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Is it possible to have fun against deathslinger?
Every time I go up against a killer I never have any fun what so ever no matter how good or bad I played. Even if I escaped I didn't enjoy myself, it just feels like I'm always running (I run spine chill so I know when he's coming) and just hiding and gen rushing.
Then if he chases me I go down so quickly cause of his range, free zoning, and making it to where my choices don't matter and that isn't fun.
I either go down quickly or just be immersed and gen rush and neither one is fun at all
Is there a way to enjoy going up against a deathslinger?
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If you like stealth? Yes. If the Slinger isn't very good? Yes. Otherwise? Not so much, not unless you went into the trial in a meme headspace.
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Yes, two ways for me.
1) Just don't get seen (4head). Stealth is funny to me so I can and will be hiding in a bush all game as soon as I hear the shot.
2) Head on. Nuff said.
If the slinger has some form of common sense, however, and knows how to press m2 into m1, then no it's actually incredibly rare for it to be a fun match.
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I love facing slinger as doing my best to make him miss with different ways to predict his thinking is one of the most fun things in DBD for me.
It's just about different taste in killers you face, if you hate facing him you'll keep on hate facing him. I for example can't stand or have almost any fun from chases when facing trapper and hag. I despise both but I play out my games against them and sometimes they are a few bright moments among all the despair I get from facing them.
Argument that you can't do anything vs him is so dumb, you can't beat any killer if they use their power 100% correctly without making any wrong prediction or mindgame. Bad killers plague DBD so finding godly slinger is as rare as finding godly nurse who is far more uncounterable then slinger is.
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No. Deathslinger is easily one of the most boring killers to play against, sitting next to Freddy and Spirit.
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You just can't hold W against him like you can pretty much every other killer. You have to think about your position and you have to keep an eye on him and you have to juke randomly. You cant throw a pallet and then beeline to the next tile like you can with other killers. Deathslinger promotes dynamic play, and the majority of survivors prefer static play, like going to a tile, looping it efficiently, throwing down the pallet, forcing the killer to kick the pallet, then beelining to the next tile.
Your choices do matter, the problem is you are making predictable choices. It is almost impossible to hit a survivor that truly randomizes their jukes. The deathslinger players that are very accurate are as rare as good nurse players.
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This. It makes me laugh when people talk about how unfun Deathslinger is. Personally I find him way more entertaining that the usual run around a wall 30 times and smack them with a pallet. Deathslinger makes me need to plan ahead more than a normal M1 killer. If I head that way, does he have a clear shot at me? If I vault here, can I manage to make distance without him spearing me back to him? There's so many tactics you can use against him, and it's far more fun than just mindless running and holding onto a gen.
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Deathslinger is great against Players who use Chase to deal with the Killer.
This just happens to be mainstream Survivors favourite strategy.
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He's also one of my favorite ones to go against, idk why people don't like him...
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I play both survivor and killer (50-50)
I main nurse and deathslinger (cuz those 2 killers aren't stopped by pallets that much
and In fact when I play survivor, I love playing against the Deathslinger because I have to change the way I play... Especially with pallets because he can just shoot when I throw them.
Having fun against Deathslinger is possible, the hit box of the spear is quite small, you just need to brain by running to the left or to the right...
In my point of view he's fun to play as and against
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I like going against him. I like trying to dodge his gun, its like a mini-game
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No. There is no fun with spamslinger.
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@Wesker09 What do you mean with "fun"? Can you specify that?
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Guess cuz u can't loopy
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I actually enjoy playing against Slinger, I feel that his counterplay comes from positioning rather than mindlessly holding Shift + W and playing Ring Around The Rosie with a pallet!
People that say this
Are the type of survivors that got so use to mindlessly looping, they refuse to use their brain against killers that makes them play differently!
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I feel that survivor players like us are rare due to the fact that we enjoy the challenge of killers that make us play differently and consider our options and or make us use our brain!
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Please tell me how you spam with him considering the reload time, slowdown during reload,maximum length to shot, missed shot cool down or if you hit, reel time and weapon wipe.
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Hmm,it can be fun to play against a normal deathslinger,but it gets really frustrating if the deathslinger is decent.
Playing against him on maps with a lot of low wall loops like autohaven or macmillan is a nightmare.
I rather play against killers that have equal chances on loops like blight,huntress or demo
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Not if the player knows what they are doing.
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no clue, I prefer slinger both to play as and to verse but theyre both enjoyable to me
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i think it was scott or someone who said it was mathematically impossible to dodge as he can insta ADS and fire
so no, not exactly my idea of "fun"
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I prefer a slinger to a Huntress any day.
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Not every killer legion ahem
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The answer is yes. he is a fun killer, that has plenty of counter. The fact about 7 people on these forums lose their ######### over the Deathslinger is hilarious. There are so many more challenging/difficult killers to face. The Gunsligher is not one of them, nor is he hard to deal with.
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I get about as much ######### as deathslinger as I do on hag. I can understand it to a degree, but some people will go full danny g in my xbox messages because I picked a strong chase killer.
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Yes. Just stay out of line of sight and juke the shots. It's super satisfying to have a good chase against Deathslinger.
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if the deathslinger its decently good . probably every chase is gonna end in less than a minute...so yeah
other option is DROP every pallet(probably the most boring but eficient way if teammates are doing gens)
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Nope. Especially when Deathslingers spam their ADS to gain ground on you. It's just no fun to play against them
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You can have fun by quite simply deciding to. Its hard to explain but if you want to have fun, you will. You just have to have that mind set. Get into character, you know? try wacky things when normal tactics arn't working.
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Depends on ic hes quickscoping
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no
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Because the way you play against a Deathslinger is stealth, and it's a playstyle not many people enjoy. Not really hard to understand why people hate him.
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Same way you hide from Ghostface: Be extremely paranoid. And also look behind you a bunch.
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Look at all these fake comments. I swear if there was a red box in front of them they’ll try and argue it’s blue....
Deathslinger is miserable to go against. There’s very little counterplay especially at windows/ four lane gyms, T and Ls and unsafe/fair pallets..
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There is no looping against Deathslinger. All there is to a chase with him is hoping he misses his shot, because there is no dodging him. It's just him missing.
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There is no Deatgslinger counterplay. You can't mindgame a Slinger. If he misses, he misses. You didn't do anything, he just missed. And your accusation is false, as Nurse, the only killer in the game that can't be looped, is easily one of the most fun killers to verse if the player has good ping.
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I think that you are trying to say is that you can only hold w and waste as much of his time ad it takes for him to catch up. How do you loop a tile efficiently against a deathsligner? Hope they are bad so you'll have an easy time?
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How you do change the way you play so you can survive against him? if a deathsligner has half a brain they will shoot you before you even get behind a pallet, and even then if you pull it is shot if u don't you'll either get m1d or they'll shoot you around the side or wherever you try to run.
And if you move to the right or left like u said, he'll just smack you with his m1 or walk up to you. How is that fun? Hoping he misses?
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Ur also sounding like the type of survivor who would just run as far as possible and hold w, because if ur not looping what are you doing?
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Ur basically saying u want the game on easy mode where there's nothing you can do as survivor but rush gens, which sucks for BOTH sides.
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Because deathsligner has an instant aim time and instant ads, meaning as survivor you can't physically react to the shot no matter how good you are.
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Remember guys, users here claimed it was also fun to "guess" when Spirit was using prayer beads.
Unlike Pyramid Head, nerfing his abitly only banalced things whereas nerfing Deathslinger's instant shot will render him unplayable.
It's %100 unfair, but nerfing it isn't the answer and a complete rework is what's needed.
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I find going against Deathslinger quite fun. When you know when the Deathslinger has to go for shots it's quite fun to make him miss. You feel like your in the other player's head. It's a change of pace from the usual, run around a thing on autopilot then drop pallet you get against other killers without antiloop.
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They're either talking about double reload add-ons or when a Deathslinger constantly uses ADS in order to gain distance on the survivor. Unlike Huntress, Deathslinger's gun has no wind-up time to shoot or slow down when he puts it down again, his harpoon also shoots fast enough that not even a person with amazing reaction time could react to it. Because of this, the survivor just has to guess whether or not the Deathslinger is actually going to shoot, a lot of Deathslinger players realise this and force them into a lose/lose situation: try to dodge the bullet and take an M1 instead or call the Deathslinger's bluff and get shot anyway.
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I picked up Huntress way quicker than Slinger, and from what I've heard from actual Huntress mains Slinger has a much higher skill ceiling.
Not that I disagree with the rest, and I do think his skill cap is extremely low against many teams that just fall for zoning/run in a straight line. Lower than most killers.
Edit: floor, not cap. Too many trick shots, holes and timing issues to ever call his cap "low" even against bad teams. Slinger's one of those few killers that can always do better, much to the detriment of survivors everywhere.
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I'm not a stealthy player though, I just find chases against him fun
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fun is subjective.
if all you enjoy is running the killer around all game then no, you wont like him.
if you can enjoy the small things (like correctly predicting a shot and dodging it or succesfully avoiding contact with the killer) then yeah, you can have lots of fun.
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I also have fun vs Spirit because she can't be looped, but everybody hates her because they are so use to having information so that they can mindlessly counter the killer, but me being a Spirit main my counterplay against her comes from knowing how she thinks and trying not to fall be predictable!
"There is no Deathslinger counterplay. You can't mindgame a Slinger. If he misses, he misses." Have you ever thought about the fact that some killer's just aren't meant to be 1v1'd? The best thing you can do is just hope that he makes a mistake. just like how 90% of the killer roaster has to rely on survivor's making a mistake to win the chase. As I said, Caleb's counterplay mostly depends on positioning and LoS blocking. IF your out in the open your f'd, if your at a jungle gym than there is a high chance that you'll be able to keep him occupied long enough for your team to get a gen done!
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Gens! That's what I'm doing since these so called 'problematic killers' are the ones that I actually like facing because I can't just hold shift + W and press space to throw a pallet like 90% of the killer. I would rather deal with a killer that makes me actually use my brain rather than mindlessly looping
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If you are entitled that much, just stop playing...
YOU are the guy who want an easy game lol.
Get Good
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You loop a tile by either putting a wall between you and the deathslinger, or putting enough space between you two that when he hooks you, he cannot come around and hit you. If you force him to kick a pallet, you will gain enough distance to reliably dodge and juke his power. If you allow him to zone you in this situation, it is from poor choices on your end, not because he's strong.
Facing deathslinger requires dynamic play, not the mindless pathing that you take against pretty much every other killer.
If you don't like generators being the primary objective of survivors, then you shouldn't be playing survivor to begin with.
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