Why is Skull Merchant still not altered?

i think your more describing forever freddy where people would bring swing chains, jump rope and pop+ruin+sloppy+thano to endless 3 gen the game. I think doctor's version was running distressing, hex:ruin, overcharge and unnerving presence. doctor had these add-on called order add-on that made his static charge build madness over time. the way it worked was that the closer you were in heartbeat, the more madness would build-up and order add-on increased the amount of static charge build-up. the result was that you could never cleanse ruin because the survivor would constantly go into tier 3 interrupt the totem cleanse. all you could do is work on gens that would constantly be affected by old hex:ruin skill-checks on top of the madness making skill-check harder and an unlimited source of overcharge skill-checks since doctor would just spend time in treatment mode walking around kicking gens 24/7 until server closes.

skull merchant is new old hostage doctor with shotgun speakers and that other grey add-on to regress gens.

Back in 2019, there was no limit to how long a game could be extended. I don't believe dedicated servers were even officially released at that point either.

A doctor back in 2019 could hold the game forever whereas a Skull Merchant game ends in an hour.

The 3 gen problem has two parts to it, and both need to be addressed at the same time.

1) Killers that are just patrolling and kicking generators, and refusing to commit to a chase with a survivor, is a major problem.

2) Survivors that are excessively pre-leaving generators before the killer arrives, and refusing to commit to repairing generators, is a major problem.

Any 3 gen fix that addresses problem 1, without addressing problem 2, will just encourage survivors to get easy wins by excessively pre leaving generators. For example, if BHVR just forces a generator to be super far away, then survivors can excessively pre leave generators, and easily win, because the travel time between generators is too long for the killer to defend. If BHVR forces generator regression to have a limit, then survivors will excessively pre leave generators until the max generator regression happens, then they get their easy win.

If only "Gen Tapping" doesn't exist; I dislike the fact that 2.5 seconds of a killer's time to instant regress 2.5 charges of a generator repair and start thw regression, can be undone by a Survivor Tapping the gen repair button and leave it so it doesn't regress. It is also possible to fix a generator silently, by constantly Tapping the generator and cut off gen audible that way, when the killer is close and not focus on the generator while chasing another survivor.

If only, Survivor need to do a instant skill check, like Overcharge to undo a killer's regression. 3 gens is difficult, because of map rng and sometimes, survivor mistakes when they get herded to go fixing Generators in the "safer parts of the map" and less focus on the gens that need priority.

Why would any killer commit to a chase, when the survivors are never at the generators when the killer gets there? I know we were told the visual terror radius doesn't provide more information than the audio terror radius, but it really does feel like survivors are excessively pre-leaving generators way more often since the visual terror radius was added to the game.

The lullaby radius and terror radius have way too much distance, considering how super instant the survivors get warned by the visual terror radius.

This is a great thing to know. If I can give some tips for early changes, as Skull Merchant main, I think this stuff can help at making the experience less miserable against her in the short time. Also some of the changes I thought for her in general and other stuff I thought about after I made this document.

• Skillcheck Add-Ons have to go: Shotgun Speaker and Adi Valente are not healthy and make that playstyle too rewarding (Eternal, the best team in the world, admitted that skillchecks were the hardest part to manage during that showcase of 52 minutes). A fast fix can be increasing the possibility of having more skillchecks under the drone and decreasing the great skillcheck area for Adi Valente. In the long time I would suggest avoiding stuff that has effects on skillchecks at all.
• Brown Noise Generator: Oblivious is active for XX seconds (30?) after that a Clawtrap is deactivated. I think that Skull Merchant stealth potential should be applied from a correct use of her power and that add-on is too obnoxious as it is in its current status in indoor maps.

Of my suggested changes, longer clawtraps and unhackable status being removed are the most important and can be applied sooner than later. Unhackable is what makes her more oppressive, considering the time survivors have to wait to deactivate a drone safely and how she can just remove and replace the drone to restore the unhackable, making it kinda infinite. Removing unhackable would make the clawtrap gaming more effective and forcing the killer at taking choices based on the infos she gets, while getting some chasing buffs.

I know it takes time for a deeper rework, but maybe these tips can work while we wait for the more important changes, making the experience against Skull Merchant less problematic. Thank you for your time and patience <3

Killswitch her 3 gen addons then,please. They arent useful anywhere BUT 3 genning. Nobody will miss them.

Not true. Her addons substantially carry a lot of the experience. If you saw the world chess championship team Eternal (i believe) match a lot of the missed skillchecks happened purely due to addons. Hearing her come over also is harder due to the obli addon.

These people have been waiting for months already. Instead of saying we are working on it, give us a way out when we encounter skull merchant. Playing against 3 gens skull merchant is hopeless and time wasting.