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Freddy Nerf
Now that he got a nerf people can stop complaining :)
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No Freddy mains will be the one complaining because this change kills him.
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i am a Freddy main and i'm not complaining, I think the nerf will help the game get better.
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Well, this change doesn't exactly kills him, but it is not perfect either. If I may share my opinion on the matter:
-Reduced movement speed while placing snares is a good change. It actually brings him somewhat closer to killers such as Trapper and Hag.
-Reduced the maximum number of pallets and snares is a weird change, to be honest. I can see it working for Snares, since it prevents you from literally spamming them during a chase (something that you should never do). But pallets are not that strong, and they do not give you any advantages until the very last second when a survivor drops it. Reducing the number of pallets is overkill.
-Alarm clocks tweaks are pointless, in my opinion. I mean, you don't have time to actually protect them, and it is very possible that you will take longer than 30 seconds to find a survivor that just woke up.
-Add-on changes are extremely bad. Black Box is now a joke, and why on Earth, or Entity's realm, would you use an add-on that makes actions louder? If you want to counter Iron Will, there is Stridor and a generator being repaired is a loud action by itself.
-No option to play as Old Freddy = sadness
I will make sure to test everything tomorrow. But for now, my friend, this is what I think. Do you agree with me?
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This nerf sucks. It didn't fix what was wrong with Freddy (Being Not That Skillful To Play)
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it kills him? it barely makes a dent. i never used the stuff they changed anyways because games were ending to fast. Now i 4k in 5 to 6 mins? What a joke!!!!
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You may be right. Maybe saying they killed him was an overreaction on my part, but I still hate how they just straight nerfed him with no compensation.
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Like the Spirit vault animation and Prayer Beads killed her, right?.
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Or maybe I am wrong and the nerf actually killed him. We will have to wait until tomorrow, but I agree with you on that one. A straight up nerf, which was unnecessary in the first place, is really weird.
And now I am even more desperate for an option to play as Old Freddy again because, whether this nerf kills him or not, I really don't want to get stuck with a watered down version of his new power.
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This nerf will kill Freddy sadly. He is C tier now, i can see. Let see:
Freddy already had one weaknes, he cant teleport after last gen. So him real power was snares/pallets. But they reducet numbers. Maybe understandable.
But why he will lose speed when he use snares/pallets? Hag can teleport to traps. Trapper's traps make survivor stop. So this two killer can lose speed and time when use them. Because they both have better traps than Freddy's snares. But snares are not strong like that.
And another point, Hag & Trapper putting traps before start chase. Freddy uses snares in chase, so you will have 2 options: Dont use your power or lose movement speed. Who thought this is really good idea? And when survivors see Freddy using snare, they will just leave this loop.
Add-ons also funny. Freddy does not need loud add-on. That would work on Spirit but who thought it will be good for Freddy gameplay? Is it something joke?
Alarm clocks not bad but 30 seconds will not worth it to run end of map. So when i play as survivor possibly i will stay on my gen. Because again, 30 seconds nothing.
So survivors can enjoy longer queques.
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Spirit is just insane anyway. Vault animation just added an extra thing for survivors to be “outplayed” against as her phase walk ability has always been very strong. Prayer Beads is literally just a purple add on lol.
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I’ll certainly test him out as well. I’m really hoping this won’t gut him because this is something I never asked for.
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You are the one right now who instantly bashes the freddy mains.
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I’m not bashing anyone but ok
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I think these were the right changes Freddy needed. I do agree he's garbage now, but I seriously don't know what else could we do to him that doesn't include a rework-
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I was about to tell you my proposed idea for a Freddy change, but then I realised it includes a rework. I guess you are right.
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He definitely wasn't bashing us Freddy mains.
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The thing is I love Freddy's character and concept, it's just... Dream World should give different advantages to Freddy. That's it. Period.
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I literally just want his old power back. That is all.
And his old power did give him an advantages in the Dream World, which was invisibility to awake survivors and the 50% slowdown.
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I know, I was being sarcastic because when they announced Spirit "nerfs" the forum got choke full of mains complaining she was now worse than old Clown and it turned out it was still one of the strongest and easiest Killers around.
P.D. old Prayer Bead was super broken, it made the wooosh effect silent when she is phasing, it made her invisibiliy better than current Wraiths invisibility.
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Oh yeah that is true. That Spirit nerf barely did anything and she’s still as unfun and oppressive to go against as she’s always been. Hopefully she’s the next one to be touched.
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Yet another killer that won't be played anymore
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Dude, this killer literally can hit you through structures, what you complaining about
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Nope, he cannot. If he could, I would be the happiest killer alive.
His lunge merely LOOKS weird because my babe is a smol boi, and has a glove for a weapon.
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He's pretty balanced still strong but balanced
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Same
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? I had 6 Freddies on Saturday
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Is it possible to have such luck?
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Wish we could agree on this 😛
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Wish we could trade. I offer you...uh... let me see what happened last Saturday...
Ah yes, disconnecting Huntress:
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the Freddy nerf changed nothing IMO aside from the slowdown add ons being removed.
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They even used a bps what a waste
Honestly now that his slowdown add-ons are gone i don't even complain anymore, but seeing 6 of the same killers is tiring regardless of who it is imho
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Map was Shelter Woods, btw. As luck would have it, I was the first to get chased. Looped her until she ran out of hatchets without getting hit (gods of hitboxes were in a good mood) and managed to stun her with a pallet.
And that was the game, as she immediately decided to DC.
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Need another nerf? :)
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No he's fine now.
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I scared for second you will say yes.
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I don't think so. A watered down version of his new and generic power, with useless add-ons is not fine imo.
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Actually yeah his add ons are a problem. That endgame one is not worth 7000 BP's.
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Freddy's current power is just...wrong.
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It'll fall off just like Billy did. It's basically best to just use him without add-on at this point. I'd rather just play Nurse or Wraith.
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You can still use Nancy's Masterpiece or Red Paint Brush, but most of his add-ons are useless.
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Or... I can use a killer that's more fun to play... Like Nurse & Wraith (until he's nerfed.)
I'm going to get more serious about Spirit too. I like feeling like I'm controlling the match vs waiting on a mistake.
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