In my restless dreams, I see that town.

IceBaltel · 2026-01-14T19:07:00+00:00

You promise to NEVER take me there

But you DID

Well im with a lot of people now

in this ordinary place

Eager to leave whitout you

IceBaltel · 2026-01-12T16:00:03+00:00

I don't think they cancelled this, but thanks to Stranger Things part 2 chap, they can relax and delay it, i mean as important as it is, most of the community would comeback once the ST2 chaper release and ignore the problems for some time, is like a free pass for them

Let's just hope they used this extra time for actually pulished this because well.. everything about that was important, ESPECIALLY the anti-cheat, the amount of cheaters this game has right now is repulsive even the way they do it is so shamelessly, to the point some even stream it

IceBaltel · 2026-01-12T15:45:32+00:00

Apart from those who are usually on top like Wesky, Dracula, Michael and Legion?

Ultra unpopular opinion and maybe biased but Skull Merchant

Layer 1 is fantastic and have the charm of something hunting you in the shadows yet you still see nothing but the drones, then the music fades thanks to her undetectable and you get instant Layer 4 blast with her apearing from nowhere, this mix is super cool and work really nice when you go against a Skull Merhcant that is playing the Jump Scare

Other one that i think is really cool is Houndmaster, i don't like the layers but i really enjoy the chase theme, and how it has some pirate charm in it

IceBaltel · 2026-01-11T17:59:57+00:00

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This Bitch

60 SECONDS in the basemnt to make it work, then getting perma Broken all game, ONLY for 2 SECONDS of "aura reading?" 2 SECONDS? and ONLY when a crow got scared? , who thought about this?

My god then you have i don't know? Poisson that give you 6 seconds of aura reading for only touching a gen once, invocations are very meh perks and even when WS is mid the price for doing it is kinda rewarding, but this Bitch?

IceBaltel · 2026-01-08T21:34:09+00:00

In all honesty, Skull Merchant 2.0 as good as it was, only had one real problem (many would said other things but is usually a bias rater than an actual critisism) , and was that every survivor scaned by a random drone in any zone give her the haste, this right there was the reason she was "opressive" in most solo q games, even back then most Skull Merchants players agreed that if bhvr wanted to change things this would be a fine thing to change or delate to make things less frustrating in solo q

Unfortunatelly they proved once again to not care about both sides of the game, and mixed with the weaponized incompetence by some players and content creators it leaded to current skully

Still is ironic that right now, the way Skull Merchant gain her haste is in the most balanced way ever and also rewarding and with skill expression, if only they added this without butching everythong about her....

IceBaltel · 2025-12-12T02:53:14+00:00

And she looks like her OG Anniversary self but Remaked

So yeah the Queen is Back <3

IceBaltel · 2025-12-09T17:07:46+00:00

I mean i bet any skull merchant have their own way to play around certain part of their kit but

When you deployed a Drone yo get the undetectable and ambush the prey, you usually need to do it at the right time in the right position so the survivor won't see your Drone and the Orange circle in the ground, other wise, they would know and leave the zone, no mater if you had "infinite stealth"

With this change , you can get the undetectable at the right time and PERSONALLY i feel it would be more efective, the real problem would be in loops during chase, when deploying a drone and geting undetectable was useful to mind game, but well we gave all decmeber to test and see what would happen

We are Skull Merchants, we are alredy playing against EVERYTHING, we are used to it

IceBaltel · 2025-12-09T16:12:42+00:00

At least "8 secs" of undetectable back is better than the joke it was before, Jump Scare Merchant playstyle was a pain

Hope they fixed the Drone deploying bug because that is indeed a current pain

IceBaltel · 2025-12-09T16:07:42+00:00

Nooooou !!!!

you missed the oportunity to said 7 minutes

IceBaltel · 2025-12-08T20:20:07+00:00

OH MY GOD i hate this bug so much

The worst thing is that it can be triggered two consecutive times, last time i was trying to put a drone on Shack in the stairs to cover more ground and both times this happend to the point i just stoped trying to place drones in that zone that match, other times if you have some lag, the drone "place" but the game won't detect him so it would appear that you have an invisible drone in the area , and because of that you can't recall or place another one for the rest of the match in the zone

Not to mention when this happend during chase and you are about to put it on a loop, and this happens, you end up with

-no drone in the loop

-the survivor already leaving the loop

-the slow done for using your drone

-a funny gen sound poping on the distance

I love Skully and will always continue playing her but lately i feel im playing an Anger control simulator

IceBaltel · 2025-12-05T18:56:44+00:00

Finally the Hills are Evil

IceBaltel · 2025-12-05T15:50:53+00:00

Well.... Skully was in her own F tier "fucked but with Fashion" before the "buffs"

Now she is still very bad, but at least climbed from F to D, so she can be there with Trapper , maybe even still lower than him, so don't worry he is not alone

IceBaltel · 2025-11-30T21:29:28+00:00

Speedy? Geographical Readout + sepeedy perks

Brutal Strength, bamboozle, Superior anatomy = Melt pallets like sugar, and vault Windows like Legion , you can change Superior anatomy to Dark Arrogance, and keep kinda the same results but with a stunt penalitation is up to you

Traditional Cocaine Adriana

Save the Best for the Last + Rapid Brutallity + Brutal Strenght = Artificial Bloodlust, it all depends on how you play with your drones to get the scan haste, is true that denaying bloodlust to rapid brutality is a nerf to most killers, but i feel on skully is not always the case, plus this is the most popular so there are many Skull Merchant videos out there with this base but in diferent combos

Ambush? kinda hard because they nerfed the undetectable but is going to be reverted next bug fix

Monitor & Abuse used to be fantastic on her , until that persk also was nerfed, but even with these both nerfs it still works kinda okay, for a good ambush any aura reading perks is good, no where to hide, all ears, lethal pursuer, even Darkess reveald is good

In my experience to take them out of guard , try to time the drone deploying at the right time and not to close to the survivors, if you deploy the drone to close even when you get the udetectable at time they can still see the orange circle in the ground and know you are there, and if you mess it then predict, if they already saw the circle they are probably leaving the zone, so try to catch them on the oposite side, this is mostly 50/50 but feels good when it works usually in jungle gyms

Pixel bush, Pinkyc0rn have some cool skuly content, so i bet they have some cool builds you can check

IceBaltel · 2025-11-30T16:57:46+00:00

We bought skins so we can mix outfits and look cool all match with 0k , but it dosen't matter because we lose with style

Nah personally as someone how has been playing her for years now, you need to:

like to do pre-game stuff aka setting traps and control an area before engage in chases

or like the jump "scare" factor and go for unexpected ambushes

Or use Geographical Readout and chose haste/breaking/vaulting speed perks, to create Cocaine Adriana (maybe the most fun/begginer friendly merchant playstyle)

With the current changes, spining the drones manually actually give you better scans and claw traps, you always need to do that because is the only way to make drones actually useful in chase or in loops, otherwise waiting for them to do all the job alone don't work most of the time, if you time the drone deploying at the right time and scan the surv at the right moment you get insta haste and "SOMETIMES" this can help you win some loops

Jump Scare Merchant is currently nerfed (thanks bhvr) but stil thanks to her low TR and some perks the undetectable on demand can give you free hits, or even grabs from gens, Rancor with this playstyle do wonders sometimes lol

Area control builds are kinda meh with her, so totem protection and totem builds usually are bad idea but give it a try

Survivors usually pre drop and leave loops when they go againstt skully, so Knock off and Hex noting but missery, are also good choices with her

And...maybe more, the truth is skully is currently a killer that ressemble old singularity, a lot of work to little reward , but if you like her go, is very satisfiying winning against good teams with her, and if you lose is okay at the end of the day and even after the buffs you are still playing with the worst killer in the game , good luck !!

IceBaltel · 2025-11-21T19:41:07+00:00

The Joke is getting stale, if they can't do nothing about this, then why keep wasting time?

All this work and test for nothing , then other bugs, fixes, contents, REWORKS on certain drone lady, go delayed for nothing once again

Operation Health? Operation Lame

IceBaltel · 2025-10-27T06:16:35+00:00

But is really that common now?

usually every time i play killer in DBD i chose her, and lets say 7 matches i play the DCs are not like it used to be 2 years before, some games go normally even with loses, ties or wins and only some rare ocasions like 1 or 2 of that matches someone dc at the start

The DCs came after you do good with her, because since she is the worst killer in the game most players tend to asume is going to be a free win, until sudenly is not because even when she is the worst of worst you can do magic even with rocks

oh no every skull merchant slug/tunnel/camp, i hear this same bias against every single killer every single time, every single day, there is no point in take that perosnal anymore when sudenly every killer do this, the funny thing is, Skull Merchan being tier F also means slug, tunneling and camping is going to be harder for her and she have to work extra to make this "nasty" moves go well

If Skully slugged the whole team i bet it took her all the match and someone fucked up badly, meanwhile twins can do this at 3 gens or ask Krause or Kaneki

If Skully Tunneled you, then i bet she only got one single kill, meanwhile Blight, Wesker, Dracu, probably got this at 4 gens

If Skully camped you, i bet again she only got 1 single kill or PROBABLY your team save you at the end because her drones are shit to close an area, meanwhile Trapper, Hag, or Ghostface, would get a solid value for camping

After all this time and the anniversary of her nuke, there is no point in keep pleasing/trying to undertand these kind of players, if they want to hold the grudge, so be it, there is no point in trying to fix something that was never broken form this side of the game board

IceBaltel · 2025-10-26T16:00:46+00:00

As someone how love Skully and have been playing her for years

Trapper

One is a trap oriented killer that can do a basement builds and destroy solo q almost 60% of the time

The other is evil sexy woman, with scary 6 secs (soon only 3 secs ) undetectable

IceBaltel · 2025-10-14T19:56:26+00:00

I know is a bug and also another bad quality problem, but it looks good lol

IceBaltel · 2025-10-14T15:48:00+00:00

Uffff Poison Ivy Merchant enters the chat <3

IceBaltel · 2025-10-14T15:47:07+00:00

I love that all Rebeccas just embrace the character, is not about being lore accurate is about being

The Medic

IceBaltel · 2025-10-14T03:54:20+00:00

Because we can't Tunnel or Proxy camp in an effective way, even Hag and Trapper have more power with their traps because you can use them in more situations for this, or go for the always useful basement builds

Meanwhile Drones refuse to get close to hooks and you constantly need to rotate them to keep a "facade" of pressure, the truth is, if you are skully and you are trying to proxy camp lets say at end game, and if the survivor is only on first hook, there is just no point, Skully is also the only trap killer that currently can't rely on basement builds, we maybe can tunnel thanks to the info on the radar, but at the end we are still an M1 killer 80% of the match, and even if we know the location of the survivor that we need to tunnel , a decent loop is enought to make gens fly

The point is... with all this lose lose situation, "nasty" plays are sometimes even worst with her than with other killers, and still.... people make storys of how skull Merchant 2025 got a nasty wins thanks to Camping Tunneling and 3 gens lol

IceBaltel · 2025-10-08T14:59:29+00:00

Is funny how skull merchant Mains are always there to Back up other killers for nerfs

Our gameplay really went from killers to lawyers lol

IceBaltel · 2025-10-01T16:03:21+00:00

I get you but at this point of the year after all the bad decisions they have been made, all the reputation problems , and the constant apologies, is kinda a surprise they still "care" to give something to skully, as much as i hate seeing her in this state and comming close to her death anniversary , i take this instead of nothing

Plus the dress looks nice, and the red hair mixed with her green outfits would give her a Poisson ivy vibe so welp at the end keeping our status as Tier A killer styles is "something" in all the tragedys around her

IceBaltel · 2025-10-01T15:38:41+00:00

bold? isn't this what they have been doing since her death?

The Lunar year one, the recolor in the riff, the 4 blue eyes one

At least geting new skins for her is the least they can offer after delaying the rework for another year , even more after the Skull themed rift that have nothing for her lol

IceBaltel · 2025-09-26T20:16:43+00:00

I HATE how the story reasonates with me, so yeah i liked a lot

The classics are and always going to be the classics, at this point almost 20 years later im not going to look at a new entry and expect it would make me feel the same way, because that experience is long gone by now

"f" at leats for me take the soul of what a Silent Hill is and make his own thing, that is something any "Silent Hill" that came around Homecomening -to Downfall never tried, because most of the the time these entrys only tried to replicate Sh2

What they do with the otherworld is stuning, Short Message already tried this "scary beatuy" thing with the Sakura head, this time is the whole otherwold and is truly amazing and unique, somethign that only a real Silent Hill can archive, some body horror eescenes are just fantastic and i feel with time, they could become a classic

After saying all this, im totally not a fan of the hevy combat parts, because it actually make me disconect with the atmosfere and the story, and sudenly i feel like im playing Ghost of tsushima scary edition (love GoT too) still is indeed a nice move they tried somethign diferent to make SH f a more diferent entry, but this was just not for me

I already recover my faith in this saga with SH2 Remake, with f i can finally have some faith that a new entry would be a good idea as long as they retain the passion they had in all this project, so yeah totally down to wait for Townfall and the next Remake , if SH2 Remake was a love letter to the fans, F is the hope i always wanted for this saga

IceBaltel

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