Anybody else find Freddy boring?
I dunno about other people but I personally find Freddy boring, to play as and against. Sure his dream pallets are kinda fun but they aren't as good as the snares which kinda encourage a repetitive gameplay. Snare one side, make them run through it, go the other way and get a hit. Rinse and repeat until downed. Sure it's effective and that makes him a super viable killer but.. Kinda gets boring. Other killers have creative/fun ways to use their powers. Huntress/Gunslinger can go for risky but rewarding shots, Hillbilly can get a snipe chainsaw or impressive curve. Getting a down from somebody stepping on your trap as the Trapper/making them leave a safe tile by faking it or stringing a web of traps as Hag are to name a few. Freddy? I don't see what can be done to make his gameplay "fun" since even before the changes he was boring.
Anybody else feel that way? He's kinda in the same boat as a few other killers like The Clown but better.
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I find him fun to play
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I find him incredibly boring on both sides. His power is excellent symbolism for his effect on me. Putting me to sleep. Freddy matches are always dull.
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Whenever I play a game against Freddy, I almost always go "Ugh" because playing against one will result in the same gameplay loop EVERY single time. Pallet loop, avoid snares, throw pallet down, get hit bc of Freddy's insane hitbox.
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Freddy is fun to play but definetly the most annoying killer to play against
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It's subjective. He's not particularly engaging imho, but that can be said of other killers as well. There are only so many powers and iterations thereof that BHVR can come up with, so some are bound to be a little dull. It is what it is.
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Boring to play against, I agree
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The most boring/annoying killer bhvr ever made.
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I think he's boring, but fine.
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Everytime i go against Freddy, i always think of that wake me up inside song.
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Honestly nah I find him really fun to play. Against probably not, since my style of play encourages me to find and stick to a gen lock (no i dont use ForeverFreddy™, thank god), but I try and make matches last and 3 hook everyone to ensure they have the most amount of fun.
Against, I can't really say. Most freddy I face use ForeverFreddy™, or an ebony mori, or both, so... Hardly engaging builds.
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- find a survivor
- spam snares at a pallet
- bloodlust
congrats, you’re now a Freddy main
zzz
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I do agree. Freddy is not very fun to play as or against.
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I enjoy chasing someone towards a gen and then scaring the crap out of them because i ported to it when they thought they lost me. Fake teleports can be fun then you do a real one when they they you aren't. If you don't enjoy the cat and mouse part of the game you may not enjoy him.
That's my 3 cents
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Strange. I find him fun to play as or versus. Especially for pallet freddy.
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I was happy with all the changes at first but I'd like to see the way snares are placed adjusted a bit, i.e. closer to how demo portals are placed + removed. My issue isn't how strong the snares are or their slowdown effect, it's just that using them can be pretty brainless.
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Snare-lusting at pallets has to be the most boring thing in the game.
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Yeah, it's bad because I'd rather go against a legion than Freddy o.o
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The only not fun part is the "Forever Freddy" build.
I like him otherwise!
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I feel like Freddy could've been a cool killer, but they instead opted for the complete opposite. Incredibly boring, mindless gameplay that anyone can pick up in about 30 seconds and had nothing interesting or fun going for him. It's like he was purely designed to tick off a checklist that killer mains made on Reddit.
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when his dream world is not overheating my pc, I agree
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Just make him a slow m1 killer so survivors can bully him i mean have fun again
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All survivors run ds bt dh adrenaline survivors are so boring all they do is loop and clicky clicky nerf survivors
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Using a different type of Freddy build now.
Trilling tremors, Dead man's switch, enduring and nemesis with the class photo addon. It's definitly different
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I do find Freddy to be boring to play against, yes.
I think he actually makes the top spot of the Killer I’d rather not go up against, next to Trapper and Plague.
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All the map pressure and kill potential of a good Nurse, Spirit or Billy but with none of the fun or skill. He gets stall simply by existing, forcing survivors to either run across the whole map to wake up or fail a skill check and reveal where they are. I still don't understand why finishing a generator doesn't wake you up. I hate Freddy so much
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I think he’s fun to play as and against. Survivors think he’s boring cause they can’t loop forever.
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Didn't they make that impossible a few patches back? Placing snares now actually removes bloodlust.
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Strong killers are always boring for survivors.
Iri huntress- boring
Old nurse- boring
other killers???? never seen "boring" posts about them.
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Did they? I can’t confirm or deny seeing it in any patch notes. Freddy always seems like he’s always on my ass.
I KNOW he’s not faster than any other killer but every time I’m in a chase I swear he seems 120%. Again...I know he isn’t, but those stubby legs carry him far.
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I see someone watched the Ohtofu video.
Wow, most of those perks actually completely suck, I guess be thankful you run against terrible Freddy players?
I mean Thana and Dying Light are trash tier right off the bat to anyone who understands math. Thana at 16% which is everyone injured is still only 12 extra seconds for a generator to pop for a solo survivor baseline. Dying light is even worse, even with all non-obsessions on death hook you're talking 18% slowdown which is only 14 extra seconds for a generator to pop for a solo survivor baseline.
Thanatophobia only is helpful in mind-gaming survivor into thinking it is a detriment so they spend more time healing.
Why would Freddy need Corrupt? He's not a setup killer like Trapper, Hag, or Myers and he doesn't need to cut off part of the map thanks to his mobility. So many better options.
Pop, yes, no doubt, it's his best perk because of the teleport, hook someone, teleport to priority generator, immediately regress it 25%. I'll give you this one.
Surge consumes pop so usually you would only see one or the other, never together.
Sloppy is a playstyle preference thing, I don't tend to run anti-heal Freddy and usually I just finish the chase and get the down as my playstyle and perk builds depend on that more than mass injuries, but I could see someone running it if they were deluded enough to think Thanatophobia is worth it.
Now I won't pretend to be a master Freddy player, but I play him at red ranks consistently along with Legion, Hillbilly, and Trapper. My standard build is.
- BBQ and Chili
- Thrilling Tremors
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Brutal Strength
Rationale: This build is designed purely around Freddy's good chase potential and ability to get downs quickly. Find survivor, down survivor, hook survivor, block generators not being worked on, teleport to unblocked generator, regress with pop. In the case that all generators are blocked, BBQ and Chili serves as secondary location perk along with bloodpoints. Brutal strength helps in not only kicking generators faster and tends to surprise survivors who thought the pallet break would take longer.
Obviously there are myriad of other ways to build him, dead man's switch and nemesis are getting some traction, and obviously the Forever Freddy + Ruin and Surveillance combo is hilariously strong.
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Different people, different tastes. I enjoy him a lot more.
Way better than Wraith that is far more repetitive. Uncloak > Hit > Cloak > Uncloak > Hit. Rinse and repeat.
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All killers have to be boring now, otherwise the game is 5 mins and the generators are completed and survivors are walking out the gate.
I'm sorry playing in an optimal fashion isn't fun for my opponents.
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I wish they could kind of revert him back, keep his gen teleport and snares if you want, just get rid of the microsleep and make it so you can put survivors to sleep manually (like before) with some added buffs.
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Yeah, he is one smol boi with pretty strong power walking skills. Sadly I don't remember which Patch removed it, but I am pretty sure its gone, since even when I farm via spamming Dream Snares as freddy, I never saw bloodlust pop up at all. Dream Snares + Bloodlust was a bit overkill anyways, so nothing lost there.
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Boring to play as because he is easy to pick up. People claim he's boring to play against but I think it's just because people have a very hard time winning against him. Why's he boring? Because of his snares/dream pallets? Okay, sure. Does that mean Clown, Trapper, and Hag are boring too because of their area controlled powers? One of which literally has to rely on the nearest trap to pick up so he's essentially an M1 killer without his trap. People don't have as much of a problem with Killers like Demo, Oni, and Hillbilly because you have the ability to juke those killers from hitting you with their Power.
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He may be boring but only reason why people don't like to face him isn't because of the "boring" aspect. They dislike he specifically because his "boring" gameplay is also very effective. Survivors can't get over that decently low skill ceiling killer is also good. In their eyes killers have to be extremely skillful to play otherwise they can't be strong. We as killers can't enjoy chill gameplay with killer that you don't have to focus on super hard and still get more then decent results.
I hate that people want to get Freddy nerfed only because they consider him easy to play which for whatever reason should mean that he can't be strong as he is. Why couldn't we have a killer that's strong and pretty simple to play ? Because having fun without super tryharding is unfair to survivors with their extremely diffucult and frustrating gameplay, I think not. Better question is why aren't there any survivors threads asking to significantly buff/reowrk other "boring" but weak killers such as Clown or Legion. No, let's better ask to nerf strong boring killer then buff weak boring killers. That takes priority in their minds.
It seems that they don't find Freddy boring as much as they find losing boring imao.
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Actually I don't watch Tofu. Not every build out there is made by a streamer or youtuber you know :)
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Timing was little impeccable since he literally came out with a video either today or yesterday describing the same perk setup. Didn't mean to offend or anything.
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Freddy is just a even more boring version of clown, that slow down games just by existing with the right addons
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