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The problems with the Skull merchant rework were finally addressed

TheGoon224
TheGoon224 Member Posts: 390
in General Discussions

I’m not talking about like power wise or anything. I’m just talking about like community opinion on her because in the end, I don’t think it matters how you change skull merchant she is always going to be one of the most hated characters in the game despite her, not even having the power that made people hate her to begin with anymore. I’m allowed to say this because I’ve played this killer since her release and during her trap killer era but after she got gutted, I played her for a bit, but then after I bore witness my drone not deploying eight times in a row I was pretty much just done with her at that point however after these buffs, I’m probably going to get back into playing her not because she’s going to be a good killer after this PTB god no but she’ll be better.

But then there’s also the risks that this rework entails because Jeff said it himself, they are taking a massive risk with the rework because not only are they risking people going back to hating the merchant even more but also having the original skull merchant player base hate her too and just drop her entirely which I feeling is a really reason as to why they should ask actual people that play the killer to avoid another twins rework situation happening. I think the best way to treat the skull merchant rework is to focus on her core player base, which are the people you really want to enjoy this rework instead of trying to attract a totally new play base that’ll just pop into existence because unfortunately that’s just kind of the sad reality of Skull merchant. People just hate her no matter what kind of power she has.

Comments

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,132

    Saddly she suffers from which not nice looking people must have bad character, she is judged as bad but in reality she is below average killer with nothing game breaking and only things that broke her was gen spawns creating easy 3 gens with gen kicking regression meta which with her deffensive playstyle made her look but but in reality she is way worse than wraith.

    Survivor mains will hate every post where she is mentioned same with ghoul or clown,legion they arent considered as fun and good killers by majority of player base.

  • TheGoon224
    TheGoon224 Member Posts: 390
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4019620#Comment_4019620

    Thats kinda just the price you gotta pay for playing merchant. (THE MERCHANT TAX)

  • BlackRabies
    BlackRabies Member Posts: 1,316

    Didn't one of the devs years ago mentioned when making killers it's not going to please everyone as they'll all be unique so each killer will have their own players.

    SM would've been the only killer hated by everyone on both sides. Her 2.0 version was my favorite.

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,132
    https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/4019890#Comment_4019890

    Not her strongest one but she was decent high c-tier minimaly, she had traps as drones with two scanning lines and some stealth and little help in chase from her loops with tracking survivors effected from drones until devs started to listen twitter people and buther her into current form, I believe they dont need to do whole rework of her power just bring her old second version back and many people and especialy skullmerchant main would be ok with that so they can save resources for other things but I doubt they will think about this option.