Skull Merchant and Knight are my favourite Killers to play, AMA

For Skull Merchant, her drone power is functionally really simple but effective. Powers like Nurse’s Blink and Blights Rush just don’t do it for me. Skill shots are nice but raw M1 gameplay feels the best to me and she really beefs it up. I enjoy her different weapon types and animations. Her chase music is thrilling. Her lore has lots of good bits but it’s just not been put together very well. I do wish they expanded on it more. If they had covered an element of her lore that showed she was good at covering up her murders, she would be more intimidating and interesting. Her not being caught in any way throughout her lore forces you to suspend your belief or just assume that she was smart enough to cover up her killings. I won’t delve too deep into that but you get the idea.

For Knight, his guards are just extremely helpful to me in the chase. It feels like having a Swiss Army knife. Regression? Send a guard to kick a gen for you. Buy time? Send a guard after a survivor while you chase another. Need to guard an area? Send out Jailer. Need to smash a pallet really fast? Carnifex. His lore is nice, although I wish his guards lore was expanded upon. The tome was a big missed opportunity for that. The tome was just more of what we already knew. Also, he just feels powerful to use.

I actually only briefly used it during its buffed state, and that was the PTB along with Call of Brine and Overcharge. It felt like too much, I don’t often use slowdowns. Limits fun builds.

It’s always good to see survivors that actually counter the drones well, I applaud the fact that they know what they’re doing and make my job much harder. When you go against survivors that know what they’re doing, you can sense it, and it’s a good change of pace.

For drone placements, as open as possible to cover ground and visibility, or around sharp corners to catch survivors off guard. Try to keep them away from areas that are too tight and enclosed so that there aren’t too much LoS blockers for survivors to use. Low wall loops are obviously very good, as an example. High traffic areas that survivors run through.

My favourite guard is Carnifex, I’d love Jailer a lot more if its chase time was somewhere in between Carnifex and Assassin. It having the same duration as Assassin doesn’t help it much, besides only having a larger detection range and duration for patrol. It’s just fun to smash things and waste survivors time with Carnifex.

Play SM primarily and Unknown when he comes out. I’ll be playing him a ton, enjoyed him a lot on the PTB and he’s up there with SM and Knight for me in terms of enjoyability. Let’s hope that doesn’t mean he becomes horrible to face, but according to PTB feedback, I doubt it. I go based on my enjoyability, not Survivors. Not anymore anyway.

SM’s music is great, I like each layer of it and I think I prefer the live version to her first version. The emphasis on the percussion makes the music a bit more thrilling to me. I like the alarm sound when she’s close and the passive beats in the distant music are a little threatening. I’d give it a 9/10.

Knights is solid, not my favourite but it’s fitting for him and can’t really imagine it being any different. Don’t have much to say about it as I wouldn’t say it’s his biggest highlight aesthetically. It’s a solid 7/10 for me.