Macht lieber mal stabile Server, eure Server kacken ab und wir bekommen ne Sperre weil wir ja "rausgegangen" sind, unfähige Entwickler

Originally posted by Mama_LuluVT:

Originally posted by Goblin_BHVR:

Thanks for all the feedback so far! I really appreciate everyone who takes the time to voice their opinions, positive or negative, and I do get all this feedback to the team!

As for the drawings, glad to see most folks are enjoying them! While we haven't yet found time to send our designers through art school, the designer working on this wanted to do their best to convey things in a way where people who are more visual can understand better.

Please don't break your backs over a redesign. Consider the simple adjustments I've suggested.

Originally posted by Mama_LuluVT:

All of these skull merchant reworks feel needlessly complicated. I don't play Skull Merchant to play Cenobite, I play Skull Merchant because I enjoy the Laser Tag mechanic she already has, and as a survivor, I already enjoyed her gameplay. There are simple and easy changes you could have made to her pre-nerf ability that would be enough for most players.

Go back to old Skull Merchant, but when a Drone is just sitting there, all it does is reveal auras/killer instinct and apply it's area-of-effect bonuses. Three or four successful scans applies 10 seconds of exposed. Yes, only 10 seconds. This encourages using drones in chase, not as a passive set-and-forget. Claw Traps only get applied when a survivor fails to disarm a drone.

You really, really don't have to go through this whole complicated redesign, she's OKAY how she is, she just needs her second scan line back, and a rearrangement of the affects. If scanning just exposes, and you don't get claw trapped unless you tamper with the drones, Skull Merchant would be PEAK.

Half the problem was that drones JUST SCANNING gave the important benefits. it wasnt interactive and was a pain for all parties involved. also it's a DRONE. meant to be piloted and flown around. and now the DRONE CAMERAS can actually be used as drones and cameras, as opposed to just... passive scanning entirely dependent on if you're in chase or if a noob survivor doesnt know how to not get scanned. before, if you just set up a drone while in a loop, you get benefits for basically no effort. and with what you proposed, claw traps will have NO use because unless you interrupt a survivor, they're not gonna mess up the drone disarm. also attaching the benefits to scanning are what made 3 gens so awful. with the rework, running away from the gen you're on (like you're supposed to) and getting scanned because of it doesnt screw you over. idle drones shouldnt damage survivors! the rework actually rewards you for EFFORT instead of slightly ok drone placement. and while comparing it to cenobite is fair, you can do the drone bash thing from anywhere, if i assume correctly, and i assume they'd have better mobility from what was explained/drawn. you could use the drones almost like singularity cameras or a limited victor. this makes claw traps' benefits would be more prevalent, since attaching one is now a skill based thing instead of hoping for 3 scans, which, again, most of which will be acquired during chase, making the whole tracking aspect of the claw trap unimportant. this ♥♥♥♥ is gas, batman

Originally posted by TheLastNinjaPanda:

Originally posted by Mama_LuluVT:

Please don't break your backs over a redesign. Consider the simple adjustments I've suggested.

I just think that making them fly and crash into people takes away from the original "stealth killer" aspect and just turns her into a complicated version of hag.

I like the idea of controlling drones, but I think that it would be cooler to have drone cameras be black and white and make the SM not able to see survivors who aren't running while controlling them. She can periodically scan the environment in front of the drone, which will apply a claw trap to survivors she detects with the scan. THEN she can use the EMP dart ability from the drone by her side.

Originally posted by Picklezoftruth:

Originally posted by TheLastNinjaPanda:

I just think that making them fly and crash into people takes away from the original "stealth killer" aspect and just turns her into a complicated version of hag.

I like the idea of controlling drones, but I think that it would be cooler to have drone cameras be black and white and make the SM not able to see survivors who aren't running while controlling them. She can periodically scan the environment in front of the drone, which will apply a claw trap to survivors she detects with the scan. THEN she can use the EMP dart ability from the drone by her side.

that seems... needlessly complicated on a rework a lot of people are already struggling to understand (skill issue tho). also it's definitely not hag, because you cant teleport to survivors. logically, the "only see them when moving" doesnt make sense if the skull merchant is actively looking through the cams. when the cams are idle they use motion sensors and no camera. then there's also the issue of the scanning applying the claw trap. if you're controlling the camera, and scanning survivors attaches a claw, that's basically unavoidable. i dont really think she needs to be a stealth killer. she wasnt a stealth killer on release. they just added a stealth mechanic haphazardly onto the drone deploy button. the only difference between their proposed changes and yours is that yours are A) likely unreactable or uncontrollable, and B) i think having the drone be consumed on bash makes a lot of sense, and removes a lot of her seemingly infinite pressure from scanning. if it was relegated to scanning again, the problems come back

Im scared for this

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand there are improvements done from what was previously shown and really nice additions/changes. The first thing I want to mention is that the drone buddy is by far the best idea about this rework. It's also nice to have the claw traps back and now they have a purpose with the drone buddys emp shot. It's just that I think that this is just Singularity mixed with Twins and a bit of Knight sprinkled on top. Previously she worked pretty much as a trap killer, but this all got lost with the nerf and I'm a bit disappointed how this aspect just will not make a return.

its crazy that they could rework this killer a million times and still nobody would play her

Originally posted by Hoji Onibi:

Macht lieber mal stabile Server, eure Server kacken ab und wir bekommen ne Sperre weil wir ja "rausgegangen" sind, unfähige Entwickler

Wenn du eine Sperre bekommst weil du zu oft die Verbindung verlierst, dann liegt das an dir selbst, weil entweder DEINE Verbindung Mist ist, oder du zu oft die Spiele von dir aus verlässt. Ich habe in den letzten 500 Spielen vielleicht 3 oder 4 DCs gehabt.

Originally posted by PBandJordy:

Why the stick figure drawings when you're literally a multi-million dollar company? Seriously?

You must be German, we go down to the basement to laugh.

It looks like SM is becoming much more like Twins to me. With all due respect, I think this change sucks, but I'll have to wait and see if I was hopefully wrong.

HELP
I just want to know why my in-game purchases were reset to zero. I spent money on these items, so why did this happen? Is this how your official team operates? If that's your response, then I'm out of options since you're the bigger party here.

AI could never recreate these gorgeous illustrations, 10/10

Great amount of though has been put into it. I can respect that. Sounds really fun to try out. Great job people!

remove the ghoul

Originally posted by Toothaches suck:

Can anyone explain in simpler terms?? I do not have a PhD at the moment.

set up drone
fire drone at survivor to put a claw trap on them
find with your phone and use a trickster blade to hit them with a uvx style boom
if they have a claw trap they go down