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Freddy | Comparing him to another character from another game and buffing old freddy
Freddy, as we all know, was reworked a while back and recently nerfed, however several posts about old freddy have been popping up and it made me notice something, old freddy's power, to the community atleast, turned out similarly to LoL's Yuumi
For those who don't play LoL or are not aware of this cat, on release Yuumi had a low win rate and the community said that she was "the worst legend in the game" and was demanding buffs for this cat, however Yuumi's win rate is similar to another killer, Nurse's win rate, and win a pro-league member for LoL played with her, Yuumi was incredibly strong and even lead to the team winning (If I am correct), however, this wasn't taken into idea that Yuumi at the time dominated in a pro-league game, promptly resulting in Yuumi getting all of her stats buffed and well...lets just say in around one year Yuumi was banned a total of about 528 times in tournaments, Yuumi was later nerfed down to prevent her from dominating in ranked, tournament, and casual play
Now then back to DBD, Old Freddy was considered the worst killer in the game and even got nerfed several times and buffed (not even by BHVR's means btw, he was buffed due to a bug) before being reworked.
Now what if I said that Old Freddy could have stayed around if he got alot of buffs
Old Freddy had a few issues, lack of chase pressure, couldn't prevent gens being completed, certain perks nerfed him, and low map pressure
Some killers have high chase to compensate for map mobility, I.E deathslinger, huntress, Pyramid Head, etc
However, old freddy didn't need a massive rework to be considered strong, hell imo the rework made Freddy really boring to play as and frustrating to play against and the nerf probably made him even more boring to play
Buffs to old freddy
Freddy needed his nerfs reverted, as even though he was still weak that could have been a good start to making him a unique killer, instead of a better clown, trapper, and doctor + more
Overcharge skill checks could have been made to not wake survivors up (You should not be punished by using a perk)
During the sleep transition, skill checks will not appear and totem breaking would be 30% slower (This allows a sort of gen protection and totem protection as before freddy couldn't do anything to survivors healing or on totems, without making it RNG based, nor is it forcing freddy to use the old rope add-ons)
Reduction of Freddy's sleep phasing (Blinking in and out while the survivors are falling asleep) would allow Freddy to make better strategic movements to cut a survivor off, without the need of pill bottle
Now, make freddy slightly faster while sleeping survivors (104% M/S) so he can catch up to survivors who are put into the sleep transition
Conclusion
Man, I miss old Freddy, only if he got buffed instead of turning him into an annoying brat
Comments
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Freddy needs a rework.
Devs should just admit this version failed and it will remain boring and not very enjoyable regardless of how gutted and nerfed it is (just at some point it'll be also boring for the killer) and invest some time into actually reworking freddy.
Returning to old Freddy (especially old dream mechanics) and adding Alarm clocks on that would be a good base for a rework.
Devs have all assets needed for that.
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Yes, please, I just want to play as Old Freddy again! All he needed were some small buffs and QoL improvements! I really hope the devs take notice of all these Old Freddy threads.
#GiveUsBackOldFreddy
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As a long time Freddy main, I definitely agree. Although I don't dislike current Freddy, his old power was way more fun and a rework was unnecessary, not to mention extremely unfair to Old Freddy mains. All he needed were a few buffs and QoL improvements.
And now, we are doing our best to get our old killer back.
#GiveUsBackOldFreddy
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I agree. Freddy was really unique and actually interesting for both sides. Even if they don't change his base power, at least give us a brown addon or something that allows us to play as Old Freddy.
#GiveUsBackOldFreddy
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All I would do about old Freddy to make him great is make him incapacitate survivors that are falling asleep. Also, survivors falling asleep are exausted and can't get through the gate. This would easily put old Freddy into B to A tier, since he can't get ignored due to the 7 seconds fall asleep time.
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I don't really get your comparison to this Yuumi character. Based on your description, Yuumi was a strong character that was mistakenly buffed into being super OP. That certainly ain't the trajectory Freddy followed.
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Old Freddy was weak but unique. I was always hoping for buffs over a full rework. And while I was excited at first, new freddy soured for me very quickly.
He's just... so easy. You can easily win 90% of your matches without even trying. He has too much utility. I loved Old Freddy because he felt like a true test of my skills.
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Well, not to the majority for sure.
The way he's unfun for survivors has been discussed a lot so I don't think I need to elaborate.
As for killers, he is now going to be not only pretty boring as you don't have much field for improvement, but he's also going to be pretty weak because of his nerfs.
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+1 Yeah
#GiveUsBackOldFreddy
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