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Why 44 blades specifically?
The Trickster got his total blades reduced to 44 from the PTB. I'm not complaining about the change, but I am wondering why they decided on reducing it to 44 blades specifically.
Since its now 6 blades to injure a survivor, if you were to hit hit every blade perfectly with the new blade count, you would do 7 states of damage, but now you have 2 blades left over that are useless since you can't injure them. I would have thought they would reduce it to a multiple of 6, like 42 or 48.
It's not a major complaint or anything, I just found it weird.
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Honestly I want it to be either 40 or 50 because 44 is just such an off number it bothers me a lot.
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the worst part is you can't even fix it to get to 50 with addons since you only have +4 knives and +8 knives so you can have 48 knives, 52 knives or 56 knives, but no clean number that ends in a 0
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Because survivors started complain about him (one of the weak killer) and devs felt like "maybe we buffed him so much, lets him nerf little". But he is already weak, even with buffs.
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Wait. He will have 44 blades..? They didn't even bother to give him 1 extra blade? ONLY 1????
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Yeah it’s a weird number but I’m glad they took some feedback even if he’ll still be annoying to fight
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I know it hurts. It hurts way too much.
BHVR please fix this, I don't even care for the other changes. This is the one that hurts the most.
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Well 48 is divisible by 6 so that would end in 0 but you are right about the others.
EDIT: Nvm you were talking about the total blade count, not about whether it divides by 6 or not.
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It’s not a nerf, it’s just a reduction in blades to stay in line with how many knives it takes to injure.
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You kinda missed the point of OP's thread. They didn't ask why Trickster's count was nerfed. They asked why the devs went with such a specific number.
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Makes no sense.
45 knives would've made sense. 44 knives just feels random. Like "WHAT IF we reduced his knives to compensate for the buff? 7.5 healthstates means he only needs 45 knives." "Let's go further." "What?!" "44 knives!" "BRILLIANT!"
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The worst for me is the nerf on the addons. Seriously, why would I run something that gives me extra 4 knives? That's not even a health state...
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Well if you add 4 to 44 you get 48 which is 8 health states instead of 7.33
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Its gonna agitate my ocd so damn bad
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This whole "total health states" is just nonsensical. You can't hit 48 knives without missing a single one even if you are a god Trickster with an aimbot due to that spread and recoil.
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Yes 42 would be a more iconic number
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One for every bug this patch has brought us.
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44 is such a weird number. I'm not really bothered by it, but it's weird.
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some people will always be mad that trickster even exists and ruined dbd, they can't be reasoned with.
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Could it be because 4 is a spooky number in certain Asian cultures?
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Oh no, looks like Trickster players have to be at least slightly concerned about accuracy now rather than just spam.
You can still take 7 health states with 2 knives to spare. Or let’s say you only hit 24 knives out of 44, that’s still 4 health states.
Also there’s that iri add on which recharges knives after using Main event.
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My terrible OCD will kick in with that weird number.
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Same. 44 just feels like an ugly number. Nothing wrong with it balance-wise, it's just bugging me for no good reason.
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I think that might be it
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42...there's just something about that number!
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NO! Not ALL the rockets!
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tbh with the changes I felt reducing the knives was going to happen but I am curious why specifically 44 as well.
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My OCD quite likes the pair of 4's
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But seriously Almo, is there a reason why it's 44 Knives?
It's such an odd number. Would it break balance to give him 4 less knives or 6 more knives?
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4 is concidert a unlucky number in korea. Kinda like western countries concider 13 to be unlucky
The Chinese character for the word “death” is pronounced “sah”. This is the same sound as the Korean “four.”
So it's seen as a death number.
So specifically 44 knives is actually pretty dope flavour wise
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It's technically even and that's the worst part
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Well it still bothers me to see such an uneven number for a Killer.
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44 is even though :3
As a person that opens bags of chips upside down. I am very pleased with this number
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I despise you and your kind.
😡
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Google what exactly a nerf is.
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Embrace the chaos
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45 would be weird too, wouldn't it?
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At least it makes more sense than 44!
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Yes, there is a reason.
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Can we know it ? (now preferably)
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SAME! xd
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Flavour wise it's cool
Gameplay wise it's dumb and only serves to make Trickster less lethal
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Google what biased is
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Eh it's not that big of a deal tbh.
If you hit 30 of those 44 knives you have 5 healthstates on top of now much better main event which at the very least is another healthstate.
You need to be more accurate yes but that isn't a bad thing
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But we want to know the reason for 44. Why not 43 at this point? Or 45 for our OCD pleasure.
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4 is an unlucky or "death" number in korea.
It's probably that
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In overall trickster got buffed but this aspect of zrickster got nerfed since it used to be stronger.
That doesnt have anything to do with being biased.
I am not even complaining about the nerf.
But it IS a nerf.
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We asked almost if there was a reason for it... and he said.. YES... THERE IS A REASON...
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Almo is simply doing a little trolling.
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It’s not but go debate about 16 less blades in a video game some more with someone else
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At least they didnt make it 41 or 39 that would probably irritate you lot more.
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