Why limit Freddy's teleport to unfinished gens?

Yes, buff his teleport and make sure everyone starts in dreamworld regardless of the add-ons. Plus, make the blood effect apply to all gens. That should also be basekit.

It's Freddy....

Are you surprised?

I'm with you dear friend. The original NoEM DLC is what made me buy DBD back in 2019 in the first place as I was a big fan of the movies. I played a solid amount of old Freddy and though it wasn't easy at times he was still fun to play even if he was on weak tier side.

I bought the base game together with the DLC in 2018.

He was the first killer I played, my favorite killer ever. Then he gets replaced by something else in 2019 and that isn't fair.

The only thing Freddy has going for him is the fact that he is Freddy Krueger, a legendary character. Because his current power is boring to the extreme and his add-ons are useless. The only thing worth salvaging is his teleport, and even that has its problems, hence this thread.

Just checked a video from Otz showcasing his power. This is a video from 2018.

The ability to individually pull everyone into the dreamworld and make them slower was very exciting.

Was it too OP because of the aura reading ability and that is why he got reworked?

Nope.

If you wake up, the effect is gone. And there was, unfortunately, a 10 second delay between a survivor leaving your Terror Radius and their aura being shown.

He had one weakness: inability to interrupt survivors from finishing a generator or getting an unhook right in front of you if you weren't asleep. But that could have been easily fixed without a full rework. We didn't have the Incapacitated status effect back then, but we did have Madness 3.

I am not sure what was the full reasoning behind the rework when it was clearly not needed.

But my guess? Because some people played him in the exact same way people used to play Wraith (focusing the first person they saw), and if you ask those people they will say Freddy was F Tier.

Of course a slightly better Old Wraith isn't impressive, but it was 100% their own fault for not playing him properly and refusing to learn the specifics of his power.

My guess at a serious answer that isn't just that BHVR hates Freddy, is that it likely has to do with how the gen display is coded. All killers are able to see all uncompleted gens. Potentially Freddy's power plays off the display that already exists, while Sadako and Xeno add new things to the map.

So if Freddy could teleport to any generator they would need to write a 'how to display gens' code for just Freddy with a different type of outline for completed gens.

If I'm in anyway right about the above, then they would have considered creating a different display mechanic to show completed gens for just one killer as either too confusing/frustrating for players, not worth the time, or outright impossible.

I can see the potential that it would be confusing/frustrating leading to complaints (which also means it might not be just a code issue). While I'd love to be able to teleport to any gen, I'd be really annoyed if I selected the wrong one at a critical time.

It bvhr that why. What if they use an unused color and then we get Myers teleporting to gens instead of Freddy.

It's not a color issue. Talking about killer displays, all killers have the same display in that the code shows them unfinished gens. All killers have access to the same perks, so the code doesn't need to change the display whether it is a Xeno or a Bubba, so a perk like surveillance acts the same on both of them.

If Freddy had access to finished gens, then there would be need to be unique code for Freddy.

Additionally it would likely be a clutter issue for many players. Even if the ability existed most of the time the killer would want to teleport to the unfinished gens. I can imagine a situation where I want to teleport across map in a hurry and I have to waste time moving around to get the teleport past a finished gen that is in the middle.

Add to this when he was coded the idea of teleporting was new. Things like Sadako adding in her own teleport to device was probably influenced by what they learned from Freddy. When/if they rework him they may think of a better/different way to approach it.

You asked why it is the way it is, that's my guess, some combination of the above. I highly doubt its just because BHVR hates Freddy.

Clutter: It would be more. That amount of teleport locations would always be up. It's very rare other than the very start of the match for Sadako to have all of her TVs up.

They're probably scared to touch freddy considering how miserable he used to be. Last changes were 2021 where they did the laziest possible retooling of his slowdown addons and threw random nerfs at him hoping he'd go away.

Freddy is just a victim of "statistics". If you look at any of the released winrates for killers you'll notice an obvious trend of what the average player considers a bad killer soaring to the top. It's because he has stealth, mobility, m1 perks, and some passive slowdown. This is the type of killer who destroys the bottom half of the player base which is a lot of people.