Does Anyone like playing against Skull Merchant
I have never had a game against Skull Merchant where it felt fun. Does anyone see Skull Merchant and think, "Whooppee! This will be fun"?
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Yes actually, I have played her a lot since release I can easily tell you that playing against her is actually fun to against when you know what you’re doing.
her pre-mini rework version was boring yes, but her new version is actually fun, since now drones cannot be spammed because while a clawtrap is on a survivor, she won’t get the drone back.
she’s counterable if you play smart, if you harass gens properly, if you don’t just give up. You can beat her. Especially since OverBrine meta is dead.
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I love hacking her drones. But overall i do like playing against her because it really test your coordination with your team with generator pressure. I like that. But as a solo q player, i can tell based on the rate my team are hitting gens if we will win or not against her.
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I've only met SMs who tried to 3 gen so... nah
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Gun drone mini game, other than that no. I don't like to be forced to leave a loop
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Even when you beat her I can't say it was fun or worth the insane effort. I think she is a complete failure except for her sounds. The sound design team did a great job. Everything else is terrible, she looks horrible.
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What I don't get is the community hated the Knight. So what do the developers do? Give us a worse version of the Knight with much greater opps to 3 Gen. Behaviour has to at some point and say, "WE need to make this game fun for everyone, not just a challenge for swf teams."
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I don’t mind her tbh. M1 chases are fun and longer match equals more bloodpoints (still don’t like it past 40 minutes though)
Plus hacking drones is fun
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There was a brief spike in Skullies who would run a stealth-chase crossover build; place drones not on top of gens but strategically on tiles to get undetectable and sneak up on survs / make mindgames much harder in not-see-over-tiles etc. That was actually somewhat fun.
Since then it's been back to gen defender Skullies who refuse to leave their three gen area. And while most three gens are technically possible to break (there are still three gens that are impossible to break when two levels are involved; pathing makes it pretty impossible to manage drones & gens) it is the antithesis of fun to me - and takes ages on top of it (most other palystyles that have similar fun levels are at least over within 10 mins).
And just like a killer is not playing for the survs entertainment, survs are not obliged to play for the killers entertainment; I get what I need to blackpip, advance my archive and then I'm outta there asap.
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No, and I can't express why without getting banned.
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Except for the tunneling/camping ones, SM can be fun to play against IF that player decides to play well (committing to chase, instaed of chasing away survs on 3 gens and kicking gens on repeat)
I too like her hacking mechanic with her drones, it adds more gameplay, maybe like the Onryo, but she needs some rework.
Her 3 gens is too still to strong, some players are abusing it and the OverBrine nerf only slightly reduced it.
SoloQ can be sometimes tenuous because some players can't hit the Overcharge skillcheck but that is another prob
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To be fair, they are working months ahead. By the time people started to complain a lot about Knight, Skull Merchant was probably allready close to finish by then. They can't just suddenly rework everything in 2 months + have mid chapter ready.
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Yes, I do play her offten.
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Hacking drones isn't interesting for the moment, they'll just come back everytime the SM come back at the Generator.
They should be limited in numbers.
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Nope, but I haven't seen her in two weeks. Hope this trend continues.
I played exactly one game as her (haven't bought the crappy expansion though), it was awful for everyone involved. After 15 minutes I just let survs go with one kill and severe distaste on my side. Hope that next killer won't suck as hard.
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Plus she started as the Predator and had to be changed when licensing was lost. This shortened her development time. It will be interesting to see her once she gets Nerfed. They could tweak her and make her fun.
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They can’t be fully limited as that would just force merchant to place them at loops only instead
There would be no point in placing drones before a chase as they would just get hacked and you would lose it permanently
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Exactly, currently she has an unlimited amount of drones. The whole drone aspect was not well thought out. I do appreciate they went back and adjusted the code entering mechanics, now if you use a gamepad it is not an automatic fail.
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No.
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this is flat out not true lmao.
people that still believe this theory have straight up lost it, i’m actually dumbfounded.
licensed are secured months in advance and a license holder can’t just pull out last minute unless BHVR hadn’t fully secured it.
ntm, i don’t think ToT would’ve had a full 1 minute trailer if it was “rushed”
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Well that resolve a lot of problems, they just have to make the pirating thing more harder and interesting.
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I’ve only seen her like two or three times since her release, so I haven’t been able to form an opinion.
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A killer that forces me to Shift + W? No thanks.
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Nope, it's the only killer that makes me want to kill myself on first hook.
I am fine with nurse, blight, spirit, bubba camping, tunneling. But camping gens and extending matches for 2 hours while not being even fun in chase.
Yeah, get the free win, i just want to go for other match
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I'm not a masochist and it can be fun to go against, especially in 3 gens situation.
The only thing not fun about her is that you either:
- Cannot hack more than 1 drone.
- Drones will always come back.
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