BHVR’s doubling down on the Skull Merchant is remarkable
Not in a good way. I don’t hate her as much as most but the community consensus is clear. Very least that could be done is to replace her specific tome challenges.
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Me: not playing survivor this Tome unless I'm in a full SWF with stacked Potential Energy and Prove
Problem: my usual SWF is playing Deceive Inc instead because this Tome is a Skull Merchant Tome and every 3rd or 4th game is a SM game
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Skull Merchant isnt even very strong, but survivors love to complain about everything.
Every killer must be the same, and has no powers, only allowed which can be taken away by survivors.
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You forgot that they can't be anti-loop, because Survivors expect to loop every killer for a minimum of 5 minutes before needing to drop a pallet.
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I love how you're dismissing the issue with some irrelevant, cookie-cutter and barely thought out us vs them response. It becomes worrying when ChatGPT can probably provide a far more insightful response than a human could.
SM is an exceptionally unpleasant experience for the survivor side, and barely any fun for most killer players since she's virtually useless without her 3-gen strat. Just because some some edge case survivors complain about everything doesn't mean the SM issue is invalid nor that most survivor players think anything close to what you've said.
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Why do you respect SM power so much?
Why cant you loop her?
As far as I know she is an extremely weak m1 killer, plaything for survivors.
But for some reason her drones are very well respected, yet survivors has no issue going vs plague, with 1 health, or has no issue, against Legion with 1 health.
But ohhh SM is too much, i really dont get it.
She has no power, outside making you exposed, and seeing you.
M1 loop her, dont fear the exposed lol.
Do gens, but hey easier to say, remove her, make her Myers basekit without exposed.
I really dont understand survivors
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I don't.
It requires her chasing me. Most do not.
She is. A weak killer doesn't automatically mean fun, nor does strong mean unfun. I love Wesker, I hate Trapper. And yet one is strong and one is pure garbage.
What do you mean by respect? She doesn't commit to chases so deactivating the drone doesn't cause any problems and prevents an insta-down if she ever gets the jump on you with her undetectable.
What do you mean by 'too much'? She's miserable to play again. I can guarantee wins every match against her with a SWF. But guess what? These matches still last 20 minutes. Yes, 20 minutes, on a good SWF. Imagine how bad it sucks in the average public match.
She has the power to aggressively control an area. The exposed opens a survivor to being quickly slugged if they ever dare to commit to a gen for more than 10 seconds. I don't think you're capable of connecting the individual issues to draw the bigger picture. It's concerning.
How do you loop a killer that abandons chase five seconds in?
People do gens. The problem is it takes 20+ minutes on a good team. Nobody is saying she's strong. People are saying she's complete garbage design.
I really don't understand how this is difficult for you to grasp. Even the diehard killer main content creators admit she's total crap.
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You're wasting your time with your comments, his cliche takes on the game shows me he's not experienced yet in this game and just goes with mainstream ideas that are shown in this forum.
Everyone and their daugther knows about the SM problem and people who deny it just are lucky enough to never play against one of the hunderds who play like that with this killer.
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True. SM got on my nerves recently so I was in one of those moods regarding that character. I know full well no one in their right mind actually thinks SM is fine.
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How exactly are they doubling down? They have told us before new releases get tomes quickly.
What exactly are you expecting OP? a new power? Extreme nerfs(bad news she can still 3 gen even with no power or perks)? Something else entirely?
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m1 killer without any power, thats what the survivors want.
Truth be told they dont like her design, wanted a male robot, or a disfigured half robot, half human faced female monster.
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Whats she can do that the Knight cant do better?
Yet Knight much more beloved lol.
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Knight has an objectively better written lore, his design appeals to more people and his power has more personality to it with the guards
It's pretty telling when some people are claiming to be "good" SMs but they have to avoid playing the way she's clearly intended to be played and have to use purple addons 24/7 for their playstyle
That's why people like Knight more
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No offense, but your hatred of SM is quite cliche in itself, just learn to play, there must be a killer you personally dislike because offends you in some way, learn to accept that you cant like everything.
SM wont be deleted, wont be reworked, just move on.
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My hatred is a shared hatred by the community who knows how scummy SM players play the game, ignoring all the purpose of chase. Luckily after 3k hours I think ive learnt to play quite well in both roles, didn't learn how to break her forced 3 gens with solo queue team or even duo yet :)
I assume she will be reworked btw, if the mass dc and hook suicide against her will continue.
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I assume she will be reworked btw, if the mass dc and hook suicide against her will continue.
The devs should never balance around salty players who DC and give up, or said players will use that mechanic to force changes on every Killer they dislike.
DC and hook-DCs should be punished with bans. Not rewarded with changes. You don't give a tantruming toddler the lollipop they want, after all, or you're reinforcing the idea that a temper tantrum can get them what they want.
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True, but games shouldnt extend to lengths or 20 minutes or above either just cause the player behind the screen decided to camp 3 gens from the start instead of chasing, cause he doesn't like to chase he liked to win only.
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Whatever feelings about this newest chapter aside, there was one thing which strikes me as a poor business model regarding not just the Skull Merchant, but also the survivors:
Having the tome based solely on a new chapter struck me as odd because, in order to do the tasks, BHVR put all the new perks in the Shrine of Secrets early. So, since survivors are basically skins, people don't need to fork a lot of shards or money on the survivors, but instead just get the perks with shards. Same with the Skull Merchant - people who don't like her but maybe think her perks are worth it just go and get it there.
Sure you can buy everything with shards for the original chapter anyway. However, a lot of people do buy with money and now the playerbase understands this is the model BHVR want to carry on, people may just wait for the perks to appear om the Shrine, which they know will come soon because of the tomes. BHVR then may lose a decent bit of revenue.
This is a concerning business strategy to me. I'm hoping I'm missing something.
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The reasoning of your posts doesn't make any sense.
You start by saying survivors just complain about everything.
Then you talk about looping, but the person you are responding too isn't discussing looping at all.
Then you say they actually dislike her because of her design.
Then you say Knight is more beloved, even though that disagrees with your survivors complain about everything.
As you say you don't understand survivors, let me explain:
Skull merchant is not fun to play against.
Can she be beaten? Yes. Is her 3 genning strong? Not particularly. Is it fun? No, it's a slow annoying battle of move in, retreat, move back in. Much better since the last patch, it no longer is going to eat up an hour, but still a drawn out mess.
Does every survivor have certain killers they dislike? Yes. However, that doesn't change the fact that far more survivors dislike skully than any other.
And yes, lots of people dislike her design. While I don't have a problem with that, nothing wrong with people saying that her design ruins the immersion of the game. Just because someone says they don't like something doesn't mean they are automatically talking balance.
The one thing you are right on is she's probably not going anywhere or getting any major changes, but that shouldn't stop people from voicing their dislike.
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