If the killer in the 6th anniversary chapter is garbage I quit killer.

A valuable lesson.

I'm pretty sure most of them have left already.

As for veteran players, these are usually on the higher MMRs and the game isn't really balanced around that bracket: do the math. If they are not maining Nurse or Blight, there is a good chance they are not coming back any time soon.

Candyman and FNAF would def bring people in but I have my doubts the trailer for this years anni made it look like DBD is on it's death bed.

Well, she is not exactly a cut and dry playstyle. She's a bit complex than that.

In reality she's pretty strong if you practiced enough, I sure have.

I mean you just played one match with her, that's like calling nurse weak because you got wrecked horribly in your first try.

Better start looking for a new game, fam.

Yeah blame it on the game lol

What makes you think she's not a strong killer?

lmao. Your hope is foolish. You already know the outcome.

Her power isn't useless on maps with multiple floors, it's a little harder to use in the early game, but defending gens on one of the floors allows potential for 3 gens and you can basically eliminate half the map. I will admit playing artist on swamp is absolute pain, it's much harder to land cross maps with her power because of the elevation difference, but her power isn't useless.

Just because she's a hard killer to master doesn't make her not strong. Some people don't think the reward for getting downs with her birds is satisfying enough, which is fair. I understand if people don't want to put in a lot of effort to master her birds to just get a down after they have to land two. It is a lot of work, and I like it, but definitely not for everyone.

Her birds are pretty powerful in chase when you learn to place them in optimal spots, you can basically force the survivor to run a loop a certain way where they'll either get downed by the bird or get downed by an M1. I have found that is the most optimal way to play is to zone using the bird so the survivor is in a lose lose situation. In most situation, I can either get the hit because they take a bird to the face or run into the open to avoid the bird.

Pre-dropping pallets and holding W is really the main counterplay to artist. Although, even artist can counter a survivor doing this. If you identify a survivor who is doing this, you just snipe them with one bird as they drop the pallet and use a follow up bird to down them. The survivor gets locked into animation when they drop the pallet so it guarantees you that first bird swarm. Depending how close you are and if you're reaction time is quick enough, you can even down survivors who drop the pallet/vault it.

Another reason that Artist is regarded as a strong killer is because she is able to have map pressure because of the birds. She is already an anti-loop chase killer, but she is also able to pressure the gens mid chase if needed. She can send birds out to gens to either get people to let go of them or just get general info about the gens being worked on. There aren't really any characters that can check if someone is on a gen across the map while being able to check nearby gens at the same time.

For really skilled Artists and predictable survivors, you can get cross-map hits and downs, very rare though against really good survivors, but not uncommon and probably much easier than cross-map hatchets.

She's not the strongest killer, but definitely has a stronger basekit than most of the DBD killers. Honestly not hard to do though when you look at most of the DBD killers.

Birds hit over dropped pallets. Pre dropping a pallet doesn't change anything, you still have to leave the loop. Elevation only changes where you can long range snipe to and from. A lot of people think she's not rewarding to play because she's too damn strong.