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Freddy is back in his grave
First of all, I want to say thank you to the devs for trying something. Its not easy to change a whole game and shake everything up like they wanted.
Unfortunately, your changes in 6.1.2 were after the 6.1.0-patch ANOTHER Passive-Nerf to The Nightmare.
If I read the history of this character on the wiki, all I can find are nerfs, nerfs, nerfs, nerfs and more nerfs. The Cherry on the cake is a Rework, which was almost fine (besides the Slowdown-Addons, but hey, what is Prove Thyself, Commodius and Alexs Toolbox with Wire Spool compared to them in the past... - but yea, the addons were too powerful. Sure.).
His addons are, as u all well know, purely bad. There is 1 (ONE !) Addon worth running, which is the Red Paint Brush. Everything else is C-Tier or worse.
With the Patch 6.1.0, u took away "his" perks which he is designed to use. He is a killer with a teleport to gens, so what am I supposed to run? Exactly, Gen-Perks.
After annihalating Hex:Ruin and Tinkerer, additional nerfing Pop goes the Weasel and Overcharge, now his main ability, the one and only ability he is unique, his Fake-Teleports, is even more useless than before, because with the nerf of Dead Man Switch, in my opinion the last weapon he had, u literally sended him to his grave once more.
He is weak in the chase, because his Snares are far weaker than for example Doctors Shock or Clowns Gas, because u have to place them first and then survivors have to be stupid enough to stay. His Dream Pallets are fun, but against mid-tier-survivors there are worthless, same for good players.
That leaves him with his Dream Projection (why dont nerf that too?). As I said before, u cannot use them for Dead Man Switch anymore, because 30sec is not worth running this perk. He dont have to scare people off gens, so that Ruin can regress it.
Enough Issues? Wait, there is more.
With his lullaby, his Dreamworld is helping him out dodging a lot of perks themselve, because they need a Terror-Radius. Coulrophobia etc. for example. Isnt that nice? U want them asleep, that your snares could work (another weakness compared to Clowns Gas), but when they are asleep, almost 10 perks are absolutely unusable.
Now enough issues? No, no, no, wait, there is even more.
Finally, (and I forget something for sure), he was shown the middlefinger with the release of The Dredge right in his face. Dredge has better Addons, better Teleport, better Antiloop and a better passive-ability, The Nightfall.
I dont know what happened behind the scenes, but I dont want to change my main killer, but I am absolutely speakless now. The only way he works at least mediocre is tunnel the first survivor out asap and focus on the 2nd one. While u do that, buy as much time as u can with the bad Dead Man Switch-PR-Combo (if u reach the Scourgehooks), camp the 2nd survivor out and then No Way Out can give u MAYBE a 3K. That against medium-survivors, not good one.
His state is absolute annihilated, he is the worst killer in the game again. I dont expect anything from the devs, I dont expect buffs (look at the wiki of Freddy...), so I assume I have to learn that a 4man-Escape is the default now without playing dirty.
If someone calls "then play Nurse, Blight or Spirit", I will not do that. Nerf these killers and buff the weaklings. Freddy is the biggest toy for survivors in this game.
Thank you! (A bit frustrated now)
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freddy will ALWAYS be in his grave unless they rework him
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Overcharge got a buff, not a nerf, and while Pop may have been nerfed, the gen-kicking paradigm overall got buffed. Overcharge, Call Of Brine, Eruption, and of course the 2.5% base regression.
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This does not compare to his overall weaknesses. Earlier, you could use his ability to scare people off for ruin or for Pop etc.
Now he has nothing, because all perks he was designed for are dead or bad. And Addons... No words needed.
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because his kit is very mediocre and relies off perks. for example skill = great results for alot of killers like billy nurse huntress blight ect but being the best freddy players isnt a big deal because the skill ceiling isnt too high
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