Will we see a legion rework??

legion is in dire need of some love from the BHVR team. His kit doesn’t work creating enough pressure on players and the maps are too stretched to make his power useful. He needs some serious love and I would be ecstatic to see him get some buffs or a rework.

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  • 100PercentBPMain
    100PercentBPMain Member Posts: 3,148

    we already got one a couple years ago, when they received the music from the tapes. what do you feel is lacking?

  • JoshuaGraham
    JoshuaGraham Member Posts: 5

    he still struggles with chase, map control and generator control. His ability cannot traverse the map unless you have high end add ons. I believe his speed or distance needs a real good buff to be competitive and some type of special strike for actual pressure

  • BongoBoys
    BongoBoys Member Posts: 744

    Not anytime soon Trappers next

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,824

    How would that help? You activate the power with visuals on the first survivor and everyone else has killer instinct. It wouldnt change anything for me.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,824

    Use perks for the chase (i use pwyf and coupe) and you have a decent simple killer.

    He isnt strong, but you can play the stronger version called ghoul. There are over 40 killer, some characters will just be weaker. It would be great if everyone was strong (and balanced for weak and good players at the same time), but thats a lot of work. Better used for some general things. And even for killer are some who need it more than Legion.

  • JoshuaGraham
    JoshuaGraham Member Posts: 5

    I think saying "play another character" is not the healthiest of ways to view it. I get your point but that's why when you load into a survivor game and you get the same 4 killers to face each time it dulls the game and makes the killer rotation bland. If characters now have 3-4 gimmicks or capabilities, then legion and all the old school killers need that opportunity to be revamped or given some type of changes to make them a challenging killer.

  • JoshuaGraham
    JoshuaGraham Member Posts: 5

    do you think that maybe legion needs more buffs than to his kit already and just leave his playstyle alone?

  • tjt85
    tjt85 Member Posts: 1,722

    Yeah, I think most Legion enjoyers would like to see their play style remain much the same. As for buffs, base-kit Frank's Mix-tape is a frequently requested buff and something I'd like to see too. I'd personally like to see Frank's Mix-tape reworked into a token based Frenzy vault speed add-on, since BHVR are reluctant to allow perks to increase Killer special ability vault speeds. I'd also like to see scratch marks while in Frenzy, especially now that it's possible to use their Frenzy for map mobility (the reduced cooldown with the Scratched Ruler add-on makes this viable). There are also times when I have to drop out of Frenzy early to see what direction a Survivor might have run in if I find a gen being worked on. It would also help them a little on indoor maps where it's easier to lose a Legion in Frenzy on these maps by breaking line of sight (a little embarrassing to admit, but I've definitely lost Survivors like this before). Maybe they could take another look at Frenzy duration because splitting up is still the most effective way to counter a Legion but I don't know about that. A buff or rework to Joey's Mix-Tape would be good too (this is a terrible add-on, imo. I only ever run it for the vibes).

    There are probably other things that could be done but I can't think of any. I'm happy with their current state for the most part.

  • 100PercentBPMain
    100PercentBPMain Member Posts: 3,148
    edited February 20

    hearing no plans for legion is honestly kinda reassuring! I mained them back when they were popularly considered the worst killer in dbd next to Mike, pig and Trapper. I love having an ol reliable I can count on

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  • MechWarrior3
    MechWarrior3 Member Posts: 5,578

    Does Onyro or Houndmaster have any plans for changes such as QOL for Houndmaster/Rework for Sadako? <3

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,796

    You miss the point here, his power makes him blind to scratch marks and pools of blood when he is in frenzy but you see survivors that arent in deep wound with killer instinct on some distance.

    The thing is sometimes there isnt point of getting to others marked by killer instanc because they will keep running away and you wont get anything so if you use his power to injure one guy and want chase him you can easily loose him on some indoor maps or when you didnt hit anyone and use hid power which is something I dont think low tier killer like legion needs if I compare him to to killers like spirit,dracula which have something simular in their powers.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,824

    You are seriously explaining their power to me? I play Legion quite a bit and maybe i didnt make my point clear:

    You could add the scratchmarks to help newer players, it just isnt really a buff bc decent killer dont need it. And a buff was what the original post wanted.

    On a sidenote if we talk about newer players: legion is fine against them bc they cant loop. So maybe the scratchmarks thing allows them to get away and balances the killer on that skill level.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,824

    Healthy survivor have more to lose. Its harder to track them bc you want to find them with frenzy. With the changes its also a good catch-up-tool for injured ones, but its still better for survivor.

    Its really counterintuitive that your power works against you and i have no idea if it was intended, but lets look at the other side. Survivor have a killer which they cant loop. And now you want to make stealth harder? Good survivor wont care, but whats with the weaker ones? Maybe a simple killer, a noob stomper, shouldnt be stronger against them.

    In a perfect world every killer would be balanced around every skill level (in that case everyone would play simple killer like Legion, also not good), but thats really hard to achieve.

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,824

    That would be old dbd and yh even with only 10 killers you could have picked always Nurse. And you still should (+Blight). But we have over 40 killer and if we include every strong killer, you have around 15 killers to choose.

    And i think its really healthy. Bc i was someone who wanted 100% viable killer and even now i have still ideas for changes, but its just not realistic. Its always great when it happens, but the chance is really low. And there are basekit changes which would probably more important to invest work in it.

    I still play Legion, Wraith, Myers (lucky one with a rework), Bubba, Nemesis. Sadly less Ghostface, Hag and Trapper. But if get destroyed (rarely) im fine with it. Bc i knew that they have their weaknesses and if i want to compete against better survivor i should play other killer.

  • 100PercentBPMain
    100PercentBPMain Member Posts: 3,148

    you kinda need the explanation if you're not understanding how big scratch marks are; try facing shadowstep and see if that affects your gameplay at all.

    the current system heavily discourages using power without LoS. this buff would let legions be more liberal

  • TicTac
    TicTac Member Posts: 2,824

    You dont understand. The question is not if scratch marks are an important tracking tool, its when you need to use them.

    The question is if Legion gameplay should be just using his power non-stop. I mean Kaneki exists, so it doesnt matter how free the injure is. But it still takes away another skill expression from a pretty simple killer. Its just autopilot. And like i said it doesnt matter against good survivor, but in a low-skill-scenario a bad killer destroys bad survivor with legion.

    I play sometimes with new survivor (around 100-200 hours) and they have a different idea which killer is strong. Me saying playing injured is no problem if you can loop, isnt really a solution.

  • Abbzy
    Abbzy Member Posts: 2,796
    edited 4:35PM

    In current state of the game I think its crime that legion cant see scratch marks while he is in frenzy because there are way too more powerfull new characters and things.

    As you say its not big of a buff but its nice quality of life change.

    New players are episode of itself like everyone is good against them because they are way worse than bots but thats doesnt change anything only if you stand behind idea of balancing game around new players but I dont think you have such twisted idea.

    Same can be said with wraith like back in 2017-18 they buffed him a lot like make him break,vault,open lockers while he is cloaked and one of things they did was to give him bloodhound (his perk for tracking blood) by making blood on the ground be seen brighter (not longer). It was that taken away but than 4 or what years after the dracula came and his wolf form has this same form of tracking so I ask again: Is it fair to not give it to way weaker killer?

    Simular thing as with legion and ghoul one is just him but a upgrade so atlest what they can do before they come up with some solid buffs or reworks is let these quality of life changes go through but that would be wanting too much from devs that barely play these killers against competent survivors that can loop.