Since Freddy has a update planned (Yay) what do you hope changes?

I'm hoping he gets a proper rework. His kit is largely a lot of underwhelming things other killers do better and we've had a lot of teleport killers since he got his first rework, so that doesn't give him the identity it once did. I'd like more hazards in the dream world and a harder time getting out of it.

To start, I think it'd be amazing if he could use pallets and snares at the same time. I like the original idea of him being completely invisible to awake survivors and actively putting them to sleep, instead of sleep happening passively and being basically a non-threat, but I'm not sure how to implement this competitively and while dodging the miseries of the past - survivors always having enough time to get somewhere safe/being able to escape sleep mid-chase, Freddy's mechanics making every game a slog. The Dream World having horrible slowdown and permanent aura read should never come back, but then he'd need something else to make manually putting survivors to sleep actually valuable. (Though, maybe he could have sleep traps for more macro control? Or it could additionally be applied if he teleports to a gen a survivor is next to, similar to Sadako giving condemned?)

I wish the Dream World had things like Chucky's footsteps and fake sounds that made it scarier and more unpredictable to be in. Cosmetic changes to universal assets like blood dripping out of lockers and limbs hanging out of the mouth of chests would be sweet too.

My dream (heh) change would be voicelines, though. I'd play even current Freddy if he had his personality.

As long as it isn't bringing his old kit back, i couldn't care less what they do with him.

I'd prefer a rework.

Below is a rework I would love to see, but doubt will happen.

1. Bring back a variation of his old sleep mechanic
   1. Cannot hit awake survivors
   2. Awake survivors cannot see nor hear Freddy at all (completely invisible)
   3. Asleep survivors can see Freddy and hear his lullaby only
   4. Survivors that are half-asleep can see Freddy intermittently
2. Improve sleep mechanic by making it feel like survivors are in a separate world when they fall asleep
   1. Once asleep, the survivor's avatar drops down in one spot and cannot move until awake
      1. Only awake survivors can see this sleeping avatar, its aura, and can interact with it to wake it up
         1. The aura reading and ability to wake a survivor up can only occur after ~30 seconds (time TBD)
      2. The asleep survivor(s) are transported to a dream world where they cannot see with nor interact with awake survivors; but they can see and interact with Freddy and other sleeping survivors
   2. Once hooked by Freddy in the dream world, the asleep body will levitate as if it's been hooked
      1. Allied survivors therefore unhook where the body originally fell asleep, not where Freddy hooks it on the map
3. The rate at which survivors fall asleep passively is based on proximity to Freddy
4. Alarm clock stations remain the same in the dream world to wake you up yourself, but are replaced with sleeping pill stations in the real world
   1. This way you can choose to enter the dream to help an ally who is otherwise isolated vs Freddy
5. Freddy now teleports freely to any object on the map on a lower cool-down
   1. Blood gushing from generators is now replaced by blood creeping up/down nearby objects
   2. Survivor sleep gauge fills up faster if near an area Freddy teleports to
6. Replace Freddy's blood puddles with a real chase ability that makes him a threat in his dream world, to encourage people to wake each other up
   1. Example: Phasing/walking through walls/loops/objects at a slightly slower movement speed (actual power TBD)

I just want Freddy's identity as a dream demon to come back, and make putting survivors asleep a meaningful and threatening mechanic in this game.

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Note:
Gave Freddy plenty of teleports to handle the fact that people can wake up a survivor and basically teleport them to safety. This lets Freddy keep up with them. Freddy also has the option to camp a sleeping body to force others to fall asleep and enter his world if they try to wake them up. Gives him plenty of distraction tools and the ability to juggle survivors.

I'm sure there's some kinks in this idea, but I'd still love something like this.

I think it'd be cool to make Adrenaline wake you up against Freddy wouldn't that be a neat change?

I couldn't help myself from being facetious, don't mind me!

I'm happy for the Freddy enjoyers though, especially GeneralV

Bring back Aura freddy but keep the teleport

Eh I honestly don't know. It depends if he's gonna get a complete rework or buffs to his current power

Definitely do not want just a tweaked/buffed version of what we have now. Current Freddy could be S tier and he would still be boring and unoriginal. Get rid of the puddles and fake pallets concept and go back to original Freddy design. That design was unique and had flavor, it just needed tweaks.

OG Freddy was a macro killer while current Freddy is just another anti loop killer with some map mobility on top of the other dozen killers we have with the same concept. Macro Freddy was way more interesting trying to juggle all the survivors with aura reading.

We need a middle ground between current Freddy and old Freddy to make both crowds happy. Keep dream projection, make dream pallets base-kit, and for snare enjoyers make it an add-on to swap out dream pallets (because snares are a bit fun to place through windows but please add back the old snare placement before his nerf in 4.7.0).

But most importantly, make the dream world threatening again. I'm talking auras, generators slower, 24m terror radius, and the ability to pull into the dream world. Right now the dream world is such a joke, cause that ain't Freddy that's Charles

That goes against the entire theme of the killer. The entire balance of the killer is built around survivors wanting to and having the ability to get out of the dream world. What you are suggesting is close to making it so survivors literally can't work on generators the first minute or so of the match. This idea is completely ill conceived.

While I want him to return to his roots, I want to keep Dream Pallets and add a bunch of dream stuff so survivors will have to question reality.

Other thing that has to happen, if we're returning to OG Freddy, is Red Paint Brush basekit.

I cannot possibly expect to suddenly see my own concept for Freddy added to the game, but I desperately want my killer back.

I just want to play the same killer that made me fall in love with this game all the way back in 2018. Even if it is him without a single QoL improvement, I would be happy.

Completely agree. It’s why I mained the OG Freddy even though he was considered F tier and currently main Ghostface who is also considered weak. Fun is way more important than viability and I’ll always play who I have the most fun with :)

That isn't what I meant. They can work on all geneators but the penalty is applied after the first two are compelted. Making them have to play in the dreamworld forces the surviors to be in his power.