Stop crying for Spirit buffs, give her time!

I’d totally be down for bloodhound granting the spirit the ability to track blood with the bonus. I think a perk slot is worth granting her that ability. I haven’t played against her or with her yet but she looks fun! Her power sounds like it’ll be one of my favorites simply for the mind-screwiness of the power.

A dev said in another thread that the Spirit is bugged. They didn't finish the changes they had for her so they just released her unfinished and will be fixing her in a month or two when the mid-chapter update comes around.

@ZombieGenesis said:
LOL Devs, "New killer is bugged. We won't tell you how but we'll get to it. Eventually. You know, in a month or two maybe. Till we decide these are just how the spirit works now."

They said the Survivors are not supposed to hear any of her sound cues while they're in a certain radius from the husk, and they couldn't finish the changes because the terror radius is "very complex".

@ZombieGenesis said:
Ah. Well at least it's not a really important bug they're ignoring for the next few months.

That's pretty huge, actually. It removes all of her mindgame potential when getting looped.

@Tsulan said:
Anyone else noticed that 24 hours after her release, killers barely play her?

Either let her see survivors while phasing or reduce the cooldown to 5 or 10 seconds. 
Both things just gimp her to much.

She's Freddy 2.0

I think it's probably more due to the fact that most people don't buy/can't afford DLC, but still, she could use a bit more love.

She was the same state as on PTB except worst, with a noise indicator when phase too

Spirit Walk needs a shorter cooldown. Not significantly so, and they could nerf her speed a little, but it would be better if she could phase more often for roughly the same benefit. I think they would narrow these swings in effectiveness she sees. Also, she should be able to vault while phasing and not lose any time on it.

@Tsulan said:
Anyone else noticed that 24 hours after her release, killers barely play her?

Either let her see survivors while phasing or reduce the cooldown to 5 or 10 seconds. 
Both things just gimp her to much.

She's Freddy 2.0

I've played against a fuckload of Spirits already. I don't know why you aren't seeing any.

Orion said:

@ZombieGenesis said:
LOL Devs, "New killer is bugged. We won't tell you how but we'll get to it. Eventually. You know, in a month or two maybe. Till we decide these are just how the spirit works now."

They said the Survivors are not supposed to hear any of her sound cues while they're in a certain radius from the husk, and they couldn't finish the changes because the terror radius is "very complex".

Had a few new ideas after playing as her more. I agree with allthe above that she needs a minor tweak, nto a major one. 10s cooldown would be a good one, but i think most import thing is remove survivors ability to hear her "whooshing" while invisible.

Heres the new ones. Giver her a limited object phase through in spirit world. Like wraith kinda. As I play if im following scatches or grass wiggles and someone goes through a window Im forced to immediately end haunt to learn location and navigate the window. So my idea is this:

When phased/haunting she should be able to speed climb through windows and over pallets, Id say even faster than survivors. In the case of someone just dropping a pallet they still have her 4 second charge time to GTFO, in the case of in a chase with a window jump: her speed and phasing isnt wasted because of a window, but again she has to choose to spend those 3-4 seconds charging immobile. So im talking about a very limited ability to almost walk through/ignore certain parts of the environment. THe caveat to this is that she should still be able to have pallets dropped on her while beginning and executing the haunt.

As it stands right now one of the most upsetting moments for me while playing her is when i start my phase and round a corner to see a window.

Playing some more with her and experimenting with addons and maps, I still stand by that she needs more frequent usage of power, and the duration or speed lowered to compensate. The wind-up on top of the long cooldown is hard to deal with, so she should have one or the other, or just be more frequent in general.

Edit: I've been broadcasting games for a couple hours today and yesterday, and it doesn't make sense that moves below average speed. I thought this was something they'd buffed from the PTB, or at least that's what I heard.

Furthermore, the hit recognition on her attack is bugged as all hell. Hitting people through pallets (audio response from survivors), but eating the stun after the hit has completed and not getting credit is bullshit. So is just hitting people and not getting them. Close range lunges whiff often, and I know her lunge range is shorter than other killers--something else that was supposedly changed for all other killers in this last patch. There's something seriously very wrong with her attack, though. Too many instances where you randomly hit objects or just don't get hit credit.

To add to this, a double edged bug she also has is that pallets do not consistently stun her. In fact, you have to be right underneath one to get a stun. This might seem good for lunging through pallets, but it completely breaks her own perk for needing to be stunned to auto-break them.

Anyway, I'm on the fence about her power change. It needs a buff in some way, but she also needs her attack fixed and to move at normal speed. Phase Walk is nowhere near as reliable as any other slow killer's power in any context. It makes you jump back to hooks or generator patrolling, but it's virtually useless in a chase once people figure you out. I've been using Stridor 3 a lot, but I've come to terms with this perk still being unusable and broken, and it will never be fixed. It seemed good on her at first, but the audio cues are near-random while you're phased, to the point where the sound will play right on top of you, but a survivor will be 10+ meters from your location.

Spirit needs the "no wooshing in terror radius" change they promised and apparently won't be delivering on until October or November, and she needs some aspects of her addons to be baseline. For example, she seems to barely get any speed boost if any at all when coming out of her phase walk, which makes it almost impossible to get a Grudge score event. I find her deviousness gains to be pretty poor as a result. Just a few small buffs along with the changes they said they'd be implementing, and say they'll be implementing in a few months, and she'd be a solid killer, though not a top tier one.

She doesn't need a speed buff. The whole point of her power is that she uses it to more than make up for her speed deficiency, just as the Huntress, Hag and Nurse do. The problem is that the Spirit's power doesn't actually make up for her weaknesses.

I really enjoy this killer but I have to agree. Her power should be able to use at anytime you have a charge or the cool down needs to be cut. Now that being said give it time! She is a high skill killer. She has the potential to be one of the strongest if you put time into her. It was the same with Clown. A strong killer but because survivors found a few ways to counter him, every killer should have counter play, and killers weren't owning 4 man SWF every game he was called weak. Still is by many and I see the same happening to the Spirit if people
just give up after 1-2 days. It might take weeks even months to get good with her but the potential IS there. Imagine if Billy was the standard and Nurse came out today. How many would try her for one day, say she sucked, and never touch her again?

Everyone's tier is different. There is no official one. Hell console players could argue that nurse is mid tier at best considering how much more difficult she is on console.