How about deathslinger buff ?
As everyone knows, the deathslinger is pretty weak.
How about adding gun charges ? Like a leatherface chainsaw. And in return, increase the recharge from 2.75 seconds to 5. That is it takes 15 seconds to recharge all 3 charges.
As in the case of the bubba chainsaw, you can shoot with any number of charges, without for all 3 rounds to reload. This change makes him stronger and will reduce his miss penalty.
I am waiting for comments from deathslinger mains and whining survivors ;)
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I don’t find him weak in the slightest. I also love the way his current power works and I don’t want him turned into a Bubba hybrid.
What makes you say he’s weak? Do you struggle to land shots or something?
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Deathslinger is an odd one. He has the best chase in the game, other than Nurse and maybe like a god-tier huntress. A good Deathslinger will down you sooner rather than later. His chase doesn't need any buffs, his power is supposed to be rewarding or punishing depending on whether you land a shot or not.
He's only weak in his ability to traverse the map, which is the worst in the game imo. Huntress without the ability to down from across the map. That's more or less his trade-off; Straight up debilitating chase, but little to no map pressure.
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How about no. 😅 He's strong. Just lacks gen pressure like most killers. He cuts off loops, great at quick long distance takedowns. Has great terror radius play. He can shoot you through the smallest of gaps, through railings.
I play red survivor and most killers I face are amazing Deathslingers that know their stuff. So no, I dont believe he is weak in the slightest.
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Of course, it's difficult to shoot, but recently I started playing it and you feel that it is weaker than the same bubba or my favorite blight and Oni.
The question is why is it needed then? If I can choose a stronger killer. My idea is to bring all killers to roughly the same strength.
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It is somewhat weak only because of the ability of not being able to reach the other half of the map quickly, it is somewhat weak that the harpoon does not reach more than 16 meters, but personally, Deathslinger is somewhat weak, but his perks are ultra weak and useless almost for nothing.
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Deathslinger is a specialist character. He demolishes chases at the cost of bad gen pressure. The devs designed him this way and he’s actually in a good spot power wise he’s just boring to fight
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harpoon range 18 meters.
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I think he's actually pretty good.
I've been practicing him for a bit now and I'm getting really good, I think lol.
He sucks at traversing the map, but his chase is only surpassed by Nurse.
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I find Deathslinger 10x stronger than Oni, Blight or Bubba. But that’s because I’m really good with my aim. Sometimes it’s not a case of a killer being stronger than another, it’s about your skill level when it comes to that killer. I see a lot of people say that Spirit is one of the strongest but I personally hate playing as her. I just don’t like her gameplay. Whereas I feel strong and confident in my abilities when I play as somebody like Deathslinger or Myers.
His only downside is how slow he is, but if he was made any faster he’d be OP as hell.
I’m used to being a sniper when I play my FPS games, so quick scoping is something that comes natural to me. In the right hands, Deathslinger is a machine.
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Slinger is like quite good.
I really wouldn't mind a brown add on or 2 built into him, and then his add ons getting nerfed
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His addons need a complete overhaul. He is especially weak against SWF that simply block the reeling. So, that needs also a fix.
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As one of the top leaderboards slinger players (https://dbd.onteh.net.au/playerstats/76561198055397106), I can safely say he doesn't need any buffs, he's already really strong killer.
If any changes should be done, it should be both, buffs paired with nerfs. For example, adding M2 release delay (to lessen the issue with M2 spamming) while giving him small number buffs to compensate.
I personally don't think he needs any changes at all.
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I don't think Deathslinger is weak at all, so I don't think he needs a buff.
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as a Deathslingermain i really dont think he needs any changes.
he is in a good spot right now.
any buffs or nerfs to him could easily break him and either make him too powerful or too weak.
We can talk about changing his Add Ons, the Iridescent Coin in particular (seriously, f*** that add on), but i really think his basekit is fine the way it is right now.
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Maybe this is not my killer, but still, it seems to me that he is random when the survivor starts to dodge because the speed of the harpoon is 40 m/s (like a fullcharge huntress hatchet), At least I would make the speed of the harpoon more so that it would instantly reach the target (hitscan mechanics)
Also a big miss penalty because of which survivor can keep a sick distance.
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If in return you give him an actual terror radius then sure
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Could you send a video of how you play or some other strong player playing on deathslinger ? Maybe I'm not playing it right.
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what are u talking about. all kilers are strong and all survivors are weak
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You can check out leaderboards if any of the deathslingers with high numbers are streaming. Just go to the https://dbd.onteh.net.au/ and change the option in top right of "perfect games" to "survivors downed while Speared".
I don't really watch any slinger players but if should recommend someone it would be either zubatLEL or DreanaJane both on twitch who play slinger really well. Although I don't know how often do they actually play slinger currently.
As for me, I have a YT channel so it you're interested in how I play slinger, this would be the place.
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Starting your topic with "as everyone knows" doesn't make it true. Deathslinger isn't weak, if anything he should be reworked to make his power less annoying and lose-lose for survivors(by reducing the zoning potential).
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