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Dear Deathslinger lovers. Let me hear your opinion.
I like the Deathslinger. He was a good killer.
Now I don't want to play any more.
I asked the same question to Japanese players.
170 out of 200 said NO. Almost 85%.
Let me know if you still want to play or not after the nerfs.
I'm correcting data.
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Nope, he lost his charm and is now just a downgraded Huntress.
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He wasn’t my favorite but he was one of my killers I would go and play every now and then. He was fun but now he’s super clunky and just a worse Huntress. Should’ve never touched him in the first place.
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While I don’t like his old design all they did was alienate his player base and ruin what made him fun without making him fun for survivors
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No the removal of quickscope kill the killer for me. Now he is a downgrade version of huntress abd probably worse then trickster
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Played against one last night and he was pretty good. 2 escaped and I should have aswell but he was pretty accurate. He's fun to face and I hope he makes a comeback
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I just hate how you can no longer quick scope through tiny holes in structures etc. If you look there the survivor knows....
Maybe hes okay at casual level, but not so much for me, you lose distance, trick shots are predictable and when you're on a time frame to get a hit as a 110% it's not a great feeling.
I still dont get what was wrong with the old one tbh, we are balancing for "casuals" which really means bad players when people talk about that but are too polite and call it how it is.
If you cant loop, dont know tiles or know how to play around the killer then you are bad. Dont take offence you can get better and learn to verse different killers, but that shouldn't be the balance point and in result a weaker deathslinger who already wasnt that great...
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The nerf is so bad I’m never playing him again
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No, I won't really be playing him anymore, he was made clunky for no good reason.
I'll enjoy so other more fluent killer until they realise what they did and give him something meaningful in return or revert the terrible chance to quickscoping.
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No, there's no reason to play him or even try to master him when Huntress does everything better.
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No, he feels a lot worse to play over all. Tried him for the first time yesterday after the changes and it felt horrible and so clunky even though I was playing on one of his best maps. It felt so bad I just D/C mid game cause I couldn't take it anymore.
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I started playing DBD shortly after they released the Silent Hill chapter last year. I played with Pyramid Head for the longest, but slowly started trying to find other Killers to play as since I genuinely did not enjoy playing as Pyramid Head... I tried more than a few, Trapper, Nurse, Huntress, Clown, amongst others... it wasn't until I started interacting with people in this forum that I saw how much people hated Deathslinger, but the consensus at the time was that not many people played him so Survivors didn't know how to counter him and I thought "Oh, maybe I should try him" and it was an immediate click when I started playing him.
I am saddened to see him in this state because he was genuinely fun to play as and now he is just so clunky and I absolutely loathe that unless I run add-ons he is basically hopeless against Survivors in most maps. I do agree he needed changes, but these were all just overkill and removed what made him unique and interesting not only to me, but to other people as well. As everyone in here, there is no reason or incentive to play him over Huntress now, I had him in P3 with all perks unlocked, but I don't play games with the intention of feeling frustrated in every single one of them.
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He just feels clunky to play on controller. I can't seem to line up shots unless I move the killers body with movement rather than the right stick to aim. Just not as fun anymore.
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Technically yes because I use everyone but he is no longer in my top 5. Trickster replaced him. My top 5 is Pig, Huntress, Freddy, Ghostface and Trickster. Was Pig, Huntress, Fred, Mike, DS.
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I tried him on the PTB and I haven't touched him since. The animation is janky and just feels wrong. It's so slow you can't really use it for mindgaming now around loops. I've never really been a quickscope guy, but this change is so drastic to his feel. He just feels clunky and slow and not worth it.
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after I adjusted to the change he's not that bad
it just changed when I aim
with old Deathslinger if a survivor ran around a corner I would just go around and quick scope but now I aim as I am going around the corner and flick fire.
I am getting about the same amount of hits as I was before
the only real nerf for me was the 32 meter terror radius
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Everyone, thanks for sharing your opinions. Japanese players said the same things. They are really frustrated too.
Especially:
Downgraded Huntress.
The 32 meter terror radius.
Quickscoping is really important.
His uniqueness is completely gone.
etc
As I was reading your comments, I said "You can say that again!". What I'm really worried about most is beginner players.
Compared with other killers except Nurse, it's gonna be a tougher road if they choose the Deathslinger to play as. Even skilled players like you guys think it got harder to hit a survivor, what happens to beginners?
I'm pretty sure they will never touch him again. The nerfs are really unreasonable.
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He's ez to play against. You have to make some seriously cheesey mistakes for him to get ahead. Once he gets ahead tho, it becomes difficult to escape him, in that regard he's not different than before.
Overall less intense than he has ever been.
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He is. I played against him at RPD last night. I was really sorry for him. Quickscorping was useless. His shooting movement was slow. He couldn't shoot me, even a single one. It's really frustrating for the player.
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Nope
Deathslinger is not useless, he has still one of the best 1v1 in the game, problem is that he is just boring and worse than other ranged killers.
I would be fine with bigger TR, I would be fine with ADS fake nerf, but I am not fine with quick-scope nerf. That was only thing he was better than other ranged killers and made him unique and it was main reason why FPS players played him.
He is not dead because he is worst killer now, because it's not true, he is nowhere near close to that. He is dead because he is boring af now. You are forced to use zoning way more than before, because survivors can react to your ADS easily now and I just hate that.
I would actually still play him without that quick-scope nerf even tho he would get worse as a killer. So I switched to Trickster as my main ranged type killer, he is actually quite fun and decent after his buffs...
BTW players that try to say 400 ms is not that bad never played FPS game. Deathslinger is basically FPS killer and even 100 ms is a big difference. That nerf wasn't needed, devs just failed to understand what was his issue for survivors and didn't fixed that. Well, they did because there will be way less Deathslinger players, so noone cares.
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I will never touch this killer again unless he gets his quickscope back.
2 things differentiated him from Huntress: His stealth, and his quick, responsive aim.
Now they increased his speed when he aims, which means he can still zone the ######### out of survivors by holding his aim instead of spamming it. And they reduced his stun when breaking a chain, which means the game rewards you for not being able to get your reel in hit.
Also, they increased his TR so if a survivor holds W as soon as they hear it, it'll take him 35 seconds to catch up to max range if they just hold W and you can't cut them off.
So playing him will be a clunky, unresponsive W-holding simulator against decent survivors.
This killer was done omega dirty in this patch. The worst thing they've done by far.
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i'm not playing a 110% with a 32 meter terror radius unless their power is insane, even before considering how awful m2 feels
i'm not even sure if hag's power would be insane enough to get +8 meters
but for sure deathslinger's power has never been even remotely insane, and he reminds me a lot of how twins came out
'like a killer designed by survivor mains' i think was the meme
he needs a total revert on nerfs and survivor-biased people need to seriously reconsider what killers they nerf brigade because the replacement where he follows you in ads and still zones you out is functionally no different as far as 'fun' is concerned
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I'll never touch him again... Behavior REALLY is out of touch on how slinger should be,
They need to give him the quick-scope back.. the Only way i'll go back ever.. otherwise.. i only see a Grave..
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I didn't play him that much but he was fun.
Now? No.
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The devs love everything about the "stats" so hopefully when his pick rate goes into the toilet they will realize something is wrong...but this is bhvr we are talking about so who knows.
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I think he needs some love but I have seen some really good Deathslingers. But I have heard of the ads being bad on him right now. With any luck they will fix it up soon.
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He's dead killer. Rip
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They revealed only kill rate in last statistics, so we will probably not be able to laugh about how low it will be...
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You think survivors would actually design twins if 90% of them hate playing against her?
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if i've learned anything concrete in my time playing this game it's that survivors are their own worst enemies, so.... uh
besides, initially when twins came out it was just 'oh look it's victor' locker oh they swapped kick and thus back to m1 killer for a whiiiiile
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Ya but if he gets ahead, he's still cowboy . *If*
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I've been trying to play as him for the challenges of the Halloween tome I was hoping my MMR would've dropped low enough to try different things, but nope. I keep getting 5-6 hooks per match and it's just so frustrating to play as him.
I'd like to denote I'm against camping and tunnelling so 5-6 hooks means to me generally one hook for everyone and possibly two for the weakest links of the team, so that makes him really unreliable for me to get Kills for the challenges.
I kind of want to learn how to play Trickster at this point...
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