The Artist-Your Opinion So Far

Well my first match lasted about 4 minutes because I only had her scourge hook equipped. Her power seems interesting. I will definitely be back after further investigation.

I'm glad that they changed how dire crows interacted with swarmed survivors as mentioned from the patch notes,

"Swarmed Survivors who contact an idle Dire Crow will now have their Repel action reset (previously, it would damage the Survivor)"

"These changes were made to help reduce The Artist's power to shut down unhooking, and also to make her less oppressive during short loops by giving the survivor a counterplay option."

Not gonna be able to play her until tonight but she was fun on the PTB so I’m very excited.

C3tooth makes good work.

I've played a few matches as her, but all those matches are ending in 3-4 minutes it feels like. It's actually kind of insane imo.

still strikes me as a Deathslinger on crack tbh.

Hold W basically. Also I was more excited for her long range sniping playing her kinda like a Huntress but the cooldown on the ability is too long to where by the time it's back up the crows are already long off anyway, even with addons.

If were left just playing her like a Hag cutting off loops that's pretty boring to me as well simply from a fun stand point.

Bird Lady strong. Like, really strong. As in, only hell, "how is this killer 115%" strong.

She feels really difficult to play, like reallly, by the time you have crows on someone your power recharges and they have already removed the crows.

I played her for 2 hours. Had crap perks, but i had fun. She's different and i hope she stays the way she is.

I still dont get the crows well, but i'll practise her more tomorrow

it doesnt work like that. She sets it up a Crow in 0.5 seconds and loses little to no speed. If you move away from loop, free hit. if you stay at loop, also a free hit.

It's no brain "skill". Glad people are enjoying a strong Killer, but she is anti-fun.

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Same.

She looks decent, to me a cross between Doctor’s level of tracking and Pyramid Head’s damage ability at loops. With a touch of long range damage possible.

The only thing I’ve seen that seemed slightly cheesy, possibly, was setting up three crows in a row at long distance pointing at a gen. It is possible to down a healthy survivor if all three hit (it happened a couple of times on the streams I watched). The main thing that makes it look a bit off is simply I’m not sure if a survivor would have time to react to avoid getting hit by all three or not. If they don’t have enough time to quickly move out of the way of the second and third crow it becomes an instant down from across the map with no warning.

I doubt this is a big issue overall either way, though, since setting this chain up takes a relatively long time, and isn’t something you can do while chasing anybody else. And it requires using all three crows at once, which means the refresh timer is also quite long, so if the attack misses it’s probably a bit painful for her. But it does feel like maybe there should be a short period of immunity between being swarmed by a crow at long range and being damaged by another long range crow. … Maybe. (If they did make that change I doubt it would seriously nerf her either way since it’s such a niche type of attack.)

So yeah, other than that seems totally cool. 🙂

I love her so far, playing as or against. I honestly don’t see how she’s hard to counterplay, if she starts overdoing crows at a loop just leave. Run through one if you gotta it’s not that big of a deal with how quickly you can get them off tbh.

She is by no means impossible to loop. It’s like hag, I think, people will just have to learn to use her power against her.

Holding w does not seem to be the way to go. My quickest downs with her are by sniping survivors who try that. Ppl seem to have a hard time remembering where I’ve pointed my crows once we’ve gotten far enough away from them. So far, I’m having great luck pointing them at a spot I’m pretty sure they’ll run to eventually, and in the meantime distracting them mid chase with newer ones that I’m only putting down to keep my first up longer. It’s like with one LoS blocker between them and it they lose object permanence or something.

What did you expect? This happens almost every chapter from both sides, lol.