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Change Skull Merchant Addons With The Nerfs Please

YayC
YayC Member Posts: 116
in Feedback and Suggestions

If you're going to dumpster her entire kit until she is reworked, the least you can do is revert some addons back to the states where they were usable so she has variety.

Namely all the addons that are currently "when the survivor has a claw trap on them". Whether it be blindness, exhausted etc., these addons used to trigger when a survivor entered the active zone of a drone meaning you could actually trigger the effect in chase consistently allowing you to use it for chase (it's how I used to play chase merchant and it was alot of fun".

Since you just made getting a scan on someone way harder and it is already 10 fold harder than her original 2 states, can you revert these addons to "when the survivor is scanned by a drone", so for example "when a survivor is scanned by a drone, inflict blindness for 15 seconds" or "when a survivor is scanned by a drone, inflicted oblivious for 15 seconds" that way you can actually trigger these effect consistently since almost all of them are completely useless by the time a survivor has a claw trap on them.

This will bring back her chase potential from 1.0/2.0 abit more from her addons.

Also can we get the old dissolution addon back from ultrasonic speak, "Claw-Trapped Survivors destroy Pallets after fast-vaulting them".

I know some people like the current version of this addon so maybe make it an iri to replace the god awful expired batteries addon. Heck if you re-introduce this effect back for an addon you can give it a downside of less hinder time if you think it would be too oppressive, I honestly don't care, I just really miss this addon.

That's all.

Comments

  • Skillfulstone
    Skillfulstone Member Posts: 789

    People don't seem to realize that these changes to Skull Merchant aren't for any kind of balance purposes.

    These changes are happening to "soft-killswitch" her without actually killswitching her in order to silence the complaints until her actual rework in 2025 (a BHVR employee on Reddit apparently said so in a post). After all, how often do you hear people complain about Freddy?