I have loved skull merchant through all her era’s, including her bottom 3 killer in the game status she currently has. I have a lot to say about these changes.

THE BAD:

I genuinely despise the drone controlling idea, all the people that said “she should be able to control her drones” probably have an attention span of 2 seconds. It’s such a bad to do this and it’s just EVEN MORE unfun for the surv side. Like yessss it’s so fun being chased by a drone that can ignore windows and dropped pallets and just run into you for a free hit!!!! And the counterplay is just holding W which surv players are already vocal about disliking. Since there’s a delay before merchant can control the drone and the drones have limited power, you can’t avoid the drone unless you just run away from the area. Not very well thought out to me sorry, not to mention the drones are absolutely useless outside of chase now besides a little bit of intel.

Also do clawtraps REALLY need to be removed, like make them similar to her release version where they ONLY reveal you or something and the duration increases with more scans to reward her for getting consistent scans.

THE GOOD:

The stealthier drones is great, literally every single skull merchant player wanted the stealth mode back ever since you removed it. Making stealth mode stealthier is literally what we all wanted cause then we can actually properly place the drones as traps.

The hacking changes i don’t mind but like at this point it should be a reaction based mini game where after like a 2 second delay the button appears and you have around a second to press the correct button and then have it go on like that for each input. Cause no player with a brain is failing a hack so giving survs a free aura read for completing a hack is a bit unfair especially cause it’s so fast so it should take longer.

The global detect ability is an okay replacement to clawtraps, i don’t mind it if you REALLY need to remove them. I like it since it rewards consistent scans.

Overall just try and make her a proper trap killer, both her current and suggested states are 95% only useful in chase unless survivors are playing with their monitor turned off or they’re hacking drones on gens. Like why do you guys wanna make every killer a dash killer so bad. Are you gonna rework freddy again in 2028 and give him an ability called blood dash or something.