Billy Players, What Are Your Thoughts On This Patch?

I wish some addon numbers were increased but overall I'm satisfied

The overheat isn't as bad as it was but it was never needed in the first place.

What I'd really love is A) a PROPER addon update - some of his are the absolute worst in the game. Seriously. An addon that makes you charge the chainsaw marginally faster *after being blinded*. An Iri that makes your chainsaw silent - but only for those outside your terror radius. The list goes on.

I don't play him, but I've seen so many more people playing him including some ex Billy mains and they've been some of the most fun games I've had since literally patch 4.2.0. Ran from one guy so long I managed to convince him to just 1v1 me at shack during EGC and was laughing maniacally the entire time (according to the friend I was playing with, it was "minorly unhinged").

If this keeps up, there's no way it can't be a net positive.

Hes amazing and with overheat basically gone i can't complain.

This guy basically has it. Though ill disagree on the iri its probably one of his better ones. Silent saw with undetectable has gotten me so much downs lol. But yeah the flashlight one. And some others really need fixes.

Yeah ive had a few games like that where its the last 2 survivors and me and one of the survivors just 1v1 for a few minutes. So nice.

Still needs an addon pass. This patch change was pretty much just for engravings styled Billy. Billys who saw constantly at medium range with low chance of hitting.

Theres so many addons that are just dumpster. Both overheated addons are a meme. It’s even harder to force an overheat to get the effect.

Black Grease is still against his interest and Billy works where he never has to be blinded, ever. It also breaks with Lightborn. Maybe if the time was massively increased but literally never should want to be blinded.

His iridescents are still not strong enough combined. I think if they both marginally increased his turn rate, double iri would be worth bringing. +15% each. Without this change, they instantly become useless upon loading into certain maps. Like Lerys. Instantly have no effect because no ability to navigate.

I think Tuned Carb, Lopro are fine enough. The Spiked Boots don’t need a penalty.

His greens are okay. If they don’t want to buff yellows, Ill be fine but they could use it.

Billy has been dead a very long time.

I haven't played him yet this patch but he looks a lot less reliant on muffler (thank god) so I can use the chainsaw noise addon instead with engraving. His chainsaw noise is so loud and it hurts to play him after a while so I had to choose between muffler for more consistent chainsaw gameplay or the noise reduction addon. Thankfully I probably don't have to choose anymore. I wish they'd just remove overheat overall but I'll take what I can get (hopefully what I can get isn't a headache from Billy's chainsaw)

These overheat changes are not good.

How about we have : no overhead unless you are within 16m of a hook where someone is hooked?

The devs told us that overheat was added to prevent people from using the saw to guard unhooks so that would prevent such a scenario.

I still don't think he's playable without map offerings. It's a complete waste of time to play Billy without one, because there are so many maps where he basically doesn't have a power. I just went Lerys/RPD back to back and closed the game. A couple days ago I went Garden of Joy/RPD/Midwich/Badham/RPD in some order. This game is OBSESSED with giving you RPD. It makes Billy an expensive killer to play if you care about having fun. You need a combo of his 3 good add ons against good players (engravings/Lo Pro) and a map offering to avoid fun-vampire maps.

That and they need to do a pass over the maps - there are far too many tiny twigs sticking out that knock Billy on his ass. It's ridiculous! Then you get a map like RPD in which case just accept that you're getting 1 kill at most if you're lucky.