I miss slingers quickscope tbh
He feels so clumsy in chase now. Surprised it hasnt been buffed to 0.3s or 0.25s.
Combine that with the overdependancy on reload add ons and he is a killer with so much potential but relatively boring in execution.
Playing him for the rift makes me sad and makes me wonder why im not playing SM right now who feels so much smoother and fun to play.
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Yeah slingers definitely due for at the very least an add on pass. His reload add ons should be base kit, and his ADS could definitely stand to be buffed. He’s too fun to be in a mediocre state.
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He reminds me of alien, having such a cool concept but is ruined by a clunky, uninteresting power. Unlike alien though, his power can be fixed with simple number changes which I'm surprised they havent done yet.
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Yeah they seem to get stuck to their schedule and make little room for smaller quality of life improvements. Slingers a killer that’s been overlooked for a while now and it’s a shame since like you said, he only needs slight number tweaks to bring him back to balance.
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It might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Deathslinger really needed a nerf.
Zoning with ADS or not, I never considered him unbalanced or overpowered. I could escape from him just fine back in Rank 1.
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You guys forget how annoying it was getting zoned by a deathslinger just tapping ADS.
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He never did need one, Huntress was better than him in every way and less punishing, even more so now after the nerfs.
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I swear I drawn every possible DBD situations in the past
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Slinger technically didn't really have anything going for him, just an extremely oppressive 1v1 thanks to his quickscope and a bad 1v4. Now he has an oppressive 1v1 and horrible 1v4 since Stealthslinger got nerfed and he lost his precious 24m radius.
He could probably use a more forgiving cooldown for shooting and slighty faster reload speed. His punishment for missing is crazy because he not only has to reload, but he has to wait for the entire cooldown of shooting the redeemer, then he loses more distance because of the slowed movement speeds for waiting out the cooldown and reloading.
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Yeah but that was probably the only thing that he was good at. Now he doesn't really have anything.
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Crazy that you have a slinger icon but find the killer boring. I don't even use him that often, but I think he's one of the most mechanically satisfying killers to play. And the audacity to claim Skull Merchant is more fun, the most boring killer I've ever had the displeasure of playing. There isn't a single thing remotely satisfying or interesting about plopping down drones.
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I mean just cause he sucks now doesnt mean you have to revert it back to broken cheese strats. You can make him better without him being frustrating to play against.
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I mean it wasn't broken. People were still able to beat him because while he did zone really well, he took a long time in chase. He can use his power in a loop without high walls but how is that any different from huntress or trickster? If anything he's worse cause he would take longer for having to reel them in as oppose to being able to injure them from the other side. I also find it really odd when people say they don't like deathslinger or Pyramid Head zoning but are ok with huntress or demogorgon zoning. I'm not saying he has to have old ADS time but he definitely needs a faster ADS. He also needs some more stuff but that's slightly off topic.
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I guess you also miss the times when you could not go a day on the forum without people making threads about how annoying Deathslinger was to play against, because that's exactly what's gonna happen again if we make his ADS too quick.
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I mained him for a solid year and a half before he got his nerf, afterwards I switched to artist, and now skull merchant. Never really changed the PFP tho.
Also if you think playing SM is boring may I introduce you to lasertagging and improving scanning efficiency. In my eyes she is essentially what slinger should of been.
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Deathslinger's nerf was wrong. They never should have touched the wind up time on his gun since making a killer feel worse to play for "balance" is just terrible. Plus slinger is still only good at zoning due to the ADS movement buff which was another unnecessary change imo.
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they have not changed him due to survivors that complained about his power. Judging from Billy finally receiving "revert", if we go by how long billy waited for his revert, you'll get deathslinger revert by 2025.. fingers crossed that freddy also gets reverted into his original self.
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