New Killer Feedback - Review

Nightraver

Hello DBD Community,

I just want to provide some feedback on the new killer(The Ghoul), and all the games I have played with him yesterday. What I have seen and how I feel about it with the new release. I know he's new and I know it's gonna take time for myself and everyone to adjust too. However there are some important things I want to point out.

Just to give a little overview on how the games went yesterday, I kept track because I wanted to see a actual breakdown. Including how many games I played, how many times I got him, how many I died/escaped. I'm a high MMR Iri One survivor Main. I do really well with looping and overall know majority of the game mechanics and so on. I normally play SOLO Q and did not play with any friends yesterday.

Total DBD Matches Played - 23

Times I got new killer - 21

Matches I escaped with new killer - 2

Matches I was sacrificed with new killer - 19

Now I know after seeing this breakdown, you're probably like holy smokes there's no way you died or lost 19 DBD games out of 21 against him - In fact I really did, I myself was shocked when it kept getting worse and worse after each game. Now I will say majority of these are due to player DC's, heavy slugging, proxy camping with his leap and players giving up. However even when having a really good game, run him for 2-3 gens, or you're doing well, It can go south so fast if even 1 or 2 mistakes are made and you can't recover from it unless you're in a SWF. Actually only one of those games I actually escaped on my behalf - The 2nd one was because the killer was friendly and let us go.

Let's start with a few things I have noticed.

His Leap ability: He has a ability that can take you halfway across the map, this gives him a ton of map pressure and with that being said, it was very easy for him to proxy three generators, even if your gens were on the opposite of the map. I feel like his range on his leap needs slightly reduced and I feel like we need some kind of warning when he's using his power, like Billy with the chainsaw noise but something visual for him. Out of all those games probably half of them you don't hear him or see the heartbeat until he's on top of you on the gen or somewhere on the map.

I will also note that the hitbox on his grab-attack after his leap feels or seems very large from what I can see, I have a Alienware and I have a ping tracker that let's me know when my internet spikes and rarely did it ever show anything when he was getting these hits. I have seen him hit it crouched next to a loop when it was probably more than halfway above me, I have been hit through walls with it, In addition I have dropped a pallet during his mid grab-attack and It showed the pallet stun first, I was able to walk a tad away from the pallet and his grab still counted but he didn't use his power again? The delay was about 3-4seconds for the mend to show after his hit, after the pallet stun. No ping spike from my end in-game or on tracker and or on his based off the what the ESC screen shows in game.

His Movement Speed: I feel like with a killer that has so much mobility with his power and map pressure, he seems a little fast, Most times with a killer you can typically make it around a decent loop 2-3 times or make it to the next loop before taking a hit not including perks - However when getting hit with his power you are stuck until it ends - so you lose a 1-2 second your speed buff after taking a hit.. and so by time you try to get away, or if he hits you hugged against a wall, there's not enough time to even make it around the loop before taking that 2nd hit and or you get stuck on the wall or something else. I have had so many times where he has hit me with his ability, I'm stuck in it till it's over - then you get the moment speed boost and it's gone before you can even get away from loop and if they're running knockout, you won't even make it to the next loop. I feel like when he comes out of his power, My idea or suggestion to this I believe maybe reduce his moment speed by 6-8% for 2-4 seconds if he cancels it early coming out of it. If he doesn't cancel his power and let's it go through, then the normal cooldown is fine.

His Lunge: I honestly believe his lunge should be reduced by a lot - He should have a lunge like Ghost Face and or the Shape, due to the sheer amount of mobility he has, I'm just speaking from what I experienced, I have seen him without any help from perks lunge do a full rotation around a (small loop) - Which is crazy. I always check my ping as it happens to see and rarely ever any spikes - I had a particularly game yesterday where I ran through shack window - he followed through and ran back around. I was midway in shack to the window and he was at doorway - He lunged from door way and was able to hit me through the window, I know that it was glitched or crazy hit because when I landed on the ground outside the window shack I was like 3 survivor length from the window??? At that moment he came over - Look at the window - looked at me like 3 times cause EVEN he couldn't believe it. No ping spike or anything. This is just what I have seen, and maybe it's just a glitch or something happened but I can see a difference in the lunges coming around loops - he has such a far reach and I think it should be changed or reduced.

Conclusion: I just want to provide clarity and my personal feedback. I absolutely love the new killer and I believe he's super cool and fun to go face against. His design and cosmetics are really nice and visually appealing. I want to note that I'm just providing my opinion and I do not want them to severely nerf him or change him drastically as he is really different and interesting killer for which I love. I just know that he feels really strong in games and to add any type of tunneling, camping, and or 3 gen to that is an almost guaranteed death. Please feel free to reply or respond to my reply and tell me your thoughts about all this.

Thanks for reading my post and remember to stay friendly in the fog!

Warm Regards

Nightraver - Cute Leon Main