Clown is indeed getting a rework, but not as big as Freddy's.

It's just way, way too slow in my opinion. Whenever I play Clown, I feel like I have to have a reloading add-on, similar to Wraith and Windstorm. Again, I don't play Clown very often. Whatever his rework, I hope it makes him much better.

But I do play Wraith often. Justice for Bing Bong Boi.

That was already confirmed in the last 2 Q&A iirc.

i Hope he also gets chase music added and Coulrophobia gets a rework.

i don’t even remember the last time I went up against this perk and I never used it outside of Clown adept so I wouldn’t know

I'd like them to add a bit to his 1v1 ability. Passive bottle regeneration, remove the vault grunt, consume all bottles to move faster for a time. He needs to be different from Freddy/Doc.

But they also need to tweak him on the survivor end. Playing against Clown is pretty miserable because of the intoxicated effect on screen. That should go away.

I would definitely appreciate some tweaks that make Clown more interesting and fun to play, but it's definitely a tightrope walk in balancing him. A good Clown can end chases faster than you might expect. If the Clown you're up against knows what they're doing, unless you are perfect and run the strongest perks, you are going to lose the chase even if you never run into a single gas cloud (since by evading a well placed gas cloud that was tossed at a vault or pallet, Clown will still gain distance on you). Even though Clown in theory has no map pressure, him ending chases quickly means less time chasing (obviously) and more time patrolling generators.

Because of this, the devs have to be careful in whatever they are planning to change about Clown, since making him both strong in chases and good at map pressure may lead to a Freddy-like syndrome where he can feel very oppressive. I also hope they don't dumb down Clown's mechanics, since many players mistakenly believe that throwing bottles directly at survivors is the correct way to use his power, when usually it's better to throw them in front of survivors. I am curious to see what becomes of the rework, since I like seeing competent Clown players and would like Clown to shine more.

im in the top 150 for clown downs so I can give some of what he might think for rework

hold a bottle so that it leaks gas behind you and a small trail as you throw it at a cost of less aoe area

reload bottles on hooking a survivor (maybe an addon to replace reload movement speed addons and make the brown one a trajectory showing addon or something)

reload takes less time depending on how many bottles missing, (example 1 second + 1 second per bottle, 3 bottles would take 4 seconds instead of 5 currently)

remove the slowdown animation after reloading so the interaction only takes the duration of the bar and not longer, right now it lasts a second and a half after of putting the bottle down where you can't interact just remove the end of the current animation and replace it with that

make the cloud start decaying when it touches the ground not when it hits an object (if you hit a tree high up the cloud starts decaying right away so if it takes 3 seconds to fall its only there for 7 seconds instead of the full 10 of the cloud starting on the ground)

make an incentive to actually hit survivors with the bottle, more slowdown or longer slowdown time would be nice

this is all I have that he might think of, @TheClownIsKing do you give your approval

Playing clown mainly, I would agree with small changes such as the mentioned bottle to speed boost and or the remove the loud vault grunt. And definitely change up coulrophbia.

He has trouble running leave him alone. You would be exhausted too if you run after people.

If they simply make his bottles come back on their own and you can also make them reload faster with addons or actively realoading it would be good enough in my opinion. He is not that bad as a character as people make him to be, but of course he is not among first tier, not every killer will be, that is already set in their design. Better and more common addons also can make him more ballanced in this regard.

Clown is already too much as his gas allows one hit downs and has a wide area of effect. He doesn’t need anything 😂 they need to stop empowering killers

Place your bets on who's gig clown is going to steal. I'm thinking doctor's illusions, maybe his stun + teleport.

There's probably 50 better perks to choose from than Coulrophobia. If that build isn't a gimmick then why does nobody run the perk?

Hopefully they bring some parity between his base kit and his addons.

So, they basically confirmed that he's gonna become even worse than what already is.

I was expected the putrid serum to do something interesting but it's only just a speed.