How is this acceptable?
How is it acceptable that out of 16 killers, 3 are viable?
If this was the community of any moba game, the community would be outraged. But no. Here there's still people that wish to even nerf the only viable killers and that's beyond me.
Sure some perks got fixed here and there, but nothing too essential to the overall gameplay balance. And obviously any other game that is even the slightest competitive wouldn't balance around low ranks, yet that's what's done here.
Survivors are powerful, sadly. I mainly play killer but always play survivor when I wanna chill, yet I end up being rank 1 as survivor aswell (Oh btw, I always solo play as survivor aswell) All I got is a Dwight on lvl 50 with claudette & meg teachables. That I got from the shrine. And that's all it takes, barely even that, to be a good survivor.
And whenever a new killer gets released, it quickly gets the nerf if it even the slightest gets viable.
The only case where the community actually fought for a killer to be viable was Spirit, and she halfly is.
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technically they all can be viable with the right builds and play. some are just stronger than others. I'd say map design is what holds most of them back. also, "spirit barely viable" lmaooo
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"sPiRiT oP cAuSE i cAnT mInDgAMe"
If all killers would be viable, there would be alot less tunneling and camping. Way, way less.
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about as much as I expected tbh
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Honestly I just came to accept that different killers excel at different tiers of play. Top tier you have Nurse, Spirit, Hag and Billy. All high skill cap killers with tools to combat survivors at their best. Mid tier you have Myers, Huntress, Legion, Ghostface, Plague, killers with genuinely decent abilities. All take skill to use but rely on Survivors not yet playing optimally to make up for weaknesses. Then you have killers like Doctor, Freddy, Cannibal, Wraith and Trapper who's abilities take huge advantage of survivors not knowing how to deal with them.
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@artist Yes. NOED and an Ebony should do the trick.
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not what i had in mind but do u bud
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@artist it's always depressing when the sarcasm is lost.
Though I do wish I had an actual reason to bring Doctor or Trapper out.
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A Killer should be viable at base kit. Addons and perks should be slight benefits not major game changers. That is the true balance issue. A perk that one killer has can heavily make the top tier killers more viable. The base kit of each killer is simply the problem. Killers like wraith cannot compare to the lethal capability and pressure of a nurse both at base.
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If the killer cannot perform without addons, it needs to be tweaked, shouldn't take a finite supply of "little buffs" to make them viable for as long as you have them available.
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people genuinely believe you'll need those to do well as a lower tier killer, so it's hard to tell :(
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There are way more than 3 viable killers,maybe you should practice more.
Besides,killers are not UP, but the problem is that survivors don't have a second objective.
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Spirit only "halfly viable"
Uh. Ok
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Yikes
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Almost all killers are viable at < rank 10. Since only 10% of steam players ever makes it past rank 10, this is fine.
The only 3 possible scenarios here are:
1: Keep everything the way it is currently and please the 90%
2: Cater towards the 10% and ruin game play for the other 90%
3: Give killers and perks certain buffs at high ranks and possibly please both
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How can you believe that this proves anything? I can show you a screenshot where I 4k as a lvl 30 Freddy, does that mean Freddy is viable at red ranks to you?
All it proves is that the survivors I faced were bad. There's plenty of bad swf teams in red ranks who you can demolish with any killer. That doesn't mean that killer is in any regards a good balanced killer.
Balance is when there's equal skill to both survivors and killer on equal terms of win/defeat. Nothing more and nothing less.
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We'd see much more killer variety if they changed the maps to be killer favored.
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The amount of 'woe is me' killer whining in this thread is hysterical. If you're not good at a killer, then that's on you. There are countless videos to show you all sorts of good builds for killers. And there were good tips in this thread on how to suck less, but the devs don't care about how viable you think spirit is. A killer should not be designed to guarantee a 4k without add-ons, but I guarantee many people can do it with their mains.
Sounds like some whiny console killers that DC on me because we get a gen done before you managed to hook a survivor.
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