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Devs, are you unable to refactor the licensed killers because of legality reasons?

folterung
folterung Member Posts: 5
in General Discussions

The question pretty much sums it up but I was just curious. If not then I completely understand that and the community would as well. However, if you are able to change the licensed killers or make slight adjustments could you please do it for the underwhelming licensed killers? I am of the opinion that all of the killers should at least be viable but there are certain ones that aren't even close.

Answers

  • HatCreature
    HatCreature Member Posts: 3,298

    Oh I misunderstood the question at first, they can tweak the killers but they can't get any new outfits for them without permission. Because they changed Michael and Laurie's perks once already.

  • folterung
    folterung Member Posts: 5
    edited December 2018

    If they are able to "tweak" the licensed killer's abilities then why haven't they fixed Freddy? In his current state he is not viable unless you run "Z Block" and "Unicorn Block" (this is against decent survivors) addons which can only be done infrequently due to the spawn rate in his blood web. Against extremely good survivors he isn't viable even with those addons because they know how to abuse his bugs.

    Here is a list of possibilities that might help:

    • Make his dream world clear for him. He controls the dream so him being hindered by it makes no sense.
    • Fix grass so that it isn't affected by him.
    • During transition allow him to block people with his body instead of survivors being able to vault windows and having to wait on them.
    • Reduce his default dream transition time (perhaps just remove the addons and make it a standard 3.5s instead of 7s).
    • Prevent survivors from blocking pickup by swarming bodies (reducing his dream transition time would go a long way to fix this issue).
    • Fix the auto targeting of survivors outside of the dream world.
    • Make failing skill checks "randomly" take people out of the dream world (instead of a guarantee).
    • Increase his ability range... why is it capped when you still need line of sight?

    The above list are just a few of any number of changes that could be made to make Freddy viable.

    It just feels as though in this game of "cat and mouse" often times the mice tend to abuse the cat. That doesn't seem to be the premise of the game.

  • SolarSysteme
    SolarSysteme Member Posts: 3

    I might be wrong but I believe they have something planned regarding Freddy. Supposedly, we'll be seeing a massive rework of his power at some point in the future. Then again, it's only something I've heard here and there from other players and so I'm not entirely certain if it's true.

  • PapaAndrei
    PapaAndrei Member Posts: 72
    Gameplay wise they can change the killers however they see fit.  Visually no. Im sure they had to pull some serious strings tk get Bubba his cosmetics
  • White_Owl
    White_Owl Member Posts: 3,786

    @folterung said:
    If they are able to "tweak" the licensed killer's abilities then why haven't they fixed Freddy?

    They are working on it. He will be the next killer to receive a rework.

  • Dehitay
    Dehitay Member Posts: 1,726

    Don't worry. They're "reworking" Freddy. Of course, they've been doing so for about half a year now. But I'm sure he'll come out just like hatch and decisive strike changes did.