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How to buff Clown(semi rework)
Since my time playing clown I notice what´s making him the worse killer in DBD, The lack of pressure. Good Killers have the ability to put pressure on survivors( examples: Hag,Spirit,Etc.) but Clown does not have the slightest inch of pressure to put on the survivors. The devs solely made Clown a chase killer by making his power shine only in chases.
So I Thought about it for awhile and came up with solution to make Clown a good killer.
So instead of Clown having just his bottles, He has Jack in the boxes that will let out a new toxic tonic, The Pustla Poison. Ever since the Hallow Blight event the clown has been experimenting with the pustla flower and has come up with a concoction that will weaken the survivor immune system and make them puke.
The Clown has 3 of these jack in the boxes and it takes 2 seconds to wind up the boxes and extra 2 seconds to place it down. It will take a total of 20 seconds for the Jack to pop out and release the tonic, But the Tonic mist will stay in the area for 65 seconds and will spread out to 15 meters . When a survivor comes in contact with Pustla Mist, They bend down start puking. Unlike the Plague, The survivors can not move while in puking animation( The puking animation will last 3.5 seconds) After this animation The survivor will become immune to the mist for 1.5 seconds, giving them time to get out of gas. If the survivor stays in the gas for a second time they puke for 6.5 seconds and will injured them. After the second time, the survivors will have a shorter time to get out of gas( 1 second). If the survivor is still in the area where mist is for a third time. They will be put in the dying state.
After the jack released the tonic and the mist is gone, The clown must refilled these Jacks. refilling the jacks take 4.5 seconds.
This will help the clown keep up pressure even if he across the map and will punish survivors who go into the mist carelessly.
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Interesting idea honestly. Also add for them to remove his completely unnecessary loud grunt when he vaults that removes any possibility of mind gaming some loops.
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Very interesting idea! I think it may be a bit too powerful though. Even with the 15m radius with this power he'll be able to completely cut off certain sections of the map. Regardless, it would be interesting to test something like this in a ptb, but I'd argue that he should only have 2 stations with some sort of cooldown.
P.S. On your point that his bottles are only great for chases - that's not true. They're also very good for tracking. You can toss them in areas where you think survivors might be in order to check if that's the case and potentially flush them out without actually having to walk all the way there and check every corner,
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I don't think its a good idea to remove control from the players for 3.5 seconds. If anything, 1-1.5 seconds would be enough.
On another note, if gen speeds get fixed, Clown won't need changed. It would certainly move Clown up a couple of tiers.
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Well I could move the time up to 2-2.5 seconds
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I think the idea is interesting. The part of the survivors not being able to move might be a bit problematic, maybe lower the time they can't move or halve the moving speed, for example. Anyway, it would give The Clown one more tool to use, so that's good.
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2 would be better. I (and most other players) hate not being able to control my character's movement for any longer than that.
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gen speeds are fine though?
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hard no
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Nope. Games that end in 3 minutes are not fine.
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If you don't want to defend generators, that's your problem. The balance of the game won't be shifted because you suck balls at the game.
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I say this as someone who plays 50/50. My SWF squad curb stomps most killers because they don't have enough time to hook one of us.
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great feedback
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Clown is a good and underrated killer, make him better and survivors will only complain until he is nerfed to be worse than he is now. Just leave Clown alone.
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