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What do you think about basekit death engravings without charge time penalty?

Silasy
Silasy Member Posts: 228
in General Discussions

Then nerf death engravings and doom engravings. Would make Billy too powerful? Balanced?

Comments

  • ClarityOfWill
    ClarityOfWill Member Posts: 206

    Ehh I'm really not a fan of this. Billy doesn't really need anything that drastic, most of the changes he needs are either aesthetic, addon related or the adjustments to the overheat mechanic. What I'd personally like to see:

    • Heat no longer gained during the dash, only during the revving
    • Increased base heat cooling
    • Reduction in the post animation swing so it's not quite so jarring for new players
    • If the roar is to stay then shift it to when downing someone, not at the start
    • (maybe) only keep the charge time increase on doom engravings, remove them from death
    • Rework of the pig gloves addon, something purple tier should not require the killer to actively disarm their power to get value (I'm aware Hag has something similar)
    • Re-design of Black Grease, Big Buckle, Off Brand Motor Oil and Leafy Mash addons. Sorry, but the changes to these in the recent "rework" were awful.
  • Silasy
    Silasy Member Posts: 228
    edited July 2022
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3101629#Comment_3101629

    Yeah this changes are good. His cooldown addons should bring back too. Only problematic thing with his cooldown addons were stacking with his charge addons. Now charge addons are gone and i dont see a problematic thing with bringing his cooldown addons. His rework was just a failure.

  • Moodyy
    Moodyy Member Posts: 124

    nah, i think just removing the overheat mechanic would be the better option and they revert his cooldown animation to what it was before.

  • TheRockstarKnight
    TheRockstarKnight Member Posts: 2,171
    edited July 2022

    Just delete the overheat mechanic and fix some of the janky environment collision boxes, and he'd genuinely be fine again.

    Even with overheat he's mostly a decent Killer, it's just he has to work very hard to get what other Killers can get so much more easily.

    And there's not much you can do about that without a complete rework of his kit.

  • GeneralV
    GeneralV Member Posts: 11,715

    Just revert his "rework".

    It is not hard.

  • Iron_Cutlass
    Iron_Cutlass Member Posts: 3,362
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3101629#Comment_3101629

    I think Leafy Mash should remain untouched, it has it's utility, Leafy Mash + Apex Muffler is a pretty good combo for chaining downs. I also think Leafy Mash can be used to buffer the exposed effect from Star Struck to get free insta-downs, just overall you need to have a build based around Leafy Mash for it to work well enough, on it's own it is very mediocre.