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A genuine question to the balance team

HamsterEnjoyer
HamsterEnjoyer Member Posts: 765
edited December 2023 in Feedback and Suggestions

Why is the balance team so insistent on killers only having one optimal way of playing? I've noticed with pretty much every single killer rework they do, they do gut the problematic playstyle while also gutting every single other potential playstyle a killer might have

-Sadako

-Skull Merchant

-Billy

-Freddy

They buff one specific playstyle and gut every single other one even if they weren't problematic. For example I'm a Skull Merchant main as many of you know and one of my absolute favorite playstyles for her which was anti-heal SM was just flat out made impossible for her to achieve with them reworking her iri add-on unpublished manuscript without changing how undetectable affects SM. As SM when shes undetectable, all her TR perks will de-activate as normal however even with her TR active on a drone it will apply no effects from perks.

My build was heavy on Coulrophobia since I could predict where a survivor might be healing, activate a drone in that area (which were placed in specifically the best positions to utilize this) and then I could spread the pressure which was helpful if you weren't focusing on gens since it allowed her to be an M1 killer with actual pressure however with the rework they made it so she can't really spread pressure at all using perks which utilize this since she becomes undetectable while the drone is active meaning all her TR perks deactivate both on her and the drone which has a TR and this is just one example.


If I got into how horribly Freddy has been gutted this post would be a 10 page post


Sadako another one of my mains had pretty much the opposite effect. They gutted all her alternative playstyles while making her problematic playstyle only slightly weaker but its also now her only viable playstyle because she doesn't have the tools or add-ons to accommodate any other playstyle.


This TERRIFIES me for the adjustments Hag will receive. As far as I can think, she is really the only killer left whos playstyle can be changed immensely just with the use of add-on switching, so I'm sure with the adjustments they will be nerfing and changing any and all add-ons which allows this and force Hag only into one playstyle which Im not sure what will be but its extremely disappointing that they're doing this.


Bottomline is I seriously need to know why this is being done because clearly there is a theme with it and this is obviously intentional so why? Why not focus on amplifying other, weaker playstyles to be competent enough instead of just throwing them all away and only putting the work into majorly buffing one specific style?

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