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What's the point of Hellshire Iron?
For those of you who aren't familiar with Slinger's addons, the Hellshire Iron is one of his ultra rares:
I genuinely can't think of a use for this one, I think it's pretty much entirely useless. By default, the killer hit recovery time is 3 seconds, and Deathslinger's reload speed is 2.75 seconds. This means over HALF of the undetectable is wasted wiping your gun and reloading.
It becomes even more perplexing when you see the original effect of the addon:
With Deathslinger's nerf, his Terror Radius was made to be 32m, which would have pretty significantly buffed the addon. The reason it was hardly used before was because of his already small Terror Radius combined with the fact that EVERYONE ran Monitor and Abuse on him to make it even smaller.
I don't get why it was reworked when the Terror Radius change would've made it pretty good, now it's just useless. It's a shame, because the original effect was actually kind of neat.
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It is not rare to have completely useless items like this, many other killers had them in the past. I think there is not that much game test behind a killer by BHVR.
For example, the waterlogged shoes that basically make the hag an m1 killer????
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The original effect was very neat, I don't know why everyone shitted on it. The new effect really sucks...
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Well you can't really get value out of the old effect. You spear someone, gain undetectable while you reel them in and then have it for a measly ten seconds after the chain breaks or you hit them. Either way you have to go through a cooldown state that eats 2-3 seconds of your timer. If you downed the survivor, you're not gonna just leave them and if you didn't down then you're in for a chase with the survivor having a headstart that will ensure that undetectable's 7 or less seconds will do less than nothing for you.
It was just bad. The new one isn't much better either.
Behavior seem to not want the first person sniping character to do first person sniping things like, planning and proper stealth in addition to taking the quickscope away.
Deathslinger just seems to get no fun toys anymore.
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The undetectable is the current effect. The aura reading addon was what the Hellshire Iron used to do.
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Because BHVR has a very poor understanding of the game when it comes to things like Killer addons.
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That's even worse then. Oof.
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Hypothetically if you don't reload the gun right away, 7 seconds is enough time to go 1/3 of the way across the map at Deathslinger's walking speed. Since he's Undetectable he might then be able to actually just walk up and get an easy melee hit on someone doing a generator somewhere else on his own half of the map, maybe even a grab if he's lucky. And that's assuming he got a hit or Deep Wound from the chain breaking. If he manually breaks the chain because he knows he won't get a hit anyway, he's not Undetectable for about 9 second instead.
I was playing Deathslinger tonight and actually considered giving the above a try, but I ended up using something else instead. 🤷♂️ But if you actually wanted to use this Undetectable red add-on and get some benefit out of it that's probably how you'd do it.
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