Dev Update Feedback

With the dev update out, I wanted to see what kind of changes would be made from the PTB especially in regards to Sadako, Blight and the Hillbilly.

Sadako

I understand, that her PTB version with locked in condemned did promote tunneling and that this is not what we want. However, this change is pretty terrible because it only promotes slugging even more. Think about it: If you hook someone twice, you can lock in 4 stacks of condemned. That's 4/7th (a bit less because you still need to find and down them after applying the condemned stacks). But when you have that survivor hooked twice, why in the world would you go for a condemned kill, then? It's faster to try and hook them again.

But since Sadako is undeniably weak in chase, she will not focus on that. Instead, you will find players only chasing to get people off gens and then teleport to quickly spread condemned. There is no incentive to end a chase and there is no reason why they would waste their time hooking survivors. Slugging becomes her default play style again.

The 10 seconds cooldown to spreading condemned are understandable but a huge nerf none the less. A nerf that would need to come with some compensatory buffs. These however did not happen. Sadako would have been a somewhat decent killer, had you taken her from the PTB straight to live. But with both of these nerfs, you make her only viable play style (focusing on condemned over hooks) less of a threat and remove any incentive for her to hook survivors.

There were tons of feedback with ideas on how to make her just a little bit stronger and give her a little extra edge. None of that was used. Her second terrible addon pass was not updated. I can only think of this as laziness. Her addons are still terrible and there was enough feedback on it. The Ring Drawing is now more required than ever because otherwise tapes are no threat whatsoever.

Basically you managed to rework her into a weaker version of her original self. With all the downsides but none of the upsides.

Blight

C33 is probably in a better spot now. We'll see how it does, once the Blight mains have gotten used to it.

Blight Tag is still awful. Infinite Rushes are a bad design. It feels awful to play against because you have absolutely no counterplay and it's still pretty over the top because good Blight players will guarantee hits every 20 seconds anyway. This one needs a completely different effect.

Adrenaline Vial... Yes it's busted again. Congrats.

Hillbilly

Greased Throttle and Thompson Mix will be pretty good with these changes. Although, it makes me question if this is a good idea. Missing a chainsaw should still come with a draw back. Not as excruciating as it is on live servers but this seems like a bad idea. We'll see though.

Thermal Casing and Ragged Engine still won't be good. You are highly encouraged to use your chainsaw as much as possible, so the effects don't really come into play that often. They need new effects.

High Speed Idler Screw and Discarded Air Filter are still useless. These addons are by design not useful in any way. There is no niche to make them at least somewhat good. You could bring nothing at all and you'd still be in the exact same spot because all it takes for the heat to stop dissipating is revving the chainsaw for a moment. These 2 addons need entirely new effects. You could triple the numbers and they'd still be bad.

I am a bit sad to see that there is no change planned for the SFX volume of the chainsaw. We couldn't have possibly been more clear, that it was simply too loud. Please, turn that down by 30% (old Off-Brand Motor Oil value). You cannot expect people to play a killer that even on lower volumes causes earache.

Test it for yourselves. Just go into a custom game with normal volume and then run around with the chainsaw for a bit. After 10 minutes this becomes unbearable. It is a huge quality of life issue that would be quite simple to fix.