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The new killer is a nerfed huntress
So I've been playing with him for a bit now, and can't help but notice there isn't a single plus on choosing the trickster over huntress.
Same movement speed, ranged attacks, reload in lockers, etc. Are a few of the shared features they have. However, the huntress have a few upsides over him:
- Better ranged attacks
Hitting a long distance hatchet with the huntress is great because 1) you show them who's the boss and 2) you injure them for one health state. With the trickster, however, if you manage to hit a long-distance blade you still need a few more to down them, making his long-distance control non-existant.
- Faster downings
In my games, it is WAY more easier to hit one hatchet than eight blades. To down someone with the trickster you have to land eight blades which, considering his accuracy and recoil, is harder than just landing a single hatchet.
- More control
The aiming action alone is enough to make survivors panic and change their route, good huntresses will aim to move survivors to empty spots on the map. With the trickster, blades don't feel threatening at all.
Ok, I get that he has way more blades than huntress has hatchets, but I still feel like it's not good enough of an upside to choose him over her. I would consider it if he were a 115% killer, but right now he just feels like a weaker huntress.
And of course, the trickster is just a newborn yet, so the things I wrote could be way off. Feel free to correct me.
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I would have liked to see his knives apply different types of poisons (add-on dependent) so although needing to land more hits having that poison stack / tick over time would maybe make him feel more threatening and offer a different type of game play that involved poison / status effects and managing stacks on survivors.
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You're absolutely right.
If his ranged was a bit stronger (5 hits to injure instead of 8 maybe), then his "quantity over quality" method might be a better trade off. I wouldn't mind his movement speed being 110% if his ranged actually presented a viable threat to Survivors, but they don't. Can you TECHNICALLY get 8 consecutive hits quickly? Well, yes, if you go by his attack speed. However, against a moving target that is actively avoiding you and breaking LoS, that starts to become a much taller order.
If his Lacerate actually stacked and wasn't completely wiped out by an M1, then maybe the 8 hits wouldn't be such a big deal: Chase someone a bit and knife them up from a distance, squeeze in an M1 hit, and finish them off with the one or two remaining ranged hits needed to down them. Sadly, that is not how it works. Trickster is like a reverse Plague, where his damaging affect is lost over time rather than gained. This makes his power basically useless in any long-term strat for him: He either gets immediate value or none at all. This also makes misses less forgiving, as each miss is a chance for the Lacerate meter to start going down, making all the work he put in useless. Unless he M1s, which also makes the work useless. Or he switches target, which makes the work useless. Or someone body-blocks, which makes the work useless. The list goes on...
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From how I see it, he feels like a better Huntress, mainly because he can deal with pretty much any loop in the game, doesn't get slowed while holding a knife up, and can sneak up on survivors. Al though I would still give it some time, its only been a few hours since his release
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He's a noob Huntress. He's actually much more relaxing to play than Huntress. The way Legion became the de-facto killer for newbies who wanted to deal damage but didn't like the constant looping I can see this guy being the go-to killer for new players that want a ranged killer without the difficulty of Huntress. It makes sense why he's described as an "easy" killer in the lobby.
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