Redeeming Adriana Imai aka The Skull Merchant

[skullcross33]

So I get called names and told to die no matter how I play Skull Merchant. People even disconnect on the loading screen. You know in this cause you should hate the way the player plays the character and not Adriana herself. Don't hate on her cause she's good. It literally says she's the best in her lore. Even so I don't use her to her full potential because survivors have a problem with her. I barely focus on the drones anymore and I don't even put them at generators anymore. I use them for haste, slowing down the survivors, and to become undetectable. And I don't even use all of the drones sometimes.... but despite me not 3 gening and not going to every drone when it detects someone... I still get told I should be put down... any suggestions to redeem my beloved Adriana? And quit the insults toward me? I'm doing all I can to make it easier on survivors while still getting a good amount of kills. I even let them go sometimes if they played well or try to be friendly.

[skullcross33]

I just beat a group of survivors with no add ons or drones. That means no haste, no undetectable, no traps, no detection. And still no one but one escaped. And that's because one guy tried to play friendly by dropping his flashlight. So I let one live. Can't hate Adriana players just because they play her. I played her like you would trapper just without his traps. And the way I see it, there is no excuse to complain if I didn't even use my special and still won. And no she's not any better than any other killer if you don't even use her ability. Actually she's weaker than every other killer without her ability. So again the player shouldn't be hated if he or she is simply more skilled than the survivors in the current group.

[Echorion]

If you could hit enter or paragraph things from time to time to break up your thoughts a bit more, it would make it a lot easier to read.
Sorry, I mean this respectfully but it would help a lot when typing more than one brief message; the eyes just get lost when it's a large volume of text.

Towards your point; yeah people treat Skull Merchant players poorly even though there is not much reason to right now. Mostly they are hung up on how they used to be and just have not gotten over it, so I think it will get better with time.

I don't think a lot of survivor players also have actually played Skull before and after; or at least fully followed the changes and how she plays now. I say this because they don't seem to recognise all the counter-play options they have to her ability now, and seem to be acting off old skull merchant- this really backs up my theory that they are still lashing out because of the old version of the character.

My advice? Disable chat next for the time being when playing Skull Merchant, set your info to private/anonymous to avoid harassment, and just play like normal for now and in a couple months I imagine things will settle down as people adapt.

(If you want to help speed this process up, you can take it a step further by playing ridiculously nice. I mean no tunnelling no camping, give last person hatch generally, and so on. If you do this enough it might help get people's mentality swapped over from when the killer had the ability to hold games hostage; and many toxic players flocked to this ability happily. So giving the killer a good positive public image would be great.
You don't have to ofc, but it could help everyone playing Skull Merchant if you were up to it)

[Liandre]

Originally posted by Echorion:

(If you want to help speed this process up, you can take it a step further by playing ridiculously nice. I mean no tunnelling no camping, give last person hatch generally, and so on. If you do this enough it might help get people's mentality swapped over from when the killer had the ability to hold games hostage; and many toxic players flocked to this ability happily. So giving the killer a good positive public image would be great.
You don't have to ofc, but it could help everyone playing Skull Merchant if you were up to it)

I think we shouldnt encourage entitlement as a community. We should rather stand against it and let criticise when people act like that over some way of playing or even certain killer choices.

[Tokogawa [GER]]

Originally posted by skullcross33:

any suggestions to redeem my beloved Adriana? And quit the insults toward me? I'm doing all I can to make it easier on survivors while still getting a good amount of kills. I even let them go sometimes if they played well or try to be friendly.

You cant effectivly redeem her as a single Person, especially since the Community already decided to hate her no matter what.
The best you can do is to stay respectful ingame and in the endgame chat, chat positivly with those who are already positive and ignore the Haters.
Keep in mind that DbD has a LOT of People looking for something to be mad about and Skull Merchants old kit cemented her as bad, even if she is now in a far better spot. You cant convince those determened to be angry to calm down

[Echorion]

Originally posted by Tokogawa GER:

Originally posted by skullcross33:

any suggestions to redeem my beloved Adriana? And quit the insults toward me? I'm doing all I can to make it easier on survivors while still getting a good amount of kills. I even let them go sometimes if they played well or try to be friendly.

You cant effectivly redeem her as a single Person, especially since the Community already decided to hate her no matter what.
The best you can do is to stay respectful ingame and in the endgame chat, chat positivly with those who are already positive and ignore the Haters.
Keep in mind that DbD has a LOT of People looking for something to be mad about and Skull Merchants old kit cemented her as bad, even if she is now in a far better spot. You cant convince those determened to be angry to calm down

Pretty much this.

A lot of the hate should die down over time though, but there will always be those people regardless.

[🆅🅺]

turn off the chat - problem solved.
you cant get upset if u never saw the message to begin with

[Echorion]

Originally posted by DWIGHTmareOnElmstreet:

turn off the chat - problem solved.
you cant get upset if u never saw the message to begin with

Honestly, I don't think I could ever play the game with chat on again. People. are. awful.

[asa0199]

Thing about people hurling threats and insults is that there isn't anything you can do to stop them because nothing you did actually provoked them; it's about them, not you. If you're getting a lot of it, turning off the chat or even just leaving without responding can at least get it away from you.

And I wouldn't worry about not using her drones, either, 'cause survivors who like her (and they exist) are going to want to play with them. Drone away. A friendly Skull Merchant gave me a drone once and as far as I'm concerned Nea named it Zippy and still has it.

[zukene]

I can’t really add anything new to avoiding insults cause it’s all basically above me however I seem to be in a small majority of people who actually enjoys facing skull merchant (the 2 times I have since her rework lol) so play how you want. It doesn’t really matter if other people hate the killer you play if you enjoy it. Look at wesker for example, half the community hates him now because he’s played so much but people don’t care because they enjoy him. Do the same with skull merchant, she’s rare enough anyway so it gives people like me some variety :)

[Nude by Nightlight]

i got called a tool cause i killed someone as pig who didnt boop the snoot lol

[￭ Yuri ￭]

Although it is a consequence of human behavior to be angry about things you have no control over, it does not give anyone the right to insult. As others said, there isn't much you can do other than turn off the chat or ignore/report.

But anyway, a game that should be a source of entertainment offering the best that is chases for majority, is increasingly a source of burn-outs for everyone involved due to serious balance and design problems, and specifically to this post, I'm referring to how the rework still made her efficient around 3-gen (which at this point is a problem related to maps) and even boosted in relation to chase, which brings us to the first point, in particular, how bhvr doesn't know how to take into account what is fun or not to play with or against and to what extent does this come at the expense of an entire role.

[StingRay]

You can't, the only way to actually redeem her is to rework her character's story entirely by the devs, she is a horrible killer lore wise and character wise when compared to other killers, and yes I hate her too, thankfully I haven't had the pleasure of going against a skull merchant and I don't think I ever will.

With that said, this is something that is beyond your control, so if you wanna play as skull merchant, put your profile in anonymous mode and disable the endgame chat, It's that simple.

[Mist]

haha you'll see more disconects affter this Trickster buff.

[Jeebuz Crust]

Killer isn't fun to play against. That simple. Bad killer design, and so many people have had the pleasure of the 3 gen build SM that nothing will change. Not that the rework even fixed anything...

[🆅🅺]

Originally posted by Echorion:

Originally posted by DWIGHTmareOnElmstreet:

turn off the chat - problem solved.
you cant get upset if u never saw the message to begin with

Honestly, I don't think I could ever play the game with chat on again. People. are. awful.

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