houndmaster is terrible

[luquita]

extremely unreliable power and uncapable of generating pressure, the dog hit box while chasing should be bigger or at least come back faster

[Queen HawlSera]

I kinda agree, the hitbox of the chase is way too wonky, and search doesn't punish survivors enough to be worth it.

I mean even Skull Merchant's drones will at least hinder or even injure the survivors.....

It's said Houndmaster was made as the "Skull Merchant" replacement, but this just made me appreciate Skull Merchant's Map Control gimmick even more.

The dog is clearly just here to sell skins, the chase is so precise (really only working if you're already in chase) that he could have just been replaced with a flintlock and it'd feel more tied to the pirate gimmick.

[Guardian116.TTV]

Originally posted by Luquita:

extremely unreliable power and uncapable of generating pressure, the dog hit box while chasing should be bigger or at least come back faster

Only terrible because its not another god mode killer

[Queen HawlSera]

Originally posted by Guardian116.TTV:

Originally posted by Luquita:

extremely unreliable power and uncapable of generating pressure, the dog hit box while chasing should be bigger or at least come back faster

Only terrible because its not another god mode killer

Thing is, the devs said "AI Companion!" and somehow we were supposed to interpret that as "Slow moving hard to aim projectile."

[Danzan]

please learn the killer first and then complain, u wanna op killer from the start with 0 braincell to learn...

[Eggsy]

Her dog is so incredibly janky. Mine will be right behind a survivor and will not bite them. I spent an entire game going "How did that not land?" How small is this hitbox? Because it is way too small. I can hit / get hit by a huntress hatchet when others or I'm fully behind a wall but I can't land a dog bite when he is literally sniffing a survivor's ass. I also can't believe that survivors can just stun the dog off WHILST they're being bitten. You can't stun when being grabbed by deathslinger, you can't stun the knight's minions, you can't pull down pallets while being jumped by Victor, but you can stun this weak ass dog. She is so weak it is laughable.

[Glarp Snarp]

Originally posted by Eggsy:

Her dog is so incredibly janky. Mine will be right behind a survivor and will not bite them. I spent an entire game going "How did that not land?" How small is this hitbox? Because it is way too small. I can hit / get hit by a huntress hatchet when others or I'm fully behind a wall but I can't land a dog bite when he is literally sniffing a survivor's ass. I also can't believe that survivors can just stun the dog off WHILST they're being bitten. You can't stun when being grabbed by deathslinger, you can't stun the knight's minions, you can't pull down pallets while being jumped by Victor, but you can stun this weak ass dog. She is so weak it is laughable.

lmao i completely agree, it took me 5 games to get her adept and i finally gave in and started using addons and ONLY when i started using addons she became semi-viable, and those addons didnt even really help that much.

[Baked Potato]

She's easy to counter, but terribly boring to play against... Why every new killers turn out to break the fun of survivor's looping, now it's HOLD W. Like Knight, Verga, Artist and etc...

Poor old M1 killers that begin to turn obsolete.

[Kitten]

Originally posted by Danzan:

please learn the killer first and then complain, u wanna op killer from the start with 0 braincell to learn...

Name one killer that's like that

[Kitten]

Originally posted by Guardian116.TTV:

Originally posted by Luquita:

extremely unreliable power and uncapable of generating pressure, the dog hit box while chasing should be bigger or at least come back faster

Only terrible because its not another god mode killer

another? What other killer is ''god mode''?

[Kitten]

Originally posted by Baked Potato:

She's easy to counter, but terribly boring to play against... Why every new killers turn out to break the fun of survivor's looping, now it's HOLD W. Like Knight, Verga, Artist and etc...

Poor old M1 killers that begin to turn obsolete.

Because looping is boring as hell

[Simalf]

Originally posted by Danzan:

please learn the killer first and then complain, u wanna op killer from the start with 0 braincell to learn...

This, i only played Houndmaster 3 times in PTB but didnt had issues with her or couldnt see anything wrong with her.

[Hachiko Akita]

She's very weak imo. Either she needs some buffs or a complete rework. Dog is janky af, very unreliable, ♥♥♥♥ to use in chase. Literally just an M1 killer with a janky "power" that cannot do anything against competent survivors. It seems killers get ♥♥♥♥ all this chapter.

[[TLP] lucazz'tuoi]

Originally posted by Kitten:

Originally posted by Guardian116.TTV:

Only terrible because its not another god mode killer

another? What other killer is ''god mode''?

is not "god mode" more like "nurse tier"
and ye half of the time the power dont work,just go play knight if you want a ai companion or go play deathslinger

[Branchu]

Only played as her a few times, and honestly... she's God-awful. The dog hitboxes are so stupidly small and the search aiming is so jank.

EDIT: And naturally, they give her a massive wind-up and slowdown on her power.

[Simalf]

Yeah ok Houndmaster doesnt work most of the time. Chase command doing literally nothing often and Search command just cancelling mid en route