Why I don't like PTB Legion
I'm pretty damn disappointed with how Legion is now, and I'm curious to see if others feel the same way. To preface, I'd like to say that this reasoning has nothing to do with balancing. I personally don't care about balance as DbD has and never will be made for perfect 'balance'. This is more about the actual power and the sort of gameplay it provokes.
To talk about old Legion, while he was poorly designed and rather broken, he had his own play-style and encouraged different tactics. This is more apparent in killers like Plague, Myers, Pig etc where their powers actually affect the game and influence more of a different play-style. Myers had you trying to block vision as much as possible (or being sneaky to stalk your survivors) Plague has her vomit that can spread and create pressure for how long it isn't cleansed, and so forth.
The issue with new legion is that he's just about as base-kit level as one could possibly be. While he has the opportunity to get a free hit with frenzy, the most difference you can get is being able to chain across multiple survivors and hold pressure. However, this is not nearly as viable when playing in higher ranks as survivors typically know to spread out (as would happen with old legion). Because of this, the killers ability holds very little value and makes a very minor difference in the game or with how he interacts with survivors.
To keep it short, legion has just about nothing interesting about him and he just stands off as one of the more boring killers to play currently. It reminds me of wraith, where his ability is there but it's fairly ineffective and doesn't change the game much. You have so many killers in the game with their own way of changing the game around them. Nearly every killer, if you will, but now we have new legion which seems to play at such a base level it's insane. Now while his ability can be useful, the only actual affect it has is injuring survivors, maybe multiple at once, but that's it. Getting injured happens in every game, to just have a killer that can inflict it easier is so dull in comparison to what we've been getting lately.
That's it though, would love to hear other thoughts on this. I do want to applaud the developers for trying to fix him, but in the end I think it just became another freddy situation, where now we have gutted killer and it just leaves him in a pretty poor place. I hope I don't come off as a whiner, since this is the first time I've actually spoken out about the game, and first time in a long while that I've genuinely disliked a feature, at least the intention of features.