MAKING SKULL MERCHANT LOOK FUN TO VS! Dead by Daylight

[@arisven509]

I have played for 4 hours each day for 3 days. 2 of those days i just played survivor ( because i didnt feel like trying at the gwme so i went surv lol. ) and I HAVE YET to run into any Skull Merchant, Singularity, or Unknown. I have no clue how to play against them. At all. All i see are Nurse, Sadoku ( lol ) and Blight. I really wish they would make every killer enjoyable to play where it doesnt feel like you are weak against survivors. Either commit to a chase and get 1 or 2 gens to pop, or hop from survivor to survivor and maybe prevent 1 gen from popping while other gens do and end up not really gettinf nuch done.

[@MusouWarrior720]

too much effort and less rewards to play as singularity.even me as Singularity main. i stopped because Nurse and blight are way better and easier to play lol. also Singularity will be nerfed soon he will go extinct next update

[@DiamondZeSwiata]

@@MusouWarrior720 Wdym "nerfed"? There are lots of buffs. The only real nerfs I remember is that survivors will see nearly printed EMPs in yellow and that the overclock duration will no longer be increased with every slipstreamed survivor but even this is compensated by reducing the crate's aura range with the automatic progress capped at 97% and increasing the base overclock duration. I know the skill floor is getting lowered but if I understand the changes correctly, I have to actually agree with the devs - "it won't really affect the players that have already mastered the Singularity that much". Like, isn't this what people wanted? So there is less effort to get rewarded? If you talk about "placing aim assist" and "camera auto targeting" thing, I'm sure that "aim assist" is just a bad wording for making the reticle stick to the valid spots so you don't miss when moving slightly away and "auto targeting" is just about initially centering on to the survivor so you don't have to turn to the certain direction every time you leave a biopod.

[@MusouWarrior720]

@@DiamondZeSwiataWhat about soma family photo? from 5% haste into 3% haste is a huge nerf. another nerf is increased Overclock durations Was Rewarding and dont need to be removed when the survivors has braindead counter which just to use emps. The "Yellow aura" is not needed when you can see the boxes completely open in white aura lmao. Lastly if they want to make singularity easier to play then dont make it more annoying for players who mastered him. what they shouldve done is to make EMPS boxes dont regenerate until survivors use The EMP. Survivors already have too many informations on singularity. you know when hes aiming at you, controlling a biopod, teleporting, which boxes are ready etc.

[@DiamondZeSwiata]

@@MusouWarrior720 Soma going down to 3% is a nerf on it's own, yes, but it's becoming basekit. It also doesn't shorten your overclock like the addon does. Also, Soma might still give you 5% combined with a basekit, I don't know if addons were already revealed. Even if it gets reworked and you can't exceed 3%, you still have 1 more addon slot that you can use for something else. While I get what you mean with increased overclock duration, I still think that in most cases it's worth it. If it's so braindead to EMP, you won't keep people infected anyway, so having longer overclock at base looks like a buff overall. Also, it's a bit simpler which, in this case, seems like a good thing, at least to me. Yellow boxes yea, not needed, it basically doesn't change a thing, just a QoL, I don't see why would anyone really complain. I'm not sure what exactly do you mean by "more annoying". Reticle glueing SLIGHTLY shouldn't affect your aim at all, because it will do it only when moving away from the valid spot. And you know what? It's ALREADY in the game, they are just making it slightly stronger. What's new is now it'll also work on survivors. Now if it's annoying or not depends on how exactly will it work. I'm optimistic here, so I believe that since you probably want to teleport instead of placing a biopod next to a slipstreamed survivor, the survivor will most likely have a priority, making it harder to accidentally place a biopod somewhere. Damn, maybe it will be a lot better than what we have now since your reticle won't glue to the random boxes in between. And if you talk about your camera turning to the survivor when entering the biopod, you'll get used to it. It will also make it easier to find survivors - just jump from camera to camera until it immediately starts charging, for example. About the "too much information", things you've listed have their equivalents on other killers - Nemesis and Mastermind got boxes too, m2 killers also notify you when they are aiming/charging their attacks (including this two above)... controlling a biopod is unique but you can use it to your advantage, you know? Like, when someone hides behind a tree, you just change the camera and go back half a second later, survivor has most likely already left it's cover, giving you an easy infection/teleport. "what they shouldve done is to make EMPS boxes dont regenerate until survivors use The EMP." Yea, maybe. It doesn't sound like a bad idea, I'll agree. However, now we've got lots of other buffs so let's see how they all will play out for now. There is already a lot of great changes, don't take them for granted.

[@MusouWarrior720]

@@DiamondZeSwiata Soma family photo addon will be completely changed im not 100% sure but ik the devs they will change it and remove the haste speed because they made it weaker and basekit.tho giving it basekit with 2% haste removed doesnt mean its good (in my opinion). most of Singularity addons are not worth running there only 3 Denied requistion form, Soma family photo, Kid's ball. those the only addons which are worth running in High mmr games. Aim assit is bad on pc. if they really want console to have a chance to play Singularity then give us an option to turn aim assit off. ive never had any problem using biopods but now i dont want to play him. overclock bonus to each infected survivors was the best thing about singularity because the more infected survivors means more pressure thats means not only you are fast for a long time but also more survivors are away from gens and less emps in that period of time. the increased overclock duration and 5% haste helps end chases quickly even on strong loops like shack& jungle gyms. I really dont see any reason to nerf him hes nowhere near Spirit blight nurse powers yet they still nerf him. i know the devs are amatuers and never play killers at high level thats explains why twins got overbuffed and wraith got a nerf. but most of players wont be bothered because they dont play a lot as singularity.

[@sir8423]

Genuine question, I have skull merchant but I don't really play her that much since she's quite boring for me (at least) but any ideas or tips on how to play her the 'fun' way as you said? Would love to give her another try.

[@BC3602]

Pixel Bush has a super in depth guide that breaks down a lot of her tech

[@robertpallier376]

"its not the killer, its the people playing her". if a killer happens to attract a certain group of people because her design encourages a certain behaviour more than others is a testament to the design of the killer itself.

[@DiamondZeSwiata]

It doesn't have to be true but honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if people playing her that way were doing that because they are this horrible kind of people who actually enjoy when others call them names and which killer would help them achieve this more than the one that people already extremally hate? I'm talking about "I LOVE doing this terrible thing because it makes people mad" or "nothing could make my day better than hearing other people curse my name" kind of people. I saw comments saying things like that before and in DbD's case, mentioning SM was usually there. If that was actually the case, I'd blame people who hate her 10 times more than any other killer solely because "everyone else does". They've brought it upon themselfs and upon the others, who don't hold a personal grudge against her because "she USED TO be a 3-gen queen", "she was supposed to be a predator or at least a cool cyborg (which apparently could make it so they don't hate her like in Singularity's case, where nobody complained when Hux was 3-gening before "3-gen treatment" the way she did) or other stupid reason. I know they sometimes find valid arguments but despite them being true about other killers too, they care only about SM. And wrong people take the advantage of that. Once again, not saying it's the universal truth but I belive that this might be at least partially the case. (also, don't take anything personally, it's okay if people don't like her the rational way, I'm just tired of this whole narrative that SM is "universally" the worst to the point where admitting you like her makes people send you a death threats)

[@themorallycorruptfayeresni3672]

no. the culprit is her reputation. people hate skull merchant, that drives away normal players from playing her and attracts toxic players that love to farm salt. nothing to do with her design

[@DiamondZeSwiata]

@@themorallycorruptfayeresni3672 Thanks for saying this in a much shorter way than me. My essay was definitely too long. XD

[@Andretti2Tone]

I love how Tru3 feels some type of way about survivors not knowing how to do everything super optimally like he doesn’t have a whole career based on playing this game lol

[@mansnotprot1544]

I see this killer once a month, I dont even know what she does.

[@hypnobearcoup2505]

She doesn’t really do anything anymore, they gutted her. You can just crouch her drones now, turning off her drones doesn’t do anything anymore, and they took her claw trap pallet break away.