What’s with all the ALL-KILL hate?

The fact the announcement of this chapter got a lot of attraction with loads of lunatics excited like kids at Christmas...only for the killer to be a huge, ineffective disappointment:

I find that highly satisfying.

We can all agree the devs did a good job on the whole aesthetic of this chapter. BUT to say he's B-TIER or a GOOD killer is simply untrue. He does not down faster at long range then an average huntress or deathslinger. No. He doesn't. Not even close. 16 knives to down from full health mam. His POWER "The main event" is very underwhelming. It's a charge up activation ability that appears and disappears if not used within the short amount of time that it gives you to do so which is one of the many important things this 110% base movement speed killer needs to snowball and actually have some incentive to want to use his power. ALL 110% base movement speed killers have MASSIVE incentive to use there power. Because it's not the always the movement speed that's gonna make the difference between a 0k and a 4k for 110% killers it's how well they utilize there powers. Huntress two hatchet throws short cooldown down. deathslinger shoot hit cooldown reload shoot down. Hag strategically placed traps placed across or in a specific area of the map that she can INSTANTLY teleport to when within range. Spirit phase walk makes ALOT of loops extremely tricky and can turn even god pallets into a 50/50 if you're camping the pallet which is sometimes the best decision to make against a good spirit as well as traverse the map and make good ambush attacks on unsuspecting survivors. Like compare all those killers powers to the Tricksters power. He can't out mind game a survivor a couple times and get a quick down like any of these killers mentioned prior UNLESS he uses his basic attack AT 110% MOVEMENT SPEED. I've been playing dead by daylight on PS4 since the game came out on console and I assure you there is not a single 110 killer that's gonna win the match chasing me without there power. JUST me. Trickster needs MORE. First of all, He needs an on demand activation ability similar to Michael so he has potential to snowball if he catches multiple survivors outpositioned. His meter should build as he lands throwing knife attacks across the board for all survivors. His base movement should be 115 and his movement speed when he's throwing the knives should be increased as well in main event. He should do DOUBLE damage in main event. And if you want some spice in the mix allow him to vault in main event he IS the trickster after all he SHOULD have some decent tricks up his sleeve. It's literally like every. Single. Killer. He's similar to or the devs have taken ideas from to make the trickster he's just the bad version of every version of every killer he's related to. That's not being harsh or a hater. That's just the simple truth. The only thing he's really got going for him is the small terror radius. And the unsafe loops for projectile killers. Even some are more so unsafe with the trickster in particular. But that's not enough. I've played all day since the trickster was released and I steamrolled every last one of them no exaggeration. But back to my point prior.

Michael - on demand instadown activation ability plus interaction buff plus lunge buff.

Ghostface - on demand no terror radius after cooldown. Instadown ability. Can crouch for extra spice in mind games.

Huntress - 2 hatchets to down. Short cooldown after hatchet throws. Can throw as FAR as she wants WITH precision skillcap.

Deathslinger - rapid fake with ads. A gun that has to be juked PREDICTIVELY

Plague - potential for a "Broken" team/ instadown if survivor(s) don't cleanse and if they DO she has an extremely powerful projectile ability. Game slowdown with cleansing if it does occur.

All the trickster related killers listed above also have good if not great snowball potential.

But also, one has to ask themselves why would I want to play trickster over these killers. The only reason I can think of is the breath of fresh air from the killer being new. He looks aesthetically great imo. Projectile killer mains looking to try new projectile killers. Just an underwhelming hybrid of a killer. He's not better than any of the killers I listed up above overall. Every body with a reputable sense of game knowledge and experience in dbd is very outspoken about how underpowered this killer is (streamers and influencers in particular) throughout the entire ptb and before he was officially released all the videos for the most part on YouTube were from 3 weeks ago! When the trickster was first released on PTB and that says something. The smartest thing the devs can do with this killer is to get an odd number of fog whisperers/HIGH devotion players 15+ and get there opinions on how they can balance this killer better as well as implement some ideas that the majority vote on. Maybe take polls or something from the ENTIRE community like this could still be a great chapter. But if they just leave him as is you'll barely see him in my ranks. I admire all the bug fixes before this chapter was released but I think it's pretty apparent they were to busy focused on all that then actually taking the communities feedback because everyone said this killer performed bad from day 1 and the changes from original PTB to now with the trickster are very miniscule. Smh. Sorry for the rant.

What good perks does the new survivor have other than smash-hit which is semidecent?

Kpop was always going to be divisive. After 2 disappointing chapters, they had to try something a bit different and they fluffed it up.

The Chapters are ultimately a new Killer. Survivors are just reskins of each other with different perks. Additional maps also contribute to a chapter.

No map this chapter and the Killer has severe problems. You can like him, his aesthetic and playstyle (I like him too), but you can only lose and get bullied so many games before you just give up and play a Killer that actually has a thought out kit.

No one (reasonable) has a problem with the chapter itself, just its lack-luster new Killer (which is the Chapter itself).

Soul Guard is pretty great tbh.

Also Inner Strength. And For the People.

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Honestly sounds like a troll post.

But to that point, the only reason people are crying about All-Kill is because Trickster is pitifully underwhelming and people get so dramatic and theatrical over it. I'm quitting the game forever, he's a photo of me deleting, etc. etc. The new changes to Wraith and Blight are pretty good, the survivor definitely has some interesting perks (Smash hit has the distinction of being a 4 second sprint; really changes how we think about unsafe pallets, for both sides), and Trickster isn't boring to play. He really needs a buff, but patience is a virtue and we don't all play to sweat. It's just this community getting to its histrionics again.

There's probably a healthy dose of confirmation bias too. Everybody was so eager to just crap on this chapter because of thematic dissonance or whatever. Remember when the SAW chapter came out? We got the pig (Even a shameless pig main like me has to admit she's weak), Tapp (Who is neither hot nor has good perks), and the first iteration of The Game (no explanation needed).

Play the game and you'll find out. :)

We don't like how the new killer is terrible, and thats the problem. If you enjoy playing trickster, then thats fine, but he is far from good. He lacks map pressure, his power is that of a weak old legion and a downgraded huntress, and he has a 4.4m/s movement speed when its unnecessary. Loops also destroy him against a good survivor, even the short ones. One more thing, the new chapter doesn't have a new map and the lobby graphical update is minor at best, so I'd say that its not a good chapter. The only good things that came from this chapter is the blight fix and wraith speed boost, and even with wraith they nerfed his decloak speed.

He's slow and survivors heal automatically from his main power. Seems pretty obvious. Slow killers usually have a power that makes up for it, this one has a power that suffers because of your slowness. Compare him to all other slow killers.

The perks do seem great, but I don't like buying killers just for the perks, I actually like playing the killers. As it stands, I have to buy him and sink 40 levels of bloodpoints into him to use those awesome perks. Back when good killers were a thing, you could buy the new killer and immediately enjoy the new perks on the new killer.

Normally when I buy something, it's something I want that will be fun to have. "But you get lots of BP while losing" isn't the same.

And then they nerfed him again after PTB, can't have trick shots doing extra damage, that would feel like fun.

troll 

terrible gameplay with terrible design