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Plague Is Worse Than Leatherface
Leatherface = Loopable instadown
Plauge = Loopable, slower instadown with broken status + Instaheals without any items (fountains)
DO NOT BUY THIS DLC.
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THE PLAGUE IS EVEN WORSE THAN SHE WAS IN PTB.
PLEASE FIRE YOUR GAME DESIGNER.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ######### THEY ARE DOING.
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Calm down. You can still play other killers.
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They didn't even keep their promise of doing a non-instaheal fountain,
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Plague wasn't bad in PTB and isn't bad now. Also when did they ever promise a non instaheal fountain?
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He’s imagining stuff, plague is fine and fun IMO if you don’t like her don’t okay her.
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Hell no, you ain't playing her right.
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My advice is play Huntress.
Harder to master her crosshair but at least when you smack them twice they go down without the need for going out of your way to power up and gutting one of the best parts of non powered up (plaguing objects)
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Leatherface:
- 115% mms killer
- 32m terrorradius
- instadown when there is nothing to dodge (windows, pallets)
=> has no map pressure, instadown only works while catching Survivors in an open field or while defending a hook. Also has no was to slow down the game or effectively mindgame around loops.
Plague:
- 115% mms killer
- 32m terrorradius
- shoots projectiles that eifriger debuff survivors or outright injure them.
- debuffs contain loud noises, being oneshot and trackable puke on the ground (I think).
- infected survivors can infect other survivors.
- can be healed at fountains (leads to killer buff)
=> has a decent map pressure, can inflict oneshot over time, can slow down the game by forcing survivors to heal at fountains —> buff to the killers power to down at distance —> harder to loop.
she is stronger than bubba in pretty much every way.
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Not quite.
You're forgetting with addons leatherface can move faster with his chainsaw than 115.
The Plague also slows down when using the projectile and after finishing vomiting.
The infection takes too long to build unless you tunnel but it takes 2 pukes to injure someone and stage 1 cannot down people at all.
Powered up, makes her the same as a huntress except she trades range for movement speed.
Personally i would take LF over The Plague any day of the week.
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Which no one can give you yet. She's been out 1 day and has received numerous changes since the PTB.
So when i say play The Huntress im saying it genuinely, your only options are play someone else until genuine advice is available or you're gonna have to discover how to use her yourself.
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You’re also forgetting that with add-ons, The Plague’s Vile Purge can inflict the broken status effect in one stream.
Plague is easily on the level on Myers, maybe even better.
Leatherface is one of the worst killers in the gane
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The Plague's problem, oddly enough, is similar to Wraith, Freddy, Pig: a more or less free first hit, then a painfully long process to get the second hit. If you're very lucky, there may be a corrupted fountain nearby, so you can play around it: get the sucker infected first, and when they're Broken or nearly Broken, get the Corruption. But usually going for a corrupted font means you're losing your target...
One thing about vomit: Vile Purge is great if you can bodyblock a survivor into a corner. Even if you have Corrupt Purge, it's better to wait till the timer ends, then puke until they get Broken. Unlike with Corrupt Purge, getting injured by being Infected does not grant the speed increase and the "Dead Hard effect" (no collision). So keep vomiting on the cornered vermin, and smack once they're injured.
Survivors will soon learn they are perfectly protected, if crouching behind a dropped pallet, regardless whether they're at the low or high edge of it. Aiming with puke is tricky anyways: so far it seems to me you have to aim for the legs.
Infecting objects is almost completely useless, since the duration is too short. With an addon, it may be useful for a three gen strat, to prevent a kicked one. But as far as I can tell, infection progress from interaction is very slow, the only viable way of actually injuring them is direct puke.
The only two advantages of this gal (I think) are the ability to shoot over even high obstacles (only viable with Corrupt Purge), and the "minigun" effect of Corrupt Purge whenever there are two or more survivors in front of you. Discreet camping recommended.
(To be clear: I'm only experimenting with her, so take it all with a grain of salt. I'm sure there is more to discover about her.)
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1 stream with an addon that im guessing will be her Red?
To make her the same as the huntress? except they can run to any fountain to get rid of it.
I would put her down with The Legion i don't feel any pressure playing against her at all.
It's just loop away until you finally get broken then just break off the chase and run to a fountain, her range is pretty short and unlike huntress if it's green it can't down you without an LC, so you don't even have to break the loop.
It's basically like playing with No Mither
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No...her ultra rare add-ons aren’t good. She has a yellow, green, and purple add-on that increases the amount of sickness dealt with Vile Purge. The purple one is really good.
Plague is A LOT easier to play than Huntress and Corrupt Purge is stronger than Huntress hatchets (except Iridescent Head). She is also faster than Huntress.
However I won’t deny Huntress takes WAY more skill and is arguably better.
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She is faster in a straight line but taking in vomit slows her down and after using it slows her down again.
I would argue she's even easier to loop than Huntress is.
I dunno if i just have bad depth perception but i found Huntress hatchets easier to use than the vomit, might need more time ofc.
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She's stronger then Bubba no doubt. Simply because of her corrupt purge power.
In PTB I would've put her behind huntress but since her nerf I'd say she's Mid tier.
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She was fine in PTB, but now unless you're running good addons she's complete garbage and a one-trick pony. None of the buffs did anything to address her weaknesses, or diversify her playstyle.
She still literally plays like leatherface unless you're down to two survivors, in which case you have the OPTION of getting corrupt purge... If it's nearby.
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The plagues ability isn’t that she’s a Leatherface clone, it’s that she can injure and inflict broken without granting a survivor the speeed boost from getting a normal hit.
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I don't think they ever said this
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A lot of people play Huntress like a potato because they can’t ain hatchets. I’m decent with her but I play on console so I get screwed over by FPS a lot. That’s one reason I’ll choose Plague over Huntress personally. It’s just easier.
A Huntress that can hit hatchets is superior to Plague with Vile Purge.
A Plague that has Corrupt Purge which pretty much has no way of being avoided if she is on your tail is superior to a Huntress that has to throw two hatchets to down you. Corrupt Purge doesn’t take much effort. Plus Plague can also injure multiple survivors with the same stream of Corrupt Purge.
Iridescent Head Huntress is THE best however.
Since Corrupt Purge isn’t going to be your main form of attack since you won’t always have it, I still put Plague below Huntress but she isn’t far off. She can be just as effective as Huntress but with a much lower skill cap.
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I wouldn't say she's worse than Leatherface, but she's definitely not powerful. She's fun to play but mediocre in terms of her power/efficiency (aesthetically pleasing, too). That's about all I can say.
Dead by Daylight is not a complex, multilayered game with tons of in depth mechanics and difficult to master fundamentals (like a fighting game, for instance). With that said, the relative strength of killers can be determined fairly early with a high degree of accuracy, given that the standard for a good killer has already been set (Nurse, Billy, and Spirit).
I'm confident that plague will sit in the middle of any 'tier list' that people concoct post patch.
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