Would you rather want to have OG-Freddy back or current Freddy with Buffs?

OG Freddy

Ill take fun and unique gameplay over something boring just so its viable.

Old Freddy. That one was at least a faithful adaptation. He was unique and, from what I've read other people say about him, fun. Sadly, I was not around to experience this version of Freddy.

Current Freddy has nothing to do with the actual movies. I mean Dream Snares?! Come on, BHVR. Surely you can do better than that.

I would say OG Freddy but Self Care hard countered them and I rather not have Self Care rise in usage in my SoloQ games.

I would much rather have OG Freddy.

i mean they could legit just combine old freddy and new freddy.

For example, they can just make him a stance character where if you press control, you lose the ability to m1 but you can pull people into dream world from a distance by clicking m1. M2 allows you to teleport to gens. Pressing control again brings you back to regular freddy with snares and m1.

after that, just revert some of changes.

such as terror radius reduced from 32 -> 24 meters.

-lullaby is only present outside of dream world.

-survivors aura reading is shown when outside terror radius.

-freddy snares no longer slow him down to 100%. he maintains 115% m/s.

bring back some of old pre-reworked freddy add-on's.

I feel true nirvana lies somewhere in the middle personally.

The uniqueness of Old Freddy was:

• Being a truly invisible stealth killer with a non durectional lullaby.
• He cannot be interacted with or interrupted by awake survivors. He in turn couldn't interact or stop awake survivors until dream transitioning them.
• Monstrous levels of slowdown for Survivors he managed to keep in the dream state, and ofc the ability to track them at all times.

Modern Freddy is rather generic... kinda like some weird mashup of Clown and Sadako but not as good as either respectively. He gets to attack awake survivors and have pressure off the get go as a teleporting m1 killer... his dream world hides his TR and is otherwise gives him some basic anti loop.

I feel there is some combination between the 2 that can work. I want the stealth aspect and fear of the dream world of old Freddy back... but I also want the passive slowdown of micro sleep and thecdrean pallets from modern Freddy.

I like the idea of old Freddy, but I'd tweak it to some idea like: -

• Instead of Freddy transitioning a survivor to sleep, survivors build micro sleep.
• Survivors can not see their micro sleep timer, and conspicuous actions accelerate it. They are not pulled into the dream world when full.
• When micro-sleep is full Freddy can be seen like the dream transition phase. Loud noise notifications will pull them into the dream world (missed skill checks, unhooks, vaults or fast lockers, etc).
• Freddy immediately becomes fully visible during a basic attack. Hitting a basic attack on a survivor will pull them into the dream world. If their micro sleep timer is full, they are also wounded.
• Freddy can channel for 1.5 secs to mark a nearby pallet. If that pallet is thrown by an asleep survivor or transitions that survivor into the dream world, it functions as a Dream Pallet. Only 4 pallets can be marked at any time, removing the oldest.
• Instead of permanent aura read, survivors who transition into the dream state have their aura revealed for 10 seconds, and survivors performing a conspicuous action are also revealed outside of Freddy's TR.
• Remove failed skillchecks as a means of waking up. Keep the alarm clock. Alerted survivors cannot be dream transitioned with basic attacks. This gives a race to the clock kind of mini game.

Something like that. People smarter than me can probably do a better job, but you get the idea.

Didn't care for the og or current. I'd give his power an overhaul that makes him more viable and more sense for his lore. While I think it would be balanced, im sure survivers would hate it XD