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Why Freddy addons have to be so useless

Even before the addons rework, Freddy didn't have much to use, the only good addons he had were the ones that affected the repair speed in the dream world. I really don't understand behaviour.

why can't he have an ultra rare addon that makes him able to use both dream snares and dream pallets but reduce the number of how many he can place?

why can't he have an addon that makes him teleport to generators faster?

why can't he have an addon that makes survivors enter the dream world faster? the same as pinhead chain hunt

why can't he have an addon that counters sleep immunity after a survivor interacts with an alarm clock?

Freddy is a killer that I don't think has any addons, same as pyramid head, all their addons are so bad.

Comments

  • MikaelaWantsYourBoon
    MikaelaWantsYourBoon Member Posts: 6,564

    Freddy add-ons are pretty bad. He need add-on pass.

  • Tr1nity
    Tr1nity Member Posts: 5,047

    GoodBoyKaru + ThatOneDemoPlayer = OneGoodBoyDemo

  • ReverseVelocity
    ReverseVelocity Member Posts: 5,567
    edited January 2022

    Even better question: why isn't there an addon that lets us play Old Freddy?

  • BirdSpirit
    BirdSpirit Member Posts: 186

    I was glancing through addons for multiple killers and it seems like most killers have some addons that are useless. BHVR just needs to do an addon pass for everyone.

  • ReverseVelocity
    ReverseVelocity Member Posts: 5,567

    The issue with Freddy is that the majority of his addons are extremely underwhelming. He only has 2 or 3 decent addons. Pyramid Head has the same issue but Freddy's addons are in worse shape.

  • Altarf
    Altarf Member Posts: 1,046

    Be careful what you wish for. Pinhead and Twins' add-on passes are prime examples of that. I have no doubt that if they did an add-on rework for, say, Pyramid Head, they'd just buff the numbers on the Blindness egg and Seal of Metatron by 2 seconds and nerf the range add-ons by 0.5 metres each.

  • Sepex
    Sepex Member Posts: 1,451
  • El_Gingero
    El_Gingero Member Posts: 1,147
    edited January 2022

    It’s the balancing philosophy of the devs. They intentionally make terrible add ons to either nerf a killer, or when they simply don’t know what to do with them. It also pads out the blood web and artificially extends the already ridiculous grind, because they think it creates “player engagement,” which they can then show off to shareholders and prospective licence partners.

  • MrDardon
    MrDardon Member Posts: 4,183

    They made a power for a Killer so generic that they didn't know what Add-ons to give him.

    Old Freddy was different, interesting and had better and more unique Add-ons. I remember when I used old Z-Block with Red Paint Brush to have a 0 meter Terror Radius but being a 4.4 m/s Killer.

  • Phasmamain
    Phasmamain Member Posts: 11,543

    Not only does his power kinda suck now add ons can’t even save him. No wonder his play rate tanked

  • Huge_Bush
    Huge_Bush Member Posts: 5,483

    That was the point. He got so many complaints since he was one of the most common killers to face (due to his ease of use) that the devs took action. They were lazy with their action tho.

  • katoptris
    katoptris Member Posts: 3,341

    Combine with monitor for more tracking. I even ran insidious due to no radius as well.

  • Phasmamain
    Phasmamain Member Posts: 11,543

    The thing is Freddy was strong mostly because of his perk synergy and ease of use. His actual power was decent but nothing special.

    Too bad the devs couldn’t see that. Freddy has seemingly been a design nightmare since day 1

  • RaSavage42
    RaSavage42 Member Posts: 5,738

    It was due to how powerful they used to be.... BHVR didn't adjust them Slightly which says a lot

    Also due to BHVR not really adjusting Killer's basekit

    Cause they think that "oh well... We can just make more addons"