Opinions on The Huntress?

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I think the range of her humming needs to be reduced, you can hear her from a ridiculous distance and it serves as the main reason why I never use her.

Maximus7 said:

MegMain98 said:

@Rebel_Raven said:
She really is my favorite killer. First killer I went with, and part of the reason I started playing.
Efficient, not super addon reliant, and as of 2now my only killer with 3 of the 4 bloodpoint perks. I don't have the 4th (bbq. Not saddling myself with a killer I'm not interested in.) So with all that in mind, she is very helpful.

Her looks, and lore are also pretty great, too. 

Her hatchets really do need help, though. They are pretty obviously there to help stop loops, but they are almost impossible to throw over obstacles you can see over.
Also they seem pretty easy to dodge now that I paid enough attention.

I loved her backstory as well and her look is imposing as she is the only tall female killer. I didn’t start playing her until a few weeks ago, before that it was solely Myers and Spirit.

Her hatchets are super wonky, the hitboxes are weird and hopefully when the game gets dedicated servers it’ll solve some of the issues.

She also probably has one of the most OP builds if paired with an Ebony. Iridescent Head and an Infantry Belt is nasty.

The old machine gun hatchets were even worse lmao. Old Tinkerer was cancer.

Her hatchets are the way they are because of how survivor hurtboxes are designed. Patch 2.2 made her hatchet hitboxes more proportional to the size of the hatchet, but did nothing to the survivor hurtboxes, so hatchets would just phase through survivors' faces, limbs, and shoulders. So it's more about hitbox manipulation than anything, though latency does have a role to play in some of the "wonky" hits.

@Rebel_Raven you'd be surprised how much ######### you can throw over if you have good enough aim. Though it can be really tough and require pin-point accuracy to still hit survivors while throwing over stuff.

to me learning and mastering all the different angles , snipes, and needle threading makes her a fun challange and always gives you some thing to improve on. and true huntress mains are always a joy to watch at work.

She was the first killer i ever tried out and i enjoyed playing her, up until around rank 8, then her weaknesses start to be exploited.

She is very very easy to loop because she looses speed when holding a hatchet, she looses time in the windup and most loops have massive invisible barriers around the objects making your hatchets hit EVERYTHING. So if the survivor is not in in front of you dropping a pallet or running past it you probably won't hit them on that lap.

Second is the lullaby, most killers that have terror radius issues you can use perks like Tinkerer or Monitor and Abuse to compensate for it, with her it doesn't matter even if your terror radius is 0 her lullaby will still give her away.

Perhaps if it was not directional it would be better but as it stands it's a glaring issue.

She also has map dependency, you get her on any coldwind farm map, Lerys, The Game or Swamp you are going to have a bad time unless the survivors are total morons or if you have 1 shot hatchets, these maps have too many collision objects with barriers like Operating tables in Lerys, objects that mean the huntress can't mind game with hatchets like see-through T walls or they are just far too big meaning she can't cover them well.

I love her design but playing her grew too frustrating, i picked up The Hag and Trapper as well as the occasional punt on The Spirit and whatever else people ask me to play.

I still do play the odd game on her but not nearly as much as i used too.

@White_Owl said:
It's a fun and balanced killer, but I wish hitboxes were better since too many times hitting a survivor or a wall seems rng (maybe with dedicated servers it could be possible? Who knows) and the Iridescent Head reworked (it's the most unfun and unbalanced addon imo)

You probably weren't around back when the Iridescent Heads only removed two instead of four. Seriously in terms of balance it is much better then before. I still shudder thinking about the many times I would have died if the hatchets touched me back then. Other then that, I agree with everything else you said.

I am not a Huntress player myself but I can hit the occasional hatchet toss.

@Shad03 said:

@White_Owl said:
It's a fun and balanced killer, but I wish hitboxes were better since too many times hitting a survivor or a wall seems rng (maybe with dedicated servers it could be possible? Who knows) and the Iridescent Head reworked (it's the most unfun and unbalanced addon imo)

You probably weren't around back when the Iridescent Heads only removed two instead of four. Seriously in terms of balance it is much better then before. I still shudder thinking about the many times I would have died if the hatchets touched me back then. Other then that, I agree with everything else you said.

I am not a Huntress player myself but I can hit the occasional hatchet toss.

I was there. My thoughts on the addon still remain

In short, I find the huntress to be uninteresting and bland conceptually. Nothing about her is really 'scary' in my opinion and I feel she stands out negatively in contrast with the rest of the cast (who are comparatively speaking, much more horror-esque, if that makes sense). Balance wise I feel she's fine, but I don't like playing against her due to her inconsistent and outright broken hitboxes on hatchets (this negatively impacts both the killer and survivors). Oh, and her perks are total #########, so I've left her at level 1 to avoid clogging up my precious blood web.