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New Doc User: Do killers use the 2 addons which change Static Blast to either a Ring or Beam?
I've tested it out in game. The Interview Tape addon which changes SB to a 24 metres long and 2 metres wide beam seems much harder to actually hit survivors. It goes very long, but is very narrow.
The Scrapped tape addon which changes SB to a ring, surprisingly makes hitting survivors almost a guarantee, but then again hitting survivors with the default cone wasn't anything difficult.
And here's the default SB cone for comparison.
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No, they don't. Ever. These addons suck and Doc has a lot of good addons.
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The beam add on coupled with range increase add on can be okay, but only if paired with something like Tinkerer that lets you know survivors are on a gen and lets you get close without alerting them. Even then, while you can get a few sneaky zaps that way, as you mentioned, it make survivors much harder to hit in every other situation.
I can't think of any reason to run the ring one.
It's usually not worth it to run either of these.
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Is sniper doc still a thing. Idk how much they changed his addons but I remember you could make the narrow shock go so far like 50+ meters
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Nobody uses these add-ons, as far as I know, except maybe as a joke.
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Interview Tape, the beam one, is usable. I like it on totem builds, combined with a high stimulus electrode, to zap people off my totems from across the map. It was a lot better before Doctor's rework, but what can you do.
Scrapped Tape however is terrible in every way, and was actually removed when Doctor's rework came out. They re-added it a bit later during an update where they simplified Madness, making it go up and down in fixed intervals rather than depending on how long survivors stay in the terror radius. This was good - removing an add-on that made Snap Out Of It take longer and replacing it with Scrapped Tape was not.
In my opinion, Scrapped Tape should either be removed or fully rework how Doctor's shock works. Some ideas I like are increasing the time survivors cannot vault by a second or two in exchange for a shorter range, or making the shock linger for a few seconds on the ground like a proximity mine in exchange for... I don't know. Doctor has largely good add-ons besides Scrapped Tape though, so it's low priority.
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The Beam one is okay with a specific build such as totem defending with Trill of the Hunt since shocks will completely reset the cleanse. But it's mostly just worse than default.
The ring idk why it was ever added back. It was removed originally and we had the reverse skill checks as an addon, but it got made basekit so in their ultimate wisdom they gave us a green rarity meme addon back.
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