So how come Sadako hasn't been buffed yet?
It's been over half a year now since she came out, we even had a meta shakeup and yet she still remains the worst licensed killer in the game. So when will BHVR address her current state and give her some much needed buffs?
I'd like to see the following things on her, preferably all at once:
1) Remove her lullaby while she's demanifested. Literally no other stealth killer has this nonsense.
2) Make survivors passively gain Condemnation stacks. Force them to interact with tapes.
3) Reduce the cooldown for turned off tvs from 100s to 45s. Dredge looks like Nurse compared to her.
4) Enable her to instadown survivors who have max stacks of Condemnation, she'd be far deadlier.
5) Extend the duration of her speedboost after teleporting to compensate for bad tv placement (they're ALL facing away from the objective/gen).
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I also think she needs something to help her chase.
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Too much of her power-budget was allocated to the instant kill mechanic. She is in the same tier as Myers and his tombstones in that regard. Unlike PH, that does require previous hooks, they can derail a match pretty fast so long as they kill a single survivor is eliminated.
She needs a rework, but not just changing numbers.
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She may actually need a ground up fix... not sure just numbers would fix anything. Agreed.
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40 Perk-Overhaul, Ghostface + Legion-Changes
Changes come in midchapter mostly, right?
So next chance is in 3 weeks or so?
But they didnt say anything, so dont expect anything.
Sadako needs help together with 3 others (Twins, Freddy, Trapper)
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Other priorities. There has only been 1 mid-chapter that could feasily have been her update.
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The devs mentioned that their normal balance pass schedule for new characters was put off this year due to everything else in the 2022 roadmap pipeline. Sadako’s probably the next character they’ll do a full pass on though once they get back to it.
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Give them time to figure out what they can do to help her out
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It's because they were working on the general balance changes, especially for the 6.1.0 update.
And honestly, I really hope they still continue looking in to general balance changes. I think addressing at least some of the survivor issues right now is more important than buffing a certain killer.
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I think Twins are being changed next.
Next week we should get information on the next ptb
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Seems like another case of Entitled Killer Syndrome. Other killers can obliterate survivors easy! How come Sadako can’t? I want Sadako to be easy to win with too!
I play against plenty of Sadako’s that use BBQ and teleport really well. The speed boost post teleport is strong and since most survivors don’t turn the TVs off that leaves a lot of options. Survivors build up their condemnation quicker than they realize because of always being near a TV. Maybe just get better at playing her and try different perks.
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Sadako got skipped last midchapter due to the meta perk rework taking up too much of their development budget for the midchapter. I believe one of the devs has said she's on the plate to be looked at this upcoming midchapter.
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I had purchased the ringu chapter for ps4 but after switching to pc, I’m definitely waiting for some type of rework before purchasing the chapter again. I love playing on pc but her character needs help
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I'd genuinely not expect a major fix on her before 2024. Late 2023 earliest. Outside of extremely small quality of life stuff.
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While some of your suggestions are fine, them combined is an overkill lol.
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Yeah, maybe we should be resonable and wait like six months.
Wait.
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Don't you know? Sadako has already had a considerable buff. It's called Dredge.
Jokes aside Sadako is in a miserable state. She has a stealth that isn't really a stealth, I mean tier 2 Myers is stealthier than her and doesn't have to manifest before hitting a survivor. She has an anti-loop (passive phasing) that was more or less copied from Spirit and dialed up a bit, which is effectively useless without addons. She has map mobility that can't hold a candlle to other killers. Dredge's, Demo's, Hillbilly's, Blight's, Nurse's map mobility is better in every regard. And last she has this whole condemned thing. It's a fun little gimmick but also utterly useless, if you don't focus on that specifically. Even then it's risky and more of an exploit (kinda like old Legion with the moonwalking). Add it all together and we have a killer with a lot in her kit that doesn't really help. She is a hit and run killer in a game where hit and run is effectively dead. I wouldn't say she is the weakest killer (that spot goes to Myers no argument) but she is in dire need of a buff. At this point it might be better to just add a form of anti-loop that might actually help her get a down than to rework or buff every aspect of her existing kit.
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No its Twins they are looking at next. It was in the january Q&A-Stream.
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It's not impossible for the devs to adjust 2 killers at once. We had a midchapter with 4 killers being adjusted. And it's not like plans can't change because the devs have already moved stuff around from release dates we were told in the anniversary stream.
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Id hope so. There are some killers who needs some adjustments.
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The thing is Sadoko has a lot going for her but none of it makes her a very viable Killer unless your dealing with baby Survivors that just picked up the game.
Oh she can instantly Kill a Survivor who gets full condemned status but all the Survivor needs to do is turn a tape. A tape that dosnt force a Survivor to drop thier held item allowing them to Flash, Firework, or Blind her mid chase and only takes a sec to turn it in so they can turn the tape in mid chase and all that status is gone.
I have had games where Survivors purposely pulled tapes just to build up their condemn just to deliver the tape mid chase.
Her map teleport is ruled by RNG and have had tvs placed in areas with no Gens or usable hooks.
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Normally killers are reviewed during the midchapter patch after their release. However it just so happened this midchapter patch was when the huge perk rework was and the dev team didn't have time to review her. Supposedly she will he reviewed alongside Wesker during the next midchapter.
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She would be reviewed aside Dredge not Wesker since Dredge would be next after Sadako.
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Because shut up and take dredge aka better Sadako in every way besides the pathetic condemned mechanic
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I would be happy with ONLY her lullaby to be removed. That's what bothers me most, otherwise I love playing with Sadako
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I tried to get a daily ritual on her done, one which requires you to mori someone as her. After countless failed attempts of making her power work I went with a mori instead. I still got stomped.
It's absolutely ridiculous how the devs outright neglect this pathetic excuse for a stealth killer. A cooldown of 100 seconds for a tv is LAUGHABLE compared to Dredge's almost nonexistent cooldowns and superior map control. And even he is considered one of the weaker killers in this game, now evaluate where exactly Sadako stands in comparison to that.
She's without a doubt among the bottom 3 killers in this entire game, what a disgrace.
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Tbf, Dredge can straight up be worse than Sadako on some maps with basically no lockers. Swamp maps in particularly can be a pain, but a lot of Autohaven map tiles don't spawn lockers as well so maps like Gas Haven and Blood Lodge have massive dead zones of no lockers.
Sadako at the very least is more or less consistent with her strength on every map since she's always guaranteed a TV spawn by a gen (granted some tv spawns can still suck).
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Freddy would like a word with you
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What killer is that? I'm pretty sure such a killer exists only in your dreams.
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*sigh* yeah, that's really how it feels at times, lol
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She doesn't need to be buffed, are you kidding me!? lol
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New PTB is out and still nothing for poor Sadako. This girl truly has been forgotten.
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This is BHVR. They are slow. Very slow. At everything.
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do they need licence holder permission to do ANY changes? Surely not ?
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Yep, together with Trapper and Freddy.
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Worsed license killer has to be Freddy, just to clear that up.
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Because people found this 1 niche build, where you're not even playing killer properly, that uses pink and green add-ons just to pull off, which seems to work pretty well on her. And also because people are insisting that she's really good, either because of that build or for other random reasons.
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With this same logic I can just post an entire album of me escaping each of the most broken Killer combos multiple times in SoloQ and then say they should never buff it because people should just get better and try different perks to survive more
Condemnation overall isn't a threat to smart players the majority of the time, even when Sadako uses the one strong build she has. If you or your teammates are constantly building a fast/high amount of stacks against Sadakos then its actually you guys being inefficient, not the character somehow being strong. In the time she's spending trying to play aggressive Hit n Run you guys can easily pump gens and pop a tape if it was actually necessary. You can literally cancel your stacks right in front of her face faster than she can knock you down and Mori... Ask the majority of players here if they can count on more than one hand how many times they've died because of reaching max condemned
I'd be rich if I had a dollar for every time somebody has used that other basic argument too
Guys Trapper is fine, some random with a gimmicky build just 4kd my trash SoloQ team on a bad map. Its been 6 years but he actually doesn't need a buff, you just gotta practice more
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That's just how people are in this community. I, a Survivor main that also has 1k+ Ghostface only kills was told to 'get better' as Killer and with him by people with less escapes/kills than me just because I would say that he needed to be buffed. They don't think Sadako needs a buff now but ask them why they believe SoloQ needs them then (It does and so does Sadako but they won't know how to explain that part)
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No she is not.
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I think 1 + 3 + 5 would be great for her. All 5 might make her overkill.
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I'm afraid that she might be forgotten about like Pig and Myers. I hope that's not the case because she desperately needs some buffs along with the two other killers mentioned. 🙁
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Did you used to have the Pig as your picture? Or do I have you confused with another Pig player
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If I were to guess I'd say because BHVR doesn't want to overtune a killer with an insta-kill mechanic, so they're being very careful. Look at how weird they are towards Pig, and she's hardly A-tier.
Everyone agrees Sadako needs something(anything) to pull her out the gutter.
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You can't even argue these days about Pig. They'll just say, "If you just run 4 slowdown perks on her, she's fine. If you still can't win, that's a skill issue." Oh, I guess suddenly she stops being an M1 killer who can't down anyone simply because I run slowdown on her. It's like a bad joke or something, or like they don't play the killer they're talking about.
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New patch is out and still NO help for Sadako whatsoever. How much longer are they going to neglect this sad excuse for a stealth killer? She's borderline unplayable, she has no actual power which could actually help her chase down survivors or apply global pressure.
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Sadako is fine.
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I feel like that is a poor comparison.
Myers just has to get close and press M1.
Sadako actually has to get you on the ground, and Condemnation comes with no special effects to help with a chase to get you on said ground.
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Dunno what you were expecting, tbh. It wasn't in the PTB, how could they ever have gotten that done in the between the PTB and the release?
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She's fine. She's just very difficult to play well.
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I think making her TVs have a much shorter cooldown would be a good start though.
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