Remembering Some Old Killer Powers Before Being Buffed or Nerfed

Plague.

Patch 2.6.0

• Quality of Life: once all Pools of Devotion are corrupted, they reset and automatically grant The Plague Corrupt Purge.

Patch 3.6.0

• Buff: The Plague now starts with one corrupted Pool of Devotion.

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Prior to these changes, survivors and killer had more ‘choice’ and diversity in the games with Plague. Originally survivors will hold the choice to cleanse or not, possibly choosing to remain broken and never letting her gain corruption vile.

Later, once any cleansing happens, Plague has the choice of using her Corruption or trying to get every Pool of Devotion corrupted so survivors could no longer cleanse themselves and are forced to remain broken the rest of the match.

The game was a constant change in playstyles and strategies based off of what the other side was doing.

Killer could choose to prioritize her sickness over her corruption and base builds and ideas around her weaker primary power instead of her stronger secondary. Both sides would usually change up their strategy at end game. Like Survivor might choose to refuse to cleanse until all gens are popped so they can instantly heal and try to make end-game saves…or Killer might purposely keep everyone sick until they are at one gen and realize their only chance at a win is to pull a long shot victory and devour one pool of devotion to try and snowball a bunch of one-shot slugs for the V.

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My point being that letting add-ons exist to force the survivors to deal with one/two pools of devotion was more then enough to appease the Plague players who were upset they could never use Corrupted Vile. That and letting survivors abuse the free heals AND THEN ALSO, resetting all Pools so they can do it again, just because Killer doesn’t want or can’t compete with the timed consumption was overkill.

Plague was a very fun experience before the Buff/Quality of Life changes that killed half of her kit. I don’t care about the watery hatchets, I want to spread my sickness and pressure you all to cleanse, just so I can do it again, and keep doing it till you have squandered your advantages and ended up in my forever broken hell.

RIP my Sickness Mama

Old Freddy...

He was best killer in game. He was not strongest but who cares. He was so fun.

New Freddy?

I am not playing him anymore.

Depression

Agreed. The overheat is hardly noticeable in normal gameplay. Only if the power is needlessly spammed. Another aspect to me though is that his movement and hit boxes became janky after the nerf. Not just for the chainsaw either, it’s weird.

While the abilities were more fun on certain killers back in the day(heavily disagreeing with spirit for multiple reasons tho, mother daughter ring was more common before the changes and more powerful too, twice as strong, no phasing sound, versing that every 2-3 matches, don't know why you think it's common now)

But one big factor you're forgetting too: corrupt intervention wasn't a thing for the longest time. Undying wasn't, Pop was, but Nurse was needed in that time period too. Ruin didn't regress gens at 200%.

With Ruin being buffed to a point where it actually was useful in higher tier games, Billy gained a massive buff. My biggest disappointment around the Billy changes are his add-ons, because I think overall the overheat mechanic is fine, it just needs some supporting add-ons.

Spirit truly had 0 counterplay. The only counterplay was predropping pallets, which is only valid if you're playing in a 4 man SWF on Comms and know what all other survivors are doing, and those survivors know where you've been dropping the pallets. Any other scenario, and no matter what you did, Spirit would benefit. And while I agree that in theory having no directional sound was fine-ish, having no sound at all was not. And Spirit had no sound while you were in her terror radius. I was actually thinking about a build that gave her a massive TR just to show how ridiculously powerful the lack of phasing sound is. If a killer can stand still and make a survivor slow vault a pallet in front of them, without any in-game indication of a difference, then that's basically 0 counterplay.

Freddy somewhat returned in the form of Onryo, except lacking aura reading. But the chase related mindgames(not being visible) are really fun to use again. After the update, Onryo is going to be somewhat viable again as she can walk through survivors with her ability and basically negate the bodyblocking. So that's nice.

Nurse, still needs a nerf. As long as her Omega blink also speeds up her blinking speed, it's simply busted. I don't mind longer blinking distance, but if the longer blinking distance means she can blink 20 meters 1.5x faster at basically the same charge speed, then what is the negative aspect of the add-on to balance that out? There is none.

If we're truly talking about mechanics from Ye Olde Days that I miss: visibility. Sure, trees were thick as hell, and currently it's easier to see someone working on a generator in the distance, which is good. But on the other hand, survivors also see you approaching from 3x as far. Survivors also have a harder time hiding in grass and behind trees, but that also forces survivors to play more optimal and sit on gens more often.

I simply feel like there is too much visibility on most maps right now. Eyrie of Crows is an example where there is too little visibility, which is also not great, but the big benefit is that it's one of the few maps where survivors will run into you on accident.

Billys addons were butchered and the overheat mechanics only adds to his downfall. But boy was he fun to play back in the day.

they should’ve chose either the addons or the overheat not both tbh.

and how could we forget Ghosty’s insta reveal at any distance at launch. Man, even mildly looking in the direction one of his flowy straps was enough to reveal Him.