An addon to allow Freddy players to play as old Freddy

TL;DR for those who don't want to read my ranting:

• New Freddy is great
• Old Freddy was also great, even if he wasn't as strong
• Old Freddy's power was a lot more in-depth than people thought
• Old Freddy encouraged players to avoid camping and tunnelling
• Reworking Old Freddy's power was unfair on the people who spent time and effort learning him, although I don't blame BHVR for doing so
• Changing Kid's Drawing (which is currently Freddy's version of Speed Limiter) to allow players to take on the role of old Freddy is the perfect compromise; people who love new Freddy can play him, and people who loved old Freddy can play him
• Or you could literally just copy-and-paste old Freddy in as a Killer alongside new Freddy. I don't think anyone would mind seeing two Freddies in the Killer Select screen.
• Old Freddy wasn't overpowered by any sense of the word.
• Now, onto the text walls!

Okay, first, I love new Freddy. I think he is much better in terms of strength than he used to be - I don't think old Freddy was the weakest Killer in the game, but I 100% agree that new Freddy is stronger. Possibly even top tier, with the right build. As of this post, new Freddy is my current main.

But I loved old Freddy as well, even if he wasn't as strong. I and quite a few other people I know of (I could name two off the top of my head) had spent many hours learning the ins-and-outs of old Freddy's power, and please believe me when I say it was much more than "hit M2 to be a basic M1 killer."

For example, did you know that old Freddy's flickering during the Dream Transition actually happened at set times? Here's a table of when he was visible and invisible:

0:00 seconds Invisible

0:33 seconds Visible

2:00 seconds Invisible

3:33 seconds Visible

5:00 seconds Invisible

6:40 seconds Visible

7:10 seconds Real

(So the infamous 7 seconds were actually 7:10 seconds. Blasphemy!) For nostalgia's sake, if you want to learn more about old Freddy, here is a guide written by How's It Hanging (a top tier old Freddy main), Maximus (a good old Freddy player) and Croquedead (who is actually a Hag main, but shhh!)

I know that a lot of old Freddies used to tunnel like HELL. Because everyone believed he was the weakest Killer in the game, most Freddies thought they needed to tunnel to secure a kill - and frankly, this is why everyone thought he was weak. But in actuality, the best way of playing Freddy was literally anti-tunnelling. You wanted to put as many people to sleep as possible, and constantly switch targets to keep everyone guessing. Old Freddy also couldn't camp very well, so by the very nature of his power, Freddy had trouble doing the two things survivors hate most - camping and tunnelling.

(Also, since DS's rework - something I must also commend BHVR on - tunnelling is far less effective than during old Freddy's time.)

Now, I know that new Freddy also has a lot of nuance to his power. The snares are pretty cut-and-dry, but his teleport allows you to come at survivors from angles they'd never expect - I particularly love watching Otzdarva do this, and if anyone here also watches Otz, you'll know what I mean.

But I think that completely reworking a Killer's power, like in the case with Freddy, is a little unfair to the ones who took the time and effort to learn a Killer that everyone said was for masochists. Therefore, I want to propose a solution that can accommodate people who like new Freddy and old Freddy.

Change the Kid's Drawing addon (which grants extra BP at the cost of making snares almost useless) to an addon allowing players to take on the role of old Freddy. This addon would trump other addons, so you'd run it alone.

This would make it so that old Freddy mains wouldn't have to go through bloodweb after bloodweb in order to play their favourite Killer again, while also costing new Freddy mains absolutely nothing - the addon I picked was picked specifically because of its uselessness. Seriously. It's Speed Limiter Freddy. Nobody will miss Speed Limiter Freddy.

You could also just copy and paste old Freddy's data into the game next to new Freddy. I don't think people would care if there were two Freddies available to play. Hell, you could just name the old Freddy "The Old Nightmare" and the current Freddy "The Nightmare". Then you could have the full range of old Freddy's addons as well, I suppose, although I'd personally be content just being able to play old Freddy again. Nostalgia is a powerful thing, man, I tell you.

From a balance standpoint, I don't think there's a lot to talk about. I doubt anyone's going to seriously tell me old Freddy was overpowered.

To summarise, reworking Kid's Drawing to allow Freddy players to play old Freddy, or simply adding old Freddy back into the game as a separate Killer, would be more fair on people who put the time and effort into learning his old power while not being unfair on the adept new Freddies out there.

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