Dear Brother, Jedidiah "Bubba" Sawyer

[Molly's Ringworm]

Besides the obvious bugs...What do you guys think Devs could do to improve Bubba's fun factor?
I notice not many people like to play as LF (me included) which is a real drag on the que times.
I thought maybe giving Bubba his hammer as a secondary weapon.
Drop some suggestions.

[DarksiderZ2K]

Start match with chainsaw already rev'd and ready to go.

[SwashBuccaneer]

His animations need smoothed out and hastened.
For example, even with instant activation on the chainsaw he fires it up and then goes through this long animation where he raises it up and shakes it (can't move during this). Yeah, it's cool and thematic, but it's annoying for gameplay. One of the tooltips even acts like you can play him stealthily this way.

He needs to be able to cut through stuff faster. Again, the animations are too long.

He needs more build diversity and options. The "one shot" build is annoying and not that fun to play with. A lot of his perks are garbage tier and need reworked.

Should be able to destroy crawl spaces when they're closed.

Needs some sort of stun immunity/diminishing returns to prevent chain stuns and being immobilized for ages. No one likes to lose agency over their gameplay and characters.

The chainsaw should be on by default. Kinda silly he has it on in the intro and kills someone and then suddenly it's off.

The basement needs something done to not make him the worst family member down there when he's forced to be down there. This would need to be done carefully to make sure the victims still have a way to escape him since he's so powerful, but infinite loops and hallways full of stupid barricade tables aren't fun to play around.

Just a few off the top of my head after playing him so much.

[nod for kiss]

Originally posted by SwashBuccaneer:

His animations need smoothed out and hastened.
For example, even with instant activation on the chainsaw he fires it up and then goes through this long animation where he raises it up and shakes it (can't move during this). Yeah, it's cool and thematic, but it's annoying for gameplay. One of the tooltips even acts like you can play him stealthily this way.

He needs to be able to cut through stuff faster. Again, the animations are too long.

He needs more build diversity and options. The "one shot" build is annoying and not that fun to play with. A lot of his perks are garbage tier and need reworked.

Should be able to destroy crawl spaces when they're closed.

Needs some sort of stun immunity/diminishing returns to prevent chain stuns and being immobilized for ages. No one likes to lose agency over their gameplay and characters.

The chainsaw should be on by default. Kinda silly he has it on in the intro and kills someone and then suddenly it's off.

The basement needs something done to not make him the worst family member down there when he's forced to be down there. This would need to be done slowly to make sure the victims still have a way to escape him since he's so powerful, but infinite loops and hallways full of stupid barricade tables aren't fun to play around.

Just a few off the top of my head after playing him so much.

^ agreed with everything, he only has like 5 usable perks. (big swings, activated, scout, vial ent, hysterical strength)
change his unique perks completely. especially the one "bringing home to bacon" perk.

[Shotgun Merwin]

I don't think victims are very afraid of him in the basement, which is one reason why they're busting out so quickly. It's pretty rare to see him get a kill in the basement when everyone is lv 30+. So i think just the typical things people complain about, like fixing him being easily stunned and bullied around would go a long way.

Personally I just don't play him because i don't like how complicated the dumb controls for the chainsaw are.

[Molly's Ringworm]

Originally posted by Shotgun Merwin:

I don't think victims are very afraid of him in the basement, which is one reason why they're busting out so quickly. It's pretty rare to see him get a kill in the basement when everyone is lv 30+. So i think just the typical things people complain about, like fixing him being easily stunned and bullied around would go a long way.

Personally I just don't play him because i don't like how complicated the dumb controls for the chainsaw are.

Exactly! Which is why I think him having his hammer as a secondary option cause the chainsaw is so wonky. Bubba already grunts and scream constantly so victims could still hear him coming.
And I wish the Devs would come up with a meaningful keybinding. T (text chat) so close to R really sucks and MM for Family Focus is bunk.