So many killers "feel" incomplete from their flaws.

I figured out with unknown the best way to keep the status effect on them is to play like a reverse trickster where you are constantly trying to stay in cover, popping out whenever your next shot is ready. And his ideal distance to shoot from is mid-long range as they cant run towards or away from you to avoid the shot like they can up close.

Currently the doctors illusions count as a tracking device through walls like the perk with the birds as he can see them through the walls and they look in the general direction of the survivor. They could get like a slight motion towards the survivor or an attack swing animation, maybe even switch between them to make them seem atleast convincing enough for a split second. (Along with aestris illusions could atleast have motion to them)

Ill admit with ghost face while playing him i feel lile you get broken out of stealth too easy, yet playing against him its like theres nothing you can do even staring at him point blank doesnt work fast enough. Hard to balance that.

Dracula is 1 of my 2 100 mains and his hellfire pillars can certainly feel the nerf even with 2 cooldown addons. And both his red addons are so useless that 1 of them makes it harder to land hits rather than easier (because it barely curves toward the survivor like it says it does while removing some range) and the other only gets seen if youve lost the round, and doesnt do anything unless you are right at the gate as it opens and people arent injured AND they don't dodge all the pillars lol so he could use a change or buff for those.

My first 100 main is xeno and ive never been excited to play against him as the turrets are such a "well that didnt work" mechanic that you are prettymuch guaranteed to go down quickly unless they can't aim well. And playing the xeno is somewhat annoying with the lower view, and survivors being able to pile turrets to make safezones where you will always lose chase or take twice as long to catch them so allot of people avoid playing the xeno. So i wouldnt mind a full rework of his power like they are trying to do with skull merchant, as there were quite a few ideas everyone had in mind on how it would likely play when the chapter released.

The one thing i notice with Pyramid head is i feel too slow. Everytime ive ever tried to chase someone from one end of the map to the gate i could run in a straight line behind them and still not catch up (even without the hope perk). And i don't know if the pyramid head mains would be mad but i would mind if the cages counted as hooks and gave endurance/hooking points towards perks etc, as the only reason to send someone to a cage is to either tunnel or you are surrounded by people trying to blind you etc. (And definitely the addons need changing lol)

Aww, thanks.

Yeah we're doing well at 165 and still going, but with a caveat (recordings are still on my twitch atm). For Knight to be good atm it requires you playing in ways the survivors will not deem "fun" most of the time. If you play him how he's intended by the developers to be played, he's very bad and as @XDgamer018 mentioned he's very addon reliant still. I've backed off MotR and Dried Horsemeat some though. You can get away not using MotR since their changes and I don't want horsemeat base kit because while it would help the guards get hits, they need to have more player input involved for the hits as players will not just want AI's reliably getting hits without skill involved from the Knight. The goal is not just more reliable guard hits, it's more reliable guard hits that require skilled input from the Knight.

My circumvent for guards getting more reliable hits but making it require skill is adding a feature to his guards that make their speed scale based on proximity to the survivor when they're detected and the Hunt starts. So just normal Knight players throwing guards out will get no value from this, but if your hearing is really good (similar to Spirit) you can time your placements to be as close to on top of them as you can and be rewarded for it. This would allow the guards potential hits, but only if you're skilled enough. Knights needed a higher skill ceiling anyway. This also makes AI hits more reasonable to survivors as you know that if the guards were moving fast enough to hit you it's because their was player skill involved between you two, not free. This would also make people use the actual banners more as currently the guards are so bad/slow that most people just run out the timer instead of using the intended banner counterplay.

Now Town Watch's Torch and Call to Arms absolutely need to be base kit. Call to Arms should have been made base kit in his last rework, no idea why it wasn't. It's also the quintessential addon that enables the exact play style that they want you to be doing with him. Town Watch's Torch is the other component to enable the play style they want. They don't want you pincering, they want you doing macro play having a guard keep one busy while you chase another. Torch enables this play style. Without Torch you are keeping one survivor busy while you walk across the map as an m1 with realistically no mobility (the 5% haste is negligible) and no power to chase someone down…that is not viable or more importantly fun for that matter. You're just gonna get pre ran with hold W game play and looped to oblivion. Torch circumvents the hold W game play and gets you the hits as basically a stealth killer. It's kinda similar to Twins issue as far as fun is concerned, people don't like losing their power and having to play a bunch of the game as an m1 walking around chasing people with no power, it's boring.

These problems essentially leave your addon slots permanently locked down with no flexibility to use other things. Which I suppose isn't too bad in Knights current addon state as the vast majority of his addons are D tier useless anyway, but we're trying to be theorcrafting in a hypothetical world where his addons were improved and decent as well so we can have multiple options of things to run. You can see some ideas of what I'm talking about here:

A lot of his specific guards effects are way undertuned. Their power level hasn't taken into account that it's basically only activating every 3rd guard you send out since most the effects are only on 1 type of them. Also, effects that are applied on guard hits are utterly worthless unless guard hits are improved. Currently guard hits happen so rarely for these types of addons to have no purpose. This is why part of my supposed changes was making those affects be applied by the Knight on his m1's if he gets the hits while a guard is in chase. You could even add a stipulation that it only applies them on survivors hit that aren't in Hunt to discourage pincering if you want.

Also would it really be that big a deal if guards applied perks on gen kicks as well? I don't think so, and it would open up more unique builds.

Anyways I'm ranting, we can talk more about Knights issues further or what I'm doing to make him work atm if anyone's interested but that's enough for a single post lol.

This is perfect thank you. I would like to add that if bhvr wants the guard the keep 1 busy the banner should be removed because with it currently in the game the survivor can just "distract" the guard via a window/pallet and then just grab the banner without any risk

This really just comes off as forced nitpicking. Chucky is not "torn to shreds." Doctor hallucinations being buffed would make no sense because they require no input from the doctor player. Ghostface not being revealable by hooked survivors would make proxy camping even more of a nightmare for uncoordinated teams than it already is. Unknown you can literally counter the cleansing by breaking los and hitting another shot in time. Zombies being buffed would make no sense for the same reason as buffing doctor hallucinations. And I don't know what makes you say "no matter who you play you're gonna have to deal with some flaw" as if S tiers don't exist.

Why do all these killer weaknesses and counters even exist when Blight is in the game virtually untouched aside from his addon reworks? Xenomorph without the flame turrets is still weaker than Blight. Vecna without the treasure chests is still weaker than Blight. If Nemesis didn't have the vaccines or could damage with tentacle without needing to infect survivors he'd still be weaker than Blight. If the Unknown could damage survivors immediately with UVX he'd still be weaker than Blight.

So why do all these killers have these clear weaknesses but Blight doesn't? Why can Blight see scratchmarks of survivors when using his power but Legion can't? Why can't Kaneki down survivors with his power but Blight can? The power disparity between Blight and the rest of the killer roster is massive and makes me question the design decisions behind the other killers.

“Chucky is torn to shreds” bro hahaha

Honestly, I feel most killers in dbd is meant to be "incomplete" in a way, even though they are strong enough to be a big threat

So kinda complicated about this