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The Houndmaster - Devs please play her.
Devs please - yall need to take houndmaster out for a nice LONG stroll for SEVERAL matches on your own. I need you to see the countless bugs she has to face on a day to day basis. Its overwhelming how many she has still.
We are MONTHS into a health operation and there have been very little fixes to her. I shouldn't have deal with constant broken powers especially with her in EVERY single trial I load into.
Like many of us, loyal players. We are frustrated. I am frustrated beyond belief. It is taking WAY too long to get fixes out for bugs, the state of the game is held together by what feels like popsicle sticks. Hound master is completely broken.
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oh hey, dog person. nice to see ya back around.
I feel bad for the people like yourself that are passionate about her. the Blitzcrank killer deserves better. I'm basically waiting for the all clear from you before I even bother putting time into her. my killers that I am passionate about are already buggy themselves lol
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I feel ya <3 so good to see you too! She is NOT in the clear just yet. I will let you know trust me <3
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She really deserves some attention. So many bugs and clunky parts of her power....
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For sure!
1 of MANY examples.
This is how the search command is suppose to work.This is what I have to deal with 95% of the time. This should NOT be happening at all and why is it after a whole year of her being out in the game?
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Why is my dog STILL not vaulting when I need him to? The prompt was there and everything.
Snug still gets stuck when being sent off…
Houndsense doesn’t always scan people on the way back…
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I would played her if only her power would work, you want to mark a gen for the dog to run there guess what….. it takes you 10 seconds minimaly shifting your mause up and down so the mark apears above that gen and you can send the dog, you mark place for dog to use it as mobility and what happens dog gets stuck nice. You send dog as aatack and he gets stuck on random things (feels like bumping into twigs or invisiable things with bubba like it was issue before on garden of joy or erie of crows with those bushes and wall covered in vines). Sometimes the dog gets stuck somewhere so your ability is unusable untill you unbug it like with pick up animation or break animation if you are lucky which is ridicilous and it feels terrible to play with buggy power that just stops working mid match, thats the reason no one actualy plays her and why she is so slept on.
In core she is great killer with good desing but her current situation in the game (thats same since her release) is terrible because of bugs that made her powerless sometimes so there is no need to play her.
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Amen. We need fixes and love for her.
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Tbh i've accepted that the developers have abandoned this killer. She always felt unfinished and she still does. 1yr later, minimal changes AND cosmetics. I wouldn't hold out hope for them improving her, i think they lack incentive + motivation. They did improve Knight a lot and i was hoping they would do the same thing with houndmaster but it doesn't seem to be happening. They couldn't even be bothered to change the rope add-on after saying they would revisit it this year.
For your own sanity, i suggest playing a more popular killer.3 -
She isnt bad, if she worked than she would be better in power than wesker (unless that wesker player is using all his techs on first try like hug tech or instahug tech or bluetooth or whats it called etc. than wesker can be way unpredicteable and can work better), she gets acces to better mobility, stealth (dog when send on search mode has lulaby but when you are in his lullaby range you cant see killers radius indicator or hear it so she has basicaly some stealth, I got catched by it of guard two times on indoor map so thats how i know about it), she has solid aniloop and I would say with same dificulty as wesker but with all he qualities she beats him in potencial only problem are tens of bugs that make her unplayable compare to wesker.
Its his choice and he has point in one thing that she should be already fixed because if he would complain here she is weak than I would give him same advice to switch to better killer but that isnt houndmasters case, she is buged most of all things in the game and for year or more and ignored (Im starting to believe its intentional) which is something no one can deny and it should be changed.
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I never said she was bad. However in either case the solution is the same… just play a different killer. There's little reason to believe BHVR are going to fix the issues she has. I mean sure complaining here is valid however i don't think it's gonna do anything cuz everyone knows houndmaster is in a horrible state the devs just have decided not to act on it.
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I think she is in this state longer than knight or twins were (when they were broken with multiple bugs) so we will have to wait, maybe after the 2026 reworks they will remember that some houndmaster exist but for now they are tryed to fix something they didnt had clue about like tunneling and sluging (from their streams their description of tunneling was not quite well expressed and other things to and their changes were very chaoitic and overdone in both patches), its shame but nothing new in this game she just isnt popular enough to be seen by devs like trickster has loud fan base, trapper is poster boy (and someone who should have been buffed hard or reworked long time ago) and skullmerchant is one of biggest mistakes on devs list (her nerf that was overdone) so they get reowrks or fixes like ghoul who is money grab and popular but unpopular killer who doesnt generate income is at the bottom of the list, maybe it sounds bad but its fact.
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I agree..Look how long it took them to do that for Knight though. He's been out for 2 years or more?
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I play her now and again because I really like her aesthetic, her core concept and the built-in info she can have, but every time I do I encounter so many annoying bugs and random power failures that I vow never to play her again. Then they release a patch and I assume incorrectly that they might have tuned her up a bit and rinse and repeat. It's really problematic that Snug's Chase (when it functions) is actually very oppressive and kind of OP in some ways, but given a really short cooldown precisely because half the time it doesn't work or is unusable for some arbitrary reason. From a QA perspective, Snug being an independent NPC that's always on the map was a horrible mistake that I don't think they can undo, since Nemesis and Knight should have shown us that BHVR is simply not capable of making that kind of thing work properly. And the fact that he can teleport back to you but doesn't do it consistently is infuriating.
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Don't forget the infamous slowness that get cause whenever she gets stunned or you prompt a search and attack command .
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It's so frustrating because this is such an amazing character that has so much potential, especially with the power reskins, but NOBODY wants to pay for $20 skins for a character that almost never works. And abandoning the character only makes people even less likely to play them!
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Have they done anything about knotted rope yet? I've been on a break from DBD for like 4 months now so wasn't sure if anything happened with that since it was suppose to be a temp thing.
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Yes Houndmaster bug fixes is urgent! It's sad that there are so many killers out now that bugs can be left in the game for years and years on killers before they try to fix them.
Don't focus on fixing things that don't need fixing just because some people cry about stuff. Just fix bugs this is something everyone benifits from this is real QOL changes.
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Yeah I used to play a lot of Houndmaster but the clunkiness and bugs just made it to frustrating to play, in my matches I always say (Snug why ain't you going?, I can't snug search this gen, Snug why aint you vaulting?, Snug why are you stuck?)
It's just became to frustrating and I got fed up with it maybe if they do a major fixing of her I'll come back to her but until then no.
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Nope! Not yet. Some of her addons could use some adjustments if not reworks too.
100% Oct-January was suppose to be high priority for urgent fixes for Killers and their powers. Its been lightly addressed…it should be highly addressed.
I get that! That's literally me most of my matches.. Snug WHAT are you doing? Vault that beetch! like helloooooo?!?!! lol.
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I actually quite like Houndmaster. I would definitely play her more if she wasn't completely neglected
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Houndmaster is one of those killers I have little counterplay knowledge against because of bugs like this, so I hope she gets fixed at some point so I can learn better lol.
I should also play her sometime, bugs or no bugs.2 -
Oh for sure. Fair enough too! I rarely ever get to go up against her so yeah. I get it. I haven't seen her in months while I know others see her more frequently. Just depends.
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Man I haven't even seen her in a game yet. So I was assuming she had issues. Bit of a shame, really awesome concept for a killer. Clearly flawed execution
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her search mechanic just sucks ######### balls
Everytime I go to aim my cursor the red arrow doesn’t pop up on where I go to search I have to keep jerking the joystick up and down just to get the arrow to pop to send the dog to go search
I remember back when she was considered the top 5-6 best killer in the game, sadly that vault nerf along with the bugs have held her down
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Yeah - last I saw her at least for me was nearly 9 months ago. She deserves so much better.
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Eh, the vault nerf was nothing really. Its just her bugs. While they have fixed a couple and some audio bugs which is appreciated. She has SOOO many more they need to fix. If they just spent a little time with her they could smooth her out. A QA employee needs to play her for a little while in some matches to find the bugs so we can deploy fixes faster.
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Yes awsome concept so it's such a waste having all these bugs keeping people from playing her. I think she's top 5 most fun killers to play but I just ignore her because of bugs it's such a waste.
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