A lack luster return with some thoughts

So since the last time I played the game, quite a few patches have come out, only major reason I came back to the game was because the moonlight event or whatever it was called, brought what they said was new gameplay at least for the event. Sadly, there wasn’t really anything all that new. “Oh look a lantern, better grab it and work on generators like same old thing.” Not that great of a “new” gameplay to the game but the event is now over and even the rewards were lame. 3 costumes all which looked pretty meh.

More to the point, I was hoping for a change in coming back. With certain updates, certain perks and killers were changed. Of those changes I’m just going to make some observations, if you will, on good changes and..... so I don’t hurt the developers feelings too much, we will just call the other ones not smart changes.

Starting off, Wraith’s ability was changed a bit and has a minor speed buff for when he comes out of cloak, not too bad of a balance seeing as they butchered a few of his addons, but I guess a trade for a trade.

NOED has been changed to be broken at rank one of the perk, dumb idea because now, from the matches I have played, it’s now a crutch that everyone and likes to lean on along with BBQ & Chili, so more options for killers to grief others. That sounds so AMAZINGLY boring and dull. I don’t even use those perks because they are just not fair for the survivors I face, let alone at least the survivors probably appreciate it. These two perks alone seem to make the game rather predictable but fun for those people who have an ego problem. I also know people use it just because their available to use in the game, that’s fine but switch it up from time to time. BBQ easy to counter but can still be a ball breaker when you go up against multiple killers all having one, the other, are both. I call people baby killers who use them because well they like that crutch and they like things to be easy for them because they don’t want to try which means they won’t get better at the game.

Lets see, oh BT became very very risky to use seeing as the rescuer no longer gets protection which at this point, it probably should go back to the way it was so survivors have at least a good top tier rescue perk to counter some of those killers *cough*camping babies*cough*. You know the kind of killers I’m talking about, we all have played against them at one point or maybe even you were a camper or still are. Not fun and lessens the community of the game.

Speaking of community, it’s still toxic. I’d even go far enough to say it’s gotten more toxic. It seems either every killer is looking for that sodium diet or a group of survivors are looking to ruin some killer’s day just for that small bit of table salt. It’s almost like no one can control themselves on how they play and just want to all be cucklords. Again dull and boring, it’s 2019 and you’d think people could play with having to try and impress someone over the internet because that is their whole life or to try and make themselves feel better about their self esteem so they use the baby killer tactics just to get under another player’s skin. Not fun and again, the community gets smaller because people really don’t enjoy the game anymore because of people like that. You know? Trend followers.

Spirit was introduced, neat killer but I will say I do struggle with her from time to time. Which ever addon takes away the whooshing noise she makes is a little much but like the devs care, with Michael and his instakill mori addon.

Hex, Haunted Ground. Cool perk, it’s like a take out hex that once broken everyone becomes exposed and can be instadowned in a certain time period. I mean hey, you are always taking a risk with totems, this is simply raising the stakes. It then becomes a simple game of can you hide well? Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Only gripe about the perk is that the full tier of the perk should not be a full minute, that’s a bit excessive. Dumb it down to like 50 seconds and you got a deal.

Legion. This killer was kind of a unique twist but he/she is very underwhelming. Ability let’s you sprint and vault over pallets and stuff quickly. Cool. The downside is the resort his ability which is if you hit someone while running you put them in a different kind of “I need to heal” state that slowly drains and if you hit that same person again, you take a bit of the timer out but your power immediately ends. The only way to continue your ability is if others are around you and will be marked only if you didn’t hit them with your power. Once again, power resets back to full for each non-afflicted survivors hit but should you hit everyone the try for another attack, power will end immediately. Legion is a very.....situational killer rather than a killer in general. Legion, great for loopers, anything is meh performance. Mad Grit is underwhelming because as long as you have good spacing and you try to make a killer swing at you while carrying someone, the killer won’t touch you making the perk kind of very meh. Let’s not forget his most useless ability Iron Maiden. Super situational and more often than not when the killer tries to get to that location where the survivor was last at, they’re already gone because the reveal of where the survivor was only lasts 3 seconds. Discordances is decent at finding people but that’s about it and that is only if 2 or more people are working on the same generator.

Hmm other than those few things, uh killers who are still stupid broke are still Leatherface, Doctor, and Huntress. Lowest tier killer is now a tie between Freddy and Clown. Super high tier, Michael and Nurse, while the rest of the killers are in the middle ground except for Spirit who is quickly making her way to the top.

The cosmetics are “okay” a bit too much favoritism on the humming annoyance Huntress and other female survivors. Not enough cool cosmetics for everyone, and all the licensed killers I guess, are not allowed to have any cosmetics or they can’t think of any *cough*steam workshop*cough*. Same goes for the survivors especially poor Bill.

I know I didn’t list everything from all th updates and what not, I simply picked the things that stood out. Whether I’ll continue to play, we’ll see but MHW is keeping me busy along with RDR2 which is a great game if you don’t have it or have played it, I would definitely suggest it. Now we’re at the end and others can add their two cents to this as well. Be respectful about, if not then it just shows the rest us who are bright people that you’d rather cause conflict because you’re too scared to be polite. Cheers and enjoy.