I just want her to be good
I want there to be a middle ground with Skull Merchant. Changes that I would've given her. Bringing back some old mechanics that I thought was fun.
Skull Merchant-
Reduce Drones from 6 to 4.
Skull Merchant gains 5% haste for 8 seconds after scanning a survivor with a drone.
Survivors no longer get injured from gaining a Claw Trap. Survivors suffer a 5% hinder for 5 seconds.
Claw Traps now expire after 40 seconds.
Survivors who have Claw Traps location will be revealed to the Skull Merchant through her radar. Claw Traps break after expiration.
Survivors with Claw Traps will break dropped pallets if fast vaulted. Claw Traps are now destroyed after fast vaulting dropped pallets that break.
Survivors with Claw Traps timer will be temporarily paused while inside the drones radius. Once a survivor leaves the timer will resume 5 seconds after leaving the drones radius.
Drones have 1 scan line that spin at 95 degrees per second. 2 scans from a drone will give a survivor a Claw Trap.
Throw away change-
After fast vaulting a window with a Claw Trap, the window will temporarily be blocked for 5 seconds. Claw Trap is destroyed afterwards.
Just thought these were better changes. But who knows. Maybe the rework would be better in the near future.
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She might be stronger with these changes, but still super uninteresting gameplay. Pressing M2 with survivors having no reliable counterplay to get haste is not good game design. BHVR has failed with her many times and I don’t see that changing any time soon. I want to believe that they can make her fun but I just don’t see it.
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Consider her like twins, no changes will ever make people like tbh, she's just like twins rare as they are, no one just can't stand them both needs full proper reworks.
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She might be good…
Are you?
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this rework isn't about her being good. it is about her being as bad as possible so that survivor stop d/cing. the rework that will make her great again said to come after June of 2025 at the earliest.
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You're not gonna get a decent zone control killer that won't also garner DCs. There's only trapper and hag that are zone control killers and skull merchants power design is stronger than both giving a lot of good things like haste, hindering survivors, free injures, intel. Her only weakness is if people play the drone game and her map presence is lacking on big maps which is the case with a lot of killers though to be fair.
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These suggestions sound at least as bad as she already is. She needs a completely new power. Rewrite and start again. It is not salvageable.
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I'd say killswitch her and give everyone 9000 iri coins until she's reworked. Also rework her looks cause she looks like rich Karen and her walkstyle because no female walks like that.
This "nerfed" skull merchant is just as annoying since they gave back her haste and hindered. She's still going to be killer with highest killrate because nobody wants to play against her.
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The problem is the entire design of the killer is unfun and without a complete rework from the ground up, she is still going to be deeply hated by survivors and the giving up/DC's will unfortunately continue.
So the next best thing BHVR could do is nerf her into the ground so the number of people who want to play her is minimal… and I am all for this strategy as versing SM is one of the most miserable experiences in the game for me personally.
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Don't even bother, she is just gone. I have switched to Blight, so survivors have more "fun".
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yeah I played vs one on midwich…pain
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I dunno about where you live but where I live, to make things even worse is this killer appeals to troll players who know how much survivors hate her. So they intentionally play her to troll and they play in the most miserable and scummy way possible and this happens over and over, so it is very hard to not assume that people aren't playing with good intentions of a normal match, as they very much aren't a lot of the time
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some old mechanics that I thought was fun.
What are those? I don't see them.
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Hi, come step in my 3-gen!
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To be honest, all of the nerfs would be acceptable if they didn't just remove one of her scan lines. Those are not catching even flies now.
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