Why BHVR are going to nerf Hillbilly?

Okay thanks, good to know!

frankly in case of Bubba a rework is more than welcome.. Hillbilly on the other hand.. well I would say let’s see before we get our pitchforks. But don’t let us forget where those are.

There is no way they'll nerf Hillbilly, he's propably the best killer they have when it comes to balance

-strong but fair with weaknesses to exploit

-fun to use and fun to go against

-has a high enough skill ceiling to really allow great players to thrive with him.

Nerfing hillbilly would be like saying outright: "we don't want strong killers anymore, all we want are Mid tier killers with cooldowns and hinderances in their power" and there is no way they want their game to become this stale, one dimensional bs.

I know very well what kind of response I'll get for saying this, but that is indeed my belief (Because after 4 years, playing straight from the release, I still have no idea what they're thinking). If they do endup nerfing him then atleast I'll be sure what kind of developer BHVR is once and for all.

Unpopular opinion: I think the ability to feather the Hillbilly's chainsaw and walk around with it should be removed. 😘

You mean they all require something more than just looping ? The game needs killers that change things up though, atlest imo

Well, yes. And I think that 99% of Doctor complaints are unjustified.

Main thing was that they all end chases super quickly or ignore an important survivor defense. Nurse ignores the map, Spirit ignores visual clues, Hillbilly ignores having two health states, Doctor cancels vaults/pallet drops and Freddy is Freddy.

Turning is a lot easier apparently. Especially since it's just moving the camera.

Spirit is easier mechanically, but I also find it hard going back to her since she's a 110, and majority of the killers I normally play are 115's. I legit just play it straight and throw off so many people.

Deep wound chainsaw hopefully. Thank god this op killer getting the nerf he so rightfully deserves

Maybe then they'll finally gut bs strong Cannibal too

Insta-chainsaw needs to go tbh other then that I find Billy's pretty fun to face

Imagine making an unoriginal and unhelpful comment in order to try and silence someone who's actually made points about their opinion on a topic before.

I haven't heard about any nerf but I do remember on one of the streams were discussing mobility and not wanting The Killer to have so much (iirc it was The Spirit and why she couldn't Phase the entire map) and that The Hillbilly does have a lot of mobility. No hints or any thing about a nerf but maybe if a nerf was incoming, that's what it would involve.

I don't necessarily think Billy baseline is that bad, but he seems overwhelming to me when he gets his best offerings for cheap and gets to run them like every game. I think it's kinda fun going against Billy sometimes because I agree, his power feels engaging to go against, but when pretty much every Billy I run go up against just does the same thing where he just gets right behind me, back revs, and ends up downing me no matter how hard I turn (thanks dedicated servers) or even if I go around a corner. Not even talking about him curving the corner, I'm talking about turning a corner when he's running up to the wall and still getting hit from around it. They almost never M1 either, it just feels like practically every time (and usually is when I check) an instasaw Billy doing, as I said, nothing but backrevs and running chase perks like Enduring and Spirit Fury.

I can play fine against a Billy, it just feels like he doesn't really have any punishment for using his power (besides the little cooldown at the end, which is also usually reduced by addons like tuning guide). Not saying that every chainsaw needs to have him take a big cooldown or whatever like Legion at the end of his power, but what I mean is even if he misses, he doesn't even really lose distance on you other than just enough to get a little farther around a loop (because who's honestly going to try to outrun a Billy) and even out of a chase it's still useful because he can always go really far really fast, meaning he can exert tons of pressure over not only gens but hooks, allowing him to tunnel pretty effectively. That's a big thing too, because I see people complaining about Pyramid Head and his tunneling recently, so people obviously have a problem with killers tunneling. I know it's not exactly the same thing, but Pyramid head, although he can cancel certain perks, can't just zoom right over to a hook like Billy can (on most maps.)

Once again, I can play just fine against him usually, so don't take this as me hating on him just because I can't handle him. I just think he's like Freddy where he's super versatile and has a ton of upsides, without having a lot of drawbacks or skill required to play them. Not even saying that Billy is on the same skill level as Freddy, but I don't exactly think billy is the hardest of characters. I don't exactly think Freddy is "OP" either, but definitely quiiiite the strong character for taking not a lot of skill. Makes it pretty boring to play against them, that's exactly why I hated Nurse before. Any joe schmoe could pick her up and use her disgusting addons and just dominate, regardless of if they actually were good or not. That makes for a boring game, in my opinion.

Not everybody has to agree, but that's just the kind of thing I find boring. Strong or not, just doesn't feel good to play such a much more punishing game when my opponent is going EZ mode.