After a slew of games with Deathslinger after his nerf. My thoughts

Impose
Impose Member Posts: 400
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In my opinion, as a former Deathslinger main with thousands of hours in the game, at least 7-800 on just slinger. I will say with some confidence that he is now bottom 3 in the game.

He maintains the exact same weaknesses he had prior to his nerf, in addition (this may be placebo) but I think they may have changed the hitbox on his shot, it seems to go through survivors commonly now. He received no actual buff to his kit. Increasing his ads movespeed is useless given how little you SHOULD be adsing. His terror radius being 32 meters as a 110 killer is just a huge problem.

And here comes the biggest problem. He is now EXTREMELY clunky. He feels slow, he feels lethargic, he can't see a survivor and react with a quick shot anymore. I truly think the only killer worse than him is legion now. And even thats debatable

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  • lauraa
    lauraa Member Posts: 3,195

    I'm no slinger expert as I play him like once a month but idk if I want to bother putting time into him now. The only change I saw a positive in was his TR change allowing better use of Starstruck but that's just me trying to be positive...

  • Mister_xD
    Mister_xD Member Posts: 7,668

    he did not deserve to be gutted like that.

    not in the slightest.

  • foxsansbox
    foxsansbox Member Posts: 2,209
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/289264/after-a-slew-of-games-with-deathslinger-after-his-nerf-my-thoughts

    I think the fact that DS is unplayable has been beaten to death and is mostly accurate (Deathslinger Main with about 400 hours on him), but I wanted to add that I am suffered from the same weirdness with his shot. I would clearly land the shot, the chain would go taught, and then they'd just break out instantaneously. I only gave him two games worth of effort before I knew I wouldn't be playing him again but this happened several times in each game.

  • Kebek
    Kebek Member Posts: 3,676

    I miss his old self. He was my main since his release and I always enjoyed playing him due to how great his ADSing felt. Now I can't, not because he's weak (imo he's somewhat weaker but not massively, from to B tier to low B tier) but because he's not fun anymore, just sluggish and annoyingly limited.

    At least I still have nemesis until people realise that he's decent in chase too and want more cooldowns for him as well.

  • musstang62
    musstang62 Member Posts: 517

    Seems like he got the billy treatment. Murdered for no good reason

  • boogerboy123
    boogerboy123 Member Posts: 119

    hes absolutely horrible, without quickscoping hes useless. i couldnt do anything with my gun for most of the match. wont be using him unless he gets changed again

  • Labrac
    Labrac Applicant Posts: 1,285

    He was not my main but I did put something like 300 hours on him. I still think he's better than Pig, Legion and Myers, but this nerf was completely unnecessary.

    The ADS MS buff as you said was worthless because aiming feels like crap. He already had addons that increased his speed while aiming and NOBODY used them before. His strongest playstyle is still pulling out the gun and shooting ASAP, except that it now feels like crap as well because the hitbox is super easy to dodge if the survivor wiggles and it messes up with the muscle memory I built in the last year and a half he was on the game.

    Imo they should AT LEAST give us the quickscope back. Either that or make his hitbox the same as Huntress and get rid of the reeling mechanic.