I wish more Killers played Stealth builds
Title. Or at LEAST one or two perks to mess with the survivors heads using TR altering perks. Nothing scares me more than a Killer that can really utilize perks that throw off the TR. It's one of my favorite things to do as Killer, especially when I can use it in chase to cut off where I correctly predict a survivor to be going by waiting in the doorway and jump-scaring them. That stuff startles me like nothing else in this game can, and I wish I got to experience it more from the other end (survivor).
What do you all think?
Do you often play this style as Killer?
Do you wish more Killers used this?
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Tinky winky was legit a meta perk before nerf
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I'm sure killers would love to but there's Spine Chill and a little thing called SWF on voice comms where no matter how well you conceal yourself with no TR, dude is already pre running a mile away
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Most killer stealth perks aren’t that good unfortunately. Tinkerer was the best one and it needed a nerf. Dark Devotion can work sometimes but it’s not super consistent. Beast of Prey, Insidious, and Trail of Torment are all pretty bad.
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I play Tinkerer Oni. Never faced that myself but I did watch a stream a few days later of my game and it seemed like good fun. I barely face any stealth builds these days. Haven't seen a wraith or GF for months
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Wesker with dark devotion has nabbed me a few unsuspecting survivors. No one expected a Wesker to sneak grab someone off a gen~
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I like the occasional stealth build, though I'm not always great at it.
A while ago I did a Stealth Bubba build and was never so happy to get the Game.
Video I got the build from:
Billy version:
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Eyre of Crows, Coldwind, and Ormond exist. Running no TR doesn't work if the map lets the survivors see you easily from 20m away.
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Big issue is to have a decent stealth build it requires multiple perks and usually a full build and it's just not feasible if you go against good survivors as you lose just purely down to gen speed resulting in tunneling and camping just to try get a draw...
When I dont need to run gen defense I'd live to run more builds, I always want to do difficult skillcheck builds but I cant warrant the use of 4perks for a meme build I'll get destroyed with and have 0 fun
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They destroyed Tinkerer so no killers outside of the ones with built-in stealth are really gonna be using stealth builds. What you were describing, lying in wait with Insidious or something, will never be a thing in terms of getting consistent results. Sadakos will try it. But killers have a very loud telltale, each one of them, with their loud breathing or something like that.
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Tinky Winky 😂 I'm screaming at that.
On another note - I agree. Stealth killers scare me the most and i'd love more of that.
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Even scratched mirror Myers can be pretty easily heard (once you know it's him and a re really listening), and that's pretty much the pinnacle of DBD stealth.
But SM Myers is also the most fun, imo. It's always a good time, unless you're a surv main with a weak ticker or bladder.
Sadako can also be hella fun, but they need to get rid of her "lullaby".
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Everyone loves it when I play Stealthslinger, so I vibe lol
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Spine Chill has been a problem for stealth for a while, but CoH basically murdered it. There's just not enough time and too little potential to pressure unless you make specific builds that cover those weaknesses or just use stealth killers in a non-stealth way.
All that said, I have been seeing some pretty fun dark devotion builds, which are kinda silly but still work quite a bit.
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I wish more stealth builds were viable
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I wish more people would run builds other than CoB, Eruption, Overcharge for once, ever.
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Sad, man. Tinkerer Oni on Lerys with Double Speed addons was a great jump scare killer. I miss the stealth component of Tinkerer so much
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I do legion with dark devotion.
Dark devotion is incredibly strong with Susie's and mischief list. Susie's basically overrides the undetectable status messing with the killer instinct. You'll instead have a 20m Killer instinct range and you won't be detected and the survivor won't even know you're coming.
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Hard to do stealth builds with spinechill being on the table. Literally entirely removes stealth play with a single perk. At least less and less people are using it it seems...despite BHVR's stats showing it's one of the top most used perks. Apparently other regions it's insanely popular or something.
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I love playing stealthy, which is why I main Ghostface.
I wish I could run stealth perks but they are just so bad. The duration on them is so short that unless you have mobility you can't get much use out of them and the killers with mobility are so loud it's pointless.
Aside from stealth killers, Freddy is the only killer who is quiet AND has good mobility... but he has a freaking lullaby so they are useless on him
The only killers I can think of that can get some use out of stealth perks are maybe Wesker and Hillbilly with Apex Muffler. And Insidious Bubba of course :)
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Few things are as good as getting a gen grab with non-stealthy killers. My favourite for that is Wesker because nobody expects him to be undetectable.
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Sadly game just doesn't work for stealth killers.
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Oni is such a fun killer to play stealthy !
I faced one who had Plaything the other day, and there's nothing funnier than calmly turning your camera as you do a gen, only to see a 2m tall enraged fuming demon charging right towards you :'D
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I'd have loved to, but because SWF can use third party programs to gain an unintended advantage over other players without any disadvantages, allowing them to tell each other the killer's position, stealth builds are doomed and were doomed the moment BHVR has added SWF into the game.
If it weren't for SWF premades, yes, I'd have absolutely used a perk or two dedicated to get Undetectable status effect - Dark Devotion for sure, probably in combination with Hysteria. Unfortunately, SWF exists, so I'm not running any stealth perk anytime soon.
Wish.. It'd have been nice change of pace to face something else than Scourge Hook: Pain Resonance and Dead Man's Switch combo 24/7, but I don't really care.
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BHVR keeps making stealth killers have big warning sign "STEALTH KILLER IS HERE" so, sadly, this isn't going to happen
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Oni could use a wraith esc add on which mutes his 'grr' when he gets his power and/or uses it. He might aswell yell "29 30, ready or not, here I come"
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I never understood this. I get the need for some kind of heads up otherwise stealth would probably be broken but do they really need a big neon sign that say run the stealth killer is almost here.
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Unfortunately Spine Chill completely negates any stealth killer or SWF. most of the time stealth builds just aren't viable because as your going around trying to be smart and stealthy gens are popping left and right.
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I used to run a stealth build on doctor and on hag. With hag I tend to run deafen ear and that one add on that switch her radius with the clones.
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I do my share of vanity mirror Mikey with Monitor and dead rabbit on indoor maps.
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I do, sadly some people are j*rks and just suicide on hook making the team lose even when am not running a slowdown build / top tier killer or camping either. 🤦♀️
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Very fair. Many Killers having naturally loud breathing/presence makes utilizing the stealth a harding thing to do. However! More of the focus of my original point was emphasize how stealth can be used to jump scare predictable survivors in chase/approach.
For example, I was playing (Wesker?) chasing a survivor on RPD West Wing when I struck the survivor to trigger Hysteria. He was running toward the back porch (with the crashed helicopter) and I predicted that he'd run down the steps and enter the hall on ground floor with the pallet. So, I jumped down to ground floor (deactivating chase music to mislead that I broke chase) and stood at the doorway I knew he'd go to. I hid the red stain by taking a step back and listened to the footsteps run down the metal staircase outside. He turned the corner and I downed him by jumpscare. Regardless of loud breathing or not, that survivor thought I broke chase and I took advantage.
THAT'S my favorite use for stealth, and my favorite to go against for the fear of it.
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I wish there were more good stealth killer that try to scare people nit like wraith
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Ngl I think I played you. Midwitch?
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Stealth doctor is funny it's an odd terror radius
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Why not just play stealth killers instead?
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I've had an idea that uses Trail of Torment with Mint Rag. Trail a gen, go Undetectable, teleport to a trap somewhere else entirely.
Haven't worked it out fully, though. And the teleport sound itself can be a warning to attentive survivors.
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I have a Dark Devotion Huntress build that is really fun to play. I have been meaning to make a video detailing how it works because someone always inevitably loves to bring up the lullaby, but the lullaby is explicitly what I'm using.
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As a small aside, I just tried this and ( 1 ) I'm 2 for 2 on getting the Game when trying unconventional stealth builds, and (2) worked great with a 3k + hatch. Combined with Tinkerer, Discordance, Deadlock, and the Etched Ruler (Feral Slash inflicts Oblivious for 60 seconds).
Edit: Did some checking and it looks like Susie's offsets Undetectable but does not offset Oblivious. So you don't actually want to use Obliviousness in this build.
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I knew that part for a while,its funny enough that stealth legion sometimes works even better than normal legion builds/addons lol
But yeah,Oblivious with legion is literally just an outright shot to the foot because you literally cannot offset it no matter what,at least undetectable with Susie's is a thing.
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I've utilized the same idea for Dredge, Wesker, and Sadako. Select a gen for ToT, and teleport/dash away while using the long stealth to mislead.
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