Simple thing to fix Iridescent Huntress

Maybe, but should we really care about what people that can't recognise a good play from the other side think?

I've heard "boring" SO many times... I remember finishing up a match as Legion in under 10 minutes with a 4k 5 gens remaining. One of the survivors who just happened to be a streamer was talking about how the match was boring because I used slowdown perks instead of using an "interesting" build. I mentioned that the game wasnt long at all, but that didnt matter...the fact that I had that build was the important part. I was left asking them how I could possibly make the build more "interesting". Typically killer perks fall under 3 catagories: Slowdown, tracking and chase. I had no problem finding survivors to initiate chases with, so I didnt really need to use more perks for tracking...and I was having no problem downing survivors in a timely fashion, so I didnt really need more chase perks either. She just said I should use BBQ or something rather than what I DID have on...because somehow that would be more "interesting" and less "boring".

But yeah... feels like "boring" just gets tied to ANY killer you play. I've heard it while playing Bubba and 4ks with only 1 gen done. A survivor said I should use a killer that takes skill. I've heard it as Spirit, in which a survivor pipped up that I have ears. I've heard it ALOT as Deathslinger. Apparently a survivor having the constantly paranoia about being shot at any moment during a chase translates to "boring". I think thats just a word people are plugging in when they dont wanna claim something is unfair.

But NO killer is a "real" killer for these people. EVERY killer is easy mode with their OP broken mechanics... I know I've seen plenty of rants on these forums lately of "Doctor is a no skill killer"...

I remember plenty of ppl getting pissed off about DC punishments, not because of the game disconnecting them and then punishing them for it... but because they felt they should be able to DC against killers they felt was BS or unfun without a penalty and that if the devs want to do something about DCes, they should instead take out all those unfun things. Thing is...EVERYONE has at least 1 killer they dont like going against. Every killer in the roster is hated by at least 1 person for whatever reason. Youd leave the floodgates open to DCes on EVERY match.

I think people just don't want to admit they aren't as good as they think they are as a Survivor.

Now that the balance is more... Well... Balanced compared to how it was in 2017-2018, these players are seeing their advantages taken away from them and they think Killers get to play with "No-Skill" when that is far from the truth.

Yep, which is why whenever I screw up, I always tell myself I screwed up and how I screwed up. It's always good to be self-reflective especially if you're playing a game like this competitively, it can help you patch up your mistakes on future games.

It does get frustrating when one different move could've completely changed the course of the game though. Like that one time I forgot to use Pig's RBTs to stall the game. Could've gotten myself at least a 3k with the kind of Survivors I was facing.

Wouldnt know anything about that since I never got into playing Nurse to begin with. I just picked whoever I wanted to and proceeded to screw over teams using Bubba and Myers while reading about how thats impossible to do. Theres always the stories of the boogyman SWF squads and if I faced THEM id surely lose. If I won a match, it mustve been a squad who was just joking around whereas if I lost that match...THAT was the boogyman squad.

I can only speak from personal experience as a killer player. I play survivor MAYBE 5% of the time and tend to stick to the lower tier killers. Typically theres very few times when I ever feel like its IMPOSSIBLE for me to do well. Unless I'm running a very specific build like scratched mirror and get a map that is horrendous for it, like Ormond (been there...it was bad) I very rarely ever feel like its impossible to win. Not saying it NEVER happens...even I have rough games, but thats typically because whatever squad I'm facing is correctly countering me rather than any sort of imbalance.

ATM, i can grab Bubba for my rank 1 games and get way over a 50% kill rate. Typically survivors dont even get the gates open 80% of the time. I'm interested in seeing what they do with matchmaking and if I see a raise in difficulty with it. Some people dont need to be at rank 1, and I feel like alot of the frustration around "unbalanced gameplay" stems from players being over their heads. To use your own example, you said you went against killers who were your lvl with abunch of newbie teammates. Do you really believe every player whos killer at your lvl is truely the same skill lvl? I'm hoping the matchmaking change will sort that out. Careful with assuming every Bubba is gonna be an easy game...it could be me, lol.

Then explain away MY experiences. Explain away MY 4ks. Are you implying that the amount of people who are super lax is the reason why my killrate probably sitting at around over 80%? I dont slug for the 4k, so the last survivor gets away sometimes... but even with Legion I do just fine for myself. You dont think it could possibly be that the matchmaking in the game is too lax in that experienced players are put against inexperienced players who somehow got their rank 1 status after playing the game for a month?

I always have a hard time buying into that its IMPOSSIBLE for someone else when I do it everyday.

I'm not talking about the rank 20 vs rank 1 games, although yeah...thats a thing, lol. Hitting high ranks is too easy alot of the time and the ranking system as a whole doesnt make a whole lot of sense. I can play Legion and not kill anyone...and pip. I can then hop on Billy and slaughter a team in record time and not pip. Somehow a team doing all 5 gens and leaving leaves me with a better score than a 4k with 5 gens remaining.

What im talking about though is how alot of people with varying lvls of skill are under the red rank umbrella. You have people who hit red ranks after playing for a month get frusterated and assume the other side is OP or its only possible to win if they use this and that. It would be like if Overwatch lumped every player from Platnum to top 500 together and called it red ranks. You'd have your platnum "red ranks" thinking the game must be imbalanced because they arnt doing as well as the top 500 "red ranks" theyre facing without ever seeing the difference. Its not a gameplay balance issue, its the fact that people of SUCH a huge difference in skill are being deemed the same rank.

If the game was strait up stacked against killers making it impossible to do well if played right...surely that would prevent ANYONE from achieving high streaks as "unviable" killers. Fungoose did a streak of 116 4ks in a row as Plague without addons. The guy is REALLY good I'll admit... but if the game was balanced against him to the point that its impossible when ppl put any effort into it...surely he'd have lost BEFORE the 116 mark.

Iridescent Head eh?

My favorite change I've heard for this add-on was that it should only one-shot survivors when it successfully hits them from a long distance away (I think the person had suggested around 20-24m or further).

Rewards skilled players and extremely lucky hail-mary shots, but doesn't offer anything to the jerks who go shotgunning with them. It's the only nerf that I feel this add-on really needs (and could possibly even justify a removal of its major hatchet-count penalty).

Deathslinger has a very similar UR add-on with some additional constraints, one of which being that the survivor has to be speared from at least 15m away, that seem to make it pretty balanced (maybe even a bit underwhelming in his case).

Agree about the Myers thing.

The only BS combo IMHO is J Myers Memorial (Or Judith's Journal + Nemesis to easily swap obsession) + Tombstone Piece since there's no movement speed penalty and he can hit EW3 pretty quickly. He can only kill once per EW3 but it's unfun as heck for the first guy who gets tombstoned.

Judith's Tombstone + Tuft Of Hair is a novelty build and has no real competitive value besides the achievement. You're slow as heck without PYWF, you need to drain 3 and a half survivors completely which takes ages. By the time you hit EW3 the game is over usually unless you 3-gen or something. The lack of pressure is even more of a problem with the reworked Ruin and Dying Light. (OG Dying Light was a good choice with a Tombstone build because you could mori the obsession and instantly give a 25% penalty on everyone else) Survivors can hide in lockers to avoid being tombstoned.

Anyone who complains about Judith's Tombstone + Tuft Of Hair Myers is strongly encouraged to try running that combo for a few matches. There's a lot of stuff in games that seem BS until you actually try using them, then you realize it's strong or frustrating to play against only under certain circumstances or you slipped up.

Real Time Strategy games tend to teach you this lesson. Certain units used against you feel unstoppable or brokenly OP but once you actually use them yourself it's a niche unit that has counters.