against a Spirit but I would like to at least have more then one consistent way of knowing when she's active her power.

They did announce they will be taking a look at her and I only hope is just to fix the issues I mentioned above because it would be very sad if they turned her into legion tier.

(Also please BHVR give her a bloody vault animation, she's the only killer so far in this game without an actual dedicated vault animation for survivors to see.)

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