Dredge is not that fun to play as. Do you agree?

Yes, i used to play a lot on him and after a series of terrible matches, I still can't find strength to play for him again :D

Tbf, at the same time, he is solo destroyer. If locker rng allows you to have a good map pressure and you know how to use it, solo players just can't keep up with it. But like against good SWF he feels like Tier F killer.

He definately should spawn more lockers across the map, Haddie's calendar should be basekit and maybe increase walking speed while holding remnant. I would like to see some addons buff/rework as well.

dredge feels like slow slog. any time I play him, it feels like i'm moving at 4.45m/s lol.

idk man, lockers are just overly punishing, remnant usage is slow, tp's are very slow, cooldown is really long, catching up is really punishing, locker placements are super inconsistent. I want to love him so bad, but these make for a very sloppy feeling killer.

sadly i feel he needs more than just number changes to feel good. locker placements are obviously a very difficult thing to manage for all of these maps and variations, but something just needs to be done. it's a shame so much of his power weighs on the RNG placement of regular environment objects, especially in some maps that don't compensate for a killer power needing them at all. just sad.

I think he's fun and decently strong, however he is very much map dependant, he dominates on indoor maps like Lerys and Hawkins but absolutely sucks on Coldwind

Extra locker spawns would make him so much better

I thought he felt a bit slow when he was released and it hasn't changed. It's just not my kind of killer, I guess.

Big agree.

The Freakin' tele locker grabs man. It amazes me how I can still get these grabs pretty often to this day with Dredge alone and no other killer. Love when a match starts and right when you teleport to your very 1st locker you see that surv aura inside the locker and it does his bad ass animation of you grabbing them and manifesting out of the locker with them on your shoulder. SNIPING the first hook in the opening moments of the match. I always wonder what's going through the survs mind when it happens because I am always shooketh. Istg it'll be just out of the blue like " Oh, Hello There." Besides being able to even do it, just being able to do that more than occasionaly makes him 10/10 on the fun meter for me.

The only thing that would take him from Fun to Super Happy Dredge Fun Time would be the addition of more lockers, and that's not even the worst restraint to have compared to most of the original roster 😅

Hes mid at best if survivors are decent, locking one locker at a time makes him "negating counterplay" obsolete because he does not get the chance to break the lock, good loopers bait remnant tps to keep looping as they know he loses bloodlust, double backing and memorizing where loops are/geometry of tiles is just a given with good survivors so most players if they have played in that map before have no issue with nightfall (aside from probably the ones who get nausea from it), contrary to what you believe dredge does NOT get aura reading in nightfall, its a killer isntinct only near your tped locker.

Additionally he has a cooldown of 12 seconds for each power use and is the loudest character in the game, making pinpointing him at a loop and avoiding him sneaking on you incredibly easy.

Saying dredge has too much going for him shows a lack understanding of what essentially is a glorified m1 killer that a decent survivor should be able to dunk on easily.

If he had that dredge would be useless in maps like haddonfield and shelter woods, which would be fun for survivors because who doesnt love a killer without a power but awfull for the killer player.

He needs a lot of minor changes imo. Nothing drastic, but it feels like he has a lot of smaller issues that add up to a lot. I love Dredge, I’ve been playing him since his release, I just hope he gets looked at sometime since he hasn’t had any changes since shortly after his release and he kinda needs them.

For one, some maps need more lockers. Map RNG (and associated locker and generator placements) are too much of a factor into his strength. If you get a map with not very many lockers, or get generator spawns that aren’t near lockers, that hurts Dredge a lot and there’s nothing you can do about it as a player.

Second, locks are a little too punishing. Maybe hot take: I’m completely fine with the double locker system where you always go to the locked locker; trying to select individual lockers in a cluster (like you could try to do on the PTB) was very finicky and hard to do properly. I’d rather see the base time to exit a locked locker reduced to 2.5 seconds instead (and decrease the Haddie’s Calendar effect from -1 to -0.5) to make locks a bit weaker while still being effective.

Third, he’s too loud. You can easily hear him coming in Nightfall (even if you don’t see him) because of how loud he is and you can constantly hear him through walls too. I’m fine with the Remnant holding speed being a bit slow, I think it’s good for survivors to have adequate counterplay, but being able to hear him that easily hurts his mindgame potential a bit and diminishes how effective Nightfall can be.

His addons are also a bit of a mess. He has some that are actually really good, but some others that are useless. Malthinker’s Skull is by far the best Nightfall-building addon (probably even too strong tbh) and all the others for faster Nightfall building are just terrible. It doesn’t take long for Skull to give you the value you would’ve gotten from any of the other ones (Fallen Shingle, Wooden Plank, Burnt Letters) and then it just continues giving you more, making it by far the best choice for that. War Helmet and Air Freshener are also not that good.

Destroying the remnant doesn’t reduce Nightfall time (and never did). It was originally in his power description but it was never actually a thing. The devs removed that line from the power description at some point so it’s not there anymore.

His chase power is pretty dog, if there is any connecting loop or pallet nearby, it doesnt matter if you have a section blocked off by teleportation, survivors will just walk away while you're still slowed.

it's a shame that the most horror killer in DBD isnt scary because he isnt a threat.

As a former Dredge main, my experiences with playing them seem to range from decently fun to wildly demoralizing. I only really mained them because of how much I loved the overall design. The gameplay was just barely fun enough to keep me around.

He's a lot more fun to play as then against though he's on the low end of killer playtime for me.

His remnant mechanic is basically his antiloop. If that was removed then survivors could just loop him like any other regular m1 killer. As a form of antiloop it's still much easier to play against than Artist's crows and Pyramid Head's M2, and around longer loops it's really hard to use effectivelly anyway.

I understand you've not played him so you only have the survivor perspective but the stats themselves show that even with his remnant he's still mid-tier at best. Removing that would send him down to hang out with Trapper, Myers and Freddy.

Dredge being forced to go to locked lockers was one thing I always thought was dumb.