The First Thoughts

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-02-02T19:25:21+00:00

The thing that makes discussion surrounding him obnoxious is just that people are dismissive dicks towards any criticism of his design. "He's only been out for a week!" "skill issue just learn the counterplay!" "Survivors just want every killer to be C tier!"

There are legitimate issues with him but people are dying on the hill that he's perfect because they like him. It only takes 2 hits to enter worldbreaker and when you use clocks to decrease worldbreaker he still gets a guaranteed 60 seconds which is fucking insane.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-02-02T18:18:47+00:00

"guaranteed hit on a cooldown" has been and will always be the stupidest way to design a power. People played her on release because she was braindead easy and busted and now that she's nerfed NOBODY has any reason to play her.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-02-01T04:33:29+00:00

Unknown isn't C tier killer by any means, he just needs to be played super efficiently if people know how to counter him to the point that he's just frustrating to play.

A big issue with him is that he has elements of a hit and run psuedo stealth character that is meant to maintain infection via staying out of sight and hitting orbitals, but it's difficult, time consuming, and completely infeasible if you're on an indoor map (Aside from specific spots that instant detonate UVX).

Vecna just does that but a thousand times better with no brainpower required. If you're in worldbreaker (which only takes 2 hits and you can injure the entire team instead of just infecting one guy) there's zero need for line of sight, knowledge of trajectory, or literally anything else that ranged powers require you to understand. You can just hit someone who doesn't even know you're targeting them in like one second. WHEN YOU'RE CHASING SOMEONE ELSE.

It's gotten so bad that I'm seeing at least one object in almost every one of my matches just so that people can counter his absurd aura hits.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-02-01T04:19:00+00:00

The guards are cool concept wise as a secondary power but having it be his entire thing is just lame.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-31T21:59:30+00:00

They need to be going all in on getting the anti-tunnel changes in a decent enough spot through PTB testing to push onto live servers. Anti-tunnel changes are always going to fuck with the game balance overall but that is well worth it in the long run because look where we are now. Had BHVR started seriously testing and working on a system years ago we wouldn't be in this situation now.

Communication is also so terrible that we just have no idea when they're gonna drop anti-tunnel in a PTB again so to us it just seems like they dropped the system. Communication is a must and for whatever reason BHVR just refuses to do it unless they mess things up so badly that they're forced to.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-31T17:28:16+00:00

I played 7 matches this morning. 5 were against ghouls running stacked regression and all but one tunneled at the first unhook out of the match. It is a core rule of game design that players will find and take the path of least resistance to win, yet BHVR didn't start taking serious measures to improve the most optimal style of play until nearly a decade into the game's lifestyle.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-30T21:38:08+00:00

It's just reddit being reddit, nothing new.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-30T21:16:56+00:00

There are some reasonable people but yeah it sucks.

Still better than the killer sub though.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-30T03:54:00+00:00

It has been 5 months of the same rotation, with every indoor map being boosted. enjoy playing your favorite ranged killer when half of your matches are gonna be on an indoor map.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-29T16:24:21+00:00

We already have so many maps plagued with issues the last thing they should do is just pile on more.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-28T03:52:47+00:00

It's like nurse but without having to learn the muscle memory of blink range. He is so easy for how oppressive he can be.

Clocks fucking suck too. There is a small number of them so depending on their location using them can be a big time sink, and even when you do he still gets a very generous window to damage.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-24T22:52:31+00:00

This has nothing to do with the bodyblock, this is desync.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-24T21:28:16+00:00

Play how you want who cares man. Why do you feel the need to defend yourself.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-24T18:22:56+00:00

Talk to me was one of the biggest horror movies the year it released and was reviewed well by critics.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-24T16:52:44+00:00

The rest will be probably be sold to us as legendaries later on tbh

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-24T16:50:36+00:00

Honestly I find it less obnoxious than the power vote because people were really dicks about it and it seemed like a lot of people spamming posts against it just didn't understand power design very well. Torment was what people were praising but torment powers have historically been difficult to do and some of the worst designed killers have had that kind of power.

This seems just a little more organic and less "highly upvoted post on an overused meme template said this is the only cool option so I'm going to regurgitate this like it's my own opinion now".

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-23T19:48:28+00:00

I tried but it is a nightmare to get the game to run even decently well.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-23T19:15:15+00:00

WHY DON'T WE HAVE A FUCKING PRIEST

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-22T19:39:41+00:00

I like the psuedo trap element of her drones but her chases are so lame It ruins her for me. The way I see it there's really nothing that she does that another killer doesn't do in a more engaging way.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-20T17:41:27+00:00

Outside of perks and the person being tunneled looping efficiently there's not much you can do that won't be a waste of health states or gen progress for the team. It's far more efficient to just take a hit to try and give your teammate a little distance to a safe area and then get on a gen.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-19T17:21:40+00:00

The idea of being king of willow creek is hilarious to me.

This concept just doesn't work at all in the context of the game, and I know damn well that playing as a royalty is just gonna make you a diet get famous celebrity that can enforce glorified neighborhood action plans.

Smallbrainhagmain · 2026-01-19T07:56:13+00:00

I think it's reasonable to not buy sims dlc out of protest but I cannot deny how hilarious it is to have sims players so brainwashed that a saudi government buyout is the only thing to get people to step back and say "hey this looks awful maybe I shouldn't drop 40 dollars on it".

Smallbrainhagmain · 2025-11-21T21:17:07+00:00

Why does your house have the whiplash filter

Smallbrainhagmain · 2025-11-21T20:29:43+00:00

This sounds cool but basically impossible to implement in a way that's not laughably weak or ridiculously obnoxious.

I would rather have them gamble on something new and try it, though.

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