Hillbilly Flick?

[Matt [Reckless Boi]]

What is it exactly?

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ages ago billy could still hit with his chainsaw after he stops running for a brief moment

[weirdkid5]

Back in the haydays the flick allowed Billy to 360 during his chainsaw swing and basically hit anyone near him.

People complained about it and got it nerfed. Nowadays the flick refers to the few seconds of increased steering you have at the beginning of the chainsaw sprint. You can use it to catch people trying to circle objects to avoid your bloody love.

[Lynfinity]

Upon starting your chainsaw rush, you may notice that you have a huge flick for the first second of your rush, allowing you to take sharper turns than expected. You can use it to take unexpected angles of chainsawing, or to predict a survivor's pattern.

[Runiver]

Nowadays it allows things like this :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4khVrworF0U

Back in the days, it was what cancerkid5 stated.

[Matt [Reckless Boi]]

Originally posted by cancerkid5:

Back in the haydays the flick allowed Billy to 360 during his chainsaw swing and basically hit anyone near him.

People complained about it and got it nerfed. Nowadays the flick refers to the few seconds of increased steering you have at the beginning of the chainsaw sprint. You can use it to catch people trying to circle objects to avoid your bloody love.

Holy crap that seems something quite strong :D Sadly cannot be done now..

[bullet]

it was not "nerfed" , devs said it was a bug, no one asked for a nerf.. they just fixed a "bug",and the whole community was like "wtf ? it was a bug !? "

[Runiver]

Originally posted by xbullet:

it was not "nerfed" , devs said it was a bug, no one asked for a nerf.. they just fixed a "bug",and the whole community was like "wtf ? it was a bug !? "

It's just a nerf. THey said it's a bug to justify the fact they wanted to nerf it. And I Agree, nearly no one wanted that nerf. Tho they still did it because they do whatever the ♥♥♥♥ they want.
They said it will "eventually come back as a proper feature", knowing it would never.

[FrenziedRoach]

Originally posted by Emmit The Otter:

Originally posted by cancerkid5:

Back in the haydays the flick allowed Billy to 360 during his chainsaw swing and basically hit anyone near him.

People complained about it and got it nerfed. Nowadays the flick refers to the few seconds of increased steering you have at the beginning of the chainsaw sprint. You can use it to catch people trying to circle objects to avoid your bloody love.

Holy crap that seems something quite strong :D Sadly cannot be done now..

He isn't too far off, but the way it actually worked was that at the end of a chainsaw, you could flick the mouse left or right to swing your chainsaw in that direction instead of immediately infront of you. Allowed you possibly catch somebody who dodged you at the last second. Actually took a bit of timing to get right and had earned the Billy the nickname of "Skillbilly" for awhile.

Before the big nurse nerf, Billy was actually considered the "High Skill Cap Powerful" killer. He kinda lost that after the Flick was removed and Nurse got her nerfs that made her so much more difficult to use.

[Munchy]

Flickbilly felt like swinging a heavy chainsaw around. At the start and the end you could put some power into your mouse and flick it across your mousepad to make him turn. His steering was very stiff at the time, you could barely turn and you had to rely on flicks to hit your target. After they took it away, he was just trashed.
After months of training, he became the surgeon we know. He barely has his own chainsaw under control and it feels like, he is getting carried away by it. More crazy and chaotic.
I miss flick, but both billies are great. They're around the same strength. Flick was the best for midrange saws. Now he's great for melee saws and longrange travelling

[weirdkid5]

Removing the flick allows people to hug you and makes it pretty annoying to chainsaw them sometimes. This can be rectified by simply backing up when they try to hug and making sure to throttle your charge and only let it rip when they are dead in front of you.

They did buff his base steering at some point though to compensate as mentioned by other users. It's much easier to navigate maps with him now and if you use a steering add on, it's absurdly hilarious how much he can turn.

[Matt [Reckless Boi]]

Originally posted by FrenziedRoach/Twitch:

Originally posted by Emmit The Otter:

Holy crap that seems something quite strong :D Sadly cannot be done now..

He isn't too far off, but the way it actually worked was that at the end of a chainsaw, you could flick the mouse left or right to swing your chainsaw in that direction instead of immediately infront of you. Allowed you possibly catch somebody who dodged you at the last second. Actually took a bit of timing to get right and had earned the Billy the nickname of "Skillbilly" for awhile.

Before the big nurse nerf, Billy was actually considered the "High Skill Cap Powerful" killer. He kinda lost that after the Flick was removed and Nurse got her nerfs that made her so much more difficult to use.

How did the nurse got nerfed?

[Darkheart]

Originally posted by Runiver:

Originally posted by xbullet:

it was not "nerfed" , devs said it was a bug, no one asked for a nerf.. they just fixed a "bug",and the whole community was like "wtf ? it was a bug !? "

It's just a nerf. THey said it's a bug to justify the fact they wanted to nerf it. And I Agree, nearly no one wanted that nerf. Tho they still did it because they do whatever the ♥♥♥♥ they want.
They said it will "eventually come back as a proper feature", knowing it would never.

It came back as the cannable.

[Kaisen]

Originally posted by Emmit The Otter:

Originally posted by FrenziedRoach/Twitch:

He isn't too far off, but the way it actually worked was that at the end of a chainsaw, you could flick the mouse left or right to swing your chainsaw in that direction instead of immediately infront of you. Allowed you possibly catch somebody who dodged you at the last second. Actually took a bit of timing to get right and had earned the Billy the nickname of "Skillbilly" for awhile.

Before the big nurse nerf, Billy was actually considered the "High Skill Cap Powerful" killer. He kinda lost that after the Flick was removed and Nurse got her nerfs that made her so much more difficult to use.

How did the nurse got nerfed?

She had 3 blinks on release, she moved faster, and she could interact with objects and survivors while fatigued (ex: break pallets and grab downed survivors while fatigued)
edit: she also had built in machine-gun when carrying people but that was a bug