STOP instantly judging how good or bad killers are on day 1.

Im just gonna say she's mid with the current state of how dbd is played. Same problem with pig, all you can do is hold W on loops and eat the pallet but has actually good 1v4 potential. Overall great mobility with the TV's but is recommended (by me personally) to have at least 1 chase perk.

I agree. Now I haven't been on the forums long enough today to see what people have been saying but I agree some people decide a killer is too weak/strong way too quickly. People do the same things with perks also.

This game really isn't that complicated all these strategies and perks normally coke down to strategies that are already around so when a old strategy works to counter a new killer the majority of said strategy is already perfected.

There is really only 3 things a survivor can do vs a killer loop,w key, or hide once one of these are know as effective against said killer the majority of the community already knows how to do said strategy.

We can tell she's gonna be terrible because she hasn't got an ability that can beat the top. Survivors can just pop a tape in and get rid of your ability you've been building up on them for the past 4 teleports. Sure, it's slowdown. But it slows her game plan down more than it does the survivors'. Hit and run was dead even before CoH was a thing, because all people had to do was bring medkits. So why now would they release a hit and run killer? This killer is pandering af to the survivors, with built-in counters and everything else.

I agree, and honestly I've defnded Sadako in a previous post ripping into her by saying:

"I... don't think you are giving her enough credit. Yeah she's a basic M1/RT killer, but she has many advantages that you aren't counting, and her iri addon that turns on 4 tvs after she manifests (and hits a survivor in 8 seconds) is broken at hell in chases! I realized this after 3 matches as her: she has ridiculous pressure if you know how to use it, and the fact that she can shift between ghost and manifested without any drop to her movement speed is crazy good (way better than wraith)!

I'm still toying with her, but overall... I actually think she's a lot of fun so far. I also believe that the fact that she's limited to being an m1 killer is everyone's biggest gripe, but when you have this level of pressure/mobility... that actually feels fair in my book.

honestly the only gripes I have with her so far revolve around her perks and add-ons, Especially the Perk that gives survivors 1 chance per second to hit a "great skill check" when the gen is 90% done... SERIOUSLY? NO KILLER IS GONNA USE THAT! Sigh... Hopefully they fix those things in a few more updates."

She definitely has her strengths and weaknesses, but overall I'm enjoying her so far, but the bottom line is that this is still a PTB, and thus not a representation of the actual live game in any way. If the devs did something to incentivize players in to play the PTB, we'd get a better idea of how the new killer/mechanics/perks feel to play with or oppose, because more people would be playing the PTB. I also already gave my own suggestions for this in another post here:

And I hope as least some of these suggested incentives make the cut for future PTB's. Otherwise, the PTB simply can't be seen as a trusted source of actual player feedback, and is pretty useless.

I like Sadako/The Onryo so far, and like what she brings to this game. Too many are writing her off as a worse Wraith or Freddy, when in reality she's actually better than both, but you just have to play her longer than an hour, and discover her strengths, in order to find that out. So many complaints are coming out about the killer too soon after they are introduced via PTB... and none of them should be trusted at all. Instead it's best to Give it time, let people get the hang of the new killer, and then we can respect any gripes about them (although Ghost Faces PTB was legendarily bad, so yeah, there are exceptions to this rule... but the current PTB is no where near as bas as that imo). Otherwise, Complaining this early? You're just blowing smoke in the open air, and not even enough to get up our asses!

If people did simple math, they wouldn't be so confused as to why people call the game survivor sided. It would be pretty obvious to them if they had.

OP: Don't make snap judgments on the killer on day 1

Several people in this thread: Allow me to explain my day 1 snap judgment

Both are true.

The difference is that Blight works entirely different from any other killer. The only hypothetical way for Sadako's early impressions to be wrong is if the condemned mechanic was actually consistently killing people. But given the power is a tool for the survivor to manage, like???

Sometimes early assumptions are just going to be the way it is. Not everything is so nuanced that we need weeks to understand something we have already had years to understand...

In some cases yes but you can objectively see that a Killer that doesnt has a chase power is worse then any other Killer in the game. You can try to make any argument you want or try to make the power look nice, as long as there is no chase or loop ability the Killer will be weaker compared to others. If that is something bad or not is up to you, I wouldnt mind having a weaker Killer, not every new killer doesnt need to break the meta or beat the other top tier killers.

But the complains are definatly valid, the new Killer is basicly a new Myers or Freddy, that makes her pretty boring.

Evaluating strenght is not the point no, but obvious flaws should be pointed out so the devs are aware of them. Thats exactly what the PTB is for

“Techs” this isn’t a mechanically intricate killer, it’s basically demogorgan portals with some stealth

She really reminds me to demo in a way( like even before removal you saw 1 demo every 100th game or so) and the add on reliance (for demo the rat liver , for her the anti heal)